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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 129 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 +21
Contract jobs citing CRM 832 550 796
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.54% 2.08% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.32% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 331 517
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.24% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £784 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.88 £25.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +22.80% +26.91%
75th Percentile £41.00 £33.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £62.54
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £29.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -34.86% +18.71% +26.91%

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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +25 470 £510 - 429
South East +19 119 £520 +15.56% 745
Midlands -32 84 £500 -7.41% 341
North of England -38 74 £488 -2.50% 434
West Midlands -31 61 £500 -7.41% 135
North West -26 41 £450 -3.23% 202
East of England +19 39 £475 +13.43% 305
Yorkshire -34 31 £494 -12.92% 177
East Midlands -18 23 £463 -15.91% 202
South West -25 21 £500 +3.09% 272
North East -13 2 £508 -11.35% 57
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 34 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.85%) CMS
3 21 (2.52%) Confluence
4 10 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Camunda
5 6 (0.72%) SugarCRM
6 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
8 2 (0.24%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 248 (29.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (6.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.68%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.96%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.36%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle BRM
8 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 183 (22.00%) Azure
2 182 (21.88%) Dynamics 365
3 162 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 75 (9.01%) Power Automate
5 65 (7.81%) AWS
6 55 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (6.61%) PowerApps
7 35 (4.21%) SaaS
8 32 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 32 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (3.00%) GCP
10 23 (2.76%) Serverless
11 19 (2.28%) Azure Functions
11 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (2.04%) Snowflake
13 13 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.44%) PaaS
15 11 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (1.32%) GitHub
15 11 (1.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.32%) HTTP
2 8 (0.96%) SMS
3 6 (0.72%) DHCP
3 6 (0.72%) DNS
4 5 (0.60%) Internet
4 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.60%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) Broadband
6 2 (0.24%) Cisco ICM
6 2 (0.24%) ISDN
6 2 (0.24%) PSTN
6 2 (0.24%) WebEx
7 1 (0.12%) CTI
7 1 (0.12%) GPRS
7 1 (0.12%) GSM
7 1 (0.12%) Intranet
7 1 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (10.70%) Power BI
2 24 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 21 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.92%) Tableau
5 10 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.72%) Looker
8 5 (0.60%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.60%) Metadata
8 5 (0.60%) MySQL
8 5 (0.60%) SAP BW
8 5 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.48%) Big Data
9 4 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 4 (0.48%) GIS
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (6.13%) JIRA
2 12 (1.44%) Git
3 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.36%) Selenium
4 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.24%) fastlane
5 2 (0.24%) GitLab
5 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
5 2 (0.24%) Postman
5 2 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.24%) TestRail
5 2 (0.24%) Xcode
5 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 318 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 181 (21.75%) Finance
3 150 (18.03%) Marketing
4 136 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.05%) Banking
6 42 (5.05%) Retail
7 41 (4.93%) Billing
8 29 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 22 (2.64%) Legal
10 19 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.56%) Italian Language
11 13 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.44%) French Language
13 11 (1.32%) German Language
13 11 (1.32%) Japanese Language
14 10 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 125 (15.02%) Architect
2 121 (14.54%) Analyst
3 98 (11.78%) Developer
4 73 (8.77%) Business Analyst
5 63 (7.57%) Consultant
5 63 (7.57%) Senior
6 62 (7.45%) Lead
7 53 (6.37%) Project Manager
8 50 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (5.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 36 (4.33%) CRM Manager
11 35 (4.21%) Salesforce Architect
12 24 (2.88%) Functional Consultant
12 24 (2.88%) Senior Manager
13 22 (2.64%) CRM Specialist
14 21 (2.52%) Data Analyst
15 20 (2.40%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 17 (2.04%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 17 (2.04%) Lead Architect
16 17 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.37%) .NET
2 42 (5.05%) HTML
3 39 (4.69%) REST
4 30 (3.61%) JSON
5 23 (2.76%) XML
6 22 (2.64%) CSS
7 17 (2.04%) SOAP
8 14 (1.68%) OAuth
9 10 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (1.08%) ADO
10 9 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.08%) Middleware
10 9 (1.08%) RESTful
10 9 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.96%) Node.js
11 8 (0.96%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.96%) OpenID
11 8 (0.96%) PySpark
11 8 (0.96%) SAML
12 7 (0.84%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (2.16%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
8 13 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (1.32%) Social Media
11 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.20%) Windows
2 6 (0.72%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (25.72%) Agile
2 165 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 144 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (15.38%) ERP
5 103 (12.38%) Migration
5 103 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 100 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (12.02%) DevOps
7 98 (11.78%) Analytics
8 81 (9.74%) User Experience
9 80 (9.62%) Customer Engagement
9 80 (9.62%) Customer Service
10 79 (9.50%) Data Modelling
11 68 (8.17%) AI
11 68 (8.17%) Project Management
12 67 (8.05%) Roadmaps
13 61 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (7.21%) Data Migration
15 59 (7.09%) Decision-Making
16 58 (6.97%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (11.06%) SQL
2 84 (10.10%) JavaScript
3 64 (7.69%) C#
4 45 (5.41%) Python
5 22 (2.64%) Java
6 20 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.20%) PHP
8 9 (1.08%) ABAP
9 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.36%) Bicep
12 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.36%) R
13 2 (0.24%) Bash
13 2 (0.24%) C++
13 2 (0.24%) Korn
13 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 72 (8.65%) Degree
2 65 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 39 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 21 (2.52%) PMP
6 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.20%) MCP
8 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.60%) MBA
10 5 (0.60%) MCDST
11 4 (0.48%) CCA
12 3 (0.36%) ACCA
12 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.36%) CIMA
12 3 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.24%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.45%) GDPR
2 56 (6.73%) QA
3 46 (5.53%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.20%) SLA
6 9 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.72%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.48%) GxP
9 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.36%) ITGC
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (0.84%) Terraform
2 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.60%) SCCM
4 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 225 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 218 (26.20%) Salesforce
3 62 (7.45%) SAP
4 47 (5.65%) Oracle
5 34 (4.09%) HubSpot
6 29 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.64%) Adobe
8 20 (2.40%) Databricks
8 20 (2.40%) Google
9 18 (2.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 9 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.08%) Pega
11 8 (0.96%) Genesys
11 8 (0.96%) Workday
12 6 (0.72%) Ariba
12 6 (0.72%) iManage
13 5 (0.60%) Mitel
13 5 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.48%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.48%) OneTrust