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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 477 503
Rank change year-on-year -96 +26 +34
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 54 50 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.75% 0.89% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 51
10th Percentile £283 £311 £356
25th Percentile £405 £391 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +5.64% -7.50%
75th Percentile £500 £601 £577
90th Percentile £532 £653 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -19.07% +10.26% +12.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £22.27 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.16% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £22.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -71.25% -

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 7,239 5,604 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.53% 18.99% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 3,866 5,183
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 108 144
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.72 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 25 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 25 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 -102 42 £450 -12.62% 19
UK excluding London -71 30 £435 -19.07% 13
Work from Home -16 22 £459 -10.87% 11
West Midlands -46 15 £450 - 6
Midlands -48 15 £450 - 7
London -87 13 £475 -7.77% 8
North of England -63 7 £363 -48.21% 2
North West -36 4 £410 -41.43% 1
Scotland +9 3 £275 +41.03% 1
South East -65 3 £415 -33.60% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £315 - 1
South West -41 1 £510 +36.00%
East of England - 1 - - 1

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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
1 6 (11.11%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Notepad++
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.41%) iTrent
3 1 (1.85%) Maximo
3 1 (1.85%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Utilities
3 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.41%) Azure
3 3 (5.56%) AWS
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) GCP
5 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Slack
5 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) PuTTY
1 7 (12.96%) WinSCP
2 1 (1.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (42.59%) Power BI
2 22 (40.74%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (16.67%) Tableau
4 8 (14.81%) Metadata
5 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
6 6 (11.11%) BusinessObjects XI
6 6 (11.11%) SAP HANA
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (9.26%) Pentaho
7 5 (9.26%) SAP BW
8 4 (7.41%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (7.41%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (5.56%) Apache Hive
9 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
9 3 (5.56%) Impala
9 3 (5.56%) MySQL
9 3 (5.56%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (9.26%) GitLab
3 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Consultant
2 8 (14.81%) Developer
3 6 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Analytics Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) Business Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Database Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.56%) SAP Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Reporting Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (1.85%) ADO
2 1 (1.85%) ebXML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Data Structures
1 7 (12.96%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.26%) NHS
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Unix
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (38.89%) ETL
3 20 (37.04%) Analytics
4 16 (29.63%) Data Modelling
5 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (22.22%) Agile
6 12 (22.22%) Migration
7 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 9 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 7 (12.96%) Data Governance
8 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 6 (11.11%) DevOps
10 5 (9.26%) Data Analytics
10 5 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (9.26%) Data Virtualisation
10 5 (9.26%) Scrum
10 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) SQL
2 10 (18.52%) PL/SQL
3 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
4 6 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) HiveQL
5 3 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.70%) VB
6 2 (3.70%) VBA
7 1 (1.85%) ABAP
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) HDFS
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Grafana
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) SAP
2 13 (24.07%) Informatica
2 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Denodo
4 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.56%) Talend
6 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.70%) IBM
6 2 (3.70%) Remedy
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) Databricks
7 1 (1.85%) NEC
7 1 (1.85%) Netezza
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.85%) Snow