BusinessObjects Jobs

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring BusinessObjects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BusinessObjects over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 790 739
Rank change year-on-year +163 -51 +97
Permanent jobs citing BusinessObjects 65 106 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.87% 0.58% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 36 79 167
10th Percentile £40,500 £34,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,971 £60,875 £61,000
90th Percentile £74,443 £65,000 £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% -5.66% +11.58%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,431 18,186 22,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.47% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,213 12,623 13,902
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects.

Salary trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +134 64 £52,500 +5.00% 64
UK excluding London +182 48 £49,000 -2.00% 47
Work from Home +159 18 £71,991 +43.98% 46
London +99 17 £63,250 +8.12% 24
Midlands +87 16 £42,500 -22.73% 13
North of England +75 16 £49,500 -1.00% 5
West Midlands +57 16 £42,500 -22.73% 12
North West +26 11 £52,500 +45.83%
South West +100 7 £71,991 - 8
Yorkshire +73 5 £46,500 -7.00% 5
East of England +47 5 £46,842 -6.32% 3
South East +104 3 £41,500 -17.00% 18
Scotland - 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 5 (7.69%) NetWeaver
1 5 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (18.46%) NEC Housing
2 5 (7.69%) iTrent
2 5 (7.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (6.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (6.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (4.62%) SAP MDG
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (1.54%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.31%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
4 5 (7.69%) IaaS
4 5 (7.69%) PaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DHCP
1 4 (6.15%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Power BI
2 13 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (18.46%) Tableau
4 10 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 9 (13.85%) SAP HANA
6 7 (10.77%) SAP BW
6 7 (10.77%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (6.15%) MS Access
8 4 (6.15%) OLAP
8 4 (6.15%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.62%) MySQL
9 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
9 3 (4.62%) Pentaho
9 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
1 5 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (4.62%) LSMW
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 43 (66.15%) Finance
2 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (21.54%) Police
4 12 (18.46%) Local Government
4 12 (18.46%) Public Sector
5 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Banking
7 5 (7.69%) General Ledger
7 5 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Legal
9 1 (1.54%) Advertising
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Analyst
1 18 (27.69%) Senior
2 15 (23.08%) Consultant
3 12 (18.46%) Senior Consultant
3 12 (18.46%) Senior Support Consultant
3 12 (18.46%) Support Consultant
4 11 (16.92%) Data Analyst
5 10 (15.38%) Developer
6 6 (9.23%) HR Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Business Architect
7 5 (7.69%) HR Data Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cognos Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Cognos Planning Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Lead
8 4 (6.15%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) Web Services
2 5 (7.69%) XML
3 4 (6.15%) JSON
4 2 (3.08%) .NET
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth
4 2 (3.08%) RESTful
5 1 (1.54%) PySpark
5 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.62%) Replication
2 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Linux
2 13 (20.00%) Windows
3 12 (18.46%) Solaris
4 5 (7.69%) AIX
4 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Analytics
2 25 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (27.69%) Visualisation
4 13 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 12 (18.46%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (18.46%) Housing Management
6 10 (15.38%) ETL
7 9 (13.85%) Agile
7 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (12.31%) Data Governance
9 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics
9 7 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (10.77%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.23%) Budgeting
10 6 (9.23%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 6 (9.23%) Business Strategy
10 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (9.23%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) C
3 5 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) R
5 3 (4.62%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.08%) PHP
6 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) DBS Check
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) ACCA
3 4 (6.15%) CIMA
4 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Accessibility
1 12 (18.46%) ISO 9001
2 7 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.54%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 27 (41.54%) SAP
2 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) Oracle
4 12 (18.46%) Citrix
4 12 (18.46%) NEC
5 9 (13.85%) IBM
6 4 (6.15%) Cognos
7 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.08%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.54%) BT
9 1 (1.54%) Informatica
9 1 (1.54%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.54%) Veritas
9 1 (1.54%) Workday