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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 108 124
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,125 685 638
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.46% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.71% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 429 409
10th Percentile £312 £235 £323
25th Percentile £408 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £621
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +4.57% -1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 11
10th Percentile £12.74 - £13.00
25th Percentile £13.37 £14.75 £13.63
Median hourly rate £14.96 £18.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% -31.82% +33.72%
75th Percentile £19.83 £34.63 £34.50
90th Percentile £30.22 £46.83 £137.50
UK median hourly rate £14.96 £20.05 £19.59
% change year-on-year -25.37% +2.32% +11.12%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -2 592 £525 +5.00% 798
South East -45 143 £575 +17.95% 366
Midlands +14 141 £465 +3.33% 174
North of England -16 129 £500 +9.59% 243
West Midlands +8 103 £463 -3.39% 106
North West -8 90 £500 +11.11% 140
East of England +39 73 £463 -13.95% 107
East Midlands +8 36 £475 +32.68% 68
South West -29 35 £434 +2.06% 97
Yorkshire -37 24 £480 +1.05% 70
North East -29 17 £525 +18.31% 36
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 42 (3.73%) CMS
2 40 (3.56%) Confluence
3 24 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.80%) SAS
6 6 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache
8 3 (0.27%) Kentico
8 3 (0.27%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.27%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.27%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) Appian
9 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.089%) Totara
10 1 (0.089%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.89%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.71%) Revit
7 5 (0.44%) SPSS
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.18%) Notion
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.089%) InDesign
10 1 (0.089%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 295 (26.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (4.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (1.60%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.42%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (1.24%) SAP CRM
6 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.89%) SAP PSCD
8 9 (0.80%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.53%) Finacle
9 6 (0.53%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
10 5 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
10 5 (0.44%) Sage X3
11 4 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.36%) Shopify
12 3 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 254 (22.58%) Azure
2 228 (20.27%) Dynamics 365
3 151 (13.42%) Power Platform
4 103 (9.16%) AWS
5 87 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (6.76%) Power Automate
7 71 (6.31%) SaaS
8 63 (5.60%) PowerApps
9 47 (4.18%) GCP
10 42 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (3.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 32 (2.84%) Serverless
13 31 (2.76%) Snowflake
14 24 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 22 (1.96%) Azure Functions
16 19 (1.69%) GitHub
16 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
19 15 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.89%) SMS
2 8 (0.71%) Firewall
3 5 (0.44%) NAS
3 5 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.27%) IPv4
4 3 (0.27%) IPv6
4 3 (0.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.18%) DHCP
5 2 (0.18%) DNS
5 2 (0.18%) HTTP
5 2 (0.18%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.089%) 4G
6 1 (0.089%) CTI
6 1 (0.089%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.089%) Internet
6 1 (0.089%) MPLS
6 1 (0.089%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.089%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.089%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.84%) Power BI
2 35 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.24%) BigQuery
6 13 (1.16%) Tableau
7 10 (0.89%) Metadata
7 10 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.89%) Siebel EIM
7 10 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.44%) Big Data
10 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.44%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.44%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 80 (7.11%) JIRA
2 19 (1.69%) Selenium
3 17 (1.51%) Git
4 16 (1.42%) Postman
5 11 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 11 (0.98%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.89%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.62%) SpecFlow
8 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.27%) Protractor
10 3 (0.27%) TestRail
10 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.18%) Appium
11 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.089%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.089%) Hudson
12 1 (0.089%) TeamCity
General
1 407 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 275 (24.44%) Finance
3 210 (18.67%) Marketing
4 137 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (9.69%) Retail
6 96 (8.53%) Public Sector
7 88 (7.82%) Banking
8 49 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (4.18%) Billing
10 45 (4.00%) Telecoms
11 36 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 30 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (2.40%) Legal
16 22 (1.96%) Automotive
17 20 (1.78%) Local Government
18 17 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (1.16%) Back Office
20 12 (1.07%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 195 (17.33%) Analyst
2 163 (14.49%) Architect
3 132 (11.73%) Developer
4 107 (9.51%) Business Analyst
5 101 (8.98%) Lead
6 90 (8.00%) Senior
7 79 (7.02%) Consultant
8 73 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (5.60%) Project Manager
10 47 (4.18%) CRM Manager
11 37 (3.29%) Administrator
12 32 (2.84%) CRM Analyst
12 32 (2.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 31 (2.76%) Data Engineer
14 30 (2.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 30 (2.67%) Enterprise Architect
14 30 (2.67%) Salesforce Analyst
14 30 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
15 29 (2.58%) Data Analyst
16 28 (2.49%) CRM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.96%) REST
2 51 (4.53%) .NET
3 49 (4.36%) Middleware
4 33 (2.93%) HTML
5 28 (2.49%) CSS
5 28 (2.49%) SOAP
6 25 (2.22%) Kafka
7 23 (2.04%) JSON
8 18 (1.60%) XML
9 16 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 14 (1.24%) React
11 13 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (1.16%) Node.js
11 13 (1.16%) ONVIF
11 13 (1.16%) RESTful
12 12 (1.07%) Gherkin
12 12 (1.07%) SAP PI
13 10 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.89%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.84%) Onboarding
2 54 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 49 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.11%) Marketing Technology
6 29 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.87%) IVR
9 18 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.33%) Social Media
12 14 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.42%) Windows
2 9 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.71%) Android
3 8 (0.71%) Unix
4 6 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.18%) HPUX
6 2 (0.18%) Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (26.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 267 (23.73%) Agile
3 189 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (14.93%) Migration
5 157 (13.96%) Analytics
6 150 (13.33%) ERP
7 139 (12.36%) Roadmaps
8 130 (11.56%) DevOps
9 128 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 117 (10.40%) Data Modelling
11 116 (10.31%) Customer Service
12 114 (10.13%) AI
13 104 (9.24%) Decision-Making
14 103 (9.16%) CI/CD
15 101 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
16 94 (8.36%) Data Migration
17 85 (7.56%) User Acceptance Testing
18 81 (7.20%) Workshop Facilitation
19 72 (6.40%) Workflow
20 71 (6.31%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (12.98%) SQL
2 94 (8.36%) JavaScript
3 64 (5.69%) C#
4 54 (4.80%) Python
5 21 (1.87%) Java
6 20 (1.78%) ABAP
7 18 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.33%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.36%) Korn
13 3 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.18%) Bicep
14 2 (0.18%) Groovy
14 2 (0.18%) SOQL
14 2 (0.18%) VBA
15 1 (0.089%) Rust
15 1 (0.089%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 118 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 90 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 87 (7.73%) Degree
4 26 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.24%) CCNA
6 14 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (1.24%) PMP
7 13 (1.16%) A+ Certification
7 13 (1.16%) MCSA
7 13 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.07%) ISTQB
9 9 (0.80%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.44%) IIBA
12 5 (0.44%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.36%) CBAP
14 3 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 88 (7.82%) GDPR
3 69 (6.13%) QA
4 20 (1.78%) PMO
5 18 (1.60%) SLA
6 17 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.07%) WCAG
8 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.44%) NIST
8 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.44%) SEPA
8 5 (0.44%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
9 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) IFRS
11 2 (0.18%) PERC
12 1 (0.089%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.87%) Terraform
2 8 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.27%) Grafana
4 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.089%) Autotask
6 1 (0.089%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.089%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 317 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 269 (23.91%) Salesforce
3 81 (7.20%) SAP
4 56 (4.98%) Oracle
5 48 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.73%) Adobe
7 39 (3.47%) Databricks
8 32 (2.84%) MuleSoft
9 27 (2.40%) Google
10 23 (2.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 22 (1.96%) Siebel
12 20 (1.78%) Braze
13 19 (1.69%) HubSpot
14 12 (1.07%) Workday
15 8 (0.71%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.71%) Conga
15 8 (0.71%) DocuSign
16 7 (0.62%) ION Trading
16 7 (0.62%) Marketo
17 6 (0.53%) Sage