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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 122 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 +21
Contract jobs citing CRM 876 530 807
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.31% 2.19% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.41% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 341 526
10th Percentile £350 £281 £355
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.54%
75th Percentile £591 £624 £613
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +29.23% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.46 £39.19
90th Percentile £56.53 £50.50 £65.65
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £29.25 £21.11
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.58% +9.65%

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 32,731 22,028 32,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.21% 90.81% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,968 14,519 21,584
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 1,997 852 2,159
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.10 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +22 506 £525 - 531
South East -23 112 £500 +14.29% 346
North of England -36 89 £475 -5.00% 263
Midlands -38 80 £500 +25.00% 179
West Midlands -25 62 £500 +19.05% 113
East of England +15 55 £538 +7.61% 101
North West -35 51 £450 -10.00% 124
Yorkshire -28 34 £488 +25.81% 112
East Midlands -27 18 £500 +57.73% 66
South West -27 14 £513 +10.81% 94
North East -7 4 £450 -18.18% 30
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 32 (3.65%) CMS
1 32 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.31%) Confluence
3 7 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.68%) Appian
4 6 (0.68%) Camunda
5 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.57%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Kentico
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 244 (27.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (5.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.71%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
8 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
9 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
9 1 (0.11%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 206 (23.52%) Azure
2 197 (22.49%) Dynamics 365
3 155 (17.69%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 61 (6.96%) AWS
6 50 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 42 (4.79%) SaaS
8 38 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
9 34 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (3.31%) Serverless
11 25 (2.85%) Azure Functions
12 24 (2.74%) GCP
13 20 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (2.17%) Snowflake
15 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 12 (1.37%) GitHub
18 12 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) HTTP
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SMS
4 3 (0.34%) Broadband
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) WebEx
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) SSL
6 1 (0.11%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.13%) Power BI
2 26 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.37%) Metadata
5 11 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.91%) Tableau
8 7 (0.80%) Big Data
9 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.34%) GIS
12 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.34%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.23%) SQLite
13 2 (0.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 56 (6.39%) JIRA
2 10 (1.14%) Git
3 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
5 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.34%) TestRail
5 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.23%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.23%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) fastlane
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.23%) Xcode
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
General
1 327 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 197 (22.49%) Finance
3 145 (16.55%) Marketing
4 139 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.45%) Banking
6 39 (4.45%) Billing
7 35 (4.00%) Retail
8 31 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.85%) Legal
11 22 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.83%) French Language
13 16 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.48%) Automotive
14 13 (1.48%) Law
15 12 (1.37%) German Language
16 11 (1.26%) Japanese Language
16 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (15.87%) Architect
2 115 (13.13%) Analyst
3 100 (11.42%) Developer
4 81 (9.25%) Senior
5 70 (7.99%) Business Analyst
6 64 (7.31%) Consultant
7 62 (7.08%) Lead
8 60 (6.85%) Project Manager
9 54 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
10 48 (5.48%) CRM Manager
11 37 (4.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 35 (4.00%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.85%) Data Analyst
14 24 (2.74%) CRM Specialist
14 24 (2.74%) Senior Manager
15 22 (2.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 21 (2.40%) Data Engineer
17 17 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (1.94%) Technical Architect
18 16 (1.83%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.25%) .NET
2 42 (4.79%) REST
3 35 (4.00%) HTML
4 34 (3.88%) JSON
5 22 (2.51%) XML
6 20 (2.28%) Middleware
7 19 (2.17%) CSS
8 15 (1.71%) Kafka
9 14 (1.60%) OAuth
10 11 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
11 10 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (1.14%) Node.js
11 10 (1.14%) RESTful
11 10 (1.14%) SOAP
12 9 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (1.03%) SAPUI5
13 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.91%) PySpark
14 7 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.59%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
7 17 (1.94%) Social Media
8 16 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.91%) Windows
2 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.72%) Agile
2 181 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (14.50%) Migration
4 126 (14.38%) ERP
5 121 (13.81%) DevOps
6 120 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (12.44%) Analytics
8 98 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 89 (10.16%) Roadmaps
11 86 (9.82%) Data Modelling
12 84 (9.59%) Project Management
13 82 (9.36%) Customer Service
14 75 (8.56%) Decision-Making
15 74 (8.45%) AI
16 72 (8.22%) Data Migration
17 70 (7.99%) Customer Engagement
18 65 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 63 (7.19%) Data Governance
20 61 (6.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.05%) SQL
2 74 (8.45%) JavaScript
3 68 (7.76%) C#
4 54 (6.16%) Python
5 21 (2.40%) Java
6 19 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.03%) ABAP
9 5 (0.57%) PHP
10 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.34%) Bicep
11 3 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.23%) Swift
12 2 (0.23%) VBA
12 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 80 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.02%) Degree
3 50 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.51%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.51%) PMP
6 11 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.80%) MBA
10 4 (0.46%) CFA
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) APMP
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) OCA
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.45%) GDPR
2 72 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.71%) QA
4 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.83%) SLA
6 13 (1.48%) PMO
7 10 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.57%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.34%) GxP
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) ITGC
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) GMP
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.26%) Terraform
2 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.34%) Grafana
4 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 230 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 214 (24.43%) Salesforce
3 61 (6.96%) SAP
4 54 (6.16%) Oracle
5 37 (4.22%) HubSpot
6 28 (3.20%) Databricks
7 26 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.28%) Adobe
9 18 (2.05%) Google
10 15 (1.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 11 (1.26%) Workday
12 10 (1.14%) Pega
13 9 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.91%) Ariba
14 8 (0.91%) Foundry
14 8 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.80%) Informatica
16 6 (0.68%) Genesys
17 5 (0.57%) Siebel
18 4 (0.46%) Remedy