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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 124 111
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 +33
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,062 630 758
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.32% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.56% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 414 501
10th Percentile £317 £254 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.15% -2.67%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 15
10th Percentile £13.55 - -
25th Percentile £14.92 £14.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £20.50 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -16.09% +22.15%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.58 £31.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £45.40 £36.30
UK median hourly rate £17.63 £20.50 £14.34
% change year-on-year -14.02% +42.96% -28.30%

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 38,535 24,596 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.73% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,284 15,811 20,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,270 2,240
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +6 572 £515 +3.00% 422
South East -25 144 £550 +12.82% 325
Midlands +8 125 £481 +4.00% 186
North of England -35 113 £500 +7.53% 247
West Midlands -8 91 £481 -2.83% 110
East of England +39 77 £475 -24.00% 60
North West -25 75 £506 +8.87% 158
East Midlands +2 32 £490 +30.67% 75
Yorkshire -40 27 £500 -2.44% 69
South West -35 22 £583 +37.06% 73
North East -23 13 £525 +18.31% 21
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 47 (4.43%) Confluence
2 39 (3.67%) CMS
3 21 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.66%) SAS
6 6 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.38%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.38%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) Kentico
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.094%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.094%) Drupal
10 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.94%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.75%) Revit
6 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.28%) SPSS
10 2 (0.19%) Notion
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.094%) InDesign
11 1 (0.094%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 281 (26.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (5.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 21 (1.98%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.51%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (1.32%) SAP CRM
6 13 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (1.04%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.47%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.28%) Finacle
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.28%) Shopify
11 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 250 (23.54%) Azure
2 212 (19.96%) Dynamics 365
3 137 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 98 (9.23%) AWS
5 88 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (6.31%) SaaS
7 64 (6.03%) Power Automate
8 54 (5.08%) PowerApps
9 50 (4.71%) GCP
10 38 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (3.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 32 (3.01%) Serverless
13 28 (2.64%) Snowflake
14 24 (2.26%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (1.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 19 (1.79%) GitHub
18 18 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
19 17 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.94%) SMS
2 5 (0.47%) Internet
3 3 (0.28%) DHCP
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) Firewall
3 3 (0.28%) IPv4
3 3 (0.28%) IPv6
3 3 (0.28%) WAN
4 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.094%) ADSL
5 1 (0.094%) Broadband
5 1 (0.094%) CTI
5 1 (0.094%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.094%) HTTP
5 1 (0.094%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.094%) LAN
5 1 (0.094%) MPLS
5 1 (0.094%) PSTN
5 1 (0.094%) SSL
5 1 (0.094%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (6.31%) Power BI
2 31 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 12 (1.13%) Metadata
6 12 (1.13%) Tableau
7 10 (0.94%) Siebel EIM
7 10 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.47%) Big Data
11 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.47%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.47%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (8.00%) JIRA
2 17 (1.60%) Git
3 13 (1.22%) Selenium
4 12 (1.13%) Postman
5 8 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 6 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.56%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) Protractor
10 2 (0.19%) TestRail
10 2 (0.19%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.094%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.094%) GitLab
11 1 (0.094%) Hudson
11 1 (0.094%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.094%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 383 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 253 (23.82%) Finance
3 204 (19.21%) Marketing
4 133 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (9.32%) Retail
6 91 (8.57%) Public Sector
7 60 (5.65%) Banking
8 51 (4.80%) Telecoms
9 50 (4.71%) Billing
10 41 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (2.73%) Legal
13 29 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 26 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.60%) Automotive
16 16 (1.51%) Local Government
17 14 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.13%) Back Office
19 10 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 181 (17.04%) Analyst
2 160 (15.07%) Architect
3 122 (11.49%) Developer
4 96 (9.04%) Business Analyst
5 88 (8.29%) Lead
6 84 (7.91%) Senior
7 69 (6.50%) Project Manager
7 69 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
8 67 (6.31%) Consultant
9 53 (4.99%) CRM Manager
10 32 (3.01%) Data Analyst
10 32 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 29 (2.73%) CRM Analyst
12 26 (2.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 26 (2.45%) Salesforce Analyst
13 25 (2.35%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 24 (2.26%) Salesforce Developer
15 23 (2.17%) CRM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.12%) REST
2 49 (4.61%) Middleware
3 43 (4.05%) .NET
4 33 (3.11%) HTML
5 31 (2.92%) CSS
6 27 (2.54%) SOAP
7 24 (2.26%) JSON
8 23 (2.17%) Kafka
9 17 (1.60%) Node.js
9 17 (1.60%) XML
10 15 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (1.22%) ONVIF
11 13 (1.22%) RESTful
11 13 (1.22%) SAP PI
12 12 (1.13%) React
12 12 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
12 12 (1.13%) SAPUI5
13 10 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (0.85%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 67 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 52 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
2 52 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 45 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.11%) Marketing Technology
5 28 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.41%) IVR
9 15 (1.41%) Social Media
10 13 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.94%) FMCG
13 9 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.13%) Windows
2 8 (0.75%) Android
2 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.75%) Unix
3 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) HPUX
4 2 (0.19%) Linux
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (26.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 250 (23.54%) Agile
3 175 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (16.01%) Migration
5 152 (14.31%) Analytics
6 151 (14.22%) ERP
7 131 (12.34%) DevOps
7 131 (12.34%) Roadmaps
8 120 (11.30%) Data Modelling
9 113 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 109 (10.26%) AI
11 99 (9.32%) Customer Service
12 97 (9.13%) Decision-Making
13 96 (9.04%) Data Migration
14 95 (8.95%) CI/CD
15 94 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
16 82 (7.72%) User Acceptance Testing
17 73 (6.87%) Workflow
18 69 (6.50%) Workshop Facilitation
19 68 (6.40%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (13.18%) SQL
2 80 (7.53%) JavaScript
3 59 (5.56%) C#
4 57 (5.37%) Python
5 22 (2.07%) ABAP
6 21 (1.98%) Java
7 14 (1.32%) Apex Code
7 14 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.38%) Korn
10 2 (0.19%) Bicep
10 2 (0.19%) C++
10 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.19%) R
10 2 (0.19%) SOQL
11 1 (0.094%) C
11 1 (0.094%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 91 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.72%) Degree
4 22 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 16 (1.51%) PMP
7 14 (1.32%) CCNA
7 14 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.22%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.22%) MCSA
9 9 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.28%) CCA
13 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.57%) GDPR
2 80 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 59 (5.56%) QA
4 22 (2.07%) SLA
5 19 (1.79%) PMO
6 16 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.85%) WCAG
8 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.47%) NIST
9 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.38%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 3 (0.28%) IFRS
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.28%) SEPA
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) GMP
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (0.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (1.88%) Terraform
2 9 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.28%) Grafana
4 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.094%) Autotask
6 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 286 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 272 (25.61%) Salesforce
3 82 (7.72%) SAP
4 62 (5.84%) Oracle
5 46 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 39 (3.67%) Adobe
7 38 (3.58%) Databricks
8 34 (3.20%) MuleSoft
9 27 (2.54%) Google
10 23 (2.17%) Siebel
11 21 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 18 (1.69%) HubSpot
13 14 (1.32%) Braze
13 14 (1.32%) Workday
14 9 (0.85%) Foundry
15 8 (0.75%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.75%) Conga
15 8 (0.75%) DocuSign
16 7 (0.66%) Marketo
16 7 (0.66%) Sage