The first table below looks at the demand for Dynamics CRM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dynamics CRM over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Business Applications category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Microsoft CRM)
Rank 251 193 271
Rank change year-on-year
-58 +78
Contract jobs citing Dynamics CRM 336 543 380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.712% 0.929% 0.632%
As % of the Business Applications category 8.282% 10.36% 6.728%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 327 225
Average daily rate £400 £405 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £519
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-17.50% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 8
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £11.80 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.46 £40.00 £25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+52.00% -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4057 5243 5648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.594% 8.969% 9.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 2011 2552 2778
Average daily rate £450 £450 £450
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 62 100
Average hourly rate £37.80 £24.17 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.39% -3.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.25 £56.45 £44.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%

Dynamics CRM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Dynamics CRM Jobs Demand Trend

Dynamics CRM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK.

Dynamics CRM Daily Rate Trend

Dynamics CRM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Dynamics CRM Daily Rate Histogram

Dynamics CRM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK.

Dynamics CRM Hourly Rate Trend

Dynamics CRM
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Dynamics CRM Hourly Rate Histogram

Dynamics CRM
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamics CRM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -41 324 £400 -
London -47 145 £425 -2.29%
City of London +11 63 £450 +5.88%
South East -27 38 £400 +33.33%
West Midlands +15 37 £413 +3.12%
North West +25 35 £295 -20.00%
Yorkshire +13 33 £300 -29.41%
Manchester +35 23 £293 -19.31%
South Yorkshire +6 16 £300 -33.33%
Birmingham +2 14 £375 -1.31%
West Yorkshire +4 13 £306 -27.94%
East of England -20 13 £450 +9.09%
Sheffield +3 11 £300 -33.33%
Leeds -3 11 £281 -37.50%
Berkshire +6 9 £425 -
Cheshire +5 8 £420 +24.29%
Scotland -10 7 £175 -61.11%
Hampshire -31 7 £465 +16.25%
Surrey +19 6 £268 +0.94%
South West +9 6 £300 -21.31%
Essex +2 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -4 6 £300 -14.16%
Worcestershire - 6 £475 -
North East +9 5 £305 -30.28%
Reading +8 5 £425 -
Kent -12 5 £325 -
Worcester - 5 £475 -
Newcastle upon Tyne +13 4 £305 -34.05%
Tyne and Wear +13 4 £305 -32.22%
Havant - 4 £508 -

Dynamics CRM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Dynamics 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 Dynamics CRM.

1 751 (99.73%) CRM
2 460 (61.09%) Microsoft
3 272 (36.12%) .NET
4 264 (35.06%) SharePoint
5 209 (27.76%) C#
6 175 (23.24%) SQL Server
7 174 (23.11%) SQL
8 172 (22.84%) MS Excel
9 141 (18.73%) Finance
10 122 (16.20%) ASP.NET
11 115 (15.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 108 (14.34%) JavaScript
13 102 (13.55%) Windows
14 96 (12.75%) Dynamics AX
15 81 (10.76%) Banking
16 73 (9.695%) Visual Studio
17 71 (9.429%) Workflow
18 69 (9.163%) XML
19 68 (9.031%) Migration
19 68 (9.031%) Silverlight
20 67 (8.898%) Project Management
21 63 (8.367%) SQL Server 2008
22 62 (8.234%) WCF
23 57 (7.570%) ERP
24 55 (7.304%) Web Services
25 54 (7.171%) MVC
26 51 (6.773%) SQL Server Integration Services
27 48 (6.375%) Business Analysis
28 47 (6.242%) BizTalk Server
29 46 (6.109%) Advertising

Dynamics CRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Dynamics 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 Dynamics CRM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 272 (36.12%) .NET
2 122 (16.20%) ASP.NET
3 69 (9.163%) XML
4 68 (9.031%) Silverlight
5 62 (8.234%) WCF
6 55 (7.304%) Web Services
7 41 (5.445%) .NET Framework
8 39 (5.179%) HTML
9 32 (4.250%) jQuery
10 29 (3.851%) CSS
11 24 (3.187%) COM
11 24 (3.187%) XSLT
12 22 (2.922%) WF
13 19 (2.523%) WPF
14 15 (1.992%) ASP.NET MVC
15 13 (1.726%) REST
16 10 (1.328%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 10 (1.328%) ASP
16 10 (1.328%) Middleware
17 9 (1.195%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 264 (35.06%) SharePoint
2 47 (6.242%) BizTalk Server
3 46 (6.109%) SharePoint 2010
4 24 (3.187%) SharePoint Server
5 22 (2.922%) IIS
6 15 (1.992%) MS Exchange
7 10 (1.328%) Exchange Server 2010
8 8 (1.062%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (0.930%) SharePoint 2013
10 6 (0.797%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.664%) Windows Azure
12 4 (0.531%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.398%) Exchange Server 2003
14 2 (0.266%) SharePoint Foundation
14 2 (0.266%) MSMQ
15 1 (0.133%) CMS
15 1 (0.133%) SAS
15 1 (0.133%) Commerce Server
15 1 (0.133%) ActiveMQ
15 1 (0.133%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 172 (22.84%) MS Excel
2 43 (5.710%) MS Office
3 14 (1.859%) MS Project
4 10 (1.328%) InfoPath
4 10 (1.328%) Adobe Captivate
5 6 (0.797%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (0.531%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.133%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 96 (12.75%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (1.859%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (1.461%) Dynamics GP
4 9 (1.195%) SalesLogix
5 1 (0.133%) Agresso
5 1 (0.133%) Sage 1000
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.328%) HTTP
2 9 (1.195%) Extranet
3 7 (0.930%) SAN
4 6 (0.797%) Intranet
4 6 (0.797%) DNS
4 6 (0.797%) DHCP
4 6 (0.797%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.531%) Internet
6 2 (0.266%) WAN
6 2 (0.266%) LAN
6 2 (0.266%) Firewall
7 1 (0.133%) RFID
7 1 (0.133%) VoIP
7 1 (0.133%) ADSL
7 1 (0.133%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.133%) MPLS
7 1 (0.133%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.133%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.133%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.133%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (23.24%) SQL Server
2 115 (15.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 63 (8.367%) SQL Server 2008
4 51 (6.773%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (5.312%) SQL Server 2005
6 32 (4.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (2.390%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.797%) SQL Server 2012
8 6 (0.797%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (0.664%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.398%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
11 2 (0.266%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (0.133%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.133%) MS Access
12 1 (0.133%) MySQL
12 1 (0.133%) OLAP
12 1 (0.133%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.133%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.133%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.133%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 73 (9.695%) Visual Studio
2 19 (2.523%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.797%) Git (software)
4 5 (0.664%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (0.398%) JIRA
6 2 (0.266%) Subversion
7 1 (0.133%) WebSpeed
7 1 (0.133%) PVCS
7 1 (0.133%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.133%) MorphX
7 1 (0.133%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.133%) Selenium
General
1 141 (18.73%) Finance
2 81 (10.76%) Banking
3 46 (6.109%) Advertising
4 37 (4.914%) Investment Banking
5 32 (4.250%) Marketing
6 18 (2.390%) Retail
7 15 (1.992%) Front Office
8 13 (1.726%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.328%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.328%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.664%) Back Office
11 4 (0.531%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.398%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.398%) Publishing
12 3 (0.398%) Legal
12 3 (0.398%) French Language
13 2 (0.266%) German Language
13 2 (0.266%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.266%) Local Government
13 2 (0.266%) Law
Job Titles
1 235 (31.21%) Developer
2 142 (18.86%) Analyst
3 125 (16.60%) Consultant
4 118 (15.67%) CRM Developer
5 95 (12.62%) CRM Consultant
6 93 (12.35%) Business Analyst
7 92 (12.22%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 74 (9.827%) Project Manager
9 67 (8.898%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
10 59 (7.835%) Microsoft Developer
11 53 (7.039%) Microsoft Consultant
12 47 (6.242%) .NET Developer
13 46 (6.109%) Architect
14 44 (5.843%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
14 44 (5.843%) Trainer
15 29 (3.851%) CRM Analyst
16 23 (3.054%) CRM Business Analyst
16 23 (3.054%) CRM Manager
16 23 (3.054%) Administrator
17 21 (2.789%) Microsoft Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (2.390%) Management Information System
2 13 (1.726%) E-Learning
3 8 (1.062%) Hedge funds
4 7 (0.930%) Blackberry
4 7 (0.930%) NHS
4 7 (0.930%) SaaS
4 7 (0.930%) Social Media
5 5 (0.664%) N-Tier
6 4 (0.531%) Open Source
6 4 (0.531%) Clustering
7 3 (0.398%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.398%) Data Extraction
8 2 (0.266%) iPad
8 2 (0.266%) Life Science
8 2 (0.266%) Statistics
8 2 (0.266%) PMI
9 1 (0.133%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.133%) Tandem
9 1 (0.133%) Pocket PC
9 1 (0.133%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 102 (13.55%) Windows
2 34 (4.515%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (2.656%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (0.930%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.266%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.266%) Windows XP
5 2 (0.266%) Linux
6 1 (0.133%) UNIX
6 1 (0.133%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.133%) CentOS
6 1 (0.133%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (99.73%) CRM
2 71 (9.429%) Workflow
3 68 (9.031%) Migration
4 67 (8.898%) Project Management
5 57 (7.570%) ERP
6 54 (7.171%) MVC
7 48 (6.375%) Business Analysis
8 42 (5.578%) PRINCE2
9 40 (5.312%) Data Migration
10 39 (5.179%) User Acceptance Testing
11 38 (5.046%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (4.914%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (3.586%) Agile Software Development
14 25 (3.320%) Document Management
14 25 (3.320%) Scrum
15 22 (2.922%) Unit Testing
16 21 (2.789%) Change Management
17 20 (2.656%) ITIL
18 19 (2.523%) Test Scripting
18 19 (2.523%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 209 (27.76%) C#
2 174 (23.11%) SQL
3 108 (14.34%) JavaScript
4 35 (4.648%) VB.NET
5 23 (3.054%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.594%) X++
7 10 (1.328%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.328%) Java
8 9 (1.195%) VBA
9 4 (0.531%) C
10 2 (0.266%) VB
10 2 (0.266%) Delphi
10 2 (0.266%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.133%) XAML
11 1 (0.133%) C++
11 1 (0.133%) Perl
11 1 (0.133%) PHP
11 1 (0.133%) VBScript
11 1 (0.133%) VB6
Qualifications
1 25 (3.320%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (2.390%) Degree
3 15 (1.992%) Security Cleared
4 14 (1.859%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 13 (1.726%) MCAD
5 13 (1.726%) MCSD
6 10 (1.328%) ISEB
7 9 (1.195%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.930%) MCTS
9 5 (0.664%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.664%) MCPD
10 4 (0.531%) BC Cleared
10 4 (0.531%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.531%) MCP
11 2 (0.266%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.266%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.266%) PMP
11 2 (0.266%) MCSE
12 1 (0.133%) CIMA
12 1 (0.133%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.859%) QA
2 6 (0.797%) SLA
3 3 (0.398%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (3.851%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.062%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.062%) vSphere
3 6 (0.797%) UAG
3 6 (0.797%) VMware ESX
3 6 (0.797%) ISA Server
4 4 (0.531%) XenApp
5 3 (0.398%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.398%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (1.594%) HP Quality Center
2 10 (1.328%) SCCM
3 8 (1.062%) SCOM
4 7 (0.930%) Norton AntiVirus
5 6 (0.797%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 6 (0.797%) HP SIM
5 6 (0.797%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.266%) AppDNA
7 1 (0.133%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 460 (61.09%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.851%) Salesforce.com
3 24 (3.187%) Oracle
4 18 (2.390%) HP
5 14 (1.859%) VMware
6 13 (1.726%) Sage
7 10 (1.328%) Adobe
8 9 (1.195%) SAP
9 8 (1.062%) Siebel
9 8 (1.062%) Symantec
9 8 (1.062%) NetApp
10 7 (0.930%) CA
10 7 (0.930%) Unica
11 6 (0.797%) Citrix
11 6 (0.797%) Sophos
12 5 (0.664%) JD Edwards
12 5 (0.664%) Twitter
13 4 (0.531%) Avaloq
13 4 (0.531%) NetSuite
13 4 (0.531%) Google
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Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
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Cognitive Group
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Nigel Frank International
Rate: £200 - £400 per day
Posted: 27 April 2013
City, London
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Marcus Donald People
Rate: £320 to £330 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
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Cognitive Group
Rate: £350 - £450 per day + expenses
Posted: 26 April 2013
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Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £251 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
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Nigel Frank International
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
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Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £150 - £200 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Connectus
Rate: £220 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxfordshire
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Nigel Frank International Ltd
Rate: £350 - £351450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
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Nigel Frank International
Rate: £350 - £351450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Cognitive Group
Posted: 25 April 2013
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Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Church International
Rate: £128.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
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Rate: excellent rates & Long term contract
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheltenham, South West
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Applause IT Ltd
Rate: market rate / negotiable
Posted: 23 April 2013
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Rate: £250 - £270 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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UK
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Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
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