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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 485 535
Rank change year-on-year -51 +50 +28
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 32 75 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 1.12% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 65
10th Percentile £252 £366 £369
25th Percentile £431 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £578 £588 £588
90th Percentile £603 £636 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £22.37 - -
25th Percentile £24.94 - -
Median hourly rate £30.58 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% - -
75th Percentile £37.57 £44.67 -
90th Percentile £40.96 £59.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.66 £19.59 -
% change year-on-year +5.46% - -

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 6,055 6,668 7,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.18% 17.79% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,072 4,487 5,593
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -1.86% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 90 157
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.48 £33.22 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -34.94% +2.11%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.19 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year +18.30% -40.63% +24.05%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -29 31 £513 +0.05% 20
UK excluding London -22 19 £450 +5.88% 21
London -23 11 £580 +10.48% 3
South East +18 7 £488 - 5
Work from Home -11 7 £450 -10.00% 6
North of England -23 4 £513 +2.50% 3
South West +17 3 £258 -31.33% 6
West Midlands -27 3 £415 -29.36% 4
Midlands -28 3 £415 -17.00% 7
East of England -4 2 £475 +26.73%
North West -18 2 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £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 3 (9.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.25%) CMS
2 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Portal
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.25%) iTrent
2 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.13%) NEC Housing
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (3.13%) SAP CRM
3 1 (3.13%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (3.13%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Power Platform
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Snowflake
4 4 (12.50%) Fivetran
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) IP Telephony
1 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.63%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 5 (15.63%) SAP Data Services
3 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (12.50%) Tableau
5 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
5 2 (6.25%) Tableau Desktop
5 2 (6.25%) Tableau Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Flink
6 1 (3.13%) PolyBase
6 1 (3.13%) Power Query
6 1 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
1 4 (12.50%) Liquibase
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Local Government
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Billing
3 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Consultant
2 5 (15.63%) Data Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) HR Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Business Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) SAP Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
6 1 (3.13%) Legal Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Report Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) ODBC
3 1 (3.13%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.13%) SAP BSP
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (31.25%) Analytics
3 8 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 8 (25.00%) Migration
4 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (15.63%) Data Architecture
6 5 (15.63%) Data Governance
6 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Data Collection
7 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
8 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (9.38%) Data Mapping
8 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (9.38%) Impact Analysis
8 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) ABAP
5 2 (6.25%) R
5 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
1 3 (9.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) SAP
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Talend
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Aderant
5 1 (3.13%) Apple
5 1 (3.13%) Blue Prism
5 1 (3.13%) Cognos
5 1 (3.13%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.13%) NEC
5 1 (3.13%) Northgate
5 1 (3.13%) Palantir