Lancashire Crystal Reports Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the Lancashire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton County Antrim Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halesowen Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston 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 Rotherham Royston Scotland Sheffield Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	47
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	10	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	12.20 %	2.797 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£295
% change on same period last year	+7.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.40	£24.50
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-24.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.20	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.73	£26.02
% change on same period last year	+10.41 %
Database & Business Intelligence Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	82	143
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	8	25
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£305
Average daily rate	£259	£322
% change on same period last year	-19.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£276	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.13	£24.54
Average hourly rate	£28.16	£27.58
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.20	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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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 Lancashire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Crystal Reports within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Preston	+15	6	-	-

Crystal Reports North West

Crystal Reports
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 14 (87.50 %) .NET 2 13 (81.25 %) SQL 3 11 (68.75 %) JavaScript 3 11 (68.75 %) Oracle 3 11 (68.75 %) Oracle Reports 4 10 (62.50 %) CSS 4 10 (62.50 %) ASP 4 10 (62.50 %) PL/SQL 4 10 (62.50 %) VBScript 5 9 (56.25 %) Visual Studio 6 8 (50.00 %) InterDev 7 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 8 6 (37.50 %) e-GIF 9 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 9 5 (31.25 %) Local Government

9 5 (31.25 %) Government 10 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 10 4 (25.00 %) VB.NET 11 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 12 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 12 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 12 2 (12.50 %) C# 12 2 (12.50 %) Summit 12 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 1 (6.250 %) AJAX 13 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 13 1 (6.250 %) Back Office 13 1 (6.250 %) Finance 13 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 13 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 14 (87.50 %) .NET 2 10 (62.50 %) CSS 2 10 (62.50 %) ASP 3 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) AJAX 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 4 1 (6.250 %) XML	Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Summit	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (68.75 %) Oracle Reports 2 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 3 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (6.250 %) MS Access 6 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 9 (56.25 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (50.00 %) InterDev 3 1 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 5 (31.25 %) Local Government 1 5 (31.25 %) Government 2 1 (6.250 %) Back Office 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 14 (87.50 %) Developer 2 10 (62.50 %) Web Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) ASP Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) MI Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Report Writer 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 1 1 (6.250 %) Data Extraction 1 1 (6.250 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) e-GIF 2 1 (6.250 %) OO 2 1 (6.250 %) CRM 2 1 (6.250 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 13 (81.25 %) SQL 2 11 (68.75 %) JavaScript 3 10 (62.50 %) PL/SQL 3 10 (62.50 %) VBScript 4 4 (25.00 %) VB.NET 5 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (12.50 %) C# 6 1 (6.250 %) DHTML 6 1 (6.250 %) VB 6 1 (6.250 %) VBA	Vendors 1 11 (68.75 %) Oracle 2 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects