Bedfordshire Crystal Reports Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Crystal Reports over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redhill Rotherham Royston Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	41
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.754 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£21.43
% change on same period last year	+9.63 %
Database & Business Intelligence Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	41	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	15	7
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£242
Average daily rate	£306	£248
% change on same period last year	+23.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£29.08
Average hourly rate	-	£30.38
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
Crystal Reports East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Bedfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Bedfordshire region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Crystal Reports also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Crystal Reports.

1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Intranet 1 2 (66.67 %) Internet 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 7 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Crystal Reports also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Crystal Reports. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Intranet 1 2 (66.67 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 7 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Report Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Support
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle