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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 120 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +37
Contract jobs citing CRM 989 594 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 2.33% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.55% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 385 497
10th Percentile £314 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £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 £683 £678
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.06% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 18
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.40 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.83 £13.05
Median hourly rate £18.88 £26.50 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year -28.77% +11.24% +19.11%
75th Percentile £33.75 £35.46 £31.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £48.10 £47.42
UK median hourly rate £20.90 £26.50 £16.97
% change year-on-year -21.14% +56.20% -15.18%

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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £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 £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 0 540 £515 +0.49% 377
South East -25 129 £580 +40.61% 304
Midlands +5 118 £464 +0.27% 169
North of England -49 97 £500 +6.38% 233
West Midlands -3 85 £463 -6.57% 101
East of England +37 74 £475 -5.00% 65
North West -35 60 £514 +10.48% 139
East Midlands +5 31 £475 +26.67% 68
Yorkshire -44 26 £500 -9.09% 65
South West -31 20 £525 +23.53% 69
North East -25 13 £525 +18.31% 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 42 (4.25%) Confluence
2 36 (3.64%) CMS
3 21 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 4 (0.40%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.40%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.30%) Kentico
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.20%) Apache
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.20%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 34 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.01%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.81%) Revit
7 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.20%) Notion
10 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.10%) InDesign
11 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 265 (26.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (5.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 21 (2.12%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.62%) Siebel CRM
5 13 (1.31%) SAP CRM
6 12 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.51%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.51%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.51%) SAP PSCD
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.30%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 236 (23.86%) Azure
2 202 (20.42%) Dynamics 365
3 138 (13.95%) Power Platform
4 88 (8.90%) AWS
5 85 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (6.77%) SaaS
7 62 (6.27%) Power Automate
8 52 (5.26%) PowerApps
9 46 (4.65%) GCP
10 37 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (3.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 32 (3.24%) Serverless
13 27 (2.73%) Snowflake
14 24 (2.43%) Azure Functions
14 24 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (2.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 18 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.91%) SMS
2 6 (0.61%) Internet
3 3 (0.30%) DHCP
3 3 (0.30%) DNS
3 3 (0.30%) Firewall
3 3 (0.30%) IPv4
3 3 (0.30%) IPv6
3 3 (0.30%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) HTTP
4 2 (0.20%) 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 68 (6.88%) Power BI
2 29 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 12 (1.21%) Metadata
5 12 (1.21%) Tableau
6 10 (1.01%) Siebel EIM
7 9 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.51%) Big Data
10 5 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.51%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.51%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 77 (7.79%) JIRA
2 17 (1.72%) Git
3 11 (1.11%) Postman
4 8 (0.81%) Selenium
5 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.51%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.30%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.20%) Protractor
8 2 (0.20%) TestRail
8 2 (0.20%) 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
1 360 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 223 (22.55%) Finance
3 184 (18.60%) Marketing
4 123 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 81 (8.19%) Retail
7 49 (4.95%) Telecoms
8 46 (4.65%) Banking
9 45 (4.55%) Billing
10 39 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.83%) Legal
13 25 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 22 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.72%) Automotive
16 13 (1.31%) Local Government
17 11 (1.11%) Back Office
17 11 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.01%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 168 (16.99%) Analyst
2 138 (13.95%) Architect
3 124 (12.54%) Developer
4 89 (9.00%) Business Analyst
5 82 (8.29%) Senior
6 80 (8.09%) Lead
7 62 (6.27%) Project Manager
8 55 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 53 (5.36%) Consultant
10 51 (5.16%) CRM Manager
11 31 (3.13%) Data Engineer
12 29 (2.93%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 28 (2.83%) CRM Analyst
13 28 (2.83%) Data Analyst
14 26 (2.63%) Salesforce Architect
15 25 (2.53%) Salesforce Analyst
15 25 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (2.33%) Salesforce Developer
16 23 (2.33%) Technical Architect
17 21 (2.12%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.56%) REST
2 44 (4.45%) Middleware
3 43 (4.35%) .NET
4 37 (3.74%) HTML
5 34 (3.44%) CSS
6 24 (2.43%) JSON
7 18 (1.82%) Kafka
8 16 (1.62%) Node.js
8 16 (1.62%) SOAP
8 16 (1.62%) XML
9 14 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (1.31%) ONVIF
11 11 (1.11%) React
11 11 (1.11%) RESTful
11 11 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
11 11 (1.11%) SAPUI5
12 10 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (0.91%) Ajax
13 9 (0.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.57%) Onboarding
2 49 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
7 21 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.62%) Social Media
10 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.01%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.91%) IoT
16 8 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.21%) Windows
2 8 (0.81%) Android
2 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.20%) HPUX
4 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 2 (0.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (25.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 223 (22.55%) Agile
3 159 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (15.98%) Migration
5 140 (14.16%) Analytics
5 140 (14.16%) ERP
6 126 (12.74%) DevOps
7 115 (11.63%) Roadmaps
8 105 (10.62%) Data Modelling
9 98 (9.91%) AI
9 98 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 92 (9.30%) Customer Service
10 92 (9.30%) Data Migration
11 91 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
11 91 (9.20%) Decision-Making
12 87 (8.80%) CI/CD
13 75 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 70 (7.08%) Workflow
15 65 (6.57%) Project Management
16 64 (6.47%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 134 (13.55%) SQL
2 79 (7.99%) JavaScript
3 55 (5.56%) C#
4 49 (4.95%) Python
5 15 (1.52%) ABAP
5 15 (1.52%) Java
6 14 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.21%) Apex Code
8 8 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.20%) Bicep
10 2 (0.20%) C++
10 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.20%) Korn
10 2 (0.20%) SOQL
11 1 (0.10%) C
11 1 (0.10%) Groovy
11 1 (0.10%) R
11 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 106 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (8.39%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.58%) Degree
4 22 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.52%) PMP
7 14 (1.42%) CCNA
7 14 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.31%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.31%) MCSA
9 9 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.30%) CCA
14 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.80%) GDPR
2 80 (8.09%) Data Quality
3 54 (5.46%) QA
4 22 (2.22%) SLA
5 15 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.52%) PMO
6 8 (0.81%) WCAG
7 6 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.40%) NIST
9 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS
10 3 (0.30%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.20%) GMP
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.20%) PERC
12 1 (0.10%) GAAP
12 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (0.81%) Docker
2 6 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.02%) Terraform
2 9 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.30%) Grafana
4 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 263 (26.59%) Salesforce
2 260 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 71 (7.18%) SAP
4 58 (5.86%) Oracle
5 46 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 35 (3.54%) Adobe
7 34 (3.44%) Databricks
8 33 (3.34%) MuleSoft
9 25 (2.53%) Google
10 23 (2.33%) Siebel
11 22 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 17 (1.72%) HubSpot
13 13 (1.31%) Workday
14 11 (1.11%) Braze
15 9 (0.91%) Foundry
16 8 (0.81%) Autodesk
16 8 (0.81%) Conga
16 8 (0.81%) DocuSign
17 7 (0.71%) Sage
18 6 (0.61%) Ariba