CRM Contract Job Trends in England

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CRM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 123 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 -33 +42
Contract jobs citing CRM 851 564 880
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.41% 2.20% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.45% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 358 576
10th Percentile £332 £299 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.74% -1.71%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £613
90th Percentile £677 £765 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.10 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +24.92% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £35.00 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £22.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.04% -3.08% +20.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

CRM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,789 23,051 32,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.31% 90.11% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,727 14,450 21,724
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,908 755 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £72.15 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

CRM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CRM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CRM job vacancy trend in England

CRM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRM

CRM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CRM in England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CRM in England

CRM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRM

CRM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CRM in England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CRM in England

CRM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRM within the England region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 482 £525 - 429
South East -4 112 £525 +8.25% 337
North of England -32 88 £474 -5.25% 237
Midlands -38 82 £500 -3.85% 180
West Midlands -38 67 £463 -11.90% 119
North West -30 51 £450 -10.00% 130
East of England +12 45 £525 +13.57% 67
Yorkshire -38 34 £500 -11.39% 75
South West -23 19 £513 +8.47% 79
East Midlands -22 15 £500 - 61
North East - 3 £450 - 32
CRM
UK

CRM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.64%) CMS
3 25 (2.94%) Confluence
4 11 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.71%) Appian
5 6 (0.71%) Camunda
5 6 (0.71%) SugarCRM
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.35%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
8 2 (0.24%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 244 (28.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (5.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 2 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 198 (23.27%) Azure
2 192 (22.56%) Dynamics 365
3 156 (18.33%) Power Platform
4 72 (8.46%) Power Automate
5 65 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (7.05%) AWS
7 49 (5.76%) PowerApps
8 39 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 38 (4.47%) SaaS
10 34 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (3.64%) Serverless
12 27 (3.17%) Azure Functions
13 22 (2.59%) GCP
14 21 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.76%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 12 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (1.41%) GitHub
19 11 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.29%) HTTP
2 7 (0.82%) DHCP
2 7 (0.82%) DNS
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
2 7 (0.82%) SMS
3 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.59%) VPN
4 4 (0.47%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.24%) ISDN
5 2 (0.24%) PSTN
5 2 (0.24%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) GPRS
6 1 (0.12%) GSM
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.99%) Power BI
2 24 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.41%) Tableau
5 9 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 8 (0.94%) Metadata
6 8 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.59%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.59%) Looker
8 5 (0.59%) MySQL
8 5 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.47%) Big Data
9 4 (0.47%) GIS
9 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (6.82%) JIRA
2 15 (1.76%) Git
3 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.35%) TestRail
5 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.35%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.24%) fastlane
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.24%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 324 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 183 (21.50%) Finance
3 148 (17.39%) Marketing
4 141 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (10.69%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.05%) Billing
7 39 (4.58%) Retail
8 35 (4.11%) Banking
9 32 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.23%) Legal
11 19 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.53%) French Language
14 12 (1.41%) Law
15 11 (1.29%) German Language
15 11 (1.29%) Italian Language
15 11 (1.29%) Japanese Language
15 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (15.86%) Architect
2 122 (14.34%) Analyst
3 97 (11.40%) Developer
4 78 (9.17%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.70%) Senior
6 62 (7.29%) Consultant
7 60 (7.05%) Lead
8 56 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.35%) Project Manager
10 44 (5.17%) CRM Manager
11 39 (4.58%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 39 (4.58%) Salesforce Architect
12 30 (3.53%) CRM Specialist
13 25 (2.94%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
15 22 (2.59%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 20 (2.35%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.23%) Data Engineer
18 17 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.41%) .NET
2 45 (5.29%) REST
3 42 (4.94%) HTML
4 32 (3.76%) JSON
5 24 (2.82%) CSS
6 23 (2.70%) XML
7 17 (2.00%) Middleware
7 17 (2.00%) SOAP
8 15 (1.76%) OAuth
9 11 (1.29%) Node.js
9 11 (1.29%) RESTful
10 10 (1.18%) ADO
10 10 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (1.06%) SAML
11 9 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.94%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.94%) OAuth2
12 8 (0.94%) OpenID
12 8 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 37 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.88%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.88%) Social Media
8 15 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
12 11 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
13 10 (1.18%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.29%) Windows
2 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (24.79%) Agile
2 168 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 138 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (15.04%) ERP
5 117 (13.75%) Migration
6 116 (13.63%) DevOps
7 103 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
8 102 (11.99%) Analytics
8 102 (11.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 87 (10.22%) Data Modelling
10 80 (9.40%) AI
10 80 (9.40%) Customer Service
11 78 (9.17%) Roadmaps
12 76 (8.93%) Customer Engagement
12 76 (8.93%) Project Management
13 75 (8.81%) User Experience
14 68 (7.99%) Decision-Making
15 64 (7.52%) Data Migration
16 62 (7.29%) Change Management
16 62 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.58%) SQL
2 78 (9.17%) JavaScript
3 69 (8.11%) C#
4 51 (5.99%) Python
5 21 (2.47%) Java
6 19 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.18%) PHP
8 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.71%) ABAP
10 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 3 (0.35%) C++
11 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.24%) Bash
12 2 (0.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.24%) Swift
12 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (8.93%) Degree
2 61 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 35 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.82%) PMI Certification
4 24 (2.82%) PMP
5 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.59%) MBA
9 5 (0.59%) MCDST
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) CFA
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.99%) GDPR
2 58 (6.82%) QA
3 57 (6.70%) Data Quality
4 26 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.29%) SLA
6 9 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.94%) WCAG
8 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) PMO
10 3 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.35%) ITGC
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (0.94%) Terraform
2 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.59%) SCCM
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 228 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 223 (26.20%) Salesforce
3 60 (7.05%) SAP
4 50 (5.88%) Oracle
5 33 (3.88%) HubSpot
6 28 (3.29%) Databricks
7 24 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.70%) Adobe
9 19 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 15 (1.76%) Google
11 11 (1.29%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.06%) Pega
12 9 (1.06%) Workday
13 8 (0.94%) Genesys
14 6 (0.71%) Foundry
14 6 (0.71%) iManage
14 6 (0.71%) Informatica
15 5 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.59%) Mitel