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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 121 108
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +35
Contract jobs citing CRM 896 548 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 2.24% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.45% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 357 483
10th Percentile £350 £279 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £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 12 11 22
10th Percentile £13.24 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.67 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £30.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +118.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile £32.05 £41.88 £28.88
90th Percentile £55.94 £50.50 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.75 £29.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year -42.74% +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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £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 £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +3 502 £513 - 552
South East -21 115 £550 +40.08% 342
Midlands -3 101 £475 +2.70% 183
North of England -50 80 £480 -1.54% 279
East of England +33 69 £520 +4.00% 83
West Midlands -18 66 £500 +2.56% 118
North West -41 42 £450 -10.00% 164
East Midlands -2 33 £470 +48.26% 64
Yorkshire -39 29 £500 +42.86% 88
South West -31 17 £500 +17.65% 62
North East -10 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 32 (3.57%) Confluence
2 26 (2.90%) CMS
3 22 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.89%) 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
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.33%) Revit
7 2 (0.22%) Notion
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 260 (29.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (4.91%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.67%) NetSuite
4 12 (1.34%) SAP CRM
5 11 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.56%) Siebel CRM
7 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.11%) Alphatax
10 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 209 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
2 191 (21.32%) Azure
3 146 (16.29%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.81%) Power Automate
5 61 (6.81%) AWS
6 60 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (6.14%) SaaS
8 52 (5.80%) PowerApps
9 39 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 26 (2.90%) GCP
12 24 (2.68%) Serverless
13 20 (2.23%) Azure Functions
13 20 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 17 (1.90%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.89%) HTTP
2 7 (0.78%) SMS
3 6 (0.67%) Internet
4 3 (0.33%) DHCP
4 3 (0.33%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) IPv4
4 3 (0.33%) IPv6
5 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) WAN
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) 5G
6 1 (0.11%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) Broadband
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) MPLS
6 1 (0.11%) PSTN
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.59%) Power BI
2 20 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.12%) Metadata
6 9 (1.00%) Tableau
7 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.67%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.56%) Big Data
9 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.56%) Siebel EIM
9 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (6.92%) JIRA
2 11 (1.23%) Git
3 6 (0.67%) Selenium
4 5 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.45%) Postman
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.22%) TestRail
7 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.22%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
8 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 320 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 192 (21.43%) Finance
3 145 (16.18%) Marketing
4 116 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.02%) Retail
7 37 (4.13%) Banking
8 36 (4.02%) Billing
9 35 (3.91%) Telecoms
10 29 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.46%) Legal
13 19 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.79%) Automotive
15 14 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.45%) Local Government
17 12 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.89%) French Language
18 8 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 135 (15.07%) Analyst
2 127 (14.17%) Architect
3 104 (11.61%) Developer
4 80 (8.93%) Business Analyst
5 79 (8.82%) Senior
6 62 (6.92%) Lead
7 61 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 58 (6.47%) Consultant
9 54 (6.03%) CRM Manager
10 47 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 31 (3.46%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.68%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 24 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.23%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.01%) Salesforce Analyst
17 17 (1.90%) CRM Analyst
17 17 (1.90%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.13%) REST
2 39 (4.35%) .NET
2 39 (4.35%) HTML
3 30 (3.35%) Middleware
4 26 (2.90%) JSON
5 25 (2.79%) CSS
6 20 (2.23%) Kafka
7 17 (1.90%) Node.js
8 11 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
8 11 (1.23%) React
8 11 (1.23%) RESTful
9 10 (1.12%) XML
10 9 (1.00%) ADO
10 9 (1.00%) Ajax
10 9 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.89%) SAPUI5
11 8 (0.89%) SOAP
12 7 (0.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.47%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
7 15 (1.67%) Social Media
8 14 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.34%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.89%) FMCG
12 8 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.78%) IoT
13 7 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.34%) Windows
2 8 (0.89%) Android
2 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) HPUX
5 1 (0.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 190 (21.21%) Agile
3 141 (15.74%) Migration
4 126 (14.06%) ERP
5 124 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (11.72%) Roadmaps
7 104 (11.61%) DevOps
8 99 (11.05%) Analytics
9 87 (9.71%) Customer Service
10 86 (9.60%) Decision-Making
11 83 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
12 80 (8.93%) Data Migration
12 80 (8.93%) Data Modelling
13 79 (8.82%) AI
13 79 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 69 (7.70%) Project Management
15 67 (7.48%) User Acceptance Testing
16 63 (7.03%) Customer Engagement
17 61 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (6.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (11.72%) SQL
2 80 (8.93%) JavaScript
3 56 (6.25%) C#
4 41 (4.58%) Python
5 19 (2.12%) Java
6 15 (1.67%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.89%) ABAP
9 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.33%) C++
11 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.22%) Bicep
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
12 2 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
13 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 83 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.04%) Degree
3 57 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.67%) PMP
6 14 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.67%) CCNA
9 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.67%) MBA
10 5 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 5 (0.56%) MCSA
11 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.33%) CFA
12 3 (0.33%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.33%) IIBA
13 2 (0.22%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.37%) GDPR
2 70 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.25%) QA
4 19 (2.12%) SLA
5 13 (1.45%) PMO
6 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.33%) GxP
8 3 (0.33%) IFRS
9 2 (0.22%) GMP
9 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.22%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 1 (0.11%) Basel III
10 1 (0.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (1.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.00%) Terraform
3 3 (0.33%) Grafana
3 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Autotask
5 1 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 239 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 226 (25.22%) Salesforce
3 66 (7.37%) SAP
4 58 (6.47%) Oracle
5 32 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.24%) Databricks
7 25 (2.79%) Adobe
8 21 (2.34%) MuleSoft
9 20 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (2.12%) HubSpot
11 17 (1.90%) Google
12 13 (1.45%) Workday
13 11 (1.23%) Siebel
14 9 (1.00%) Foundry
15 8 (0.89%) Braze
15 8 (0.89%) Pega
16 6 (0.67%) Ariba
16 6 (0.67%) Informatica
16 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
17 4 (0.45%) Remedy