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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 503 556
Rank change year-on-year -105 +53 +141
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 20 24 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.082% 0.082%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.43% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 16
10th Percentile £363 £260 £254
25th Percentile £400 £355 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% -7.84% +22.60%
75th Percentile £506 £963 £741
90th Percentile £553 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £294 £285
% change year-on-year +27.66% +3.05% -28.74%

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 7,240 5,560 7,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 19.00% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 3,843 5,173
10th Percentile £350 £354 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £594 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 108 154
10th Percentile £18.10 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £54.03
90th Percentile £83.55 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -37.16%

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 April 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 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 12 April 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 -119 19 £450 -23.40% 13
London -65 14 £450 -51.35%
UK excluding London -93 5 £375 +27.66% 12
Work from Home -41 2 £481 -47.97% 2
Midlands -64 2 £400 +45.45% 1
East of England - 2 £375 - 3
South East -52 1 £438 +40.00% 5
West Midlands -65 1 £275 - 1
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 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Findur
2 2 (10.00%) Endur
2 2 (10.00%) Front Arena
2 2 (10.00%) Global One
2 2 (10.00%) Sage X3
3 1 (5.00%) Alphatax
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (5.00%) NEC Housing
3 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (5.00%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (20.00%) Tableau
4 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) MS Access
4 3 (15.00%) Power Query
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.00%) ZAP BI
6 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.00%) DataStage
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
6 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (5.00%) Hudson
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Product Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (15.00%) Findur Developer
4 3 (15.00%) OpenLink Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Support Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Endur Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) ETRM Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) OpenLink Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Report Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (10.00%) FIXML
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
1 2 (10.00%) Eurex
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Swaptions
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (25.00%) ETL
2 5 (25.00%) SDLC
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.00%) VBA
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.00%) VB
5 1 (5.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Control-M
1 2 (10.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) OpenLink
4 3 (15.00%) SAP
5 2 (10.00%) Ariba
5 2 (10.00%) Murex
5 2 (10.00%) Sage
5 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.00%) Civica
6 1 (5.00%) IFS
6 1 (5.00%) NEC
6 1 (5.00%) Sybase