The first table below looks at the demand for Crystal Reports skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 62 69 61
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.102% 0.342%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.870% 0.472% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £360 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £26.25 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-27.61% +32.91%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
115 212 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 21.70% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 89 82
Average daily rate £375 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 7
Average hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Crystal Reports
East of England

Crystal Reports
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Crystal Reports Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) VBA
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (50.00%) ASP
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) VB
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) Business Objects
4 2 (33.33%) VBScript
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) F#
5 1 (16.67%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (16.67%) Xcelsius

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) SAP XI
3 1 (16.67%) DHTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) PowerPivot
2 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (16.67%) Agresso
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (16.67%) Xcelsius
5 1 (16.67%) QlikView
5 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
5 1 (16.67%) MS Access
5 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) FrontPage
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Objects Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi Developer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Objects Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VBA
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) VBScript
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) F#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (16.67%) SAP