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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 463 524
Rank change year-on-year -87 +61 +42
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 27 84 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.43% 1.30% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 53 63
10th Percentile £249 £363 £367
25th Percentile £386 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £588
90th Percentile £595 £624 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.60% +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 6,282 6,439 7,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,271 4,295 5,496
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 86 155
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -36.00% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.56 £69.38
90th Percentile £83.60 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -65 26 £475 -7.32% 72
UK excluding London -42 18 £450 -5.66% 58
London -30 7 £525 +1.94% 24
Work from Home -21 6 £450 -12.20% 36
South East +5 5 £347 - 28
North of England -28 5 £513 +2.50% 5
South West -2 3 £258 -31.33% 1
North West -16 3 £500 - 5
West Midlands -36 3 £475 -3.06% 6
Midlands -37 3 £475 -5.00% 7
East of England -9 2 £475 +26.73% 18
Yorkshire - 2 £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 (7.41%) CMS
1 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Portal
2 1 (3.70%) SAS
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) iTrent
2 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.70%) Maximo
3 1 (3.70%) NEC Housing
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.70%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (3.70%) SAP CRM
3 1 (3.70%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (3.70%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) IP Telephony
1 1 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 5 (18.52%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (18.52%) SAP Data Services
3 4 (14.81%) Tableau
4 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.41%) SAP HANA
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau Desktop
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau Server
5 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (3.70%) PolyBase
5 1 (3.70%) Power Query
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) SAP BW
5 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) Liquibase
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Local Government
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Billing
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Consultant
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) HR Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Business Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) SAP Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (7.41%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) ODBC
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.70%) SAP BSP
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Clustering
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
4 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
4 5 (18.52%) ETL
5 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
5 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Business Case
7 2 (7.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) ABAP
4 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.70%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) R
5 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) SAP
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Apple
4 1 (3.70%) Cognos
4 1 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.70%) NEC
4 1 (3.70%) Northgate
4 1 (3.70%) Palantir
4 1 (3.70%) Talend