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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 526 602
Rank change year-on-year -53 +76 +172
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 8 29 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.079% 0.068%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 18
10th Percentile - £298 £272
25th Percentile £170 £391 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -63.48% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £452 £610 £494
90th Percentile £582 £661 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £306 £438
% change year-on-year -31.43% -30.00% +12.90%

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 6,278 6,465 7,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.96% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,268 4,312 5,459
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 154
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 7 November 2025.

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 6 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 7 November 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
UK excluding London -35 8 £210 -31.43% 40
England -41 7 £170 -70.43% 45
South East +7 5 £170 -49.63% 15
East of England - 2 £488 - 8
Work from Home +12 1 £488 +27.87% 13
Wales +6 1 £630 -1.56%

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 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MS Access
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) IFS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ODBC
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (62.50%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) IFS
3 1 (12.50%) InterSystems
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase