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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 495 576
Rank change year-on-year -70 +81 +152
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 9 29 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.092% 0.054%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.51% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 13
10th Percentile £204 £278 £152
25th Percentile £241 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £575 £413
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +39.39% -4.90%
75th Percentile £533 £637 £500
90th Percentile £538 £963 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £263 £275 £394
% change year-on-year -4.55% -30.16% +1.61%

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 6,144 5,739 7,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 18.21% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,236 3,784 5,020
10th Percentile £330 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 151
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.12
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -12.08%

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 12 January 2026.

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

Crystal Reports
Top 8 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 12 January 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 -80 9 £381 -33.70% 13
UK excluding London -45 5 £263 -4.55% 13
London -29 4 £525 -9.48%
South East - 2 £210 - 8
East of England - 2 £488 - 3
Work from Home -17 1 £488 -47.30% 3
West Midlands -36 1 £275 - 1
Midlands -46 1 £275 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (22.22%) MS Access
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Endur Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) ETRM Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) IFS Developer
1 2 (22.22%) OpenLink Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) ETRM
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Collection
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Data Repair
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
2 2 (22.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) Ariba
3 2 (22.22%) IFS
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase