Crystal Reports Contract Job Trends

SAP Crystal Reports
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Crystal Reports skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 526 605
Rank change year-on-year -16 +79 +188
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 15 36 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.093% 0.054%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.25% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 34 20
10th Percentile - £354 £223
25th Percentile £170 £450 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £578 £438
Median % change year-on-year -56.71% +32.00% -18.60%
75th Percentile £519 £650 £559
90th Percentile £569 £746 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £375 £413
% change year-on-year -33.33% -9.09% -3.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Crystal Reports falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,987 6,922 8,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.17% 17.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 4,763 5,796
10th Percentile £343 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 91 155
10th Percentile £21.24 £17.50 £20.93
25th Percentile £29.07 £21.00 £32.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.78 £73.73
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -45.45% +57.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Crystal Reports as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Crystal Reports in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Crystal Reports.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Crystal Reports

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Crystal Reports over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Crystal Reports in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Crystal Reports.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Crystal Reports

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Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Crystal Reports within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 11 £210 -63.79% 14
UK excluding London +12 9 £250 -33.33% 18
South East +21 5 £170 -49.63%
Work from Home +19 5 £488 -8.45% 6
London -20 3 - -
East of England - 3 £488 - 3
Wales +4 1 £630 -1.56% 2

Crystal Reports
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (13.33%) Tableau
5 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (6.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Hudson
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Law
4 3 (20.00%) Local Government
5 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Accountant
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Accountant
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) IFS Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) IFS Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) SAP P2P Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) ODBC
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (26.67%) ERP
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Repair
5 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) VB
3 1 (6.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Civica
2 3 (20.00%) IFS
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Sybase
4 1 (6.67%) Ariba
4 1 (6.67%) InterSystems