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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 522 600
Rank change year-on-year +23 +78 -84
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 76 161 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.04% 1.63% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 114 165
10th Percentile £264 £358 £363
25th Percentile £481 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £548 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +7.35% +16.57%
75th Percentile £570 £625 £588
90th Percentile £673 £650 £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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +5 60 £500 -8.26% 46
UK excluding London +28 44 £488 +13.71% 27
Work from Home +71 33 £488 -11.36% 15
London +46 27 £579 -3.50% 21
Midlands +17 13 £519 +11.56% 4
South East +17 13 £488 +12.74% 6
West Midlands +11 10 £550 +4.76% 1
Scotland +41 9 £195 -62.86% 1
North of England +15 5 £488 +2.63% 6
North West +16 3 £488 -2.50% 4
East Midlands +9 3 £425 +7.94% 3
Yorkshire +13 2 £488 - 2
Wales +18 1 £488 +290.00%
South West +5 1 £488 - 2
East of England -1 1 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £488 - 4

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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) IIS
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Adobe XD
2 4 (5.26%) InVision
2 4 (5.26%) Sketch
3 2 (2.63%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (2.63%) Camtasia
3 2 (2.63%) Lectora
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) iTrent
2 2 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) Power Platform
2 20 (26.32%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) AWS
4 6 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.26%) Figma
6 4 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.95%) dbt
7 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.63%) GCP
8 2 (2.63%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) DHCP
1 1 (1.32%) DNS
1 1 (1.32%) Firewall
1 1 (1.32%) FTP
1 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (46.05%) Power BI
2 13 (17.11%) Tableau
3 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (10.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 7 (9.21%) MySQL
6 6 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.89%) Tableau Server
7 5 (6.58%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.58%) SAP BW
7 5 (6.58%) SAP HANA
7 5 (6.58%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (5.26%) GIS
8 4 (5.26%) MS Access
8 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.95%) BusinessObjects XI
9 3 (3.95%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (3.95%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
2 5 (6.58%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.95%) JIRA
4 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 17 (22.37%) Finance
2 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.58%) Retail
6 4 (5.26%) Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Billing
6 4 (5.26%) Legal
7 2 (2.63%) Local Government
7 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Consultant
2 15 (19.74%) SAP BusinessObjects Consultant (SAP BO Consultant)
3 14 (18.42%) Business Consultant
4 12 (15.79%) Developer
5 10 (13.16%) Analyst
6 7 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Administrator
8 4 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Project Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.95%) Designer
9 3 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) SAP Developer
9 3 (3.95%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) UX Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Payroll Consultant
10 2 (2.63%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.63%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) .NET
2 5 (6.58%) CSS
2 5 (6.58%) CSS3
2 5 (6.58%) HTML
2 5 (6.58%) XML
3 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 4 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 4 (5.26%) Web Services
3 4 (5.26%) XSLT
4 3 (3.95%) ADO
4 3 (3.95%) Flask
4 3 (3.95%) Pandas
5 2 (2.63%) Flash
6 1 (1.32%) BAPI
6 1 (1.32%) ebXML
6 1 (1.32%) EDI
6 1 (1.32%) IDoc
6 1 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.26%) e-Health
2 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.63%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.63%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) PDA
5 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) OS/390
3 1 (1.32%) Solaris
3 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (22.37%) Visualisation
3 15 (19.74%) Agile
4 12 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 11 (14.47%) User Stories
6 9 (11.84%) DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Migration
7 8 (10.53%) Business Case
7 8 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
7 8 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 8 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (10.53%) ETL
7 8 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.53%) User Experience
8 7 (9.21%) Analytics
8 7 (9.21%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.89%) Test Scripting
9 6 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (9.21%) Python
3 4 (5.26%) ABAP
3 4 (5.26%) C#
4 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Java
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.32%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.32%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.32%) R
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) Degree
3 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.63%) HNC
4 2 (2.63%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) MCSE
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Ansible
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) SAP
2 16 (21.05%) Oracle
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.58%) Alteryx
4 5 (6.58%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (5.26%) Adobe
5 4 (5.26%) Informatica
6 3 (3.95%) ESRI
7 2 (2.63%) Databricks
8 1 (1.32%) Aruba
8 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco
8 1 (1.32%) Denodo
8 1 (1.32%) JDA
8 1 (1.32%) Juniper
8 1 (1.32%) Murex
8 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.32%) Talend
8 1 (1.32%) Zscaler