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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 495 519
Rank change year-on-year -60 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 78 43 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.02% 0.77% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 44
10th Percentile £385 £408 £249
25th Percentile £420 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +12.82% -8.88%
75th Percentile £500 £603 £570
90th Percentile £808 £663 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.04% +2.62% +12.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £28.93 - -
25th Percentile £34.44 - -
Median hourly rate £43.75 £23.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.22% -71.25% -
75th Percentile £52.94 - -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £23.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +169.57% -71.25% -

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 7,682 5,556 7,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 18.63% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,122 3,791 5,386
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 99 157
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.52 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £26.00 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.72 £66.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.96 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.51% -7.60% -39.48%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -89 63 £450 -18.18% 15
UK excluding London -85 38 £450 -10.04% 12
Work from Home -21 30 £459 +2.00% 8
London -66 27 £463 -20.94% 6
Midlands -46 18 £459 +6.13% 3
West Midlands -48 18 £459 +6.13% 2
North of England -62 9 £363 -39.58% 3
Yorkshire -54 6 £315 - 2
South East -63 6 £438 -20.45% 4
Scotland - 4 - -
North West -35 3 £410 -31.67% 1
East of England -28 2 - -
South West - 1 £510 - 2

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 14 (17.95%) Confluence
2 9 (11.54%) SAS
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Notepad++
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (15.38%) iTrent
2 9 (11.54%) SAP ERP
3 6 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.56%) NEC Housing
4 2 (2.56%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (1.28%) Primavera
5 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (1.28%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.28%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.28%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (1.28%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.03%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.97%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
3 6 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 6 (7.69%) Azure
4 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.41%) Serverless
5 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.56%) GCP
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.28%) GitHub
6 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.28%) Slack
6 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) PuTTY
1 7 (8.97%) WinSCP
2 1 (1.28%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (41.03%) Power BI
2 25 (32.05%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.82%) Tableau
4 9 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (11.54%) Pentaho
5 8 (10.26%) Metadata
5 8 (10.26%) SAP BW
5 8 (10.26%) SAP Data Services
6 7 (8.97%) Data Lake
6 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (7.69%) DynamoDB
7 6 (7.69%) SAP HANA
8 5 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (5.13%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.85%) Impala
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) JIRA
2 9 (11.54%) GitLab
3 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.85%) Git
General
1 17 (21.79%) Finance
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.13%) Local Government
6 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Billing
7 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Data Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Consultant
3 11 (14.10%) Senior
4 10 (12.82%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (10.26%) Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Analytics Consultant
8 5 (6.41%) Cloud Consultant
9 4 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 4 (5.13%) Data Migration Specialist
9 4 (5.13%) ERP Specialist
9 4 (5.13%) Migration Specialist
9 4 (5.13%) Project Manager
9 4 (5.13%) SAP BusinessObjects Specialist
9 4 (5.13%) SAP BW Consultant
9 4 (5.13%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) ADO
1 1 (1.28%) ebXML
1 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.97%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.41%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.13%) NHS
4 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.85%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.51%) Unix
2 4 (5.13%) Linux
3 3 (3.85%) Solaris
3 3 (3.85%) Windows
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (37.18%) Analytics
3 24 (30.77%) ETL
4 23 (29.49%) Migration
5 21 (26.92%) Data Modelling
6 19 (24.36%) Agile
7 18 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (14.10%) DevOps
10 10 (12.82%) Data Extraction
10 10 (12.82%) ERP
10 10 (12.82%) Visualisation
11 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.54%) Data Migration
11 9 (11.54%) Data Virtualisation
11 9 (11.54%) Validation
12 8 (10.26%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.26%) Data Governance
12 8 (10.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (57.69%) SQL
2 13 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 11 (14.10%) Python
4 10 (12.82%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.41%) ABAP
6 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 3 (3.85%) HiveQL
7 3 (3.85%) Java
7 3 (3.85%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.85%) VB
8 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.56%) VBA
9 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) CCA
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) APMG
5 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.56%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) HDFS
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Grafana
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (43.59%) SAP
2 29 (37.18%) Oracle
3 19 (24.36%) Informatica
4 16 (20.51%) Microsoft
5 9 (11.54%) Denodo
6 6 (7.69%) Dynatrace
7 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.85%) Talend
9 2 (2.56%) IBM
9 2 (2.56%) NEC
9 2 (2.56%) Remedy
10 1 (1.28%) Citrix
10 1 (1.28%) Databricks
10 1 (1.28%) IFS
10 1 (1.28%) Netezza
10 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.28%) Snow