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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 119 106
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +39
Contract jobs citing CRM 949 587 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.36% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.58% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 377 492
10th Percentile £331 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.30% -2.52%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £614
90th Percentile £696 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 21
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.23 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.02 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.75 £28.20 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -37.06% +21.47% +2.59%
75th Percentile £28.75 £35.86 £32.50
90th Percentile £43.25 £48.40 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £28.20 £23.22
% change year-on-year -29.08% +21.47% +2.59%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 522 £515 +3.00% 478
South East -23 127 £565 +25.56% 331
Midlands +6 109 £465 +0.54% 179
North of England -49 93 £500 +6.38% 254
West Midlands -17 73 £463 -3.39% 122
East of England +34 70 £475 -5.00% 85
North West -33 54 £513 +10.22% 150
East Midlands +6 34 £490 +30.67% 56
Yorkshire -48 28 £500 -9.09% 73
South West -29 17 £525 +23.53% 74
North East -25 13 £525 +20.00% 34
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 39 (4.11%) Confluence
2 36 (3.79%) CMS
3 19 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.42%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.42%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.42%) SAS
7 3 (0.32%) Kentico
7 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.21%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.95%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.84%) Revit
7 7 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.21%) Notion
11 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 253 (26.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (5.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 19 (2.00%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.48%) Siebel CRM
5 13 (1.37%) SAP CRM
6 11 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.42%) SAP PSCD
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.32%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.21%) Shopify
10 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 219 (23.08%) Azure
2 193 (20.34%) Dynamics 365
3 141 (14.86%) Power Platform
4 78 (8.22%) AWS
5 77 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.32%) Power Automate
6 60 (6.32%) SaaS
7 51 (5.37%) PowerApps
8 37 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (3.58%) GCP
10 33 (3.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 29 (3.06%) Serverless
12 24 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (2.32%) Azure Functions
13 22 (2.32%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 17 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
17 13 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.95%) SMS
2 6 (0.63%) Internet
3 3 (0.32%) DHCP
3 3 (0.32%) DNS
3 3 (0.32%) Firewall
3 3 (0.32%) HTTP
3 3 (0.32%) IPv4
3 3 (0.32%) IPv6
3 3 (0.32%) WAN
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) CTI
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 71 (7.48%) Power BI
2 27 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.26%) Tableau
6 10 (1.05%) Metadata
6 10 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.05%) Siebel EIM
7 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.53%) Big Data
9 5 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.42%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.42%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (7.69%) JIRA
2 14 (1.48%) Git
3 8 (0.84%) Postman
4 6 (0.63%) Selenium
5 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.32%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.11%) Hudson
8 1 (0.11%) Protractor
8 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.11%) TestRail
8 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 339 (35.72%) Social Skills
2 211 (22.23%) Finance
3 166 (17.49%) Marketing
4 119 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 68 (7.17%) Retail
7 46 (4.85%) Telecoms
8 42 (4.43%) Banking
9 39 (4.11%) Billing
10 37 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (2.74%) Legal
13 21 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (2.11%) Manufacturing
15 19 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.90%) Automotive
17 14 (1.48%) Local Government
18 11 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.05%) Advertising
19 10 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 154 (16.23%) Analyst
2 136 (14.33%) Architect
3 122 (12.86%) Developer
4 85 (8.96%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.54%) Senior
6 73 (7.69%) Lead
7 60 (6.32%) Project Manager
8 53 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (5.27%) CRM Manager
10 47 (4.95%) Consultant
11 31 (3.27%) Data Engineer
12 30 (3.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 30 (3.16%) Salesforce Architect
13 27 (2.85%) Data Analyst
14 26 (2.74%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (2.42%) CRM Analyst
16 23 (2.42%) Salesforce Developer
17 21 (2.21%) Technical Architect
18 20 (2.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.48%) REST
2 42 (4.43%) Middleware
3 41 (4.32%) HTML
4 39 (4.11%) .NET
5 37 (3.90%) CSS
6 24 (2.53%) JSON
7 18 (1.90%) Kafka
8 17 (1.79%) Node.js
9 15 (1.58%) SOAP
9 15 (1.58%) XML
10 13 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (1.16%) ONVIF
11 11 (1.16%) RESTful
12 10 (1.05%) React
12 10 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (1.05%) SAPUI5
13 9 (0.95%) Ajax
13 9 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (0.84%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.64%) Onboarding
2 48 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.69%) Social Media
9 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.95%) IoT
12 9 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.95%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.84%) FMCG
14 7 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.26%) Windows
2 8 (0.84%) Android
2 8 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.21%) HPUX
4 2 (0.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
4 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 205 (21.60%) Agile
3 152 (16.02%) Migration
4 150 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
5 130 (13.70%) ERP
6 121 (12.75%) Analytics
7 116 (12.22%) DevOps
8 108 (11.38%) Roadmaps
9 90 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
9 90 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 89 (9.38%) Customer Service
10 89 (9.38%) Data Modelling
11 88 (9.27%) Decision-Making
12 87 (9.17%) AI
12 87 (9.17%) Data Migration
13 77 (8.11%) CI/CD
14 73 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
15 65 (6.85%) Workflow
16 63 (6.64%) Project Management
17 59 (6.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 124 (13.07%) SQL
2 78 (8.22%) JavaScript
3 52 (5.48%) C#
4 44 (4.64%) Python
5 15 (1.58%) Java
6 13 (1.37%) ABAP
7 12 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.05%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.95%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.21%) Bicep
11 2 (0.21%) C++
11 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.21%) Korn
11 2 (0.21%) SOQL
12 1 (0.11%) C
12 1 (0.11%) Groovy
12 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 79 (8.32%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.38%) Degree
4 24 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.37%) PMI Certification
6 13 (1.37%) PMP
7 12 (1.26%) CCNA
7 12 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.16%) A+ Certification
8 11 (1.16%) MCSA
9 8 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.32%) MBA
14 3 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.54%) GDPR
2 78 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.27%) QA
4 21 (2.21%) SLA
5 14 (1.48%) PMO
6 13 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.63%) WCAG
8 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.42%) NIST
10 3 (0.32%) IFRS
10 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.32%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.21%) GMP
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) GAAP
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (0.74%) Docker
2 6 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (1.69%) Terraform
2 8 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.32%) Grafana
4 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 259 (27.29%) Salesforce
2 246 (25.92%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.85%) SAP
4 56 (5.90%) Oracle
5 44 (4.64%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.58%) Adobe
7 31 (3.27%) MuleSoft
8 29 (3.06%) Databricks
9 23 (2.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 22 (2.32%) Google
11 20 (2.11%) Siebel
12 14 (1.48%) HubSpot
13 13 (1.37%) Workday
14 9 (0.95%) Braze
14 9 (0.95%) Foundry
15 8 (0.84%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.84%) Conga
15 8 (0.84%) DocuSign
16 6 (0.63%) Marketo
16 6 (0.63%) OpenAI