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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 514 565
Rank change year-on-year -79 +51 +135
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 15 18 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.061% 0.070%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile £363 £260 £149
25th Percentile £391 £355 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £588 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.47% +46.88% -19.40%
75th Percentile £538 £963 £531
90th Percentile £560 - £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £294 £200
% change year-on-year +27.66% +46.88% -50.00%

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 6,881 5,606 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.07% 19.03% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,733 3,859 5,146
10th Percentile £350 £350 £343
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £488
% change year-on-year -4.34% +1.86% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 96 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £27.88 £24.06 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -30.00%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.79 £59.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 13 March 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 9 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 13 March 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 -88 14 £438 -25.53% 12
London -46 9 £450 -51.35% 1
UK excluding London -91 5 £375 +27.66% 10
Work from Home -28 2 £481 -47.97% 4
Midlands -64 2 £400 +45.45% 3
East of England - 2 £375 - 2
South East -54 1 £438 +40.00% 4
West Midlands -61 1 £275 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £525 -

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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Findur
2 2 (13.33%) Endur
2 2 (13.33%) Sage X3
3 1 (6.67%) Alphatax
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (6.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (20.00%) MS Access
4 3 (20.00%) Power Query
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (13.33%) Tableau
5 2 (13.33%) ZAP BI
6 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (6.67%) PowerPivot
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Product Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Crystal Reports Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Endur Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) ETRM Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) OpenLink Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Report Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL BI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Findur Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) OpenLink Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Lineage
5 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
5 2 (13.33%) ETRM
5 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (20.00%) VBA
4 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) VB
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) OpenLink
3 2 (13.33%) Ariba
3 2 (13.33%) Sage
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Civica
4 1 (6.67%) IFS
4 1 (6.67%) NEC
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase