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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 156 188
Rank change year-on-year -41 +32 +21
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 4 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.078% 0.13% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.89% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £311 £408 £360
25th Percentile £376 £540 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £428 £647 £497
90th Percentile £434 £664 £500
England median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -
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 £20.66 £22.27 £80.00
% change year-on-year -7.23% -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 615 450 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.94% 14.93% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 304 430
10th Percentile £298 £321 £290
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £653 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 42
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.97 £18.20
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.50 £21.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £52.58 £64.73 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.85 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -13 3 £415 +29.28%
Thames Valley -32 3 £415 -33.60%
Hampshire - 1 £425 -
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 (50.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (50.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Cutover Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (25.00%) Housing Management
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NEC