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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 517 545
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +82
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 43 73 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.75% 0.96% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 43 101
10th Percentile £408 £405 £381
25th Percentile £450 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £650
90th Percentile £663 £613 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £429
% change year-on-year +2.62% +13.71% -17.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.25% - -
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 5,737 7,601 9,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.48% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 5,428 6,756
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 170
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.77 £32.32
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +40 41 £550 +11.39% 115
London +40 24 £585 +6.36% 46
UK excluding London +12 16 £500 +2.62% 73
Work from Home +15 13 £450 -7.69% 59
Midlands +10 7 £433 -16.63% 12
West Midlands +6 6 £433 -21.36% 5
South East +37 4 £550 +29.41% 23
North of England +5 3 £600 +23.08% 24
North West +6 2 £600 +23.08% 17
East of England - 2 £475 - 3
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 5
East Midlands +1 1 - - 7

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 3 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (4.65%) iTrent
3 2 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (2.33%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 1 (2.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (2.33%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) Power Platform
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
5 4 (9.30%) Fivetran
6 2 (4.65%) AWS
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) Collibra
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (51.16%) Power BI
2 14 (32.56%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (27.91%) Tableau
4 11 (25.58%) SQL Server
5 7 (16.28%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (13.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
7 5 (11.63%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (9.30%) MS Access
9 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (4.65%) Metadata
10 2 (4.65%) Pentaho
11 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
11 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
11 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
11 1 (2.33%) Power Query
11 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
1 4 (9.30%) Liquibase
2 2 (4.65%) ERwin
3 1 (2.33%) Postman
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.65%) Local Government
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Data Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Automation Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Web Services
2 2 (4.65%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) Node.js
3 1 (2.33%) Pandas
3 1 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) pytest
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) SAP BSP
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Blog
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (34.88%) Analytics
3 14 (32.56%) Visualisation
4 10 (23.26%) Data Transformation
5 9 (20.93%) Data Analysis
5 9 (20.93%) Data Integration
5 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
5 9 (20.93%) ETL
5 9 (20.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (18.60%) Data Architecture
6 8 (18.60%) Migration
7 7 (16.28%) Data Analytics
7 7 (16.28%) Data Governance
7 7 (16.28%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (16.28%) User Experience
8 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
8 6 (13.95%) Validation
9 5 (11.63%) Business Analysis
9 5 (11.63%) Data Management
9 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) SQL
2 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
2 6 (13.95%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) R
4 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.65%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) ABAP
5 1 (2.33%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
1 1 (2.33%) ISEB
1 1 (2.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) SAP
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.95%) Oracle
4 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.30%) Informatica
5 4 (9.30%) Talend
6 3 (6.98%) Blue Prism
7 2 (4.65%) Sparx
8 1 (2.33%) Aderant
8 1 (2.33%) Ariba
8 1 (2.33%) Cognos
8 1 (2.33%) Databricks
8 1 (2.33%) Google
8 1 (2.33%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (2.33%) Salesforce