Cambridgeshire Crystal Reports Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bath 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 High Wycombe 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 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	69
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	12	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	8.108 %	3.139 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£275
Average daily rate	£322	£288
% change on same period last year	+12.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£287
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£19.25
% change on same period last year	-6.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£21.44
% change on same period last year	+9.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	148	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.207 %	0.229 %
Daily rates quoted	35	27
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£320
Average daily rate	£359	£332
% change on same period last year	+8.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.63	£25.58
Average hourly rate	£28.41	£26.94
% change on same period last year	+5.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.19	£28.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.15	£31.77
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

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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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Crystal Reports within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+17	7	£321	+11.73 %
Huntingdon	-	3	-	-

Crystal Reports East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (69.23 %) SQL 2 5 (38.46 %) C# 2 5 (38.46 %) Microsoft 3 4 (30.77 %) Tomcat 3 4 (30.77 %) .NET 3 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 3 4 (30.77 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (30.77 %) Windows 4 3 (23.08 %) Time Management 4 3 (23.08 %) C++ 4 3 (23.08 %) VB 4 3 (23.08 %) MS Excel 4 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 4 3 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003

5 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 5 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 5 2 (15.38 %) HP 5 2 (15.38 %) LAN 5 2 (15.38 %) MS Access 5 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (15.38 %) SLA 5 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 5 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (15.38 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (15.38 %) Refactoring 5 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 6 1 (7.692 %) Health 6 1 (7.692 %) WinForms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (30.77 %) .NET 2 1 (7.692 %) MFC 2 1 (7.692 %) XML 2 1 (7.692 %) WinForms 2 1 (7.692 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (30.77 %) Tomcat 2 3 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (23.08 %) MS Excel 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (15.38 %) LAN 1 2 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (7.692 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Access 2 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (7.692 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 1 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (7.692 %) Health	Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) DBA 2 3 (23.08 %) Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) Analyst 2 3 (23.08 %) SQL DBA 3 2 (15.38 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Administrator 3 2 (15.38 %) Software Developer 3 2 (15.38 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (7.692 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (7.692 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Report Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) CSharp Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 4 (30.77 %) Windows 2 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 2 3 (23.08 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (15.38 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) Time Management 2 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 2 2 (15.38 %) Refactoring 3 1 (7.692 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL 2 5 (38.46 %) C# 3 3 (23.08 %) C++ 3 3 (23.08 %) VB 4 1 (7.692 %) VB.NET 4 1 (7.692 %) VBA 4 1 (7.692 %) VC++ 4 1 (7.692 %) VB6 4 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript 4 1 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (7.692 %) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (15.38 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 1 2 (15.38 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 5 (38.46 %) Microsoft 2 2 (15.38 %) HP