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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 472 513
Rank change year-on-year -105 +41 +18
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 68 51 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 0.93% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 45
10th Percentile £380 £338 £285
25th Percentile £421 £448 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.55% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £503 £625 £575
90th Percentile £850 £670 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% +14.71%
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 7,398 5,478 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,948 3,730 5,218
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £81.64 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -101 55 £457 -17.00% 21
UK excluding London -94 31 £450 -18.18% 12
Work from Home -22 28 £469 +4.22% 5
London -73 24 £463 -19.91% 15
Midlands -43 15 £459 +6.13% 1
West Midlands -46 15 £459 +6.13%
North of England -71 9 £363 -48.21% 1
Yorkshire -46 6 £315 -
South East -67 5 £425 -22.73% 6
North West -34 3 £410 -41.43% 1
Scotland - 2 - - 2
East of England -29 1 - -
South West - 1 £510 - 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 14 (20.59%) Confluence
2 9 (13.24%) SAS
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Notepad++
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (16.18%) iTrent
2 7 (10.29%) SAP ERP
3 6 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.47%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.35%) Azure
4 5 (7.35%) Serverless
5 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.47%) GitHub
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Slack
6 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) PuTTY
1 7 (10.29%) WinSCP
2 1 (1.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.18%) Power BI
2 24 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (13.24%) Pentaho
3 9 (13.24%) Tableau
4 8 (11.76%) Metadata
5 7 (10.29%) Data Lake
5 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (8.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 6 (8.82%) DynamoDB
6 6 (8.82%) SAP HANA
7 5 (7.35%) SAP BW
8 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.41%) Impala
9 3 (4.41%) Looker
9 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) JIRA
2 9 (13.24%) GitLab
3 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.41%) Git
General
1 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Consultant
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (10.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Analytics Consultant
6 5 (7.35%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (5.88%) Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Data Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) ERP Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) SAP BusinessObjects Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.41%) Administrator
8 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Database Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) ADO
1 1 (1.47%) ebXML
1 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Data Structures
1 7 (10.29%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) e-Learning
4 3 (4.41%) NHS
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Unix
2 4 (5.88%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Solaris
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (36.76%) Analytics
3 22 (32.35%) ETL
4 21 (30.88%) Migration
5 20 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 19 (27.94%) Agile
7 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 11 (16.18%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (16.18%) DevOps
10 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.24%) Data Extraction
10 9 (13.24%) Data Virtualisation
11 8 (11.76%) Data Analytics
11 8 (11.76%) Data Migration
11 8 (11.76%) Scrum
11 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
12 7 (10.29%) ERP
12 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 43 (63.24%) SQL
2 13 (19.12%) PL/SQL
3 11 (16.18%) Python
4 10 (14.71%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 3 (4.41%) HiveQL
6 3 (4.41%) Java
6 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.41%) VB
7 2 (2.94%) ABAP
7 2 (2.94%) VBA
8 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) HDFS
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Grafana
2 7 (10.29%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Oracle
1 27 (39.71%) SAP
2 19 (27.94%) Informatica
3 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.24%) Denodo
5 6 (8.82%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.41%) Talend
8 2 (2.94%) IBM
8 2 (2.94%) Remedy
9 1 (1.47%) Citrix
9 1 (1.47%) Databricks
9 1 (1.47%) NEC
9 1 (1.47%) Netezza
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.47%) Snow