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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 470 497
Rank change year-on-year -114 +27 +43
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 46 53 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.64% 0.96% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 55
10th Percentile £282 £319 £300
25th Percentile £405 £377 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £572
90th Percentile £505 £641 £616
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £477 £488
% change year-on-year -10.38% -2.15% +10.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £31.53
25th Percentile - - £51.44
Median hourly rate - £22.27 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year - -68.74% -
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - £22.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year - -67.72% -

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 7,238 5,546 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.81% 18.98% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 3,838 5,166
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £488
% change year-on-year -2.41% -0.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 109 152
10th Percentile £18.10 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.55 £76.50 £71.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -36.36%

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 11 April 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
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 11 April 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 -110 37 £446 -10.85% 19
UK excluding London -87 28 £428 -10.38% 13
Work from Home -36 16 £455 -11.75% 8
West Midlands -56 14 £455 -4.72% 2
Midlands -59 14 £455 -4.72% 2
London -93 12 £475 -6.40% 7
North of England -60 7 £363 -48.21% 5
North West -25 4 £410 -41.43% 1
Scotland +8 3 £275 +41.03% 1
South East -55 3 £425 -32.00% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £315 - 3
East of England -30 1 - - 4

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 4 (8.70%) Confluence
1 4 (8.70%) SAS
2 2 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Notepad++
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) iTrent
2 1 (2.17%) Maximo
2 1 (2.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) AWS
3 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.17%) SaaS
3 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) PuTTY
1 7 (15.22%) WinSCP
2 1 (2.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) Power BI
2 15 (32.61%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (17.39%) Metadata
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.04%) BusinessObjects XI
6 4 (8.70%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.70%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
7 3 (6.52%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (6.52%) Impala
7 3 (6.52%) MySQL
7 3 (6.52%) OLAP
7 3 (6.52%) Pentaho
8 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.52%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Business Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Database Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Lead
4 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.52%) SAP Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) HR Specialist
5 2 (4.35%) Report Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Report Specialist
5 2 (4.35%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (2.17%) ADO
2 1 (2.17%) ebXML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.87%) NHS
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (41.30%) ETL
3 13 (28.26%) Analytics
4 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 10 (21.74%) Migration
5 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.87%) Agile
6 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.87%) Visualisation
7 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.70%) Data Transformation
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps
7 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.70%) Validation
8 3 (6.52%) Business Analysis
8 3 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (6.52%) Quality Management
8 3 (6.52%) Scrum
8 3 (6.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) PL/SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.70%) Python
5 3 (6.52%) HiveQL
5 3 (6.52%) Java
5 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.35%) VB
6 2 (4.35%) VBA
7 1 (2.17%) ABAP
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) HDFS
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
1 3 (6.52%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) SAP
3 11 (23.91%) Informatica
4 10 (21.74%) Oracle
5 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.52%) Denodo
6 3 (6.52%) Talend
7 2 (4.35%) IBM
7 2 (4.35%) Remedy
8 1 (2.17%) Citrix
8 1 (2.17%) Databricks
8 1 (2.17%) NEC
8 1 (2.17%) Netezza
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.17%) Snow