Bristol CRM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CRM over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Location Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Salford Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	32
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	26	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	5.830 %	7.143 %
Daily rates quoted	18	15
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£430
Average daily rate	£379	£450
% change on same period last year	-15.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£470
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£385
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£10.50	£55.00
% change on same period last year	-80.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.20	£23.49
% change on same period last year	+7.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	446	560
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.594 %	0.567 %
Daily rates quoted	163	228
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£348
Average daily rate	£375	£366
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£28.08
Average hourly rate	£30.28	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-2.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.49	£33.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
CRM South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CRM
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CRM across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

CRM
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CRM across the Bristol region.

CRM
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CRM across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CRM across the Bristol region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing CRM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CRM.

1 8 (22.86 %) SEO 2 6 (17.14 %) Change Management 2 6 (17.14 %) C 2 6 (17.14 %) SAP 2 6 (17.14 %) Internet 3 5 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 5 (14.29 %) Music 3 5 (14.29 %) Marketing 3 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 4 3 (8.571 %) BPR 4 3 (8.571 %) ISEB 4 3 (8.571 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (8.571 %) .NET 4 3 (8.571 %) MS Project 4 3 (8.571 %) Workflow

4 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (8.571 %) Test Management 4 3 (8.571 %) Direct Marketing 5 2 (5.714 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Project Planning 5 2 (5.714 %) Software Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Billing 5 2 (5.714 %) Finance 5 2 (5.714 %) MS Office 5 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 5 2 (5.714 %) C# 5 2 (5.714 %) UNIX 5 2 (5.714 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 2 (5.714 %) Middleware

CRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing CRM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CRM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (8.571 %) .NET 2 2 (5.714 %) Middleware 3 1 (2.857 %) AJAX 3 1 (2.857 %) SAP Business Workflow 3 1 (2.857 %) ASP 3 1 (2.857 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 3 (8.571 %) MS Project 2 2 (5.714 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.857 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.857 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.857 %) CA Clarity
Business Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) SAP FI 2 1 (2.857 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (2.857 %) Summit 2 1 (2.857 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft CRM	Communications & Networking 1 6 (17.14 %) Internet 2 2 (5.714 %) Broadband 3 1 (2.857 %) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.857 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (2.857 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) TestDirector
General 1 5 (14.29 %) Telecoms 1 5 (14.29 %) Music 1 5 (14.29 %) Marketing 2 2 (5.714 %) Billing 2 2 (5.714 %) Finance 3 1 (2.857 %) Aerospace 3 1 (2.857 %) Government 3 1 (2.857 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.857 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 8 (22.86 %) Product Manager 2 4 (11.43 %) Business Analyst 2 4 (11.43 %) Analyst 3 3 (8.571 %) Test Manager 3 3 (8.571 %) Consultant 3 3 (8.571 %) Project Manager 3 3 (8.571 %) Developer 3 3 (8.571 %) Process Engineer 3 3 (8.571 %) SAP Manager 3 3 (8.571 %) SAP Test Manager 4 2 (5.714 %) CRM Consultant 4 2 (5.714 %) Programme Planner 4 2 (5.714 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) C# Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (2.857 %) Network Manager 5 1 (2.857 %) Business Architect 5 1 (2.857 %) CRM Project Manager 5 1 (2.857 %) Project Planner 5 1 (2.857 %) Architect
Operating Systems 1 2 (5.714 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.857 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (22.86 %) SEO 2 6 (17.14 %) Change Management 3 5 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (8.571 %) Test Management 4 3 (8.571 %) Direct Marketing 4 3 (8.571 %) Workflow 4 3 (8.571 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (8.571 %) BPR 5 2 (5.714 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Software Testing 5 2 (5.714 %) Project Planning 6 1 (2.857 %) CMMI 6 1 (2.857 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.857 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.857 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.857 %) ERP 6 1 (2.857 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.857 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 6 (17.14 %) C 2 2 (5.714 %) C# 3 1 (2.857 %) Java 3 1 (2.857 %) SQL 3 1 (2.857 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 3 (8.571 %) ISEB 2 2 (5.714 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (2.857 %) PMP 3 1 (2.857 %) PMI Certification
Vendors 1 6 (17.14 %) SAP