Cheshire CRM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CRM over the 3 months to 18 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 Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Romford Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Surbiton Surrey 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 Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	52
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	18	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.908 %	2.105 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£467
Average daily rate	£375	£515
% change on same period last year	-27.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£563
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£384
% change on same period last year	+0.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.17	-
Average hourly rate	£30.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+11.29 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	619	380
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.390 %
Daily rates quoted	213	124
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£316
Average daily rate	£359	£332
% change on same period last year	+8.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.67	£21.41
Average hourly rate	£27.52	£22.52
% change on same period last year	+22.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.36	£23.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
CRM North 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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

CRM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CRM
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CRM across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

CRM
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CRM within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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
Chester	+4	9	-	-
Warrington	-	7	-	-

CRM North West

CRM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 25 (55.56 %) .NET 2 23 (51.11 %) C# 2 23 (51.11 %) SQL Server 3 22 (48.89 %) ASP.NET 4 18 (40.00 %) Microsoft 5 15 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 5 15 (33.33 %) Dynamics CRM 6 13 (28.89 %) Government 6 13 (28.89 %) WF 7 12 (26.67 %) WCF 7 12 (26.67 %) Local Government 7 12 (26.67 %) Microsoft CRM 7 12 (26.67 %) BizTalk Server 7 12 (26.67 %) WebServices 7 12 (26.67 %) SharePoint

7 12 (26.67 %) Oracle 8 11 (24.44 %) InfoPath 9 10 (22.22 %) .NET Framework 9 10 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 9 10 (22.22 %) Oracle EBS 9 10 (22.22 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 10 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 8 (17.78 %) Finance 11 7 (15.56 %) SQL 11 7 (15.56 %) N-Tier 12 6 (13.33 %) UML 12 6 (13.33 %) Telecoms 12 6 (13.33 %) Identity Management 12 6 (13.33 %) Billing 12 6 (13.33 %) Information Management

CRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 25 (55.56 %) .NET 2 22 (48.89 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (28.89 %) WF 4 12 (26.67 %) WebServices 4 12 (26.67 %) WCF 5 10 (22.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 10 (22.22 %) .NET Framework 6 5 (11.11 %) WinForms 7 4 (8.889 %) XSLT 7 4 (8.889 %) XML 8 3 (6.667 %) XSD 8 3 (6.667 %) ADO.NET 8 3 (6.667 %) HTML 9 2 (4.444 %) ASP 9 2 (4.444 %) J2EE 10 1 (2.222 %) CSS 10 1 (2.222 %) XHTML 10 1 (2.222 %) AJAX 10 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 12 (26.67 %) SharePoint 1 12 (26.67 %) BizTalk Server 2 10 (22.22 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.222 %) IIS 3 1 (2.222 %) CMS
Applications 1 11 (24.44 %) InfoPath 2 5 (11.11 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.222 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.222 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 15 (33.33 %) Dynamics CRM 2 12 (26.67 %) Microsoft CRM 3 10 (22.22 %) Oracle EBS 4 2 (4.444 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.222 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.222 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (51.11 %) SQL Server 2 15 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 13 (28.89 %) Government 2 12 (26.67 %) Local Government 3 8 (17.78 %) Finance 4 6 (13.33 %) Telecoms 4 6 (13.33 %) Billing 5 1 (2.222 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 21 (46.67 %) Analyst 2 13 (28.89 %) Developer 3 8 (17.78 %) Architect 3 8 (17.78 %) Solutions Architect 4 7 (15.56 %) Business Analyst 4 7 (15.56 %) Programmer 5 6 (13.33 %) Server Analyst 5 6 (13.33 %) C# Analyst Programmer 5 6 (13.33 %) .NET Programmer 5 6 (13.33 %) Analyst Programmer 6 5 (11.11 %) AS400 Support 6 5 (11.11 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 6 5 (11.11 %) Operations Analyst 6 5 (11.11 %) Support Analyst 6 5 (11.11 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Lead Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Senior Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Senior Solutions Architect 8 2 (4.444 %) Dynamics CRM Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (15.56 %) N-Tier 2 5 (11.11 %) AS400 2 5 (11.11 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 5 (11.11 %) Windows 2 1 (2.222 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.33 %) UML 1 6 (13.33 %) Identity Management 1 6 (13.33 %) Use Case 1 6 (13.33 %) Information Management 2 3 (6.667 %) Workflow 3 2 (4.444 %) Migration 3 2 (4.444 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (4.444 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (4.444 %) Data Migration 3 2 (4.444 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (4.444 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (2.222 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.222 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.222 %) OO 4 1 (2.222 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (2.222 %) ERP 4 1 (2.222 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (2.222 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 23 (51.11 %) C# 2 7 (15.56 %) SQL 3 4 (8.889 %) JavaScript 4 3 (6.667 %) DHTML 5 1 (2.222 %) Java 5 1 (2.222 %) PHP 5 1 (2.222 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.222 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) SLA
Vendors 1 18 (40.00 %) Microsoft 2 12 (26.67 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.222 %) IBM 3 1 (2.222 %) Citrix