BusinessObjects Contracts

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 467 502 545
Rank change year-on-year +35 +43 +55
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 53 80 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.95% 1.09% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 50 120
10th Percentile £319 £341 £350
25th Percentile £421 £481 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £494 £526
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -6.13% +5.20%
75th Percentile £602 £579 £606
90th Percentile £641 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £429
% change year-on-year +12.82% +13.71% -18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £66.00 -
25th Percentile - £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.16% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £22.71 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -71.25% - -

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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BusinessObjects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 12 Contract 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 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
England +41 49 £535 -1.06% 64
London +42 36 £515 -11.21% 24
Work from Home +20 17 £515 +5.64% 46
UK excluding London +35 14 £550 +12.82% 47
South East +39 6 £588 +20.51% 18
Midlands +16 5 £450 -13.25% 13
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -18.18% 12
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (3.77%) SAS
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (13.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (9.43%) iTrent
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.77%) Exchequer
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.89%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.89%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) Power Platform
2 10 (18.87%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (7.55%) Google Workspace
5 4 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.66%) AWS
6 3 (5.66%) Fivetran
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Collibra
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
7 1 (1.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (50.94%) Power BI
2 14 (26.42%) Tableau
3 11 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
5 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
6 7 (13.21%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (11.32%) SAP Data Services
7 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (9.43%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 4 (7.55%) MS Access
9 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
9 4 (7.55%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (7.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
10 3 (5.66%) Pentaho
10 3 (5.66%) SAP BW
11 2 (3.77%) Apache Hive
11 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
11 2 (3.77%) Metadata
11 2 (3.77%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.77%) ERwin
3 2 (3.77%) Git
4 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Postman
4 1 (1.89%) Selenium
4 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (28.30%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Local Government
4 5 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Analyst
2 14 (26.42%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Power BI Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Senior
7 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (7.55%) Power BI Analyst
7 4 (7.55%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
8 3 (5.66%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Business Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) SAP Architect
8 3 (5.66%) SAP BI Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) SAP BusinessObjects Analyst (SAP BO Analyst)
8 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Web Services
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Cordova
2 1 (1.89%) Node.js
2 1 (1.89%) Pandas
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
2 1 (1.89%) pytest
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
1 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Blog
3 1 (1.89%) CMDB
3 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (33.96%) Visualisation
3 13 (24.53%) Analytics
4 11 (20.75%) Data Analysis
5 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
5 10 (18.87%) Data Transformation
6 9 (16.98%) Agile
6 9 (16.98%) ETL
6 9 (16.98%) Migration
6 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.98%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (15.09%) Data Analytics
7 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (15.09%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (13.21%) Business Analysis
8 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
8 7 (13.21%) Data Integration
8 7 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.32%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.66%) ABAP
5 2 (3.77%) R
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.89%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.89%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) AAT
1 5 (9.43%) CCAB
2 4 (7.55%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.89%) ISEB
5 1 (1.89%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) GDPR
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.77%) SLA
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Ansible
1 1 (1.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) SAP
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.53%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Informatica
3 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.55%) Talend
5 2 (3.77%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.77%) Sparx
6 1 (1.89%) Aderant
6 1 (1.89%) Ariba
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) Denodo
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) Salesforce