The first part of the table below looks at the demand for CRM skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CRM over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank636152
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Down-9
Matching permanent IT job ads452045773737
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.730 %3.751 %3.925 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category5.058 %5.152 %5.546 %
Number of salaries quoted384838952989
Average salary£47,500£47,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+5.55 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£44,000£44,000£42,500
% change year-on-year
-+3.52 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
893688884467380
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.74 %72.81 %70.76 %
Number of salaries quoted759367435255206
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

CRM
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CRM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

CRM Demand Trend

CRM
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CRM within the UK.

CRM Salary Trend

CRM
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CRM over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

CRM Salary Histogram

CRM
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CRM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-64143£45,540-4.12 %
LondonDown-42070£50,000-4.76 %
South EastNo change0951£45,000-
BerkshireUp+14417£45,000-10.00 %
City of LondonUp+9414£52,500-4.54 %
East of EnglandUp+15259£40,000+8.69 %
North WestDown-27215£37,500-6.25 %
West MidlandsUp+6194£40,200+0.50 %
ReadingUp+21167£44,000-18.13 %
YorkshireDown-3149£37,500-
HampshireUp+3133£45,000+12.50 %
SurreyDown-51125£46,250+8.82 %
ManchesterDown-41117£40,000-8.57 %
South WestDown-38109£38,000+16.92 %
East MidlandsDown-5495£40,000-11.11 %
ScotlandDown-1686£40,000-6.97 %
HertfordshireUp+2183£37,500+1.90 %
West YorkshireDown-2882£40,000-
BirminghamDown-275£45,000-10.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-273£47,500+50.79 %
OxfordshireUp+967£47,750-11.16 %
SloughUp+1460£48,250-3.50 %
LeedsDown-3254£40,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+547£37,500+3.44 %
CambridgeDown-245£50,000+72.41 %
South YorkshireUp+1742£37,500+7.14 %
CheshireUp+942£32,500-12.16 %
West SussexDown-339£45,000-
North EastUp+236£60,000+53.84 %
EssexDown-2036£32,500-16.66 %

CRM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CRM.

12562 (28.18 %)Microsoft
22283 (25.11 %)Finance
32243 (24.67 %).NET
42175 (23.92 %)Dynamics CRM
52086 (22.94 %)SQL
61973 (21.70 %)SQL Server
71722 (18.94 %)C#
81509 (16.60 %)SAP
91473 (16.20 %)Oracle
101454 (15.99 %)SharePoint
111419 (15.61 %)Marketing
121376 (15.13 %)Business Intelligence
131361 (14.97 %)ERP
141341 (14.75 %)MS Excel
151091 (12.00 %)Degree
161061 (11.67 %)Project Management
171003 (11.03 %)Java
18969 (10.66 %)ASP.NET
19894 (9.833 %)JavaScript
20830 (9.129 %)Windows
21817 (8.986 %)XML
22785 (8.634 %)HTML
23777 (8.546 %)Salesforce.com
24701 (7.710 %)Web Services
25656 (7.215 %)Retail
26650 (7.149 %)Data Warehouse
27624 (6.863 %)CSS
28599 (6.588 %)E-Commerce
28599 (6.588 %)Business Analysis
29550 (6.049 %)PRINCE2

CRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CRM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12243 (24.67 %).NET
2969 (10.66 %)ASP.NET
3817 (8.986 %)XML
4785 (8.634 %)HTML
5701 (7.710 %)Web Services
6624 (6.863 %)CSS
7312 (3.432 %)Ajax
8309 (3.399 %)WCF
9290 (3.190 %)jQuery
10264 (2.904 %)J2EE
11259 (2.849 %)Silverlight
12230 (2.530 %)Middleware
13222 (2.442 %)SOAP
14201 (2.211 %)ASP
15199 (2.189 %).NET Framework
16185 (2.035 %)XSLT
16185 (2.035 %)WPF
17168 (1.848 %)SAP Basis
18150 (1.650 %)LAMP
19133 (1.463 %)Visualforce
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11454 (15.99 %)SharePoint
2445 (4.894 %)BizTalk Server
3300 (3.300 %)SharePoint 2010
4298 (3.278 %)SharePoint Server
5268 (2.948 %)CMS
6232 (2.552 %)SAS
7193 (2.123 %)Apache
8191 (2.101 %)IIS
9180 (1.980 %)NetWeaver
10167 (1.837 %)Force.com
11150 (1.650 %)MS Exchange
1280 (0.880 %)WebLogic
1369 (0.759 %)Exchange Server 2010
1465 (0.715 %)Exchange Server 2007
1563 (0.693 %)Oracle Workflow
1660 (0.660 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1759 (0.649 %)Tomcat
1851 (0.561 %)Exchange Server 2003
1948 (0.528 %)ESB
2044 (0.484 %)Drupal
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11341 (14.75 %)MS Excel
2429 (4.718 %)MS Office
3353 (3.883 %)MS Visio
4116 (1.276 %)MS PowerPoint
583 (0.913 %)MS Project
660 (0.660 %)Photoshop
734 (0.374 %)SPSS
831 (0.341 %)InfoPath
924 (0.264 %)Office 365
1023 (0.253 %)Spreadsheet
1116 (0.176 %)FastStats
1212 (0.132 %)Adobe Illustrator
133 (0.033 %)InDesign
133 (0.033 %)Fireworks
142 (0.022 %)Adobe Captivate
142 (0.022 %)RoboHelp
151 (0.011 %)Google Apps
151 (0.011 %)Stata
151 (0.011 %)Windchill
151 (0.011 %)Adobe After Effects
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12175 (23.92 %)Dynamics CRM
2472 (5.191 %)SAP CRM
3369 (4.059 %)Dynamics AX
4195 (2.145 %)Oracle EBS
5194 (2.134 %)Oracle CRM
6149 (1.639 %)Dynamics NAV
7135 (1.485 %)Oracle EBS R12
8120 (1.320 %)Oracle Applications
9110 (1.210 %)SalesLogix
10108 (1.188 %)Pivotal CRM
1189 (0.979 %)SAP PM
1286 (0.946 %)Oracle Financials
1378 (0.858 %)SAP SD
1475 (0.825 %)Sage 200
1566 (0.726 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1566 (0.726 %)Dynamics GP
1662 (0.682 %)SAP GRC
1662 (0.682 %)SAP FI
1756 (0.616 %)Oracle 11i
1853 (0.583 %)SAP ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1352 (3.872 %)Internet
2151 (1.661 %)LAN
3139 (1.529 %)TCP/IP
4130 (1.430 %)Intranet
5128 (1.408 %)Firewall
6120 (1.320 %)WAN
7104 (1.144 %)DNS
892 (1.012 %)HTTP
986 (0.946 %)VPN
1061 (0.671 %)VoIP
1159 (0.649 %)SAN
1256 (0.616 %)BSS
1256 (0.616 %)DHCP
1353 (0.583 %)Broadband
1452 (0.572 %)CTI
1544 (0.484 %)MPLS
1642 (0.462 %)Unified Communications
1735 (0.385 %)OSPF
1834 (0.374 %)Extranet
1933 (0.363 %)Wireless
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11973 (21.70 %)SQL Server
2650 (7.149 %)Data Warehouse
3536 (5.895 %)SQL Server Integration Services
3536 (5.895 %)SQL Server 2008
4484 (5.323 %)SQL Server 2005
5481 (5.290 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6324 (3.564 %)ETL
7304 (3.344 %)MySQL
8240 (2.640 %)SAP BW
9207 (2.277 %)RDBMS
10200 (2.200 %)DB2
11175 (1.925 %)BusinessObjects
12172 (1.892 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13149 (1.639 %)Data Mining
14148 (1.628 %)Oracle 8/8i
15143 (1.573 %)DataStage
16125 (1.375 %)QualityStage
17109 (1.199 %)Oracle Exadata
18108 (1.188 %)OLAP
1996 (1.056 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1298 (3.278 %)Visual Studio
2156 (1.716 %)Team Foundation Server
3130 (1.430 %)Subversion
443 (0.473 %)VSS/SourceSafe
540 (0.440 %)Eclipse
638 (0.418 %)Oracle Forms
638 (0.418 %)Maven
736 (0.396 %)Ant
834 (0.374 %)QuickTest Pro
933 (0.363 %)NUnit
933 (0.363 %)Selenium
1032 (0.352 %)Oracle APEX
1130 (0.330 %)Dreamweaver
1130 (0.330 %)LSMW
1220 (0.220 %)JIRA
1319 (0.209 %)JDeveloper
1417 (0.187 %)MSBuild
1417 (0.187 %)JUnit
1417 (0.187 %)LoadRunner
1515 (0.165 %)ProC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12283 (25.11 %)Finance
21419 (15.61 %)Marketing
3656 (7.215 %)Retail
4483 (5.312 %)Telecoms
5479 (5.268 %)Banking
6383 (4.212 %)Advertising
7332 (3.652 %)Manufacturing
8324 (3.564 %)Billing
9171 (1.881 %)Back Office
10166 (1.826 %)Legal
11106 (1.166 %)Law
12102 (1.122 %)Games
12102 (1.122 %)German Language
1392 (1.012 %)Publishing
1483 (0.913 %)Pharmaceutical
1582 (0.902 %)Investment Banking
1666 (0.726 %)Front Office
1752 (0.572 %)French Language
1849 (0.539 %)General Ledger
1943 (0.473 %)Local Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12113 (23.24 %)Developer
21918 (21.10 %)Consultant
31393 (15.32 %)Analyst
4845 (9.294 %)Architect
5683 (7.512 %)Business Analyst
6628 (6.907 %)CRM Consultant
7567 (6.236 %)Project Manager
8532 (5.851 %)SAP Consultant
9506 (5.565 %).NET Developer
10344 (3.784 %)C# Developer
11295 (3.245 %)CRM Developer
12294 (3.234 %)Solutions Architect
13267 (2.937 %)Support Analyst
14240 (2.640 %)Senior Consultant
15239 (2.629 %)C# .NET Developer
16227 (2.497 %)Senior Developer
17199 (2.189 %)SAP CRM Consultant
18198 (2.178 %)Administrator
19196 (2.156 %)Applications Support
20187 (2.057 %)Dynamics CRM Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1274 (3.014 %)Management Information System
2264 (2.904 %)SaaS
3234 (2.574 %)Computer Science
4232 (2.552 %)Social Media
5119 (1.309 %)Data Integration
6112 (1.232 %)Mathematics
794 (1.034 %)Open Source
794 (1.034 %)Cloud Computing
893 (1.023 %)Blackberry
990 (0.990 %)PMI
1079 (0.869 %)iPhone
1176 (0.836 %)N-Tier
1267 (0.737 %)Client/Server
1360 (0.660 %)Replication
1457 (0.627 %)Statistics
1553 (0.583 %)Clustering
1652 (0.572 %)PaaS
1748 (0.528 %)EPoS
1846 (0.506 %)Social Network
1945 (0.495 %)Web 2.0
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1830 (9.129 %)Windows
2421 (4.630 %)Linux
3357 (3.927 %)UNIX
4247 (2.717 %)Windows Server 2003
5243 (2.673 %)Windows Server 2008
6118 (1.298 %)Windows XP
7111 (1.221 %)Solaris
8101 (1.111 %)Windows 7
950 (0.550 %)Android
1036 (0.396 %)Apple iOS
1134 (0.374 %)Windows Vista
1224 (0.264 %)Windows 2000 Server
1316 (0.176 %)CentOS
1411 (0.121 %)Windows 2000
1411 (0.121 %)AIX
1510 (0.110 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
167 (0.077 %)Mac OS X
167 (0.077 %)FreeBSD
167 (0.077 %)Mac OS
175 (0.055 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11376 (15.13 %)Business Intelligence
21361 (14.97 %)ERP
31061 (11.67 %)Project Management
4599 (6.588 %)E-Commerce
4599 (6.588 %)Business Analysis
5550 (6.049 %)PRINCE2
6509 (5.598 %)Agile Software Development
7489 (5.378 %)ITIL
8394 (4.333 %)Migration
9368 (4.048 %)Scrum
10356 (3.916 %)OO
11351 (3.861 %)Workflow
12315 (3.465 %)Business Development
13306 (3.366 %)Data Management
14286 (3.146 %)Stakeholder Management
15276 (3.036 %)Document Management
16274 (3.014 %)Data Modelling
17270 (2.970 %)Service Delivery
18265 (2.915 %)Content Management
18265 (2.915 %)Web Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12086 (22.94 %)SQL
21722 (18.94 %)C#
31003 (11.03 %)Java
4894 (9.833 %)JavaScript
5380 (4.179 %)T-SQL
6339 (3.729 %)VB.NET
7330 (3.630 %)PHP
8211 (2.321 %)VB
9163 (1.793 %)ABAP
10155 (1.705 %)X++
11146 (1.606 %)Apex Code
12144 (1.584 %)C
13135 (1.485 %)PL/SQL
14112 (1.232 %)PHP5
15110 (1.210 %)C++
15110 (1.210 %)Perl
1688 (0.968 %)VBA
1767 (0.737 %)Shell Script
1852 (0.572 %)VBScript
1943 (0.473 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11091 (12.00 %)Degree
2211 (2.321 %)Microsoft Certification
3189 (2.079 %)Security Cleared
4120 (1.320 %)SC Cleared
5119 (1.309 %)PMI Certification
693 (1.023 %)ITIL Certification
789 (0.979 %)PRINCE2 Certification
887 (0.957 %)ISEB
972 (0.792 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1071 (0.781 %)MCTS
1170 (0.770 %)MCITP
1269 (0.759 %)Cisco Certification
1350 (0.550 %)MCP
1350 (0.550 %)MCSE
1443 (0.473 %)SAP Certification
1542 (0.462 %)PMP
1639 (0.429 %)CCNA
1735 (0.385 %)CCNP
1833 (0.363 %)MCPD
1932 (0.352 %)Oracle Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1286 (3.146 %)QA
2207 (2.277 %)SLA
372 (0.792 %)Data Quality
462 (0.682 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
552 (0.572 %)ISO 9001
625 (0.275 %)PCI DSS
714 (0.154 %)ISO/IEC 27001
812 (0.132 %)WAI
911 (0.121 %)Basel II
108 (0.088 %)ISO 9000
115 (0.055 %)Solvency II
123 (0.033 %)BS7799
132 (0.022 %)COBIT
141 (0.011 %)MiFID
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1253 (2.783 %)Active Directory
2117 (1.287 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (0.748 %)Hyper-V
453 (0.583 %)vSphere
536 (0.396 %)XenApp
632 (0.352 %)XenServer
731 (0.341 %)Terminal Services
828 (0.308 %)XenDesktop
828 (0.308 %)VMware ESX
910 (0.110 %)Oracle RAC
107 (0.077 %)VMware Workstation
107 (0.077 %)Citrix Presentation Server
115 (0.055 %)DFS Replication
115 (0.055 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
123 (0.033 %)VMware ESXi
123 (0.033 %)MailMarshal
123 (0.033 %)WebMarshal
132 (0.022 %)VMware Server
132 (0.022 %)IMail Server
132 (0.022 %)OpenSSO
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
142 (0.462 %)HP Quality Center
233 (0.363 %)vCenter
330 (0.330 %)Backup Exec
426 (0.286 %)Cisco UCCX
525 (0.275 %)Nagios
623 (0.253 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
722 (0.242 %)Cisco UCCE
817 (0.187 %)SCOM
817 (0.187 %)Cacti
916 (0.176 %)Puppet
1011 (0.121 %)Cisco IPCC
1011 (0.121 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1011 (0.121 %)SCCM
1110 (0.110 %)Cisco CUCM
129 (0.099 %)WSUS
138 (0.088 %)CA SiteMinder
146 (0.066 %)ZABBIX
155 (0.055 %)Norton AntiVirus
164 (0.044 %)Netcool
173 (0.033 %)Ionix
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12562 (28.18 %)Microsoft
21509 (16.60 %)SAP
31473 (16.20 %)Oracle
4777 (8.546 %)Salesforce.com
5497 (5.466 %)Siebel
6315 (3.465 %)Business Objects
7265 (2.915 %)Sage
8232 (2.552 %)IBM
9182 (2.002 %)VMware
10174 (1.914 %)Citrix
11172 (1.892 %)Cisco
12134 (1.474 %)Teradata
13117 (1.287 %)HP
14106 (1.166 %)Google
1599 (1.089 %)Cognos
1695 (1.045 %)Informatica
1779 (0.869 %)JBoss
1868 (0.748 %)PeopleSoft
1963 (0.693 %)Syclo
2059 (0.649 %)JD Edwards