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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 463 493
Rank change year-on-year -113 +30 +58
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 47 54 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.97% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 54
10th Percentile £282 £319 £359
25th Percentile £407 £377 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.94%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £573
90th Percentile £512 £641 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £477 £488
% change year-on-year -9.85% -2.15% +12.74%
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 7,233 5,584 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.77% 19.06% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 3,852 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 108 152
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -9.60% -39.70%

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 15 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 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 15 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 -134 38 £450 -10.00% 14
UK excluding London -82 29 £430 -9.85% 14
Work from Home -27 16 £455 -11.75% 8
West Midlands -54 14 £455 -4.72% 2
Midlands -57 14 £455 -4.72% 2
London -76 12 £475 -6.40% 4
North of England -63 7 £363 -48.21% 3
North West -39 4 £410 -41.43% 2
Scotland +7 3 £275 +41.03% 2
South East -51 3 £425 -32.00% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £315 - 1
South West -27 1 £510 +36.00%
East of England -29 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 (8.51%) Confluence
1 4 (8.51%) SAS
2 2 (4.26%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Notepad++
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) iTrent
2 1 (2.13%) Maximo
2 1 (2.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.51%) Azure
3 1 (2.13%) AWS
3 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.13%) GCP
3 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.13%) SaaS
3 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) PuTTY
1 7 (14.89%) WinSCP
2 1 (2.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Power BI
2 15 (31.91%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (17.02%) Metadata
4 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
5 6 (12.77%) BusinessObjects XI
6 4 (8.51%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.51%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
7 3 (6.38%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
7 3 (6.38%) Impala
7 3 (6.38%) MySQL
7 3 (6.38%) OLAP
7 3 (6.38%) Pentaho
8 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.38%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Billing
5 1 (2.13%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Administrator
4 3 (6.38%) Business Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Consultant
4 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Database Developer
4 3 (6.38%) Lead
4 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.38%) SAP Administrator
4 3 (6.38%) Senior
5 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 2 (4.26%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.26%) HR Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Report Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Report Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Reporting Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) XML
2 1 (2.13%) ADO
2 1 (2.13%) ebXML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.64%) NHS
3 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.13%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Unix
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (40.43%) ETL
3 13 (27.66%) Analytics
4 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
4 10 (21.28%) Migration
5 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (12.77%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
8 4 (8.51%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.51%) Data Transformation
8 4 (8.51%) DevOps
8 4 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (8.51%) Validation
9 3 (6.38%) Business Analysis
9 3 (6.38%) Quality Management
9 3 (6.38%) Scrum
9 3 (6.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) SQL
2 10 (21.28%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.51%) Python
5 3 (6.38%) HiveQL
5 3 (6.38%) Java
5 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.26%) VB
6 2 (4.26%) VBA
7 1 (2.13%) ABAP
7 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) HDFS
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Ansible
1 3 (6.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.53%) SAP
3 11 (23.40%) Informatica
3 11 (23.40%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.38%) Denodo
5 3 (6.38%) Talend
6 2 (4.26%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) Remedy
7 1 (2.13%) Citrix
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) NEC
7 1 (2.13%) Netezza
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Snow