BusinessObjects Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BusinessObjects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BusinessObjects over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 357 401
Rank change year-on-year +35 +44 -18
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 14 42 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.69% 1.62% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 42
10th Percentile £308 £191 £255
25th Percentile £378 £416 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £429
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +13.71% -18.34%
75th Percentile £638 £494 £484
90th Percentile £678 £500 £574
UK median daily rate £529 £494 £526
% change year-on-year +7.04% -6.13% +5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.25% - -
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -72.16% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BusinessObjects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East +39 6 £588 +20.51% 19
Midlands +16 5 £450 -13.25% 12
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -18.18% 11
South West +46 1 £375 -23.08% 8
North West +16 1 £700 +43.59%
North of England +16 1 £700 +43.59% 5
East Midlands +8 1 - -
Scotland +5 1 £195 -
BusinessObjects
UK

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (14.29%) iTrent
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (7.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SAP BW
1 3 (21.43%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (14.29%) Pentaho
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) HBase
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ERwin
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) SAP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) SAP BW Architect
4 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Validation
3 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 2 (14.29%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) ABAP
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Blue Prism
4 1 (7.14%) Informatica
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft