City of London Crystal Reports Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the City of London 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 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	164	157
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	38	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	2.569 %	2.863 %
Daily rates quoted	28	14
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£354
Average daily rate	£357	£382
% change on same period last year	-6.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£286
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£25.75	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+47.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£21.43
% change on same period last year	+9.63 %
Database & Business Intelligence City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1479	1397
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.102 %	1.411 %
Daily rates quoted	831	616
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£419
Average daily rate	£416	£447
% change on same period last year	-6.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£474
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.52	£24.01
Average hourly rate	£30.08	£25.41
% change on same period last year	+18.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.64	£26.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-5.33 %
Crystal Reports London

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 City of London 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 City of London region.

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 7 October 2008.

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 City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 34 (52.31 %) Finance 2 31 (47.69 %) SQL 3 19 (29.23 %) .NET 4 18 (27.69 %) SQL Server 5 16 (24.62 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (24.62 %) XML 6 14 (21.54 %) Sybase 7 13 (20.00 %) Oracle 7 13 (20.00 %) VB 8 12 (18.46 %) SQL Server 2005 9 11 (16.92 %) C# 9 11 (16.92 %) VB6 10 10 (15.38 %) Banking 11 9 (13.85 %) Business Objects 11 9 (13.85 %) Oracle Reports

11 9 (13.85 %) BusinessObjects 12 8 (12.31 %) Java 12 8 (12.31 %) Fixed Income 12 8 (12.31 %) WinForms 12 8 (12.31 %) Insurance 13 7 (10.77 %) Derivative 13 7 (10.77 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 7 (10.77 %) Front Office 13 7 (10.77 %) SQL Server 2000 13 7 (10.77 %) VB.NET 13 7 (10.77 %) Windows 14 6 (9.231 %) XSL 14 6 (9.231 %) C++ 14 6 (9.231 %) Windows Server 2003 14 6 (9.231 %) AutoSys

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 19 (29.23 %) .NET 2 16 (24.62 %) ASP.NET 2 16 (24.62 %) XML 3 8 (12.31 %) WinForms 4 7 (10.77 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 6 (9.231 %) XSL 5 6 (9.231 %) WebSphere 6 5 (7.692 %) MFC 6 5 (7.692 %) ASP 7 4 (6.154 %) CSS 8 3 (4.615 %) WebServices 8 3 (4.615 %) XSLT 8 3 (4.615 %) HTML 9 2 (3.077 %) J2EE 10 1 (1.538 %) MDX 10 1 (1.538 %) Swing 10 1 (1.538 %) ADO.NET 10 1 (1.538 %) COM 10 1 (1.538 %) EJB 10 1 (1.538 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 6 (9.231 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (1.538 %) Rendezvous 2 1 (1.538 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.538 %) Tomcat 2 1 (1.538 %) JBoss
Applications 1 4 (6.154 %) MS Excel 1 4 (6.154 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (4.615 %) LongView 1 3 (4.615 %) Minerva 2 2 (3.077 %) SAP HR 3 1 (1.538 %) Findur
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.538 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.538 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (27.69 %) SQL Server 2 12 (18.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (13.85 %) Oracle Reports 3 9 (13.85 %) BusinessObjects 4 7 (10.77 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g 6 4 (6.154 %) MS Access 7 3 (4.615 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (4.615 %) DTS 7 3 (4.615 %) Crystal Enterprise 8 2 (3.077 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 8 2 (3.077 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (1.538 %) BusinessObjects XI 9 1 (1.538 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (1.538 %) Star Schema 9 1 (1.538 %) ETL 9 1 (1.538 %) TOAD 9 1 (1.538 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (1.538 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 6 (9.231 %) ClearCase 2 1 (1.538 %) Log4j 2 1 (1.538 %) Subversion 2 1 (1.538 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.538 %) Visual Studio	General 1 34 (52.31 %) Finance 2 10 (15.38 %) Banking 3 8 (12.31 %) Insurance 4 7 (10.77 %) Front Office 5 6 (9.231 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.538 %) Online Banking 6 1 (1.538 %) Legal 6 1 (1.538 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.538 %) Investment Banking 6 1 (1.538 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 38 (58.46 %) Developer 2 18 (27.69 %) Analyst 3 11 (16.92 %) .NET Developer 4 9 (13.85 %) Support Analyst 5 6 (9.231 %) Report Developer 6 5 (7.692 %) C++ Developer 6 5 (7.692 %) C# Developer 6 5 (7.692 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 4 (6.154 %) Crystal Reports Developer 7 4 (6.154 %) Programmer 7 4 (6.154 %) Report Analyst 7 4 (6.154 %) Applications Support 7 4 (6.154 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 3 (4.615 %) .NET Programmer 8 3 (4.615 %) VB6 Developer 8 3 (4.615 %) JavaScript Developer 8 3 (4.615 %) Business Analyst 8 3 (4.615 %) Administrator 8 3 (4.615 %) DBA 8 3 (4.615 %) Systems Accountant	Miscellaneous 1 8 (12.31 %) Fixed Income 2 7 (10.77 %) Derivative 3 6 (9.231 %) Equities 4 2 (3.077 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 2 (3.077 %) Management Information System 4 2 (3.077 %) Computer Science 5 1 (1.538 %) Data Extraction 5 1 (1.538 %) Mathematics 5 1 (1.538 %) Physics 5 1 (1.538 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 1 (1.538 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 7 (10.77 %) Windows 2 6 (9.231 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (3.077 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.538 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.231 %) Investment Management 2 5 (7.692 %) Business Analysis 2 5 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (4.615 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (3.077 %) OO 4 2 (3.077 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (3.077 %) EAM 5 1 (1.538 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.538 %) Fund Management 5 1 (1.538 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.538 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.538 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.538 %) CRM 5 1 (1.538 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (1.538 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 31 (47.69 %) SQL 2 13 (20.00 %) VB 3 11 (16.92 %) C# 3 11 (16.92 %) VB6 4 8 (12.31 %) Java 5 7 (10.77 %) VB.NET 6 6 (9.231 %) C++ 6 6 (9.231 %) VC++ 7 5 (7.692 %) JavaScript 7 5 (7.692 %) VBA 8 3 (4.615 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (3.077 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.538 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (3.077 %) Degree 2 1 (1.538 %) CIMA 2 1 (1.538 %) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (7.692 %) QA 2 1 (1.538 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 6 (9.231 %) AutoSys 2 1 (1.538 %) Foglight 2 1 (1.538 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.538 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 14 (21.54 %) Sybase 2 13 (20.00 %) Oracle 3 9 (13.85 %) Business Objects 4 5 (7.692 %) thinkFolio 5 4 (6.154 %) Microsoft 6 3 (4.615 %) Charles River 6 3 (4.615 %) LatentZero 6 3 (4.615 %) Sage 6 3 (4.615 %) Cognos 6 3 (4.615 %) SAP 7 2 (3.077 %) Infor 8 1 (1.538 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.538 %) OpenLink 8 1 (1.538 %) TIBCO 8 1 (1.538 %) Adobe 8 1 (1.538 %) HP 8 1 (1.538 %) BMC 8 1 (1.538 %) Hyperion 8 1 (1.538 %) IBM