Scotland Crystal Reports Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects Crystal Reports skills within the Scotland 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects Crystal Reports
Location Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clydebank County Antrim Crawley Croydon Darwen Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dudley Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hull Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Redhill Rickmansworth Royston Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	102
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	20	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	4.566 %	2.651 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£194
Average daily rate	£379	£201
% change on same period last year	+88.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£209
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£282
% change on same period last year	+8.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.50
Average hourly rate	-	£29.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.80	£23.60
% change on same period last year	-20.35 %
Database & Business Intelligence Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	438	830
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.704 %	0.891 %
Daily rates quoted	90	147
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£296
Average daily rate	£312	£312
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£347
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.77	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£29.90	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+9.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.02	£30.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.57	£31.78
% change on same period last year	-16.37 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Scotland region.

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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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Edinburgh	+25	10	£492	+391.66 %
Glasgow	+11	5	-	-
West Dunbartonshire	-	2	£210	-
South Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (30.30 %) SQL 1 10 (30.30 %) SQL Server 2 8 (24.24 %) Business Objects 2 8 (24.24 %) BusinessObjects 3 7 (21.21 %) Finance 4 6 (18.18 %) Actuate 4 6 (18.18 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 6 (18.18 %) Shell Script 4 6 (18.18 %) Perl 4 6 (18.18 %) Java 4 6 (18.18 %) Tumbleweed 5 5 (15.15 %) HTML 5 5 (15.15 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (15.15 %) FTP 5 5 (15.15 %) HTTP

5 5 (15.15 %) DataStage 6 4 (12.12 %) Intranet 6 4 (12.12 %) ASP 6 4 (12.12 %) Oracle Reports 6 4 (12.12 %) JavaScript 6 4 (12.12 %) C# 6 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 7 3 (9.091 %) .NET 7 3 (9.091 %) VBScript 7 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials 7 3 (9.091 %) Ascential 7 3 (9.091 %) ETL 7 3 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (6.061 %) OO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (15.15 %) HTML 2 4 (12.12 %) ASP 3 3 (9.091 %) .NET 4 2 (6.061 %) XML 5 1 (3.030 %) AJAX 5 1 (3.030 %) .NET Remoting 5 1 (3.030 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (3.030 %) CSS 5 1 (3.030 %) WebServices	Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (3.030 %) PeopleSoft HRMS	Communications & Networking 1 5 (15.15 %) FTP 1 5 (15.15 %) HTTP 2 4 (12.12 %) Intranet 3 1 (3.030 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (30.30 %) SQL Server 2 8 (24.24 %) BusinessObjects 3 5 (15.15 %) DataStage 3 5 (15.15 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (12.12 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (9.091 %) ETL 6 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (3.030 %) SAP BI 7 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) NUnit 1 1 (3.030 %) Subversion
General 1 7 (21.21 %) Finance 2 1 (3.030 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 17 (51.52 %) Developer 2 5 (15.15 %) DataStage Developer 3 4 (12.12 %) Intranet Developer 3 4 (12.12 %) Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Test Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Applications Support 5 2 (6.061 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) Crystal Reports Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) Report Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) MI Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) SAP Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) VB6 Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) Business Intelligence Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) VB Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) Security Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) Business Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.18 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (3.030 %) Computer Science	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (6.061 %) UML 2 2 (6.061 %) OO 2 2 (6.061 %) Migration 3 1 (3.030 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (3.030 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (3.030 %) Use Case 3 1 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.030 %) OOD 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (3.030 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 10 (30.30 %) SQL 2 6 (18.18 %) Java 2 6 (18.18 %) Shell Script 2 6 (18.18 %) Perl 3 4 (12.12 %) JavaScript 3 4 (12.12 %) C# 4 3 (9.091 %) VBScript 5 1 (3.030 %) VB 5 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET 5 1 (3.030 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (3.030 %) Delphi 5 1 (3.030 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (3.030 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 8 (24.24 %) Business Objects 2 6 (18.18 %) Actuate 2 6 (18.18 %) Tumbleweed 3 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 4 3 (9.091 %) Ascential 5 2 (6.061 %) IBM 6 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft 6 1 (3.030 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (3.030 %) SAP