BusinessObjects Contract Job Trends

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 524 487
Rank change year-on-year -81 -37 +38
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 80 34 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.99% 0.56% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 41
10th Percentile £313 £252 £400
25th Percentile £400 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +0.05% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £613
90th Percentile £840 £603 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £22.37 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.94 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.58 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +56.07% -
75th Percentile £34.81 £37.57 £44.67
90th Percentile £51.13 £40.96 £59.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £20.66 £19.59
% change year-on-year +200.10% +5.46% -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,099 6,018 6,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.86% 18.14% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,029 4,610
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 81 92
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in the UK

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -75 69 £450 -12.24% 47
Work from Home -40 34 £459 +2.00% 17
UK excluding London -80 34 £457 +1.44% 18
London -74 31 £450 -22.41% 30
Midlands -30 16 £459 +6.13% 4
West Midlands -33 15 £464 +7.28% 4
South East -54 12 £402 -27.00% 4
Yorkshire -32 4 £488 -7.14% 1
North of England -64 4 £488 -4.88% 4
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England -29 1 - - 1
South West -32 1 £510 +98.06% 1
East Midlands - 1 £213 -

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (12.50%) Confluence
2 7 (8.75%) SAS
3 3 (3.75%) Apache
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.50%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 13 (16.25%) iTrent
2 10 (12.50%) SAP ERP
3 6 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.75%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (2.50%) Workday HCM
6 1 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (1.25%) Primavera
6 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
6 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (1.25%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (1.25%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) Power Platform
2 9 (11.25%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.25%) Azure
4 5 (6.25%) Serverless
5 3 (3.75%) Google Sheets
6 2 (2.50%) Boomi
6 2 (2.50%) iPaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) X.509
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.25%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (33.75%) Power BI
2 16 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (17.50%) SAP Data Services
4 12 (15.00%) SAP BW
5 11 (13.75%) Tableau
6 9 (11.25%) Pentaho
7 7 (8.75%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (8.75%) SAP HANA
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (7.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (7.50%) Data Lake
8 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.75%) Looker
9 3 (3.75%) Power Query
9 3 (3.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) JIRA
2 9 (11.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) LSMW
General
1 19 (23.75%) Finance
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Local Government
5 4 (5.00%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Consultant
2 16 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) SAP Consultant
4 13 (16.25%) Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) Senior
7 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Analytics Consultant
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Cloud Consultant
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) HR Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) SAP BW Consultant
10 4 (5.00%) Data Migration Specialist
10 4 (5.00%) ERP Specialist
10 4 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
10 4 (5.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Specialist
10 4 (5.00%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (3.75%) REST
2 3 (3.75%) SOAP
2 3 (3.75%) XML
3 2 (2.50%) JSON
3 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 2 (2.50%) XSLT
4 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.25%) ODBC
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.25%) React
4 1 (1.25%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.25%) EFT
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) EPoS
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Replication
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Unix
2 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Solaris
4 1 (1.25%) Android
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) SUSE
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (32.50%) Analytics
3 25 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 21 (26.25%) Agile
4 21 (26.25%) Migration
5 18 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (18.75%) ETL
7 14 (17.50%) Validation
8 13 (16.25%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (16.25%) ERP
8 13 (16.25%) Visualisation
9 11 (13.75%) Data Extraction
9 11 (13.75%) Data Migration
10 10 (12.50%) Data Integration
10 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 10 (12.50%) DevOps
10 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.25%) Data Engineering
11 9 (11.25%) Data Governance
12 8 (10.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) Python
3 6 (7.50%) ABAP
4 5 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
6 3 (3.75%) Java
6 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.50%) XPath
8 1 (1.25%) Perl
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) CCA
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) APMG
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Grafana
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (56.25%) SAP
2 28 (35.00%) Oracle
3 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 12 (15.00%) Informatica
5 6 (7.50%) Denodo
5 6 (7.50%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.75%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.75%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) Workday
7 2 (2.50%) Cognos
7 2 (2.50%) IBM
7 2 (2.50%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.50%) NEC
8 1 (1.25%) Ariba
8 1 (1.25%) IFS
8 1 (1.25%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.25%) Maconomy
8 1 (1.25%) Northgate
8 1 (1.25%) Remedy
8 1 (1.25%) Snow