London Crystal Reports Contracts

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

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton County Antrim Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halesowen Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield 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 Rotherham Royston Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Twickenham UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	261	255
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	151	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.204 %	0.272 %
As % of the category below	2.331 %	2.701 %
Daily rates quoted	75	94
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£316
Average daily rate	£340	£333
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£285
% change on same period last year	+8.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.67	£25.11
Average hourly rate	£21.96	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-18.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.25	£28.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.27	£23.97
% change on same period last year	+17.97 %
Database & Business Intelligence London
Matching contract IT job ads	6478	10220
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	8.757 %	10.08 %
Daily rates quoted	2651	3741
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£398
Average daily rate	£408	£425
% change on same period last year	-3.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£452
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	304	488
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.05	£26.27
Average hourly rate	£29.94	£28.27
% change on same period last year	+5.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.83	£30.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Crystal Reports England

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 London 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 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 London region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 London region.

Crystal Reports
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 London region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
City of London	-29	36	£358	-7.13 %
Docklands, London	+16	8	£190	-37.70 %
Canary Wharf	+13	2	-	-
Twickenham	-	2	£300	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	1	-	-
Croydon	+8	1	-	-
Luton	-	1	-	-

Crystal Reports England

Crystal Reports
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 192 (53.19 %) SQL 2 117 (32.41 %) SQL Server 3 99 (27.42 %) Business Objects 3 99 (27.42 %) BusinessObjects 4 95 (26.32 %) .NET 5 91 (25.21 %) Oracle 6 84 (23.27 %) Finance 7 73 (20.22 %) Oracle Reports 8 69 (19.11 %) Banking 9 55 (15.24 %) ASP.NET 10 52 (14.40 %) XML 11 51 (14.13 %) VB 12 49 (13.57 %) SQL Server 2005 13 48 (13.30 %) Microsoft 14 47 (13.02 %) C#

15 43 (11.91 %) MS Excel 16 40 (11.08 %) JavaScript 17 36 (9.972 %) Java 17 36 (9.972 %) Oracle 10g 18 35 (9.695 %) SQL Server 2000 19 33 (9.141 %) Investment Banking 20 32 (8.864 %) Business Intelligence 20 32 (8.864 %) Transact-SQL 20 32 (8.864 %) Windows 21 31 (8.587 %) VB.NET 21 31 (8.587 %) PL/SQL 22 30 (8.310 %) C++ 22 30 (8.310 %) Sybase 23 29 (8.033 %) VB6 24 27 (7.479 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 95 (26.32 %) .NET 2 55 (15.24 %) ASP.NET 3 52 (14.40 %) XML 4 27 (7.479 %) HTML 5 25 (6.925 %) ASP 5 25 (6.925 %) WebSphere 6 24 (6.648 %) WebServices 7 14 (3.878 %) MFC 8 13 (3.601 %) Spring 8 13 (3.601 %) iBATIS 8 13 (3.601 %) NHibernate 8 13 (3.601 %) WCF 8 13 (3.601 %) WPF 8 13 (3.601 %) WF 8 13 (3.601 %) WSE 8 13 (3.601 %) Spring.NET 9 10 (2.770 %) .NET Framework 10 9 (2.493 %) AJAX 11 8 (2.216 %) WinForms 12 7 (1.939 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 20 (5.540 %) SharePoint 2 18 (4.986 %) WebSphere MQ 3 13 (3.601 %) BizTalk Server 4 12 (3.324 %) CMS 5 7 (1.939 %) Rendezvous 6 6 (1.662 %) ArcGIS 6 6 (1.662 %) Content Management Server 6 6 (1.662 %) IIS 7 4 (1.108 %) Apache 7 4 (1.108 %) ColdFusion 7 4 (1.108 %) LiveLink 8 3 (0.831 %) Tomcat 9 2 (0.554 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (0.554 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (0.554 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 1 (0.277 %) WebSphere Message Broker 10 1 (0.277 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 1 (0.277 %) ESB 10 1 (0.277 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 1 (0.277 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 43 (11.91 %) MS Excel 2 15 (4.155 %) MS Office 3 6 (1.662 %) MS PowerPoint 4 5 (1.385 %) MS Project 5 3 (0.831 %) Acrobat 6 2 (0.554 %) CA Clarity 6 2 (0.554 %) MS Visio 7 1 (0.277 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 16 (4.432 %) Summit 2 11 (3.047 %) Remedy ITSM 3 10 (2.770 %) Loan IQ 4 6 (1.662 %) Remedy AR System 4 6 (1.662 %) Findur 5 5 (1.385 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 6 3 (0.831 %) Minerva 6 3 (0.831 %) LongView 7 2 (0.554 %) Dynamics GP 7 2 (0.554 %) SageBI 7 2 (0.554 %) SimCorp Dimension 7 2 (0.554 %) arcHouse 7 2 (0.554 %) SAP HR 8 1 (0.277 %) BusinessWorks 8 1 (0.277 %) Microsoft CRM 8 1 (0.277 %) Great Plains 8 1 (0.277 %) assyst 8 1 (0.277 %) Dynamics NAV 8 1 (0.277 %) Dynamics AX 8 1 (0.277 %) CODA Dream
Communications & Networking 1 9 (2.493 %) Internet 2 4 (1.108 %) 3G 2 4 (1.108 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (0.831 %) Broadband 4 2 (0.554 %) VPN 4 2 (0.554 %) DNS 4 2 (0.554 %) HTTPS 4 2 (0.554 %) Intranet 4 2 (0.554 %) Wireless 4 2 (0.554 %) Network Security 4 2 (0.554 %) Extranet 4 2 (0.554 %) DHCP 4 2 (0.554 %) FTP 5 1 (0.277 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.277 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.277 %) LAN 5 1 (0.277 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.277 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 117 (32.41 %) SQL Server 2 99 (27.42 %) BusinessObjects 3 73 (20.22 %) Oracle Reports 4 49 (13.57 %) SQL Server 2005 5 36 (9.972 %) Oracle 10g 6 35 (9.695 %) SQL Server 2000 7 27 (7.479 %) MS Access 7 27 (7.479 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 21 (5.817 %) BusinessObjects XI 9 20 (5.540 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 10 17 (4.709 %) Oracle 9i 11 13 (3.601 %) OLAP 11 13 (3.601 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 11 (3.047 %) ETL 13 10 (2.770 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 14 9 (2.493 %) Datawarehouse 15 8 (2.216 %) TOAD 15 8 (2.216 %) Oracle OLAP 16 7 (1.939 %) SAP BW 17 6 (1.662 %) Crystal Enterprise
Development Applications 1 15 (4.155 %) Visual Studio 1 15 (4.155 %) ClearCase 2 13 (3.601 %) ReSharper 2 13 (3.601 %) Selenium 2 13 (3.601 %) FitNesse 3 5 (1.385 %) TestDirector 4 4 (1.108 %) PeopleTools 5 3 (0.831 %) ClearQuest 5 3 (0.831 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (0.831 %) Flash 5 3 (0.831 %) Subversion 6 2 (0.554 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (0.554 %) Log4j 6 2 (0.554 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.277 %) Ant 7 1 (0.277 %) JUnit 7 1 (0.277 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.277 %) Eclipse	General 1 84 (23.27 %) Finance 2 69 (19.11 %) Banking 3 33 (9.141 %) Investment Banking 4 19 (5.263 %) Government 5 17 (4.709 %) Insurance 6 14 (3.878 %) Back Office 7 12 (3.324 %) Front Office 8 10 (2.770 %) Telecoms 9 9 (2.493 %) Marketing 10 7 (1.939 %) Financial Institution 11 6 (1.662 %) Legal 12 4 (1.108 %) Pharmaceutical 13 3 (0.831 %) Health 13 3 (0.831 %) Construction 13 3 (0.831 %) Billing 14 2 (0.554 %) Retail 14 2 (0.554 %) Auditing 14 2 (0.554 %) Local Government 14 2 (0.554 %) Pensions 15 1 (0.277 %) Corporate Banking
Job Titles 1 189 (52.35 %) Developer 2 76 (21.05 %) Analyst 3 42 (11.63 %) .NET Developer 4 36 (9.972 %) Report Developer 5 32 (8.864 %) Crystal Reports Developer 6 25 (6.925 %) DBA 7 24 (6.648 %) SQL Developer 8 23 (6.371 %) Consultant 9 22 (6.094 %) Support Analyst 10 17 (4.709 %) Applications Support 10 17 (4.709 %) C++ Developer 11 14 (3.878 %) Administrator 11 14 (3.878 %) Senior Analyst 12 13 (3.601 %) SQL Server Developer 13 12 (3.324 %) SQL DBA 13 12 (3.324 %) Senior Developer 13 12 (3.324 %) Systems Analyst 13 12 (3.324 %) Test Analyst 13 12 (3.324 %) Business Analyst 14 11 (3.047 %) Business Developer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (5.263 %) Fixed Income 2 16 (4.432 %) Derivative 3 13 (3.601 %) Equities 3 13 (3.601 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 11 (3.047 %) Management Information System 5 6 (1.662 %) Client/Server 6 5 (1.385 %) Computer Science 6 5 (1.385 %) NHS 7 4 (1.108 %) Blackberry 8 3 (0.831 %) CMDB 8 3 (0.831 %) Multithreading 8 3 (0.831 %) Mathematics 8 3 (0.831 %) Physics 9 2 (0.554 %) Data Extraction 9 2 (0.554 %) Device Driver 10 1 (0.277 %) Replication 10 1 (0.277 %) Interest Rate Derivative 10 1 (0.277 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 32 (8.864 %) Windows 2 16 (4.432 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (3.601 %) UNIX 4 3 (0.831 %) Windows Server 2008 4 3 (0.831 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (0.831 %) Windows NT 5 2 (0.554 %) Windows XP 5 2 (0.554 %) Solaris 5 2 (0.554 %) Linux 6 1 (0.277 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (8.864 %) Business Intelligence 2 25 (6.925 %) OO 3 21 (5.817 %) Unit Testing 4 20 (5.540 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 20 (5.540 %) Security Cleared 5 18 (4.986 %) ITSM 6 15 (4.155 %) UML 6 15 (4.155 %) SC Cleared 7 14 (3.878 %) Investment Management 8 13 (3.601 %) Load Testing 8 13 (3.601 %) Continuous Integration 8 13 (3.601 %) Automated Testing 8 13 (3.601 %) Refactoring 9 12 (3.324 %) CRM 10 11 (3.047 %) Asset Management 11 10 (2.770 %) ITIL 11 10 (2.770 %) Service Management 11 10 (2.770 %) Release Management 12 8 (2.216 %) Business Analysis 13 7 (1.939 %) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages 1 192 (53.19 %) SQL 2 51 (14.13 %) VB 3 47 (13.02 %) C# 4 40 (11.08 %) JavaScript 5 36 (9.972 %) Java 6 32 (8.864 %) Transact-SQL 7 31 (8.587 %) VB.NET 7 31 (8.587 %) PL/SQL 8 30 (8.310 %) C++ 9 29 (8.033 %) VB6 10 27 (7.479 %) VBA 11 18 (4.986 %) VC++ 12 10 (2.770 %) PHP 13 6 (1.662 %) VBScript 14 5 (1.385 %) Shell Script 14 5 (1.385 %) C 15 4 (1.108 %) SQR 16 3 (0.831 %) Perl 16 3 (0.831 %) PeopleCode 17 2 (0.554 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 6 (1.662 %) Degree 2 3 (0.831 %) MCSD 2 3 (0.831 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.277 %) ACCA 3 1 (0.277 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (2.770 %) QA 2 6 (1.662 %) SLA 3 1 (0.277 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 5 (1.385 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.554 %) ISA Server 2 2 (0.554 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (0.554 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 20 (5.540 %) AutoSys 2 9 (2.493 %) CONTROL-M 3 2 (0.554 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.554 %) Foglight 4 1 (0.277 %) TIBCO Hawk	Vendors 1 99 (27.42 %) Business Objects 2 91 (25.21 %) Oracle 3 48 (13.30 %) Microsoft 4 30 (8.310 %) Sybase 5 20 (5.540 %) Remedy 6 11 (3.047 %) SAP 6 11 (3.047 %) BMC 7 10 (2.770 %) TIBCO 8 9 (2.493 %) ESRI 8 9 (2.493 %) thinkFolio 9 8 (2.216 %) Sage 9 8 (2.216 %) Hyperion 10 6 (1.662 %) Cognos 10 6 (1.662 %) PeopleSoft 10 6 (1.662 %) Agresso 10 6 (1.662 %) OpenLink 11 5 (1.385 %) IBM 12 4 (1.108 %) HP 12 4 (1.108 %) salesforce.com 12 4 (1.108 %) RedDot