Buckinghamshire CRM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Reigate Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	63
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	23	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	3.050 %	3.750 %
Daily rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£370
Average daily rate	£373	£386
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£388
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.77	£21.79
% change on same period last year	+45.82 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	754	880
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.072 %	0.889 %
Daily rates quoted	271	278
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£323
Average daily rate	£335	£342
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	84	87
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.41	£29.15
Average hourly rate	£22.54	£30.20
% change on same period last year	-25.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.67	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
CRM South East

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

CRM
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CRM across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

CRM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CRM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRM within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+3	8	£350	+18.14 %
High Wycombe	-18	3	£425	-

CRM South East

CRM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 13 (29.55 %) Banking 1 13 (29.55 %) Oracle 2 12 (27.27 %) Business Analysis 3 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 10 (22.73 %) Microsoft CRM 5 9 (20.45 %) Finance 6 7 (15.91 %) DB2 6 7 (15.91 %) UNIX 7 6 (13.64 %) SAS 7 6 (13.64 %) Retail 7 6 (13.64 %) Corporate Banking 8 5 (11.36 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 5 (11.36 %) Windows 9 4 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (9.091 %) Siebel

9 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 9 4 (9.091 %) .NET 9 4 (9.091 %) SQL 9 4 (9.091 %) Dynamics CRM 10 3 (6.818 %) Automotive 10 3 (6.818 %) Billing 10 3 (6.818 %) Retail Banking 10 3 (6.818 %) IBM Mainframe 10 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 10 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 10 3 (6.818 %) IBM 10 3 (6.818 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (6.818 %) ERP 10 3 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 10 3 (6.818 %) MS Excel

CRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 4 (9.091 %) .NET 2 2 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (2.273 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (2.273 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.64 %) SAS 2 3 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (4.545 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.273 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.545 %) MS Project 2 2 (4.545 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.273 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 10 (22.73 %) Microsoft CRM 2 4 (9.091 %) Dynamics CRM 3 1 (2.273 %) GoldMine 3 1 (2.273 %) Oracle BRM 3 1 (2.273 %) Pivotal CRM 3 1 (2.273 %) SalesLogix 3 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (2.273 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.273 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.91 %) DB2 2 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.273 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.273 %) Subversion	General 1 13 (29.55 %) Banking 2 9 (20.45 %) Finance 3 6 (13.64 %) Retail 3 6 (13.64 %) Corporate Banking 4 3 (6.818 %) Retail Banking 4 3 (6.818 %) Billing 4 3 (6.818 %) Automotive 5 2 (4.545 %) Marketing 6 1 (2.273 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (2.273 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (2.273 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 21 (47.73 %) Analyst 2 9 (20.45 %) Project Manager 2 9 (20.45 %) Systems Analyst 3 7 (15.91 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 4 (9.091 %) CRM Project Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) CRM Manager 5 3 (6.818 %) SAS Analyst 5 3 (6.818 %) CRM Consultant 5 3 (6.818 %) Banking Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) CRM Business Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Developer 6 2 (4.545 %) Senior SAS Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Documentation Writer 6 2 (4.545 %) Banking Business Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Software Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Web Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Software Project Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 1 3 (6.818 %) IBM Mainframe 2 2 (4.545 %) IPTV 3 1 (2.273 %) Data Integration 3 1 (2.273 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 7 (15.91 %) UNIX 2 5 (11.36 %) Windows 3 2 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (2.273 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (27.27 %) Business Analysis 2 5 (11.36 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (6.818 %) ERP 4 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 5 2 (4.545 %) SOA 5 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 5 2 (4.545 %) Fault Management 6 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.273 %) RAD 6 1 (2.273 %) Project Planning 6 1 (2.273 %) Web Development 6 1 (2.273 %) Use Case 6 1 (2.273 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.273 %) E-business 6 1 (2.273 %) Migration 6 1 (2.273 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (2.273 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (2.273 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (2.273 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (9.091 %) SQL 2 3 (6.818 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (4.545 %) C# 3 2 (4.545 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.273 %) VBA 4 1 (2.273 %) VB6 4 1 (2.273 %) VB 4 1 (2.273 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.273 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.273 %) PMP 2 1 (2.273 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.273 %) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (2.273 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (2.273 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (2.273 %) DameWare	Vendors 1 13 (29.55 %) Oracle 2 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 4 (9.091 %) Siebel 4 3 (6.818 %) IBM 5 2 (4.545 %) Sage 6 1 (2.273 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.273 %) Onyx 6 1 (2.273 %) Dell 6 1 (2.273 %) SAP