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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 123 103
Rank change year-on-year +15 -20 +29
Contract jobs citing CRM 860 531 850
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.15% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.38% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 346 547
10th Percentile £345 £286 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £613
90th Percentile £688 £768 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.86 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £17.30 £13.05
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +21.99% +9.65%
75th Percentile £41.25 £30.69 £35.44
90th Percentile £55.55 £38.08 £63.58
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £21.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.24% +10.76% -1.30%

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 31,603 22,356 32,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.62% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,213 14,443 21,819
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £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 1,966 795 2,153
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +24 501 £525 +1.45% 561
South East -23 109 £525 +9.38% 358
North of England -31 86 £474 -4.77% 256
Midlands -33 80 £500 +14.94% 176
West Midlands -37 62 £500 +2.04% 115
North West -31 49 £450 -10.00% 139
East of England +7 46 £520 +4.10% 82
Yorkshire -28 33 £494 +41.07% 91
East Midlands -26 18 £500 +68.92% 60
South West -24 17 £519 +12.16% 82
North East -10 4 £450 -18.18% 27
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 33 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.72%) CMS
3 28 (3.26%) Confluence
4 10 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.70%) Appian
5 6 (0.70%) Camunda
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Documentum
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.23%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.23%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Kentico
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 245 (28.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (1.63%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.58%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.35%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.35%) 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 FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
8 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.12%) Maximo
9 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 204 (23.72%) Azure
2 193 (22.44%) Dynamics 365
3 159 (18.49%) Power Platform
4 75 (8.72%) Power Automate
5 70 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.98%) AWS
7 52 (6.05%) PowerApps
8 43 (5.00%) SaaS
9 39 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (3.49%) Serverless
12 26 (3.02%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.67%) GCP
14 20 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (2.21%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.51%) GitHub
17 13 (1.51%) PaaS
18 12 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.40%) HTTP
2 8 (0.93%) SMS
3 7 (0.81%) Internet
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Broadband
6 3 (0.35%) IPv4
6 3 (0.35%) IPv6
6 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
7 2 (0.23%) WebEx
8 1 (0.12%) 4G
8 1 (0.12%) 5G
8 1 (0.12%) CTI
8 1 (0.12%) GPRS
8 1 (0.12%) GSM
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Intranet
8 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.42%) Power BI
2 22 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.28%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.16%) Metadata
5 9 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (1.05%) Tableau
6 7 (0.81%) Big Data
7 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.47%) GIS
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.23%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (6.63%) JIRA
2 11 (1.28%) Git
3 9 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.35%) TestRail
5 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 324 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 189 (21.98%) Finance
3 147 (17.09%) Marketing
4 144 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.35%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.53%) Retail
7 38 (4.42%) Billing
8 37 (4.30%) Banking
9 31 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (3.49%) Telecoms
11 22 (2.56%) Legal
12 21 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.74%) French Language
14 15 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.51%) German Language
15 13 (1.51%) Law
16 12 (1.40%) Japanese Language
17 10 (1.16%) Italian Language
17 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (16.05%) Architect
2 118 (13.72%) Analyst
3 95 (11.05%) Developer
4 77 (8.95%) Senior
5 75 (8.72%) Business Analyst
6 66 (7.67%) Consultant
7 59 (6.86%) Lead
8 58 (6.74%) Project Manager
9 57 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (5.23%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.42%) Salesforce Architect
12 37 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 26 (3.02%) CRM Specialist
14 25 (2.91%) Senior Manager
15 24 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 23 (2.67%) Data Analyst
17 22 (2.56%) Functional Consultant
18 21 (2.44%) Data Engineer
19 17 (1.98%) Azure Engineer
19 17 (1.98%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.35%) .NET
2 41 (4.77%) REST
3 36 (4.19%) HTML
4 32 (3.72%) JSON
5 21 (2.44%) Middleware
5 21 (2.44%) XML
6 20 (2.33%) CSS
7 16 (1.86%) OAuth
8 11 (1.28%) SOAP
9 10 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.16%) Node.js
9 10 (1.16%) PySpark
9 10 (1.16%) RESTful
10 9 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.05%) SAML
10 9 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.93%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.93%) Kafka
11 8 (0.93%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.70%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 17 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 17 (1.98%) Social Media
7 15 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
9 11 (1.28%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
11 9 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (23.84%) Agile
2 177 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (14.53%) ERP
5 121 (14.07%) DevOps
5 121 (14.07%) Migration
6 104 (12.09%) Analytics
7 99 (11.51%) Business Intelligence
8 97 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 84 (9.77%) Roadmaps
10 81 (9.42%) Customer Service
10 81 (9.42%) Data Modelling
11 79 (9.19%) Project Management
12 77 (8.95%) AI
13 73 (8.49%) Customer Engagement
14 68 (7.91%) Decision-Making
15 67 (7.79%) Data Migration
16 63 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (7.33%) User Experience
17 59 (6.86%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.47%) SQL
2 72 (8.37%) JavaScript
3 67 (7.79%) C#
4 56 (6.51%) Python
5 19 (2.21%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.09%) Java
7 8 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.70%) ABAP
8 6 (0.70%) PHP
9 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.35%) Bicep
10 3 (0.35%) C++
10 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.23%) Bash
11 2 (0.23%) Korn
11 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.23%) VBA
11 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (8.72%) Degree
2 71 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.79%) PMI Certification
4 24 (2.79%) PMP
5 14 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.70%) MBA
9 4 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.47%) CFA
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) MCDST
11 2 (0.23%) OCA
11 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.49%) GDPR
2 65 (7.56%) Data Quality
3 54 (6.28%) QA
4 20 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.74%) SLA
6 9 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.70%) PMO
7 6 (0.70%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.35%) ITGC
10 3 (0.35%) MiFID
10 3 (0.35%) NIST
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) GMP
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 15 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.28%) Terraform
2 9 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.35%) Grafana
4 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.23%) SCCM
5 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 233 (27.09%) Microsoft
2 207 (24.07%) Salesforce
3 58 (6.74%) SAP
4 47 (5.47%) Oracle
5 35 (4.07%) HubSpot
6 28 (3.26%) Databricks
7 26 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.67%) Adobe
9 18 (2.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (1.98%) Google
11 11 (1.28%) Workday
12 9 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.05%) Pega
13 8 (0.93%) Foundry
14 7 (0.81%) Genesys
15 6 (0.70%) Informatica
16 5 (0.58%) Ariba
17 4 (0.47%) Guidewire
17 4 (0.47%) Remedy