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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 515 623
Rank change year-on-year +20 +108 -142
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 81 169 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% 1.66% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 119 159
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £481 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £625 £588
90th Percentile £638 £655 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £429 £510
% change year-on-year +13.71% -15.94% +13.33%
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 7,282 10,198 17,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 17.90% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 7,260 12,426
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
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% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 181 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%
75th Percentile £61.58 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%

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 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BusinessObjects over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the UK

BusinessObjects
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 16 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 +34 66 £542 +2.95% 34
UK excluding London +44 44 £488 +13.71% 29
Work from Home +79 37 £488 -11.36% 12
London +58 32 £580 -3.33% 12
Midlands +21 13 £519 +11.56% 9
South East +15 13 £488 +12.74% 6
West Midlands +23 10 £550 +4.76% 7
Scotland +39 9 £195 -62.86% 4
North of England +21 5 £488 +8.33% 1
North West +17 3 £488 +8.33% 1
East Midlands +10 3 £425 +7.94% 2
Yorkshire +9 2 £488 -
South West +8 1 £488 - 2
East of England +4 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £488 - 3
Wales - 1 £488 -

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 2 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) PowerExchange
2 1 (1.23%) SAS
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Adobe XD
1 4 (4.94%) InVision
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.94%) Sketch
2 2 (2.47%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.47%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.47%) Lectora
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) iTrent
2 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.23%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.15%) Power Platform
2 14 (17.28%) Azure
3 7 (8.64%) AWS
4 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.94%) Figma
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.70%) dbt
5 3 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.47%) GCP
6 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.47%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) DHCP
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
1 1 (1.23%) FTP
1 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (48.15%) Power BI
2 8 (9.88%) Tableau
3 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.17%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.17%) MySQL
5 4 (4.94%) MS Access
5 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.94%) SAP BW
5 4 (4.94%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.70%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (3.70%) GIS
6 3 (3.70%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (2.47%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.47%) Lumira
8 1 (1.23%) DB2
8 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.23%) OLAP
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.70%) Git
2 3 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.23%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.17%) Retail
5 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Billing
5 4 (4.94%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Consultant
2 14 (17.28%) Business Consultant
2 14 (17.28%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
3 12 (14.81%) Analyst
3 12 (14.81%) Data Scientist
4 9 (11.11%) Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Administrator
8 4 (4.94%) Project Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.70%) Designer
9 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Power BI Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.70%) SAP Developer
9 3 (3.70%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) UX Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) SAP BusinessObjects Analyst (SAP BO Analyst)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) .NET
2 5 (6.17%) CSS
2 5 (6.17%) CSS3
2 5 (6.17%) HTML
3 4 (4.94%) XML
4 3 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.70%) ADO
4 3 (3.70%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.70%) Flask
4 3 (3.70%) Pandas
4 3 (3.70%) Web Services
4 3 (3.70%) XSLT
5 2 (2.47%) Flash
6 1 (1.23%) BAPI
6 1 (1.23%) ebXML
6 1 (1.23%) EDI
6 1 (1.23%) ggplot2
6 1 (1.23%) IDoc
6 1 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.23%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.94%) e-Health
2 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.47%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.47%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) PDA
5 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) OS/390
3 1 (1.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (25.93%) Visualisation
3 14 (17.28%) Data Analysis
4 13 (16.05%) Data Science
5 10 (12.35%) Agile
5 10 (12.35%) Migration
6 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 8 (9.88%) Business Case
7 8 (9.88%) DevOps
7 8 (9.88%) ETL
7 8 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.88%) User Experience
8 7 (8.64%) User Stories
9 6 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.41%) Data Modelling
9 6 (7.41%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (7.41%) Mentoring
10 5 (6.17%) Test Scripting
10 5 (6.17%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) Python
1 19 (23.46%) SQL
2 11 (13.58%) R
3 4 (4.94%) ABAP
4 3 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.23%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.23%) Perl
6 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.47%) HNC
6 2 (2.47%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) MCSE
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Ansible
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) SAP
2 15 (18.52%) Oracle
3 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) Alteryx
4 5 (6.17%) Informatica
4 5 (6.17%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (4.94%) Adobe
6 3 (3.70%) ESRI
7 2 (2.47%) Databricks
8 1 (1.23%) Aruba
8 1 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.23%) Cisco
8 1 (1.23%) Denodo
8 1 (1.23%) JDA
8 1 (1.23%) Juniper
8 1 (1.23%) Murex
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.23%) Talend
8 1 (1.23%) Zscaler