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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 114 121
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,127 671 622
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.43% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.68% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 417 393
10th Percentile £310 £232 £315
25th Percentile £401 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £515 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +5.64% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 31 10
10th Percentile £12.71 - £13.09
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.75 £17.06
Median hourly rate £14.96 £20.50 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% -26.13% +34.94%
75th Percentile £18.75 £34.58 £35.50
90th Percentile £30.22 £46.75 £137.50
UK median hourly rate £14.96 £22.75 £23.30
% change year-on-year -34.24% -2.34% +32.13%

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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 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 19 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 19 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 +9 599 £525 +5.00% 961
South East -41 147 £575 +17.95% 432
Midlands +12 136 £470 +5.15% 202
North of England -30 127 £510 +13.22% 275
West Midlands -5 95 £463 - 110
North West -15 88 £510 +16.97% 153
East of England +32 72 £450 -25.00% 107
East Midlands +1 38 £475 +32.68% 93
South West -30 36 £370 -12.94% 108
Yorkshire -40 23 £480 +1.05% 84
North East -24 18 £523 +17.75% 42
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 43 (3.82%) CMS
2 37 (3.28%) Confluence
3 24 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.80%) SAS
6 6 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
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
9 2 (0.18%) Appian
9 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.089%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.089%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.089%) Mendix
Applications
1 49 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.89%) AutoCAD
3 10 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.71%) Revit
6 5 (0.44%) SPSS
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.18%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.089%) InDesign
9 1 (0.089%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 285 (25.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (4.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 19 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.42%) Siebel CRM
5 15 (1.33%) SAP CRM
6 10 (0.89%) SAP PSCD
7 9 (0.80%) Temenos T24
8 7 (0.62%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
9 6 (0.53%) Finacle
9 6 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
10 5 (0.44%) Sage X3
11 4 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.35%) Shopify
12 3 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 244 (21.65%) Azure
2 218 (19.34%) Dynamics 365
3 148 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 103 (9.14%) AWS
5 82 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (6.92%) Power Automate
7 72 (6.39%) SaaS
8 64 (5.68%) PowerApps
9 49 (4.35%) GCP
10 44 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (3.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 30 (2.66%) Serverless
13 29 (2.57%) Snowflake
14 26 (2.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 21 (1.86%) 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 Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.06%) SMS
2 8 (0.71%) Firewall
3 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.44%) NAS
4 5 (0.44%) WAN
5 3 (0.27%) IPv4
5 3 (0.27%) IPv6
6 2 (0.18%) ADSL
6 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.18%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) Internet
6 2 (0.18%) MPLS
6 2 (0.18%) PSTN
6 2 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.18%) SSL
6 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.089%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.089%) VPN
7 1 (0.089%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.57%) Power BI
2 35 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.95%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.24%) BigQuery
6 13 (1.15%) Tableau
7 10 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.89%) Siebel EIM
7 10 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (0.80%) Metadata
8 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.53%) GIS
10 6 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.44%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.44%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (7.01%) JIRA
2 19 (1.69%) Selenium
3 16 (1.42%) Git
3 16 (1.42%) Postman
4 11 (0.98%) Cucumber
4 11 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 10 (0.89%) WebDriver
6 7 (0.62%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.27%) Protractor
9 3 (0.27%) TestRail
9 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.18%) Appium
10 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.089%) GitLab
11 1 (0.089%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.089%) SoapUI
General
1 420 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 273 (24.22%) Finance
3 218 (19.34%) Marketing
4 134 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (9.67%) Retail
6 90 (7.99%) Public Sector
7 89 (7.90%) Banking
8 51 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (4.26%) Billing
10 47 (4.17%) Telecoms
11 36 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
13 34 (3.02%) Manufacturing
14 31 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (2.57%) Legal
16 21 (1.86%) Automotive
17 19 (1.69%) Local Government
17 19 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (1.15%) Back Office
19 12 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 190 (16.86%) Analyst
2 160 (14.20%) Architect
3 134 (11.89%) Developer
4 102 (9.05%) Lead
5 99 (8.78%) Business Analyst
6 87 (7.72%) Senior
7 82 (7.28%) Consultant
8 70 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (5.59%) Project Manager
10 47 (4.17%) CRM Manager
11 37 (3.28%) Administrator
12 33 (2.93%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 32 (2.84%) Enterprise Architect
14 31 (2.75%) CRM Analyst
15 30 (2.66%) Data Analyst
16 28 (2.48%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 28 (2.48%) Salesforce Analyst
16 28 (2.48%) Salesforce Developer
16 28 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
17 27 (2.40%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.12%) REST
2 51 (4.53%) Middleware
3 50 (4.44%) .NET
4 34 (3.02%) HTML
5 30 (2.66%) SOAP
6 29 (2.57%) CSS
7 24 (2.13%) JSON
8 23 (2.04%) Kafka
9 18 (1.60%) XML
10 17 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.33%) React
12 14 (1.24%) Node.js
13 13 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (1.15%) ONVIF
13 13 (1.15%) RESTful
14 12 (1.06%) Gherkin
14 12 (1.06%) SAP PI
15 11 (0.98%) OAuth
16 10 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
16 10 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 52 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (3.19%) Marketing Technology
5 24 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 24 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 21 (1.86%) IVR
7 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.33%) Social Media
11 14 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.51%) Windows
2 9 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.71%) Android
3 8 (0.71%) Unix
4 6 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) HPUX
6 2 (0.18%) Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (27.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 266 (23.60%) Agile
3 190 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (14.64%) Migration
5 159 (14.11%) ERP
6 155 (13.75%) Analytics
7 139 (12.33%) Roadmaps
8 129 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 121 (10.74%) DevOps
10 120 (10.65%) Customer Service
11 115 (10.20%) AI
12 114 (10.12%) Data Modelling
13 106 (9.41%) Decision-Making
14 101 (8.96%) CI/CD
15 97 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
16 96 (8.52%) Data Migration
17 83 (7.36%) User Acceptance Testing
18 77 (6.83%) Workshop Facilitation
19 75 (6.65%) Customer Engagement
20 72 (6.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.69%) SQL
2 93 (8.25%) JavaScript
3 62 (5.50%) C#
4 50 (4.44%) Python
5 21 (1.86%) Java
6 20 (1.77%) ABAP
7 18 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.42%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.35%) 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%) DAML
15 1 (0.089%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 117 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 89 (7.90%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.36%) Degree
4 27 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.42%) PMP
7 14 (1.24%) CCNA
7 14 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.15%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.15%) MCSA
9 12 (1.06%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.44%) IIBA
14 5 (0.44%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.35%) CBAP
16 3 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 83 (7.36%) GDPR
3 72 (6.39%) QA
4 23 (2.04%) PMO
5 20 (1.77%) SLA
6 17 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.06%) WCAG
8 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.44%) NIST
9 5 (0.44%) SEPA
9 5 (0.44%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) IFRS
11 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.18%) PERC
13 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.71%) Docker
3 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (1.77%) Terraform
2 8 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.27%) Grafana
3 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.089%) Autotask
5 1 (0.089%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.089%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 319 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 275 (24.40%) Salesforce
3 87 (7.72%) SAP
4 55 (4.88%) Oracle
5 51 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 44 (3.90%) Adobe
7 36 (3.19%) Databricks
8 32 (2.84%) MuleSoft
9 28 (2.48%) Google
10 24 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 22 (1.95%) Siebel
12 21 (1.86%) Braze
13 18 (1.60%) HubSpot
14 14 (1.24%) Workday
15 8 (0.71%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.71%) Conga
15 8 (0.71%) DocuSign
15 8 (0.71%) Meraki
16 7 (0.62%) ION Trading
16 7 (0.62%) Marketo