Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 August 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Crystal Reports skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Crystal Reports over the 6 months to 23 August 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

SAP Crystal Reports
UK
6 months to
23 Aug 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 704 666 552
Rank change year-on-year -38 -114 +12
Contract jobs citing Crystal Reports 129 220 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.59% 0.92% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 140 214
UK median daily rate £388 £339 £325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +14.39% +4.23% -
10th Percentile £215 £213 £200
90th Percentile £555 £488 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £310 £313
% change year-on-year +12.90% -0.80% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 3
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -6.25% +41.18% -15.00%
10th Percentile £16.65 £10.00 £15.50
90th Percentile £31.47 £48.38 £38.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £42.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -52.94% +150.00% +33.44%

Crystal Reports is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 21726 23985 26108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.18% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14453 16069 16981
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.90%
10th Percentile £300 £281 £263
90th Percentile £625 £600 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 380 375
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £28.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +8.77% +3.64% -
10th Percentile £11.48 £11.48 £14.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £48.75 £54.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.79% -0.88%

Crystal Reports
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Crystal Reports as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Crystal Reports.

Contractor daily rate trend for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Crystal Reports over the 6 months to 23 August 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Crystal Reports.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Crystal Reports over the 6 months to 23 August 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Crystal Reports in the UK

Crystal Reports
Top 15 Contract 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 23 August 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -40 125 £388 +14.39% 44
UK excluding London -33 71 £350 +12.90% 33
London -5 57 £450 +23.29% 11
South East +20 21 £350 +16.67% 6
East of England -23 14 £275 -31.25% 4
South West -12 13 £388 +6.90% 5
North of England +34 12 £450 +71.43% 13
Yorkshire +25 10 £450 +56.52% 5
Midlands +19 7 £323 -4.44% 4
East Midlands -13 4 £215 -36.30% 1
West Midlands +40 3 £375 +8.30% 3
Wales +3 3 £306 -18.33%
North East +60 1 - - 1
North West +8 1 £225 +20.00% 7
Northern Ireland -52 1 - -

For the 6 months to 23 August 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Crystal Reports also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Crystal Reports.

1 81 (62.79%) SQL
2 44 (34.11%) SQL Server
3 42 (32.56%) Finance
4 41 (31.78%) BusinessObjects
5 27 (20.93%) Microsoft
6 25 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (18.60%) SAP
8 22 (17.05%) Windows
8 22 (17.05%) Migration
9 21 (16.28%) ERP
10 19 (14.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (13.95%) Management Information System
12 17 (13.18%) Oracle
12 17 (13.18%) Data Management
13 16 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
14 15 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (11.63%) Epicor
15 14 (10.85%) C#
16 13 (10.08%) ETL
16 13 (10.08%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
17 12 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (9.30%) Relational Database
18 11 (8.53%) Analytics
18 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
18 11 (8.53%) Java
18 11 (8.53%) T-SQL
18 11 (8.53%) .NET
18 11 (8.53%) Web Services
19 9 (6.98%) Agile Software Development
19 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing

Crystal Reports
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.65%) IIS
2 4 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.10%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.55%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.55%) CMS
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) SAP Business One
1 5 (3.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (2.33%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.55%) Infor M3
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.78%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.78%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.78%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.78%) Movex
4 1 (0.78%) Sage 1000
4 1 (0.78%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Azure
2 2 (1.55%) PaaS
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (0.78%) Office 365
3 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Internet
1 1 (0.78%) Intranet
1 1 (0.78%) LAN
1 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (34.11%) SQL Server
2 41 (31.78%) BusinessObjects
3 19 (14.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (10.08%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 12 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (9.30%) Relational Database
7 8 (6.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.43%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (4.65%) BusinessObjects Dashboards
9 6 (4.65%) SQL Server 2008
10 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.88%) QlikView
10 5 (3.88%) SQL Server 2012
10 5 (3.88%) Sybase ASE
11 4 (3.10%) BusinessObjects XI
11 4 (3.10%) Power BI
11 4 (3.10%) SAP HANA
12 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.78%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
3 1 (0.78%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 42 (32.56%) Finance
2 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
3 7 (5.43%) Banking
4 5 (3.88%) Advertising
5 3 (2.33%) Japanese Language
5 3 (2.33%) Publishing
5 3 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (0.78%) Electronics
6 1 (0.78%) German Language
6 1 (0.78%) Local Government
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing
6 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (35.66%) Developer
2 28 (21.71%) Analyst
3 15 (11.63%) Consultant
4 11 (8.53%) SQL Developer
5 10 (7.75%) Report Developer
6 9 (6.98%) Technical Consultant
7 8 (6.20%) Business Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Project Manager
7 8 (6.20%) Report Analyst
8 7 (5.43%) Architect
8 7 (5.43%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Administrator
9 6 (4.65%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.65%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Crystal Reports Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.65%) SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.53%) .NET
1 11 (8.53%) Web Services
2 6 (4.65%) Hibernate
2 6 (4.65%) J2EE
3 5 (3.88%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.88%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.88%) JSP
3 5 (3.88%) Spring
4 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.33%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.33%) LINQ
5 3 (2.33%) WCF
5 3 (2.33%) WinForms
6 2 (1.55%) Classic ASP
6 2 (1.55%) CSS
6 2 (1.55%) EDI
6 2 (1.55%) HTML
6 2 (1.55%) ODBC
6 2 (1.55%) XML
6 2 (1.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.33%) Credit Risk
3 3 (2.33%) LIMS
3 3 (2.33%) NHS
4 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.55%) FMCG
5 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.78%) BBC
5 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.78%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.05%) Windows
2 7 (5.43%) Linux
2 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.10%) Unix
3 4 (3.10%) Windows 7
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.55%) HPUX
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.78%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (17.05%) Migration
3 21 (16.28%) ERP
4 17 (13.18%) Data Management
5 13 (10.08%) ETL
6 11 (8.53%) Analytics
7 9 (6.98%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (6.98%) Data Migration
8 8 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (5.43%) ITIL
9 7 (5.43%) Process Improvement
9 7 (5.43%) Quality Management
9 7 (5.43%) Service Management
10 5 (3.88%) Service Delivery
11 4 (3.10%) Asset Management
11 4 (3.10%) Information Management
11 4 (3.10%) Microservices
11 4 (3.10%) Project Management
12 3 (2.33%) Data Transformation
12 3 (2.33%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 81 (62.79%) SQL
2 14 (10.85%) C#
3 11 (8.53%) Java
3 11 (8.53%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.98%) C
5 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.43%) VBA
7 6 (4.65%) VB.NET
8 5 (3.88%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.10%) VB
10 2 (1.55%) C++
10 2 (1.55%) Python
11 1 (0.78%) ABAP
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) VB6
11 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (1.55%) A+ Certification
2 2 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (1.55%) MCP
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.78%) HND
3 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) DICOM
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) GMP
4 1 (0.78%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) DameWare
1 2 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 27 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.60%) SAP
3 17 (13.18%) Oracle
4 15 (11.63%) Epicor
5 8 (6.20%) Sybase
6 5 (3.88%) Cognos
7 4 (3.10%) Citrix
7 4 (3.10%) Sage
8 3 (2.33%) LabWare
9 2 (1.55%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.55%) InterSystems
9 2 (1.55%) Sophos
10 1 (0.78%) Canon
10 1 (0.78%) IFS
10 1 (0.78%) Infor
10 1 (0.78%) Infragistics
10 1 (0.78%) Kaspersky
10 1 (0.78%) Northgate
10 1 (0.78%) Tableau
10 1 (0.78%) Twitter