BusinessObjects Contract Job Trends in the South East

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 144 190
Rank change year-on-year -66 +46 +17
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 5 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.083% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.70% 1.65% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £353 £458 -
25th Percentile £413 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +12.82% +12.74%
75th Percentile £459 £638 £500
90th Percentile - £653 -
England median daily rate £457 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -17.00% +10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £22.27 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -72.16% -

All Database & BI Skills
South East

BusinessObjects falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 715 425 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 14.28% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 294 380
10th Percentile £301 £307 £313
25th Percentile £392 £403 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £606
90th Percentile £650 £648 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 38
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.01 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.99 £22.84 £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.71 £29.91 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -47.49% -1.88%
75th Percentile £51.89 £40.63 £62.96
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.43 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -32.54%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BusinessObjects relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in the South East

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in the South East over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the South East

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Buckinghamshire -41 2 £364 +13.40%
Thames Valley -47 2 £364 -33.82%
Hampshire -26 1 £425 -22.73%
West Sussex - 1 £459 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
BusinessObjects
England

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Housing Management
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Informatica
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Denodo
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NEC