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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 131 110
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 +28
Contract jobs citing CRM 898 532 745
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.22% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.43% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 347 475
10th Percentile £330 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £710 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 22
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.22 -
25th Percentile £14.53 £20.46 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.50 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +114.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £39.06 £28.88
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.20 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £29.13 £13.50
% change year-on-year -45.06% +115.74% -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 35,226 21,902 31,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 91.29% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,404 14,316 20,563
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £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 £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,174 928 2,273
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.94 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.31% -22.39% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +5 507 £515 +0.98% 605
South East -19 116 £550 +52.78% 339
Midlands -9 99 £470 +5.92% 195
North of England -53 76 £478 +2.69% 291
East of England +29 71 £520 +4.00% 72
West Midlands -26 64 £463 -3.65% 117
North West -40 42 £450 -5.26% 167
East Midlands -1 33 £475 +42.43% 78
Yorkshire -43 25 £500 +53.85% 99
South West -39 16 £525 +23.53% 70
North East -17 11 £450 -18.18% 28
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 30 (3.34%) Confluence
2 26 (2.90%) CMS
3 21 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.78%) 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
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Kentico
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.33%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.33%) Revit
10 2 (0.22%) Notion
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 254 (28.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (4.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (1.89%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.45%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.00%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
11 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
11 1 (0.11%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 204 (22.72%) Dynamics 365
2 191 (21.27%) Azure
3 141 (15.70%) Power Platform
4 68 (7.57%) Power Automate
5 65 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.57%) AWS
7 52 (5.79%) PowerApps
7 52 (5.79%) SaaS
8 39 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
10 26 (2.90%) Serverless
11 23 (2.56%) GCP
11 23 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 20 (2.23%) Azure Functions
13 17 (1.89%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 14 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.78%) HTTP
1 7 (0.78%) SMS
2 6 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.33%) DHCP
3 3 (0.33%) DNS
3 3 (0.33%) IPv4
3 3 (0.33%) IPv6
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
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 63 (7.02%) Power BI
2 24 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.00%) Metadata
5 9 (1.00%) Tableau
6 8 (0.89%) Siebel EIM
7 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.67%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.56%) Big Data
9 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (6.68%) JIRA
2 12 (1.34%) Git
3 6 (0.67%) Selenium
4 5 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) Postman
5 3 (0.33%) GitLab
5 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) TestRail
6 2 (0.22%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 314 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 186 (20.71%) Finance
3 147 (16.37%) Marketing
4 115 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.12%) Retail
7 35 (3.90%) Billing
7 35 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 34 (3.79%) Banking
9 27 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.45%) Legal
12 18 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.67%) Automotive
14 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.34%) Local Government
17 8 (0.89%) Advertising
17 8 (0.89%) French Language
Job Titles
1 132 (14.70%) Analyst
2 121 (13.47%) Architect
3 114 (12.69%) Developer
4 78 (8.69%) Senior
5 77 (8.57%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.02%) Lead
7 58 (6.46%) Project Manager
8 54 (6.01%) CRM Manager
9 51 (5.68%) Consultant
10 45 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 30 (3.34%) Salesforce Architect
13 23 (2.56%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.56%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.23%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 18 (2.00%) CRM Analyst
16 18 (2.00%) Salesforce Analyst
17 16 (1.78%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.35%) REST
2 41 (4.57%) .NET
3 39 (4.34%) HTML
4 31 (3.45%) Middleware
5 27 (3.01%) CSS
5 27 (3.01%) JSON
6 19 (2.12%) Kafka
7 17 (1.89%) Node.js
8 12 (1.34%) XML
9 11 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (1.22%) RESTful
10 10 (1.11%) React
11 9 (1.00%) ADO
11 9 (1.00%) Ajax
11 9 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
11 9 (1.00%) SOAP
12 8 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.89%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.35%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
8 15 (1.67%) Social Media
9 14 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.89%) FMCG
14 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.78%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.78%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.78%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
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
1 199 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 183 (20.38%) Agile
3 149 (16.59%) Migration
4 128 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (13.70%) ERP
6 105 (11.69%) DevOps
7 104 (11.58%) Roadmaps
8 100 (11.14%) Analytics
9 88 (9.80%) Decision-Making
10 86 (9.58%) Customer Service
10 86 (9.58%) Data Migration
11 82 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 79 (8.80%) Data Modelling
13 78 (8.69%) AI
14 77 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
15 67 (7.46%) User Acceptance Testing
16 66 (7.35%) Project Management
17 63 (7.02%) CI/CD
18 62 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
19 60 (6.68%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 110 (12.25%) SQL
2 80 (8.91%) JavaScript
3 57 (6.35%) C#
4 39 (4.34%) Python
5 18 (2.00%) Java
6 15 (1.67%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.89%) ABAP
9 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.33%) C++
11 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.22%) Bicep
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
13 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 87 (9.69%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.57%) Degree
3 58 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.22%) PMP
7 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.89%) CCNA
8 8 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.78%) A+ Certification
9 7 (0.78%) MCSA
10 6 (0.67%) MBA
11 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.33%) CFA
13 3 (0.33%) IIBA
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.80%) GDPR
2 71 (7.91%) Data Quality
3 46 (5.12%) QA
4 19 (2.12%) SLA
5 12 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.34%) PMO
6 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.56%) WCAG
7 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.22%) GMP
8 2 (0.22%) GxP
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
9 1 (0.11%) GAAP
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.00%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (1.22%) Terraform
2 10 (1.11%) Kubernetes
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
1 235 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 233 (25.95%) Salesforce
3 65 (7.24%) SAP
4 60 (6.68%) Oracle
5 32 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.23%) Databricks
7 25 (2.78%) Adobe
8 22 (2.45%) MuleSoft
9 20 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 18 (2.00%) HubSpot
11 16 (1.78%) Google
12 15 (1.67%) Siebel
13 13 (1.45%) Workday
14 9 (1.00%) Foundry
15 8 (0.89%) Braze
16 7 (0.78%) Pega
17 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
18 5 (0.56%) Ariba
18 5 (0.56%) Informatica
19 4 (0.45%) Remedy