Cheshire Crystal Reports Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the Cheshire 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clydebank County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darwen Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dudley Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hull Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Redhill Rickmansworth Royston Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	55
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	8	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	5.298 %	1.596 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£330	-
Average daily rate	£330	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£330	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£286
% change on same period last year	+6.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.64	£23.35
% change on same period last year	-20.14 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	151	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.246 %	0.206 %
Daily rates quoted	28	41
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£321
Average daily rate	£306	£338
% change on same period last year	-9.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.90	£27.21
Average hourly rate	£23.99	£28.74
% change on same period last year	-16.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.07	£30.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.53	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-15.84 %
Crystal Reports North West

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.

Crystal Reports
Demand Trend

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

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crystal Reports
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crystal Reports
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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Alderley Edge	-	1	£330	-
Runcorn	-	1	-	-
Warrington	-	1	-	-

Crystal Reports North West

Crystal Reports
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Server 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server 2005 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 8 (61.54 %) SQL 3 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (23.08 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (23.08 %) C 4 3 (23.08 %) Business Objects 4 3 (23.08 %) .NET 4 3 (23.08 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (15.38 %) VB.NET 5 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 5 2 (15.38 %) MS Access 5 2 (15.38 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (15.38 %) Manufacturing

5 2 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (7.692 %) UNIX 6 1 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (7.692 %) Oracle RMAN 6 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel 6 1 (7.692 %) OCP 6 1 (7.692 %) OCA 6 1 (7.692 %) Oracle Certification 6 1 (7.692 %) NHS 6 1 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (7.692 %) ERP 6 1 (7.692 %) FoxPro (VFP) 6 1 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (23.08 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.692 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 9 (69.23 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (23.08 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (23.08 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (15.38 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (15.38 %) MS Access 5 1 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (7.692 %) RDBMS 5 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) Visual Studio	General 1 2 (15.38 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (7.692 %) Retail 2 1 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 9 (69.23 %) Developer 2 7 (53.85 %) SQL Developer 3 5 (38.46 %) SQL Server Developer 4 3 (23.08 %) DBA 5 2 (15.38 %) SQL DBA 6 1 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence Developer 6 1 (7.692 %) Report Developer 6 1 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports Writer 6 1 (7.692 %) Oracle DBA 6 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server DBA 6 1 (7.692 %) Business Objects Developer 6 1 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports Developer 6 1 (7.692 %) Business Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.692 %) ERP 1 1 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 8 (61.54 %) SQL 2 3 (23.08 %) C 3 2 (15.38 %) VB.NET 4 1 (7.692 %) FoxPro (VFP) 4 1 (7.692 %) C# 4 1 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) OCP 1 1 (7.692 %) OCA 1 1 (7.692 %) Oracle Certification
System Software 1 1 (7.692 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 3 (23.08 %) Business Objects 2 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft