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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 547 527
Rank change year-on-year -133 -20 +79
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 8 9 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.027% 0.075%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.098% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 27
10th Percentile £344 - £338
25th Percentile £550 £170 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £250 £575
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -56.52% +27.78%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £623
90th Percentile £683 £569 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £213 £250 £356
% change year-on-year -15.00% -29.82% -18.57%

All Database & BI 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 8,204 6,032 6,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.84% 18.18% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,455 4,050 4,499
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 82 89
10th Percentile £17.03 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £39.48 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +16.36% -33.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -40.63%

Crystal Reports
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Crystal Reports relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Crystal Reports job vacancy trend in the UK

Crystal Reports
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

Crystal Reports
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Crystal Reports over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
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

Crystal Reports
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 14 October 2026. 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 -122 8 £650 +209.52% 23
London - 6 £650 - 16
Work from Home -66 2 - - 9
UK excluding London -112 2 £213 -15.00% 7
Midlands - 2 £213 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £213 - 2

Crystal Reports
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (12.50%) Db2
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Findur Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) OpenLink Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Report Writer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Blazor
2 1 (12.50%) ODBC
2 1 (12.50%) OOXML
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) EFT
1 1 (12.50%) EPoS
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Capita
2 1 (12.50%) Epicor
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) OpenLink
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Syncfusion