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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 468 480
Rank change year-on-year -111 +12 +75
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 40 50 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.57% 0.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 60
10th Percentile £272 £323 £319
25th Percentile £407 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +5.13% -4.13%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £564
90th Percentile £563 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £477 £488
% change year-on-year -10.90% -2.15% +8.33%
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 6,993 5,539 7,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 18.88% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,813 3,821 5,141
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 100 173
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -26.82%
75th Percentile £74.84 £64.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -30.07%

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 21 March 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 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 21 March 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 -118 33 £450 -12.20% 20
UK excluding London -79 22 £425 -10.90% 12
Work from Home -31 14 £438 -15.05% 7
London -70 13 £475 -7.32% 10
West Midlands -61 9 £450 -5.66% 1
Midlands -62 9 £450 -5.66% 1
North of England -64 5 £420 -40.00% 4
North West -25 4 £410 -41.43% 1
South East -50 4 £420 -32.80% 3
Scotland +9 2 £275 +41.03% 1
East of England -21 1 - - 4
South West -25 1 £265 -29.33%
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
1 4 (10.00%) SAS
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.50%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) iTrent
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
2 1 (2.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.50%) dbt
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) Power BI
2 6 (15.00%) BusinessObjects XI
2 6 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.00%) SAP Data Services
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) Apache Hive
4 3 (7.50%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (7.50%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.50%) Impala
4 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Pentaho
5 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) MS Access
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Administrator
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.00%) SAP Administrator
4 3 (7.50%) Business Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Report Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
5 2 (5.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) ADO
2 1 (2.50%) ebXML
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (7.50%) NHS
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (30.00%) ETL
3 11 (27.50%) Data Modelling
4 10 (25.00%) Analytics
5 6 (15.00%) Agile
5 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
5 6 (15.00%) Migration
6 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 4 (10.00%) Data Transformation
7 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Validation
8 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (7.50%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.50%) HiveQL
5 2 (5.00%) VB
5 2 (5.00%) VBA
6 1 (2.50%) ABAP
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) HDFS
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Ansible
1 3 (7.50%) Grafana
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) SAP
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle
4 4 (10.00%) Informatica
4 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.50%) Denodo
5 3 (7.50%) Talend
6 2 (5.00%) IBM
6 2 (5.00%) Remedy
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) NEC
7 1 (2.50%) Netezza
7 1 (2.50%) Palantir
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.50%) Snow