The first table below looks at the demand for Crystal Reports skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Crystal Reports over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Crystal Reports
Rank 178 194 218
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +24
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 25 24 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.392% 0.305% 0.276%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.820% 1.670% 1.487%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 19
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £130 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £550 £730
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £39.51 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £26.25 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-27.61% +32.91%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1374 1437 1816
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.54% 18.27% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1030 1034 1360
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 14
Average hourly rate £36.04 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Crystal Reports
London

Crystal Reports
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London Crystal Reports Jobs Demand Trend

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Crystal Reports across the City of London region.

City of London Crystal Reports Daily Rate Trend

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Crystal Reports Daily Rate Histogram

Crystal Reports
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports across the City of London region.

City of London Crystal Reports Hourly Rate Trend

Crystal Reports
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 32 (61.54%) SQL
2 26 (50.00%) Finance
3 22 (42.31%) Business Objects
4 17 (32.69%) Oracle
5 16 (30.77%) Banking
6 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
7 13 (25.00%) PL/SQL
7 13 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (23.08%) VBA
9 11 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (19.23%) Cognos
10 10 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (19.23%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 9 (17.31%) Derivative
11 9 (17.31%) BusinessObjects XI
12 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
12 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
13 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (13.46%) C
14 6 (11.54%) .NET
14 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
15 5 (9.615%) Oracle BI EE
15 5 (9.615%) QlikView
15 5 (9.615%) MS Access
15 5 (9.615%) VBScript
15 5 (9.615%) Java
15 5 (9.615%) CODA
16 4 (7.692%) Investment Banking
16 4 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
16 4 (7.692%) C#

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 6 (11.54%) .NET
2 4 (7.692%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.769%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.769%) JSP
3 3 (5.769%) XML
4 2 (3.846%) ASP
4 2 (3.846%) XSLT
4 2 (3.846%) Struts
4 2 (3.846%) Web Services
4 2 (3.846%) HTML
5 1 (1.923%) Spring Integration
5 1 (1.923%) Guice
5 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.923%) HTML5
5 1 (1.923%) StructureMap
5 1 (1.923%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (1.923%) REST
5 1 (1.923%) NHibernate
5 1 (1.923%) Ajax
5 1 (1.923%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.769%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (5.769%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.846%) IIS
4 1 (1.923%) Confluence
4 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.692%) Cognos Planning
2 3 (5.769%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (3.846%) RMDS
3 2 (3.846%) 3000 Xtra
4 1 (1.923%) Dynamics SL
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) Firewall
1 2 (3.846%) HTTP
2 1 (1.923%) SAN
2 1 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (19.23%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 9 (17.31%) BusinessObjects XI
6 8 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (9.615%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (9.615%) QlikView
7 5 (9.615%) MS Access
8 4 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
8 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.923%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.923%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.923%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (1.923%) DTS
10 1 (1.923%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (1.923%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.923%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.923%) EasyMock
2 1 (1.923%) Mockito
2 1 (1.923%) JIRA
2 1 (1.923%) jMock
2 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.923%) JUnit
2 1 (1.923%) Subversion
2 1 (1.923%) Maven
General
1 26 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.769%) Front Office
5 2 (3.846%) Games
6 1 (1.923%) Law
6 1 (1.923%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (57.69%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Support Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Objects Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Report Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Systems Support Analyst
5 5 (9.615%) Systems Support
5 5 (9.615%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (7.692%) SQL Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.692%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.846%) Consultant
8 2 (3.846%) DBA
8 2 (3.846%) Team Leader
8 2 (3.846%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (17.31%) Derivative
3 3 (5.769%) Data Extraction
4 2 (3.846%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.846%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.923%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.923%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.923%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.923%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.692%) UNIX
2 3 (5.769%) Windows
3 2 (3.846%) AIX
4 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000
4 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (5.769%) Cash Management
3 3 (5.769%) Business Analysis
3 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
3 3 (5.769%) ITIL
3 3 (5.769%) Scrum
4 2 (3.846%) Data Analysis
4 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2
4 2 (3.846%) OO
4 2 (3.846%) TDD
4 2 (3.846%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (3.846%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (1.923%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (1.923%) Trend Analysis
5 1 (1.923%) ITIL V3
5 1 (1.923%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (1.923%) Fund Management
5 1 (1.923%) Release Management
5 1 (1.923%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) SQL
2 13 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 12 (23.08%) VBA
4 7 (13.46%) C
5 5 (9.615%) VBScript
5 5 (9.615%) Java
6 4 (7.692%) C#
6 4 (7.692%) VB
6 4 (7.692%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.769%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.846%) VB6
8 2 (3.846%) Korn
9 1 (1.923%) COBOL
9 1 (1.923%) Delphi
9 1 (1.923%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.923%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.846%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.923%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (3.846%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Business Objects
2 17 (32.69%) Oracle
3 10 (19.23%) Cognos
4 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 5 (9.615%) CODA
6 4 (7.692%) SunGard
7 3 (5.769%) Reuters
8 2 (3.846%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.846%) Citrix
8 2 (3.846%) Informatica
8 2 (3.846%) Cadis
9 1 (1.923%) Actuate
9 1 (1.923%) SAP
9 1 (1.923%) VMware
9 1 (1.923%) Charles River
9 1 (1.923%) Micro Focus
City, London
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Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £400 per day + negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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RDF Resources
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Logic Engagements Ltd
Rate: £375 - £400 per day
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Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
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Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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