BusinessObjects Contracts

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BusinessObjects skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 543 618
Rank change year-on-year +44 +75 -117
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 79 173 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.08% 1.64% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 121 173
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £481 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +16.57%
75th Percentile £580 £606 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £432 £525
% change year-on-year +12.74% -17.63% +18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £66.00 - £13.30
25th Percentile £71.25 - £16.23
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £16.23
% change year-on-year - - -12.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

BusinessObjects is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

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 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

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Top 16 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 6 May 2024. 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 +25 64 £542 +3.14% 36
UK excluding London +40 42 £488 +12.74% 29
Work from Home +87 38 £488 -11.36% 18
London +68 32 £580 -1.28% 12
South East +19 13 £488 +12.74% 7
Midlands +22 11 £519 +15.28% 8
Scotland +43 9 £195 -62.86% 2
West Midlands +14 8 £550 +4.76% 6
North of England +22 4 £488 +14.71% 2
East Midlands +16 3 £425 +7.94% 2
North West +24 2 £488 +21.88% 1
Yorkshire +17 2 £488 +2.63% 1
East of England +4 2 - - 5
South West +20 1 £488 - 4
Wales +16 1 £488 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £488 - 3

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 1 (1.27%) Apache
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.27%) PowerExchange
1 1 (1.27%) SAS
1 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Adobe XD
1 4 (5.06%) InVision
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.06%) Sketch
2 2 (2.53%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.53%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.53%) Lectora
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) iTrent
2 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.27%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.27%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) Power Platform
2 11 (13.92%) Azure
3 6 (7.59%) AWS
4 4 (5.06%) Figma
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.80%) dbt
6 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DHCP
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (48.10%) Power BI
2 7 (8.86%) Tableau
3 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 4 (5.06%) MS Access
5 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.06%) SAP BW
5 4 (5.06%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (3.80%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (3.80%) GIS
6 3 (3.80%) MySQL
6 3 (3.80%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.53%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.53%) Lumira
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.27%) DB2
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
2 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.80%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (1.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Finance
3 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Billing
5 4 (5.06%) Legal
6 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Local Government
7 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Consultant
2 14 (17.72%) Business Consultant
2 14 (17.72%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
3 12 (15.19%) Data Scientist
4 11 (13.92%) Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Data Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Administrator
8 4 (5.06%) Project Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.80%) Designer
9 3 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) SAP Developer
9 3 (3.80%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) UX Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Learning Technologist
10 2 (2.53%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) .NET
1 5 (6.33%) CSS
1 5 (6.33%) CSS3
1 5 (6.33%) HTML
2 3 (3.80%) ADO
2 3 (3.80%) Flask
2 3 (3.80%) Pandas
3 2 (2.53%) Flash
4 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.27%) BAPI
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.27%) ggplot2
4 1 (1.27%) IDoc
4 1 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.27%) Plotly
4 1 (1.27%) Shiny
4 1 (1.27%) Web Services
4 1 (1.27%) XML
4 1 (1.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.06%) e-Health
2 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.53%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.53%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) OS/390
2 1 (1.27%) Solaris
2 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (27.85%) Visualisation
3 14 (17.72%) Data Analysis
4 13 (16.46%) Data Science
5 10 (12.66%) Migration
6 9 (11.39%) Data Migration
6 9 (11.39%) ETL
6 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.13%) Agile
7 8 (10.13%) Business Case
7 8 (10.13%) User Experience
8 7 (8.86%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.59%) Data Management
9 6 (7.59%) DevOps
9 6 (7.59%) Mentoring
9 6 (7.59%) User Stories
10 5 (6.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.32%) Python
2 19 (24.05%) SQL
3 11 (13.92%) R
4 3 (3.80%) ABAP
4 3 (3.80%) Java
5 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.27%) C#
6 1 (1.27%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.27%) Perl
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.53%) HNC
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) MCSE
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) HDFS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Ansible
1 1 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) SAP
2 13 (16.46%) Oracle
3 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.59%) Informatica
5 5 (6.33%) Alteryx
5 5 (6.33%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (5.06%) Adobe
7 3 (3.80%) ESRI
8 2 (2.53%) Databricks
8 2 (2.53%) Talend
9 1 (1.27%) Aruba
9 1 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.27%) Cisco
9 1 (1.27%) Denodo
9 1 (1.27%) JDA
9 1 (1.27%) Juniper
9 1 (1.27%) Murex
9 1 (1.27%) NEC
9 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.27%) Zscaler
43 BusinessObjects jobs Nationwide