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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 119 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 966 589 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.35% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.57% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 380 493
10th Percentile £330 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £614
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 20
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.40 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.83 £13.14
Median hourly rate £17.75 £27.40 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year -35.22% +15.02% +19.11%
75th Percentile £28.75 £35.46 £33.38
90th Percentile £43.25 £48.10 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £27.40 £23.22
% change year-on-year -27.01% +18.03% +16.08%

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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -2 532 £515 +3.00% 376
South East -18 127 £580 +54.67% 313
Midlands +9 111 £463 - 182
North of England -52 96 £500 +5.26% 259
West Midlands -11 78 £450 -9.09% 118
East of England +33 72 £475 -5.00% 76
North West -37 60 £514 +10.48% 160
East Midlands +5 31 £475 +26.67% 64
Yorkshire -44 25 £500 -9.09% 74
South West -35 17 £525 +23.53% 73
North East -26 13 £525 +18.31% 27
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 40 (4.14%) Confluence
2 36 (3.73%) CMS
3 20 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.41%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.41%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.41%) SAS
7 3 (0.31%) Kentico
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.21%) Appian
9 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.93%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.83%) Revit
7 7 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.21%) Notion
11 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 261 (27.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (5.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 20 (2.07%) NetSuite
4 15 (1.55%) Siebel CRM
5 13 (1.35%) SAP CRM
6 11 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.41%) SAP PSCD
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.31%) Shopify
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 229 (23.71%) Azure
2 199 (20.60%) Dynamics 365
3 140 (14.49%) Power Platform
4 84 (8.70%) AWS
5 81 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (6.63%) Power Automate
7 62 (6.42%) SaaS
8 53 (5.49%) PowerApps
9 41 (4.24%) GCP
10 37 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (3.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 32 (3.31%) Serverless
13 26 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (2.59%) Azure Functions
15 24 (2.48%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 18 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (1.55%) GitHub
18 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.93%) SMS
2 6 (0.62%) Internet
3 3 (0.31%) DHCP
3 3 (0.31%) DNS
3 3 (0.31%) Firewall
3 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 3 (0.31%) IPv4
3 3 (0.31%) IPv6
3 3 (0.31%) WAN
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) 4G
5 1 (0.10%) ADSL
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) CTI
5 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.10%) LAN
5 1 (0.10%) MPLS
5 1 (0.10%) PSTN
5 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.14%) Power BI
2 28 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.69%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.76%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.24%) Tableau
6 10 (1.04%) Metadata
6 10 (1.04%) Siebel EIM
7 9 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 9 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.52%) Big Data
10 5 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.41%) SAP BW
11 4 (0.41%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (7.76%) JIRA
2 16 (1.66%) Git
3 11 (1.14%) Postman
4 8 (0.83%) Selenium
5 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.52%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.31%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.21%) Protractor
8 2 (0.21%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.21%) TestRail
8 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.21%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.10%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.10%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) Hudson
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 348 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 215 (22.26%) Finance
3 170 (17.60%) Marketing
4 121 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 75 (7.76%) Retail
7 46 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 44 (4.55%) Banking
9 40 (4.14%) Billing
10 38 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (2.80%) Legal
13 25 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.76%) Automotive
17 14 (1.45%) Local Government
18 11 (1.14%) Back Office
18 11 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (16.77%) Analyst
2 134 (13.87%) Architect
3 126 (13.04%) Developer
4 85 (8.80%) Business Analyst
5 82 (8.49%) Senior
6 76 (7.87%) Lead
7 62 (6.42%) Project Manager
8 52 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (5.28%) CRM Manager
10 50 (5.18%) Consultant
11 33 (3.42%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 30 (3.11%) Data Engineer
13 28 (2.90%) Data Analyst
14 27 (2.80%) CRM Analyst
14 27 (2.80%) Salesforce Architect
15 25 (2.59%) Salesforce Analyst
15 25 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (2.38%) Salesforce Developer
17 22 (2.28%) Technical Architect
18 20 (2.07%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.49%) REST
2 44 (4.55%) Middleware
3 42 (4.35%) .NET
4 39 (4.04%) HTML
5 35 (3.62%) CSS
6 25 (2.59%) JSON
7 18 (1.86%) Kafka
8 17 (1.76%) Node.js
9 16 (1.66%) SOAP
9 16 (1.66%) XML
10 12 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (1.24%) ONVIF
10 12 (1.24%) RESTful
11 11 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.04%) React
12 10 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (1.04%) SAPUI5
13 9 (0.93%) Ajax
14 8 (0.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.73%) Onboarding
2 46 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
7 20 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.66%) Social Media
9 14 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.93%) IoT
15 8 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.24%) Windows
2 8 (0.83%) Android
2 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.21%) HPUX
4 2 (0.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
4 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 212 (21.95%) Agile
3 155 (16.05%) Migration
4 154 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (13.87%) ERP
6 128 (13.25%) Analytics
7 120 (12.42%) DevOps
8 110 (11.39%) Roadmaps
9 96 (9.94%) Data Modelling
9 96 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 92 (9.52%) AI
10 92 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
11 90 (9.32%) Customer Service
11 90 (9.32%) Data Migration
12 88 (9.11%) Decision-Making
13 81 (8.39%) CI/CD
14 74 (7.66%) User Acceptance Testing
15 68 (7.04%) Workflow
16 66 (6.83%) Project Management
17 62 (6.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 129 (13.35%) SQL
2 79 (8.18%) JavaScript
3 55 (5.69%) C#
4 46 (4.76%) Python
5 15 (1.55%) Java
6 14 (1.45%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.35%) ABAP
8 10 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.21%) C++
11 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.21%) Korn
11 2 (0.21%) SOQL
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) C
12 1 (0.10%) Groovy
12 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 81 (8.39%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.25%) Degree
4 22 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.55%) PMP
7 13 (1.35%) CCNA
7 13 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.24%) A+ Certification
8 12 (1.24%) MCSA
9 8 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.70%) GDPR
2 79 (8.18%) Data Quality
3 51 (5.28%) QA
4 23 (2.38%) SLA
5 15 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.45%) PMO
7 8 (0.83%) WCAG
8 5 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) IFRS
10 3 (0.31%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.21%) GMP
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.21%) PERC
12 1 (0.10%) GAAP
12 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 7 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (1.86%) Terraform
2 8 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.31%) Grafana
3 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.10%) Autotask
5 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 262 (27.12%) Salesforce
2 254 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.83%) SAP
4 57 (5.90%) Oracle
5 45 (4.66%) ServiceNow
6 35 (3.62%) Adobe
7 32 (3.31%) MuleSoft
8 29 (3.00%) Databricks
9 23 (2.38%) Google
10 22 (2.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 22 (2.28%) Siebel
11 14 (1.45%) HubSpot
12 13 (1.35%) Workday
13 10 (1.04%) Braze
14 9 (0.93%) Foundry
15 8 (0.83%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.83%) Conga
15 8 (0.83%) DocuSign
16 6 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.62%) Sage