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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 118 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +35
Contract jobs citing CRM 878 561 761
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.29% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.52% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 360 498
10th Percentile £358 £275 £321
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £751 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 24
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.81 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.50 £18.61
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +58.54% -16.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.13
90th Percentile £57.50 £55.31 £69.77
UK median hourly rate £18.28 £29.13 £13.75
% change year-on-year -37.24% +111.82% -37.95%

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 33,993 22,301 32,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.07% 91.14% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,750 14,633 21,159
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 919 2,234
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.99
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +6 511 £525 - 390
South East -38 103 £513 +21.22% 290
Midlands -7 90 £500 +8.11% 179
North of England -51 80 £478 -13.18% 244
East of England +21 63 £525 +5.00% 101
West Midlands -21 62 £500 -4.76% 114
North West -49 40 £450 -19.64% 125
Yorkshire -35 34 £488 +39.29% 87
East Midlands -22 26 £490 +54.57% 64
South West -37 16 £550 +29.41% 73
North East -11 8 £450 -18.18% 33
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 29 (3.30%) Confluence
2 25 (2.85%) CMS
3 24 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.68%) Appian
6 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.57%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.46%) Camunda
7 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.23%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 263 (29.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (3.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.59%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (1.03%) SAP CRM
6 6 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.46%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (24.26%) Dynamics 365
2 205 (23.35%) Azure
3 149 (16.97%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.09%) Power Automate
5 67 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (6.61%) AWS
7 55 (6.26%) SaaS
8 50 (5.69%) PowerApps
9 37 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 32 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.30%) Serverless
12 27 (3.08%) Azure Functions
13 26 (2.96%) GCP
14 19 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.82%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (1.48%) GitHub
18 13 (1.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.25%) HTTP
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SMS
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) Broadband
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) WAN
6 1 (0.11%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) PSTN
6 1 (0.11%) SSL
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.97%) Power BI
2 24 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.48%) Metadata
5 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.91%) Tableau
8 7 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
10 5 (0.57%) Big Data
10 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (6.72%) JIRA
2 13 (1.48%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.68%) Selenium
5 4 (0.46%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.34%) GitLab
6 3 (0.34%) Postman
6 3 (0.34%) TestRail
6 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
8 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.11%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 314 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 199 (22.67%) Finance
3 133 (15.15%) Marketing
4 121 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.67%) Retail
7 39 (4.44%) Banking
8 36 (4.10%) Billing
9 34 (3.87%) Telecoms
10 30 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.51%) Legal
13 19 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.71%) Automotive
15 14 (1.59%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.37%) Local Government
17 11 (1.25%) Back Office
17 11 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (15.49%) Architect
2 119 (13.55%) Analyst
3 103 (11.73%) Developer
4 84 (9.57%) Senior
5 72 (8.20%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.18%) Lead
7 59 (6.72%) Consultant
8 55 (6.26%) Project Manager
9 54 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (6.04%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 34 (3.87%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 24 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.73%) Senior Manager
15 22 (2.51%) CRM Specialist
16 21 (2.39%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 18 (2.05%) Change Manager
18 18 (2.05%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.81%) .NET
2 46 (5.24%) REST
3 38 (4.33%) HTML
4 33 (3.76%) JSON
5 25 (2.85%) Middleware
6 22 (2.51%) CSS
7 18 (2.05%) XML
8 17 (1.94%) Kafka
9 13 (1.48%) Node.js
10 12 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
11 11 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
11 11 (1.25%) OAuth
12 10 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (1.14%) RESTful
12 10 (1.14%) SAPUI5
12 10 (1.14%) SOAP
13 8 (0.91%) ADO
13 8 (0.91%) Ajax
13 8 (0.91%) React
13 8 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.61%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (1.82%) Social Media
9 15 (1.71%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.91%) FMCG
12 8 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.80%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) HPUX
4 1 (0.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.67%) Agile
2 184 (20.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 139 (15.83%) Migration
4 130 (14.81%) ERP
5 121 (13.78%) DevOps
6 114 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (11.62%) Analytics
8 97 (11.05%) Roadmaps
9 88 (10.02%) Data Modelling
10 87 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (9.34%) AI
13 80 (9.11%) Customer Service
14 79 (9.00%) Decision-Making
15 78 (8.88%) Data Migration
16 70 (7.97%) Project Management
17 66 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 65 (7.40%) Customer Engagement
19 64 (7.29%) CI/CD
20 62 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.71%) SQL
2 82 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 69 (7.86%) C#
4 47 (5.35%) Python
5 23 (2.62%) Java
6 15 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.14%) ABAP
9 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.46%) PHP
11 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.34%) Bicep
12 3 (0.34%) C++
13 2 (0.23%) Bash
13 2 (0.23%) XPath
14 1 (0.11%) Groovy
14 1 (0.11%) R
14 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 76 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 70 (7.97%) Degree
3 47 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.71%) PMP
7 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.57%) MBA
11 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.46%) CCNA
11 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.34%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.34%) CFA
12 3 (0.34%) IIBA
12 3 (0.34%) MCSA
12 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.97%) GDPR
2 68 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.69%) QA
4 19 (2.16%) SLA
5 13 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.48%) PMO
6 6 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.57%) WCAG
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 3 (0.34%) NIST
9 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) EMIR
10 2 (0.23%) GMP
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
1 9 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 13 (1.48%) Terraform
2 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 243 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 212 (24.15%) Salesforce
3 69 (7.86%) SAP
4 50 (5.69%) Oracle
5 29 (3.30%) Databricks
6 28 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 27 (3.08%) HubSpot
8 25 (2.85%) Adobe
9 17 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 15 (1.71%) Google
10 15 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.48%) Workday
12 10 (1.14%) Pega
13 9 (1.03%) Foundry
14 8 (0.91%) Ariba
14 8 (0.91%) Braze
15 7 (0.80%) Informatica
15 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.68%) Siebel
17 5 (0.57%) Brio