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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 800 755
Rank change year-on-year +166 -45 +118
Permanent jobs citing BusinessObjects 77 110 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 0.60% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 40 81 161
10th Percentile £40,925 £34,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,424 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,198
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.42% +0.36%
75th Percentile £67,625 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £61,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% +15.79%

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 7,470 18,284 21,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.66% 17.90% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,697 12,509 13,179
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,532 £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 £77,400 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Top 15 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 28 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 +124 73 £53,688 +7.38% 40
UK excluding London +170 60 £47,750 -4.50% 26
Work from Home +105 38 £66,746 +33.49% 117
South West +122 18 £60,996 - 1
North of England +36 18 £47,500 +10.69% 3
London +113 16 £65,000 +15.56% 17
West Midlands +55 11 £42,500 -22.73% 13
Midlands +48 11 £42,500 -22.73% 15
Yorkshire +67 10 £46,500 -7.00% 2
East of England +37 9 £82,500 +65.00% 3
North West -9 7 £52,500 +45.83% 1
Wales +48 2 - -
South East +83 1 - - 5
North East +48 1 £47,500 -13.64%
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 (6.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) SAS
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (23.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) iTrent
2 4 (5.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 46 (59.74%) Power Platform
2 27 (35.06%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) AWS
4 6 (7.79%) PowerApps
5 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.90%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.90%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
7 1 (1.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DHCP
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) NAS
2 1 (1.30%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (59.74%) Power BI
2 18 (23.38%) Data Mining
3 13 (16.88%) Tableau
4 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.79%) MySQL
6 6 (7.79%) SAP HANA
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (6.49%) MS Access
7 5 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.19%) OLAP
9 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.90%) Pentaho
9 3 (3.90%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (40.26%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (38.96%) Finance
3 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
4 18 (23.38%) Retail
5 5 (6.49%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.60%) Games
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Police
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (42.86%) Developer
2 23 (29.87%) Analyst
3 18 (23.38%) Junior
3 18 (23.38%) Junior Developer
4 11 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 10 (12.99%) Senior
6 8 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) HR Analyst
7 7 (9.09%) HR Data Analyst
8 6 (7.79%) Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Business Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (5.19%) Analytics Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Cognos Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Cognos Planning Developer
10 4 (5.19%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) Web Services
2 3 (3.90%) XML
3 2 (2.60%) .NET
3 2 (2.60%) JSON
3 2 (2.60%) PySpark
4 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) Middleware
4 1 (1.30%) Plotly
4 1 (1.30%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.30%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.30%) SAP XI
4 1 (1.30%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.90%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Linux
1 2 (2.60%) Unix
1 2 (2.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) AIX
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 25 (32.47%) Analytics
4 24 (31.17%) Data Management
5 21 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 20 (25.97%) Customer Experience
7 19 (24.68%) Coaching
7 19 (24.68%) Service Delivery
8 18 (23.38%) Commercial Awareness
8 18 (23.38%) Performance Management
8 18 (23.38%) WFM
9 13 (16.88%) Agile
9 13 (16.88%) Data Modelling
9 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.58%) ETL
11 8 (10.39%) Dashboard Development
11 8 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
12 7 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (9.09%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (68.83%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) VBA
3 11 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (3.90%) C#
4 3 (3.90%) R
5 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.60%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) ACCA
1 4 (5.19%) CIMA
1 4 (5.19%) Degree
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.30%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.30%) HDFS
1 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Backup Exec
1 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (1.30%) Kibana
1 1 (1.30%) logstash
1 1 (1.30%) Oozie
1 1 (1.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (37.66%) SAP
2 25 (32.47%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.38%) Facebook
4 11 (14.29%) Oracle
5 5 (6.49%) IBM
6 4 (5.19%) Cognos
7 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.60%) Informatica
9 1 (1.30%) Databricks
9 1 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (1.30%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.30%) Veritas
9 1 (1.30%) VMware