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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 532 492
Rank change year-on-year -74 -40 +32
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 83 35 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.01% 0.58% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 21 38
10th Percentile £283 £250 £389
25th Percentile £388 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +8.64% +1.25%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £613
90th Percentile £839 £603 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £22.37 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.94 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.58 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +56.07% -
75th Percentile £34.81 £37.57 £44.67
90th Percentile £51.13 £40.96 £59.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £20.66 £19.59
% change year-on-year +200.10% +5.46% -

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 8,254 6,022 6,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 18.25% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,512 4,040 4,691
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.13 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £74.97 £83.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% +24.93% -45.21%

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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

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 September 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 -88 71 £450 -18.18% 43
UK excluding London -81 39 £446 -0.94% 15
Work from Home -38 31 £459 +2.00% 11
London -85 28 £450 -23.08% 27
Midlands -31 18 £459 +6.13% 1
West Midlands -26 17 £459 +6.13% 1
South East -63 12 £402 -27.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 7 £315 - 2
North of England -56 7 £315 -37.00% 7
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England -34 1 - - 3
South West -39 1 £510 +98.06%
East Midlands - 1 £213 -

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 10 (12.05%) Confluence
2 7 (8.43%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.43%) Notepad++
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (15.66%) iTrent
2 10 (12.05%) SAP ERP
3 7 (8.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.61%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (2.41%) Workday HCM
6 1 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (1.20%) Primavera
6 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (1.20%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (1.20%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) Power Platform
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon EMR
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon Kinesis
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
2 6 (7.23%) AWS
3 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (6.02%) Azure
3 5 (6.02%) Serverless
4 3 (3.61%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.41%) Boomi
5 2 (2.41%) iPaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.20%) SaaS
6 1 (1.20%) Slack
6 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) PuTTY
1 7 (8.43%) WinSCP
2 2 (2.41%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.12%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (27.71%) Power BI
3 13 (15.66%) SAP Data Services
4 10 (12.05%) SAP BW
4 10 (12.05%) Tableau
5 8 (9.64%) Metadata
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (8.43%) SAP HANA
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
7 6 (7.23%) DynamoDB
7 6 (7.23%) Pentaho
7 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.61%) OLAP
9 3 (3.61%) Power Query
9 3 (3.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) JIRA
2 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) LSMW
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.48%) Finance
4 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Local Government
6 4 (4.82%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Billing
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Consultant
2 20 (24.10%) Data Engineer
3 15 (18.07%) Developer
4 13 (15.66%) SAP Consultant
5 12 (14.46%) Analyst
6 9 (10.84%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Analytics Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Cloud Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) HR Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) SAP BW Consultant
9 4 (4.82%) Data Migration Specialist
9 4 (4.82%) ERP Specialist
9 4 (4.82%) Lead
9 4 (4.82%) Migration Specialist
9 4 (4.82%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) REST
2 3 (3.61%) SOAP
2 3 (3.61%) XML
3 2 (2.41%) JSON
3 2 (2.41%) Middleware
3 2 (2.41%) OAuth
3 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.41%) Web Services
3 2 (2.41%) XSLT
4 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.20%) ODBC
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.43%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.82%) NHS
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.20%) EFT
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) EPoS
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Unix
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Solaris
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (33.73%) Analytics
3 25 (30.12%) Data Modelling
3 25 (30.12%) Migration
4 24 (28.92%) ETL
5 21 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (21.69%) Agile
7 13 (15.66%) ERP
8 11 (13.25%) Data Extraction
8 11 (13.25%) Data Migration
9 10 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.05%) Validation
10 9 (10.84%) Data Governance
10 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
11 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.64%) Data Analytics
11 8 (9.64%) Data Integration
11 8 (9.64%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) SQL
2 11 (13.25%) PL/SQL
3 10 (12.05%) Shell Script
4 8 (9.64%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) ABAP
6 4 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.61%) Bash
7 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.41%) XPath
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) CCA
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) APMG
6 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.20%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) PMO
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (48.19%) SAP
2 30 (36.14%) Oracle
3 18 (21.69%) Informatica
4 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.23%) Denodo
5 6 (7.23%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.61%) Google
7 2 (2.41%) Cognos
7 2 (2.41%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.41%) NEC
7 2 (2.41%) Workday
8 1 (1.20%) Ariba
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) IFS
8 1 (1.20%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.20%) Maconomy
8 1 (1.20%) Netezza
8 1 (1.20%) Northgate
8 1 (1.20%) Remedy
8 1 (1.20%) Snow