BusinessObjects Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 476 665
Rank change year-on-year -86 +189 -74
Permanent jobs citing BusinessObjects 20 57 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 1.32% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18 27 56
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,650 £34,750
25th Percentile £35,563 £41,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.98% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,943 £55,000
90th Percentile £79,375 £83,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £53,094 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.12% +6.19% -9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,044 4,328 11,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.61% 14.82% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,992 2,847 8,116
10th Percentile £34,533 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BusinessObjects.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK excluding London

BusinessObjects
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England -18 12 £37,000 -43.30% 1
South East -17 3 £56,250 +35.54% 7
West Midlands -36 3 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Midlands -38 3 £65,000 +52.94% 3
North of England -50 2 £41,500 -12.63% 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £41,500 -10.75% 1
BusinessObjects
UK

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Apigee
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Power BI
2 7 (35.00%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (35.00%) Power Query
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (15.00%) Tableau
5 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.00%) OLAP
5 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
1 7 (35.00%) Social Housing
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Local Government
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Support Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Systems Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Systems Support
2 7 (35.00%) Systems Support Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
5 2 (10.00%) Tableau Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Business Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Report Developer
6 1 (5.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Change Management
2 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (35.00%) System Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (20.00%) ETL Development
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Data Management
7 2 (10.00%) Data Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ACCA
1 1 (5.00%) CIMA
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Cognos
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle