BusinessObjects Contracts

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BusinessObjects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BusinessObjects over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 512 537
Rank change year-on-year +41 +25 +69
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 46 78 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.83% 1.07% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 119
10th Percentile £301 £309 £350
25th Percentile £416 £481 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £527
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -6.31% +5.40%
75th Percentile £614 £580 £616
90th Percentile £668 £638 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £425
% change year-on-year +12.82% +14.71% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
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 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 5,530 7,289 10,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 16.93% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 5,212 7,411
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 144 186
10th Percentile £20.60 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -33.13% +39.80%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £73.74
90th Percentile £76.50 £74.25 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 11 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 6 months to 9 May 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 +46 43 £550 +1.57% 61
London +62 29 £560 -3.45% 25
UK excluding London +30 15 £550 +12.82% 43
Work from Home +17 13 £433 -11.28% 38
South East +34 7 £550 +12.82% 13
Midlands +4 6 £433 -16.63% 18
West Midlands +11 5 £433 -21.36% 16
North of England +14 1 £700 +43.59% 1
North West +12 1 £700 +43.59%
Scotland +8 1 £195 - 1
East Midlands +7 1 - -

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (8.70%) iTrent
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (4.35%) Exchequer
5 2 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (2.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Power Platform
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (8.70%) Google Workspace
5 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.52%) Fivetran
7 2 (4.35%) AWS
7 2 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.17%) Collibra
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) Power BI
2 11 (23.91%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 10 (21.74%) Tableau
4 7 (15.22%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (13.04%) SAP Data Services
5 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (10.87%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
7 4 (8.70%) MS Access
8 3 (6.52%) SAP BW
9 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.35%) Metadata
9 2 (4.35%) Pentaho
10 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) GitLab
1 3 (6.52%) Liquibase
2 2 (4.35%) ERwin
3 1 (2.17%) Postman
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Local Government
4 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) Automation Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 3 (6.52%) SAP Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Developer Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Web Services
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Cordova
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) Pandas
2 1 (2.17%) PySpark
2 1 (2.17%) pytest
2 1 (2.17%) REST
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Blog
4 1 (2.17%) CMDB
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (28.26%) Visualisation
3 12 (26.09%) Analytics
4 11 (23.91%) Data Analysis
5 9 (19.57%) Data Transformation
5 9 (19.57%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (17.39%) ETL
7 7 (15.22%) Data Analytics
7 7 (15.22%) Data Architecture
7 7 (15.22%) Data Integration
7 7 (15.22%) Decision-Making
7 7 (15.22%) Migration
8 6 (13.04%) Business Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) Data Management
8 6 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (13.04%) User Experience
8 6 (13.04%) Validation
9 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.87%) ERP
9 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) SQL
2 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) ABAP
4 2 (4.35%) R
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) AAT
1 5 (10.87%) CCAB
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) CIPFA
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) ISEB
4 1 (2.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) SLA
4 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) SAP
2 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) Oracle
3 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.70%) Informatica
5 3 (6.52%) Blue Prism
5 3 (6.52%) Talend
6 2 (4.35%) Sparx
7 1 (2.17%) Aderant
7 1 (2.17%) Ariba
7 1 (2.17%) Databricks
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) Salesforce