BusinessObjects Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BusinessObjects skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ) UK
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	319	285	219
Rank change year-on-year	-34	-66
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects	325	459	601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.69%	0.85%	1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.08%	3.91%	4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	183	296	366
UK median daily rate	£450	£388	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+16.12%	-3.12%
10th Percentile	£313	£259	£263
90th Percentile	£600	£544	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£430	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+14.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	18	8
UK median hourly rate	£20.36	£15.00	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+35.73%	-33.33%
10th Percentile	£15.16	£11.51	£14.30
90th Percentile	£24.66	£20.50	£34.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.53	£15.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+3.53%	-33.33%

BusinessObjects is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	10536	11727	13206
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	22.37%	21.83%	23.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	15348	17471	20004
UK median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
10th Percentile	£313	£290	£268
90th Percentile	£613	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	234	335	344
UK median hourly rate	£31.25	£31.90	£26.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-2.03%	+19.25%
10th Percentile	£12.50	£11.50	£15.07
90th Percentile	£51.83	£50.10	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£31.95	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+18.93%	+22.88%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BusinessObjects as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 10 Contract 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 3 months to 29 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-39	306	£450	+15.38%	76
UK excluding London	-20	181	£430	+14.66%	50
London	+2	134	£500	+17.64%	27
North of England	+42	55	£450	+28.57%	17
South East	-42	51	£370	+5.71%	14
Midlands	-24	31	£405	+1.25%	8
South West	+6	18	£463	+10.11%	6
Scotland	+36	16	£450	+46.10%	2
East of England	-11	8	£350	-22.22%	3
Wales	-7	2	£475	+26.66%

BusinessObjects
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for BusinessObjects.

1	313 (45.30%)	Business Intelligence
2	290 (41.97%)	SQL
3	284 (41.10%)	SAP
4	188 (27.21%)	Oracle
5	180 (26.05%)	Finance
6	145 (20.98%)	Analytics
7	135 (19.54%)	Agile Software Development
8	120 (17.37%)	Data Warehouse
9	113 (16.35%)	ETL
10	105 (15.20%)	Data Modelling
10	105 (15.20%)	Analytical Skills
11	101 (14.62%)	Migration
12	98 (14.18%)	SQL Server
13	89 (12.88%)	SAP BW
14	80 (11.58%)	SAP HANA

15	79 (11.43%)	QlikView
16	76 (11.00%)	Microsoft Excel
17	72 (10.42%)	BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
18	70 (10.13%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
19	67 (9.70%)	Security Cleared
20	66 (9.55%)	Microsoft
21	65 (9.41%)	Unix
21	65 (9.41%)	Hadoop
22	64 (9.26%)	Java
23	63 (9.12%)	Tableau
24	62 (8.97%)	Windows
25	60 (8.68%)	JIRA
26	56 (8.10%)	Visualisation
27	54 (7.81%)	Data Migration
27	54 (7.81%)	Project Management

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	47 (6.80%)	SAS
2	41 (5.93%)	WebLogic
3	32 (4.63%)	Confluence
4	18 (2.60%)	Apache Spark
4	18 (2.60%)	SharePoint
5	15 (2.17%)	IIS
6	12 (1.74%)	MS Project Server
7	9 (1.30%)	Apache Pig
7	9 (1.30%)	JBoss
8	8 (1.16%)	Tomcat
9	6 (0.87%)	BizTalk Server
10	5 (0.72%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	4 (0.58%)	CMS
11	4 (0.58%)	Skype for Business
12	3 (0.43%)	Oracle Workflow
12	3 (0.43%)	SharePoint 2010
13	2 (0.29%)	Documentum
13	2 (0.29%)	NetWeaver
13	2 (0.29%)	SharePoint 2013
13	2 (0.29%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	76 (11.00%)	Microsoft Excel
2	31 (4.49%)	Microsoft Office
3	15 (2.17%)	Microsoft Project
4	13 (1.88%)	MS Visio
5	8 (1.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	6 (0.87%)	SPSS
7	5 (0.72%)	Open Workbench
8	2 (0.29%)	Spreadsheet
8	2 (0.29%)	Weka

Business Applications
1	18 (2.60%)	SAP ERP
2	14 (2.03%)	Global One
3	13 (1.88%)	SAP BPC
4	11 (1.59%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	10 (1.45%)	Adobe Campaign
5	10 (1.45%)	Unica
6	9 (1.30%)	Dynamics CRM
6	9 (1.30%)	SAP PSCD
7	7 (1.01%)	WebTrends
8	5 (0.72%)	Oracle EBS
8	5 (0.72%)	Remedy ITSM
8	5 (0.72%)	SAP S/4HANA
9	4 (0.58%)	iTrent
9	4 (0.58%)	ResourceLink
9	4 (0.58%)	SAP FI
9	4 (0.58%)	SAP MII
9	4 (0.58%)	SAP SD
9	4 (0.58%)	Unit4 Business World
10	3 (0.43%)	SAP FI/CO
10	3 (0.43%)	Summit

Cloud Services
1	50 (7.24%)	Microsoft Azure
2	42 (6.08%)	Amazon AWS
3	24 (3.47%)	Trello
4	14 (2.03%)	Adobe Analytics
5	4 (0.58%)	Office 365
5	4 (0.58%)	PaaS
5	4 (0.58%)	Yammer
6	3 (0.43%)	Google Analytics
6	3 (0.43%)	IaaS
7	2 (0.29%)	Boomi
7	2 (0.29%)	SaaS
7	2 (0.29%)	Taleo
8	1 (0.14%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.14%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	8 (1.16%)	Network Security
1	8 (1.16%)	SSL
2	6 (0.87%)	DNS
2	6 (0.87%)	Firewall
2	6 (0.87%)	NetScaler
2	6 (0.87%)	Wireless
3	2 (0.29%)	FTP
3	2 (0.29%)	Internet
4	1 (0.14%)	2G
4	1 (0.14%)	4G
4	1 (0.14%)	DSL
4	1 (0.14%)	Intranet
4	1 (0.14%)	LAN
4	1 (0.14%)	LDAP
4	1 (0.14%)	Radio Access Network
4	1 (0.14%)	SMS
4	1 (0.14%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	120 (17.37%)	Data Warehouse
2	98 (14.18%)	SQL Server
3	89 (12.88%)	SAP BW
4	80 (11.58%)	SAP HANA
5	79 (11.43%)	QlikView
6	72 (10.42%)	BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7	70 (10.13%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8	65 (9.41%)	Hadoop
9	50 (7.24%)	SAP Data Services
9	50 (7.24%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	43 (6.22%)	Relational Database
11	42 (6.08%)	Big Data
12	40 (5.79%)	Oracle Database
13	39 (5.64%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
14	35 (5.07%)	Crystal Reports
15	33 (4.78%)	BusinessObjects XI
16	27 (3.91%)	MongoDB
17	23 (3.33%)	Lumira
18	22 (3.18%)	Power BI
19	21 (3.04%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	60 (8.68%)	JIRA
2	35 (5.07%)	Jenkins
3	32 (4.63%)	Git (software)
3	32 (4.63%)	Sonatype Nexus
4	23 (3.33%)	GitLab
5	10 (1.45%)	Oracle APEX
6	9 (1.30%)	ERwin
7	6 (0.87%)	Oracle Forms
8	5 (0.72%)	Subversion
8	5 (0.72%)	Toad
9	4 (0.58%)	NWDI
9	4 (0.58%)	Talend Open Studio
9	4 (0.58%)	XMLSpy
10	3 (0.43%)	FitNesse
10	3 (0.43%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10	3 (0.43%)	Team Foundation Server
10	3 (0.43%)	Visual Studio
11	2 (0.29%)	ClearCase
11	2 (0.29%)	LoadRunner
11	2 (0.29%)	LSMW

General
1	180 (26.05%)	Finance
2	43 (6.22%)	Banking
3	37 (5.35%)	Retail
4	33 (4.78%)	Telecoms
5	25 (3.62%)	Marketing
6	19 (2.75%)	Front Office
7	16 (2.32%)	Manufacturing
8	11 (1.59%)	General Ledger
9	9 (1.30%)	Billing
10	8 (1.16%)	Back Office
10	8 (1.16%)	Electronics
11	7 (1.01%)	Investment Banking
12	6 (0.87%)	Advertising
13	4 (0.58%)	Japanese Language
13	4 (0.58%)	Publishing
14	3 (0.43%)	Financial Institution
14	3 (0.43%)	Pharmaceutical
14	3 (0.43%)	Retail Banking
15	2 (0.29%)	Automotive
15	2 (0.29%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	188 (27.21%)	Analyst
2	186 (26.92%)	Developer
3	95 (13.75%)	Consultant
4	80 (11.58%)	SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Developer
5	60 (8.68%)	Architect
6	59 (8.54%)	SAP Consultant
7	54 (7.81%)	Business Developer
8	48 (6.95%)	Business Analyst
9	44 (6.37%)	SAP Developer
10	42 (6.08%)	SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Consultant
11	38 (5.50%)	SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Analyst
12	35 (5.07%)	Business Intelligence Analyst
13	33 (4.78%)	Business Intelligence Developer
13	33 (4.78%)	Data Analyst
14	30 (4.34%)	Business Consultant
15	29 (4.20%)	DevOps Engineer
15	29 (4.20%)	SQL Analyst
16	27 (3.91%)	SQL Developer
17	22 (3.18%)	Data Architect
18	21 (3.04%)	Project Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	32 (4.63%)	JSON
2	30 (4.34%)	XML
3	29 (4.20%)	Software Packaging
4	27 (3.91%)	Web Services
5	22 (3.18%)	.NET
6	17 (2.46%)	HTML
7	16 (2.32%)	CSS
8	14 (2.03%)	D3.js
8	14 (2.03%)	REST
8	14 (2.03%)	SAP Basis
8	14 (2.03%)	SOAP
9	11 (1.59%)	SAP XI
10	8 (1.16%)	MDX
11	7 (1.01%)	SAP Fiori
12	6 (0.87%)	ASP.NET
12	6 (0.87%)	Regular Expression
13	4 (0.58%)	COM
13	4 (0.58%)	J2EE
13	4 (0.58%)	XSD
14	3 (0.43%)	EDI

Miscellaneous
1	105 (15.20%)	Analytical Skills
2	45 (6.51%)	Management Information System
3	16 (2.32%)	Data Structures
4	13 (1.88%)	PMI
5	12 (1.74%)	Derivative
5	12 (1.74%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	11 (1.59%)	Algorithms
7	9 (1.30%)	Credit Risk
8	8 (1.16%)	Enterprise Software
8	8 (1.16%)	FMCG
8	8 (1.16%)	User Experience
9	6 (0.87%)	Computer Science
9	6 (0.87%)	Credit Derivative
9	6 (0.87%)	Fixed Income
10	5 (0.72%)	Equities
10	5 (0.72%)	Mainframe
10	5 (0.72%)	Virtual Team
11	3 (0.43%)	Client/Server
11	3 (0.43%)	Data Centre
11	3 (0.43%)	Data Protection Act

Operating Systems
1	65 (9.41%)	Unix
2	62 (8.97%)	Windows
3	53 (7.67%)	Linux
3	53 (7.67%)	Windows Server
4	36 (5.21%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	9 (1.30%)	Windows Server 2012
6	7 (1.01%)	Windows Server 2003
7	6 (0.87%)	Solaris
7	6 (0.87%)	Windows Server 2008
8	5 (0.72%)	HPUX
9	2 (0.29%)	SUSE

Processes & Methodologies
1	313 (45.30%)	Business Intelligence
2	145 (20.98%)	Analytics
3	135 (19.54%)	Agile Software Development
4	113 (16.35%)	ETL
5	105 (15.20%)	Data Modelling
6	101 (14.62%)	Migration
7	56 (8.10%)	Visualisation
8	54 (7.81%)	Data Migration
8	54 (7.81%)	Project Management
8	54 (7.81%)	Stakeholder Management
9	53 (7.67%)	Data Management
10	48 (6.95%)	Data Visualisation
11	42 (6.08%)	Machine Learning
12	38 (5.50%)	CRM
13	37 (5.35%)	Change Control
13	37 (5.35%)	ERP
13	37 (5.35%)	Scrum
14	36 (5.21%)	Business Analysis
14	36 (5.21%)	DevOps
15	34 (4.92%)	Data Analysis

Programming Languages
1	290 (41.97%)	SQL
2	64 (9.26%)	Java
3	35 (5.07%)	R
3	35 (5.07%)	VBA
4	33 (4.78%)	JavaScript
4	33 (4.78%)	PowerShell
4	33 (4.78%)	T-SQL
5	31 (4.49%)	PL/SQL
6	24 (3.47%)	Python
7	22 (3.18%)	C#
8	14 (2.03%)	VB
9	12 (1.74%)	C
9	12 (1.74%)	PHP
10	11 (1.59%)	ABAP
11	7 (1.01%)	Shell Script
12	6 (0.87%)	Perl
12	6 (0.87%)	Scala
13	5 (0.72%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
14	3 (0.43%)	ANSI SQL
14	3 (0.43%)	C++

Qualifications
1	67 (9.70%)	Security Cleared
2	49 (7.09%)	SC Cleared
3	43 (6.22%)	Degree
4	17 (2.46%)	PMI Certification
5	9 (1.30%)	CCA
6	7 (1.01%)	DV Cleared
7	6 (0.87%)	ISEB
8	5 (0.72%)	BC Cleared
8	5 (0.72%)	PMP
9	4 (0.58%)	BPSS Clearance
9	4 (0.58%)	ISTQB
9	4 (0.58%)	PRINCE2 Certification
10	3 (0.43%)	Microsoft Certification
11	2 (0.29%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
12	1 (0.14%)	AAT
12	1 (0.14%)	CIMA
12	1 (0.14%)	MBA
12	1 (0.14%)	NVQ Level 4
12	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Certification
12	1 (0.14%)	SAP Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	36 (5.21%)	Data Quality
2	16 (2.32%)	QA
3	13 (1.88%)	PMO
4	7 (1.01%)	IFRS
4	7 (1.01%)	IFRS 9
5	3 (0.43%)	Basel II
5	3 (0.43%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	2 (0.29%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	2 (0.29%)	ISO 14001
6	2 (0.29%)	ISO 9001
6	2 (0.29%)	Solvency II
7	1 (0.14%)	GCP
7	1 (0.14%)	ISO 9000
7	1 (0.14%)	SLA

System Software
1	33 (4.78%)	Active Directory
2	7 (1.01%)	Apache Flume
2	7 (1.01%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.14%)	HDFS
3	1 (0.14%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Systems Management
1	33 (4.78%)	Ansible
2	31 (4.49%)	Dollar Universe
3	4 (0.58%)	Control-M
3	4 (0.58%)	Oozie
4	2 (0.29%)	Opscode Chef
5	1 (0.14%)	Hadoop YARN
5	1 (0.14%)	NSN NetAct
5	1 (0.14%)	Puppet
5	1 (0.14%)	SAP Afaria
5	1 (0.14%)	Terraform
5	1 (0.14%)	ThinApp
5	1 (0.14%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	284 (41.10%)	SAP
2	188 (27.21%)	Oracle
3	66 (9.55%)	Microsoft
4	63 (9.12%)	Tableau
5	53 (7.67%)	Cognos
6	52 (7.53%)	Informatica
7	37 (5.35%)	TIBCO
8	36 (5.21%)	Red Hat
9	24 (3.47%)	Atlassian
10	22 (3.18%)	Teradata
11	21 (3.04%)	HP
12	19 (2.75%)	MicroStrategy
13	16 (2.32%)	Netezza
14	15 (2.17%)	Sybase
15	13 (1.88%)	Adobe
15	13 (1.88%)	Cisco
16	12 (1.74%)	Ab Initio
16	12 (1.74%)	webMethods
17	11 (1.59%)	Salesforce.com
18	8 (1.16%)	Remedy