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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 121 93
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 828 567 880
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.42% 2.18% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.42% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 349 572
10th Percentile £319 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £613
90th Percentile £681 £777 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £18.10 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +24.92% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £56.53 £35.00 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -13.33% -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 29,953 23,398 33,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.52% 89.80% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,141 14,488 22,145
10th Percentile £310 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,876 738 1,974
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.30 £64.50 £60.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +13 472 £525 - 290
South East +12 114 £500 +3.09% 334
North of England -37 81 £475 -5.00% 221
Midlands -38 76 £500 -4.76% 190
West Midlands -38 61 £463 -13.15% 123
North West -30 46 £450 -7.22% 127
East of England +9 43 £520 +12.49% 81
Yorkshire -41 32 £500 -11.82% 71
South West -15 20 £513 +10.81% 81
East Midlands -20 15 £500 - 67
North East - 3 £450 - 23
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 35 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.62%) CMS
3 21 (2.54%) Confluence
4 10 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Camunda
5 6 (0.72%) SugarCRM
6 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.48%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.36%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 238 (28.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (6.16%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.69%) NetSuite
3 14 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.60%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
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%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 188 (22.71%) Azure
2 186 (22.46%) Dynamics 365
3 156 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 70 (8.45%) Power Automate
5 63 (7.61%) AWS
6 59 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.80%) PowerApps
8 40 (4.83%) SaaS
9 38 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.50%) Serverless
12 26 (3.14%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.78%) GCP
14 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.69%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (1.21%) Entra ID
17 10 (1.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.33%) HTTP
2 7 (0.85%) Internet
2 7 (0.85%) SMS
3 6 (0.72%) DHCP
3 6 (0.72%) DNS
4 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.60%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) Broadband
6 2 (0.24%) Cisco ICM
6 2 (0.24%) ISDN
6 2 (0.24%) PSTN
6 2 (0.24%) WebEx
7 1 (0.12%) CTI
7 1 (0.12%) GPRS
7 1 (0.12%) GSM
7 1 (0.12%) Intranet
7 1 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.51%) Power BI
2 23 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.45%) Tableau
4 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.09%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.72%) Metadata
7 5 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 5 (0.60%) Looker
7 5 (0.60%) MySQL
7 5 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.48%) Big Data
8 4 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 4 (0.48%) GIS
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.36%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (6.28%) JIRA
2 14 (1.69%) Git
3 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.36%) Selenium
4 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.24%) fastlane
5 2 (0.24%) GitLab
5 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
5 2 (0.24%) Postman
5 2 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.24%) TestRail
5 2 (0.24%) Xcode
5 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.12%) MLflow
General
1 319 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 175 (21.14%) Finance
3 145 (17.51%) Marketing
4 140 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (10.51%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.07%) Billing
7 39 (4.71%) Retail
8 35 (4.23%) Banking
9 31 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.54%) Legal
12 19 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.45%) French Language
14 12 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.45%) Italian Language
15 11 (1.33%) German Language
15 11 (1.33%) Japanese Language
16 10 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (15.94%) Architect
2 114 (13.77%) Analyst
3 95 (11.47%) Developer
4 70 (8.45%) Business Analyst
5 67 (8.09%) Senior
6 61 (7.37%) Consultant
7 58 (7.00%) Lead
8 56 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
9 53 (6.40%) Project Manager
10 39 (4.71%) CRM Manager
10 39 (4.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 38 (4.59%) Salesforce Architect
12 27 (3.26%) CRM Specialist
13 24 (2.90%) Functional Consultant
13 24 (2.90%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.54%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 20 (2.42%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.17%) Marketing Manager
17 17 (2.05%) Salesforce Solution Architect
18 16 (1.93%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.56%) .NET
1 46 (5.56%) REST
2 42 (5.07%) HTML
3 33 (3.99%) JSON
4 24 (2.90%) XML
5 23 (2.78%) CSS
6 18 (2.17%) SOAP
7 15 (1.81%) Middleware
7 15 (1.81%) OAuth
8 11 (1.33%) Node.js
9 10 (1.21%) ADO
9 10 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.21%) RESTful
9 10 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
10 9 (1.09%) SAML
11 8 (0.97%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.97%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.97%) OpenID
11 8 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 31 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (3.74%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 15 (1.81%) Social Media
8 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.57%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.21%) Windows
2 6 (0.72%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (24.64%) Agile
2 165 (19.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 144 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (15.82%) ERP
5 107 (12.92%) DevOps
6 105 (12.68%) Migration
7 101 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 101 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 100 (12.08%) Analytics
9 81 (9.78%) Data Modelling
10 80 (9.66%) Customer Service
11 79 (9.54%) Customer Engagement
11 79 (9.54%) User Experience
12 76 (9.18%) AI
13 73 (8.82%) Project Management
14 72 (8.70%) Roadmaps
15 62 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (7.49%) Decision-Making
16 61 (7.37%) Change Management
16 61 (7.37%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.75%) SQL
2 76 (9.18%) JavaScript
3 67 (8.09%) C#
4 47 (5.68%) Python
5 22 (2.66%) Java
6 19 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.21%) PHP
8 7 (0.85%) ABAP
8 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.36%) Bicep
10 3 (0.36%) C++
10 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.24%) Bash
11 2 (0.24%) Korn
11 2 (0.24%) R
11 2 (0.24%) Swift
11 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (9.18%) Degree
2 63 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.90%) PMI Certification
4 24 (2.90%) PMP
5 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.60%) MBA
9 5 (0.60%) MCDST
10 3 (0.36%) ACCA
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) CIMA
10 3 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.61%) GDPR
2 56 (6.76%) QA
3 50 (6.04%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.33%) SLA
6 10 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.85%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) ITGC
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) GMP
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (0.85%) Terraform
2 6 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.60%) SCCM
4 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 221 (26.69%) Microsoft
2 213 (25.72%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.73%) SAP
4 47 (5.68%) Oracle
5 32 (3.86%) HubSpot
6 25 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.90%) Databricks
8 22 (2.66%) Adobe
9 19 (2.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 16 (1.93%) Google
11 11 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.21%) Workday
13 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.09%) Pega
14 8 (0.97%) Genesys
15 6 (0.72%) Ariba
15 6 (0.72%) Foundry
15 6 (0.72%) iManage
16 5 (0.60%) Guidewire
16 5 (0.60%) Mitel