BusinessObjects Job Trends in England

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 582 564
Rank change year-on-year +43 -18 +123
Permanent jobs citing BusinessObjects 87 140 126
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% 1.45% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 64 36 94
10th Percentile £38,300 £31,250 £44,192
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £64,063 £65,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,125 £85,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% -18.65% +14.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

BusinessObjects falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,074 9,624 10,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.34% 15.94% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,115 5,469 7,973
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BusinessObjects relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in England

BusinessObjects
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing BusinessObjects.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in England over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for BusinessObjects in England

BusinessObjects
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the England region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +21 22 £57,500 +12.20% 12
North of England +1 22 £56,250 +73.08% 8
London +39 21 £75,000 - 11
Midlands +24 14 £38,000 -10.59% 11
Yorkshire +12 12 £62,500 +92.31%
West Midlands +18 9 £50,000 +17.64% 10
South East +36 7 £41,250 -36.54% 9
North West +9 7 £50,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands +22 5 £35,500 -35.45% 1
North East - 3 £47,500 -
South West +27 2 £50,000 -30.55% 1
BusinessObjects
UK

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (9.20%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.60%) SAS
3 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (13.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Exchequer
1 5 (5.75%) iTrent
2 4 (4.60%) NEC Housing
2 4 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.15%) Endur
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) Power Platform
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
3 14 (16.09%) AWS
4 7 (8.05%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (43.68%) Power BI
2 24 (27.59%) MySQL
3 21 (24.14%) SQL Server
4 18 (20.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (13.79%) Tableau
6 11 (12.64%) SAP Data Services
7 9 (10.34%) Crystal Reports
8 7 (8.05%) Data Mining
8 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (5.75%) EDRMS
9 5 (5.75%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (5.75%) GIS
9 5 (5.75%) MS Access
9 5 (5.75%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (5.75%) QlikView
9 5 (5.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (4.60%) Hadoop
10 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) Toad
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (33.33%) Finance
3 28 (32.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.49%) Retail
6 7 (8.05%) Law
7 6 (6.90%) Legal
7 6 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Automotive
8 4 (4.60%) Banking
8 4 (4.60%) Local Government
8 4 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.60%) Publishing
9 3 (3.45%) Back Office
10 2 (2.30%) Front Office
11 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.15%) Games
11 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Analyst
2 25 (28.74%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Applications Support
4 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Data Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Report Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Consultant
6 8 (9.20%) Power BI Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (8.05%) Lead
7 7 (8.05%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (5.75%) Principal Consultant
9 5 (5.75%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
9 5 (5.75%) Support Analyst
9 5 (5.75%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.60%) Data Consultant
10 4 (4.60%) SAP Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) .NET
2 3 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (3.45%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) Plotly
2 3 (3.45%) PySpark
2 3 (3.45%) Regular Expression
2 3 (3.45%) SAP Basis
2 3 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.45%) SAPUI5
2 3 (3.45%) Shiny
3 2 (2.30%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) XML
4 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.15%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
4 1 (1.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.20%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.05%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.60%) FMCG
5 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.30%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Windows
2 7 (8.05%) Unix
2 7 (8.05%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
4 3 (3.45%) SUSE
4 3 (3.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (62.07%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (32.18%) Agile
3 26 (29.89%) ETL
4 23 (26.44%) Data Analysis
5 22 (25.29%) Visualisation
6 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.99%) Decision-Making
8 18 (20.69%) Data Modelling
9 16 (18.39%) ETL Development
10 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (14.94%) Analytics
11 13 (14.94%) Data Management
11 13 (14.94%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (13.79%) Customer Service
12 12 (13.79%) ITIL
13 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
14 9 (10.34%) Coaching
15 8 (9.20%) ERP
15 8 (9.20%) Logistics
15 8 (9.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (71.26%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) VBA
4 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.75%) Bash
5 5 (5.75%) VB
6 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.45%) Java
7 3 (3.45%) PROC SQL
7 3 (3.45%) R
8 1 (1.15%) C#
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) Apache Flume
1 3 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Kibana
1 3 (3.45%) logstash
1 3 (3.45%) Oozie
Vendors
1 49 (56.32%) SAP
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.34%) NEC
4 6 (6.90%) Facebook
4 6 (6.90%) Oracle
5 5 (5.75%) Capita
5 5 (5.75%) Civica
5 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.45%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) Informatica
6 3 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Blue Prism