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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 534 527
Rank change year-on-year -119 -7 +95
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 19 17 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.052% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.29% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 34
10th Percentile £370 - £400
25th Percentile £400 £170 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £329 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -45.21% +9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £565 £684
90th Percentile £675 £613 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £170 £375
% change year-on-year +120.59% -54.67% -16.67%

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 8,227 5,960 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.08% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,487 4,011 4,970
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 93 101
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £27.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 15 August 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 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 15 August 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 -117 19 £450 +164.71% 23
London -61 15 £450 -21.05% 12
UK excluding London -106 4 £375 +120.59% 10
Work from Home -59 3 £438 -10.26% 11
East of England -19 2 £375 -23.08% 1
South East -70 1 £438 +157.35% 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 7

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 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Findur
2 2 (10.53%) Front Arena
2 2 (10.53%) Global One
2 2 (10.53%) Sage X3
3 1 (5.26%) Alphatax
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (5.26%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle Reports
1 9 (47.37%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) Tableau
3 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 3 (15.79%) Power Query
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.53%) ZAP BI
5 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (5.26%) DataStage
5 1 (5.26%) MS Access
5 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
5 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (68.42%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Findur Developer
2 4 (21.05%) OpenLink Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Support
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Support Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Crystal Reports Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Report Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL BI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Tableau Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Report Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.53%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (10.53%) FIXML
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Derivative
1 2 (10.53%) Eurex
1 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.53%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
1 8 (42.11%) SDLC
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Systems Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) Validation
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Prototyping
4 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Data Validation
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) ERP
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 2 (10.53%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (15.79%) VBA
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Control-M
1 2 (10.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) OpenLink
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Murex
4 2 (10.53%) Sage
5 1 (5.26%) Capita
5 1 (5.26%) Epicor
5 1 (5.26%) SAP