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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 474 527
Rank change year-on-year -73 +53 +11
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 23 83 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.37% 1.31% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 54 58
10th Percentile £248 £363 £365
25th Percentile £268 £453 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +5.13% +2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £571 £558
90th Percentile £578 £624 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £426 £500
% change year-on-year -35.45% -14.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £22.37 - -
25th Percentile £24.94 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.58 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +0.46% -3.82%
75th Percentile £37.57 £44.67 £20.75
90th Percentile £40.96 £59.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.66 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +5.46% +0.46% -3.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,279 6,320 7,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 17.53% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,292 4,186 5,455
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 84 150
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.65 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66.06 £48.32 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.08 £64.92 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.91% -40.45% +13.38%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 12 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 18 November 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
England -84 21 £463 -9.76% 37
UK excluding London -35 16 £275 -35.45% 30
Work from Home -24 5 £475 -7.32% 25
London -32 5 £475 -7.77% 7
South East +3 4 £268 - 3
West Midlands -32 4 £475 -3.06% 11
North of England -33 4 £513 - 8
Midlands -39 4 £475 -5.00% 12
South West -2 3 £258 -31.33%
North West -18 3 £500 - 8
Scotland -4 1 £275 +64.13%
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -

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 2 (8.70%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Portal
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) iTrent
2 1 (4.35%) Maximo
2 1 (4.35%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.35%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) dbt
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 5 (21.74%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.04%) Tableau
4 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.70%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau Desktop
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau Server
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) PolyBase
5 1 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Local Government
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Data Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) HR Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Business Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Manager
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Architect
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Basis Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) ODBC
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Basis
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
1 1 (4.35%) NHS
1 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
4 4 (17.39%) ETL
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) Data Integration
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.70%) ITIL
6 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
6 2 (8.70%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.35%) ABAP
3 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.35%) R
3 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) NEC
3 1 (4.35%) Northgate
3 1 (4.35%) Palantir