The first table below looks at the demand for Crystal Reports skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Crystal Reports over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Crystal Reports
Rank 383 317 347
Rank change year-on-year
-66 +30
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 160 274 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.345% 0.469% 0.414%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.662% 2.465% 2.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 158 136
Average daily rate £355 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £404 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 14
Average hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% +30.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.72 £13.42 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.91 £36.00 £32.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £26.25 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-27.61% +32.91%
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9625 11115 12673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.77% 19.04% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5819 6381 7051
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £255 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 267 393
Average hourly rate £25.85 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.55 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

Crystal Reports
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Crystal Reports Daily Rate Trend

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Crystal Reports Daily Rate Histogram

Crystal Reports
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports within the UK.

Crystal Reports Hourly Rate Trend

Crystal Reports
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Crystal Reports within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Crystal Reports Hourly Rate Histogram

Crystal Reports
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -38 155 £360 +20.00%
London +31 84 £375 +25.00%
City of London +24 27 £400 -
South East -34 22 £275 -10.35%
East of England +13 11 £380 +44.76%
South West +25 10 £338 -3.57%
North West -14 9 £350 +25.00%
Wiltshire +9 8 £325 -13.33%
East Midlands +4 7 £325 -
Hampshire -1 6 £263 -
Essex +6 5 £455 +30.00%
Kent -12 5 £275 -6.77%
North East +16 4 £249 -
Berkshire +8 4 - -
Surrey +8 4 £273 -22.14%
West Midlands -2 4 £263 -4.54%
Cheshire -9 4 £350 +21.73%
Birmingham +13 3 £263 -27.58%
Manchester +6 3 - -
Nottinghamshire 0 3 £400 -
Warrington -2 3 £350 +18.14%
Maidstone -3 3 £275 -5.17%
Yorkshire -5 3 £225 -16.66%
Trowbridge - 3 - -
Swindon - 3 £325 -
Bedfordshire +8 2 £350 +100.00%
Peterborough +4 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +3 2 - -
West Yorkshire 0 2 - -
Scotland -21 2 £275 -12.69%

Crystal Reports
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 196 (56.98%) SQL
2 140 (40.70%) SQL Server
3 100 (29.07%) Finance
4 98 (28.49%) Business Objects
5 87 (25.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 82 (23.84%) Oracle
7 72 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
8 68 (19.77%) T-SQL
9 66 (19.19%) .NET
10 64 (18.60%) Microsoft
11 63 (18.31%) Oracle Reports
12 57 (16.57%) Data Warehouse
13 54 (15.70%) PL/SQL
14 52 (15.12%) C#
15 45 (13.08%) VBA
15 45 (13.08%) SQL Server 2005
16 42 (12.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (12.21%) VB
17 39 (11.34%) Windows
18 36 (10.47%) MS Excel
19 34 (9.884%) SQL Server 2008
20 33 (9.593%) Banking
21 32 (9.302%) SAP
22 31 (9.012%) XML
23 29 (8.430%) IIS
24 28 (8.140%) MS Office
25 27 (7.849%) .NET Framework
26 26 (7.558%) SQL Server Analysis Services
27 25 (7.267%) HTML
27 25 (7.267%) Cognos

Crystal Reports
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 66 (19.19%) .NET
2 31 (9.012%) XML
3 27 (7.849%) .NET Framework
4 25 (7.267%) HTML
5 24 (6.977%) ASP.NET
6 20 (5.814%) ASP
7 17 (4.942%) Web Services
8 12 (3.488%) WCF
9 11 (3.198%) jQuery
10 10 (2.907%) JSP
10 10 (2.907%) CSS
11 8 (2.326%) Ajax
11 8 (2.326%) SAP XI
12 7 (2.035%) XSLT
13 6 (1.744%) HTML5
13 6 (1.744%) Struts
14 5 (1.453%) WinForms
15 4 (1.163%) Spring
15 4 (1.163%) Guice
15 4 (1.163%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 29 (8.430%) IIS
2 10 (2.907%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (2.326%) BizTalk Server
3 8 (2.326%) MS Exchange
4 5 (1.453%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.453%) ArcGIS
4 5 (1.453%) ArcIMS
4 5 (1.453%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.163%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (1.163%) OpenROAD
5 4 (1.163%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.872%) CMS
6 3 (0.872%) Confluence
7 2 (0.581%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.291%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.291%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (0.291%) Apache
8 1 (0.291%) Moodle
8 1 (0.291%) Kentico
Applications
1 36 (10.47%) MS Excel
2 28 (8.140%) MS Office
3 6 (1.744%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (1.453%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.163%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.291%) Maya
6 1 (0.291%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.291%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 11 (3.198%) Pivotal CRM
2 6 (1.744%) Cognos Planning
2 6 (1.744%) RMDS
2 6 (1.744%) 3000 Xtra
3 5 (1.453%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.453%) SAP Business One
4 4 (1.163%) CODA-Financials
5 3 (0.872%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.872%) Line 500
5 3 (0.872%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.872%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.581%) assyst
6 2 (0.581%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.581%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.581%) Dynamics SL
6 2 (0.581%) FRx
6 2 (0.581%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.581%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.291%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.291%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.326%) Firewall
2 5 (1.453%) Internet
3 4 (1.163%) WAN
4 3 (0.872%) SAN
4 3 (0.872%) HTTP
5 2 (0.581%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.581%) LAN
6 1 (0.291%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.291%) LDAP
6 1 (0.291%) PBX
6 1 (0.291%) DNS
6 1 (0.291%) TETRA
6 1 (0.291%) Intranet
6 1 (0.291%) Symposium
6 1 (0.291%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (40.70%) SQL Server
2 87 (25.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 63 (18.31%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (16.57%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (13.08%) SQL Server 2005
6 42 (12.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.884%) SQL Server 2008
8 26 (7.558%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 21 (6.105%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 19 (5.523%) BusinessObjects XI
10 19 (5.523%) Xcelsius
11 18 (5.233%) BusinessObjects
12 17 (4.942%) QlikView
13 16 (4.651%) Oracle 8/8i
14 14 (4.070%) SAP BW
15 13 (3.779%) MS Access
16 9 (2.616%) OLAP
17 8 (2.326%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
17 8 (2.326%) SAP BI
18 7 (2.035%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (4.070%) Visual Studio
2 13 (3.779%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.163%) Maven
3 4 (1.163%) EasyMock
3 4 (1.163%) jMock
3 4 (1.163%) Mockito
3 4 (1.163%) JUnit
3 4 (1.163%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.581%) JIRA
4 2 (0.581%) NUnit
4 2 (0.581%) Subversion
4 2 (0.581%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.581%) ERwin
5 1 (0.291%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.291%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.291%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.291%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.291%) FrontPage
General
1 100 (29.07%) Finance
2 33 (9.593%) Banking
3 8 (2.326%) Retail
3 8 (2.326%) Investment Banking
4 7 (2.035%) Front Office
4 7 (2.035%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.035%) Local Government
5 6 (1.744%) Law
5 6 (1.744%) Legal
6 5 (1.453%) Marketing
7 4 (1.163%) Games
8 3 (0.872%) Back Office
8 3 (0.872%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.581%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.291%) Publishing
10 1 (0.291%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.291%) Automotive
10 1 (0.291%) Norwegian Language
10 1 (0.291%) Billing
Job Titles
1 166 (48.26%) Developer
2 108 (31.40%) Analyst
3 56 (16.28%) Report Developer
4 35 (10.17%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 27 (7.849%) Support Analyst
6 21 (6.105%) MI Analyst
6 21 (6.105%) Business Developer
7 20 (5.814%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.523%) Data Analyst
9 17 (4.942%) Business Objects Developer
9 17 (4.942%) Administrator
10 15 (4.360%) Systems Analyst
11 14 (4.070%) Report Analyst
12 13 (3.779%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.779%) DBA
12 13 (3.779%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.488%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 12 (3.488%) Applications Support
14 11 (3.198%) CRM Developer
15 10 (2.907%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.651%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (4.070%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.488%) Derivative
4 7 (2.035%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.035%) Data Extraction
5 6 (1.744%) NHS
6 5 (1.453%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.453%) Computer Science
7 3 (0.872%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.581%) Data Integration
8 2 (0.581%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.581%) SWIFT
8 2 (0.581%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.581%) Equities
8 2 (0.581%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.291%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.291%) VLE
9 1 (0.291%) Clustering
9 1 (0.291%) NPfIT
9 1 (0.291%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.34%) Windows
2 19 (5.523%) UNIX
3 9 (2.616%) Windows XP
4 7 (2.035%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (2.035%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.163%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.163%) AIX
5 4 (1.163%) Windows 2000
6 3 (0.872%) Linux
6 3 (0.872%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.291%) Windows NT
7 1 (0.291%) HPUX
7 1 (0.291%) Solaris
7 1 (0.291%) Tru64
7 1 (0.291%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (6.977%) ITIL
2 24 (6.977%) Migration
3 23 (6.686%) Data Analysis
4 17 (4.942%) CRM
5 16 (4.651%) Project Management
5 16 (4.651%) ETL
6 14 (4.070%) Data Modelling
7 13 (3.779%) Business Analysis
7 13 (3.779%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (3.488%) PRINCE2
8 12 (3.488%) UML
9 11 (3.198%) Investment Management
10 10 (2.907%) Service Management
10 10 (2.907%) Service Delivery
10 10 (2.907%) ERP
11 9 (2.616%) E-Commerce
11 9 (2.616%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (2.326%) Unit Testing
12 8 (2.326%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 196 (56.98%) SQL
2 68 (19.77%) T-SQL
3 54 (15.70%) PL/SQL
4 52 (15.12%) C#
5 45 (13.08%) VBA
6 42 (12.21%) VB
7 20 (5.814%) Java
8 19 (5.523%) VB.NET
9 17 (4.942%) JavaScript
10 12 (3.488%) VBScript
11 11 (3.198%) C
11 11 (3.198%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.198%) VB6
12 9 (2.616%) Delphi
13 5 (1.453%) Python
13 5 (1.453%) R
14 4 (1.163%) Korn
14 4 (1.163%) ABAP
15 2 (0.581%) Bourne shell
15 2 (0.581%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 17 (4.942%) Degree
2 10 (2.907%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.326%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.326%) MCP
3 8 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.291%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.291%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.291%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.616%) QA
2 4 (1.163%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.163%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.872%) SLA
4 1 (0.291%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (2.035%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.163%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.581%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.581%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (0.872%) Control-M
2 2 (0.581%) ARCserve
3 1 (0.291%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.291%) WMI
Vendors
1 98 (28.49%) Business Objects
2 82 (23.84%) Oracle
3 64 (18.60%) Microsoft
4 32 (9.302%) SAP
5 25 (7.267%) Cognos
6 16 (4.651%) SunGard
7 10 (2.907%) Informatica
8 9 (2.616%) Charles River
8 9 (2.616%) Bloomberg
9 8 (2.326%) Reuters
9 8 (2.326%) CODA
10 7 (2.035%) VMware
10 7 (2.035%) Citrix
11 6 (1.744%) Cadis
12 5 (1.453%) Sybase
12 5 (1.453%) ESRI
13 4 (1.163%) IBM
13 4 (1.163%) Intel
14 3 (0.872%) Teradata
14 3 (0.872%) Sage
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