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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 121 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +34
Contract jobs citing CRM 887 541 756
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.23% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.44% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 352 482
10th Percentile £339 £276 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 22
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.53 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £30.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +118.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £41.88 £28.88
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £29.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year -45.30% +116.67% -32.50%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +7 498 £515 -1.20% 490
South East -30 114 £550 +51.72% 324
Midlands -5 98 £465 +0.54% 195
North of England -40 79 £480 -1.54% 281
East of England +33 70 £520 +4.00% 81
West Midlands -16 64 £463 -5.13% 123
North West -43 42 £450 -10.00% 162
East Midlands -5 32 £470 +48.26% 71
Yorkshire -38 28 £500 +42.86% 91
South West -46 16 £525 +23.53% 55
North East -13 11 £450 -18.18% 30
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 31 (3.49%) Confluence
2 25 (2.82%) CMS
3 23 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.45%) Appian
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Revit
8 2 (0.23%) Notion
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 259 (29.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (4.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.47%) SAP CRM
5 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.90%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
11 1 (0.11%) Alphatax
11 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
11 1 (0.11%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 208 (23.45%) Dynamics 365
2 192 (21.65%) Azure
3 143 (16.12%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.89%) Power Automate
5 62 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.65%) AWS
7 53 (5.98%) SaaS
8 52 (5.86%) PowerApps
9 39 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 26 (2.93%) GCP
12 24 (2.71%) Serverless
13 20 (2.25%) Azure Functions
13 20 (2.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 17 (1.92%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) HTTP
1 7 (0.79%) SMS
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 3 (0.34%) DHCP
3 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 3 (0.34%) IPv4
3 3 (0.34%) IPv6
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) LAN
5 1 (0.11%) MPLS
5 1 (0.11%) PSTN
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.33%) Power BI
2 22 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.01%) Metadata
5 9 (1.01%) Tableau
6 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.79%) Siebel EIM
7 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
8 5 (0.56%) Big Data
8 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (6.88%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 6 (0.68%) Selenium
4 5 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) Postman
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) TestRail
6 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 315 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 186 (20.97%) Finance
3 144 (16.23%) Marketing
4 113 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.81%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.85%) Retail
7 35 (3.95%) Banking
8 34 (3.83%) Billing
9 33 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.48%) Legal
13 18 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.80%) Automotive
15 14 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.35%) Local Government
17 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.90%) French Language
18 8 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 134 (15.11%) Analyst
2 120 (13.53%) Architect
3 110 (12.40%) Developer
4 80 (9.02%) Business Analyst
5 78 (8.79%) Senior
6 60 (6.76%) Lead
7 59 (6.65%) Project Manager
8 55 (6.20%) CRM Manager
9 54 (6.09%) Consultant
10 42 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 30 (3.38%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.59%) Data Analyst
14 23 (2.59%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 22 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.25%) Data Engineer
17 18 (2.03%) Salesforce Analyst
18 17 (1.92%) CRM Analyst
18 17 (1.92%) CRM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.30%) REST
2 38 (4.28%) .NET
3 37 (4.17%) HTML
4 30 (3.38%) Middleware
5 26 (2.93%) JSON
6 25 (2.82%) CSS
7 20 (2.25%) Kafka
8 17 (1.92%) Node.js
9 11 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (1.24%) RESTful
9 11 (1.24%) XML
10 10 (1.13%) React
11 9 (1.01%) ADO
11 9 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
11 9 (1.01%) SOAP
12 8 (0.90%) Ajax
12 8 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.90%) SAPUI5
13 7 (0.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.54%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
7 15 (1.69%) Social Media
8 13 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.90%) FMCG
12 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.35%) Windows
2 8 (0.90%) Android
2 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) HPUX
5 1 (0.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (22.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 187 (21.08%) Agile
3 142 (16.01%) Migration
4 124 (13.98%) ERP
5 123 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (11.84%) DevOps
7 103 (11.61%) Roadmaps
8 98 (11.05%) Analytics
9 86 (9.70%) Customer Service
9 86 (9.70%) Decision-Making
10 83 (9.36%) Data Migration
11 81 (9.13%) Data Modelling
12 79 (8.91%) AI
12 79 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
13 78 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
15 65 (7.33%) Project Management
16 60 (6.76%) CI/CD
16 60 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (6.76%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 108 (12.18%) SQL
2 78 (8.79%) JavaScript
3 56 (6.31%) C#
4 37 (4.17%) Python
5 18 (2.03%) Java
6 14 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.90%) ABAP
9 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.34%) C++
12 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) Bicep
13 2 (0.23%) Korn
14 1 (0.11%) Groovy
14 1 (0.11%) SOQL
14 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.11%) VBA
14 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 85 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.67%) Degree
3 58 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.35%) PMP
6 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.68%) CCNA
9 6 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.68%) MBA
10 5 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 5 (0.56%) MCSA
11 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.34%) CFA
12 3 (0.34%) IIBA
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.57%) GDPR
2 68 (7.67%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.41%) QA
4 19 (2.14%) SLA
5 13 (1.47%) PMO
6 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.56%) WCAG
8 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) IFRS
10 2 (0.23%) GMP
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (1.13%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.01%) Terraform
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Autotask
5 1 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 239 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 226 (25.48%) Salesforce
3 67 (7.55%) SAP
4 60 (6.76%) Oracle
5 31 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.27%) Databricks
7 24 (2.71%) Adobe
8 21 (2.37%) MuleSoft
9 20 (2.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (2.14%) HubSpot
11 17 (1.92%) Google
12 14 (1.58%) Siebel
13 13 (1.47%) Workday
14 9 (1.01%) Foundry
15 8 (0.90%) Braze
15 8 (0.90%) Pega
16 6 (0.68%) Ariba
16 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
17 5 (0.56%) Informatica
18 4 (0.45%) Remedy