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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 123 109
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +22
Contract jobs citing CRM 880 543 785
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 2.23% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.45% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 352 512
10th Percentile £350 £281 £350
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -2.76%
75th Percentile £594 £624 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 27
10th Percentile - £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -33.90% +27.07% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £55.31 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £29.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -35.14% +53.29% -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 33,181 22,150 32,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 90.86% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,274 14,593 21,355
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 2,050 865 2,166
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.99 £12.89
25th Percentile £19.48 £19.00 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.95 £70.44
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +15 511 £525 +1.45% 531
South East -28 108 £500 +11.11% 346
North of England -45 88 £478 -4.50% 263
Midlands -33 79 £500 +25.00% 179
East of England +22 60 £538 +7.55% 101
West Midlands -27 60 £500 +13.31% 113
North West -38 50 £450 -14.29% 124
Yorkshire -27 34 £488 +25.81% 112
East Midlands -26 19 £481 +51.81% 66
South West -25 15 £595 +36.00% 94
North East -11 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 31 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.41%) CMS
3 29 (3.30%) Confluence
4 8 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.68%) Appian
5 6 (0.68%) Camunda
6 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.57%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.70%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 250 (28.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 16 (1.82%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.45%) 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%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 207 (23.52%) Dynamics 365
2 204 (23.18%) Azure
3 157 (17.84%) Power Platform
4 73 (8.30%) Power Automate
5 70 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (6.93%) AWS
7 52 (5.91%) PowerApps
8 43 (4.89%) SaaS
9 37 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (3.41%) Serverless
12 26 (2.95%) Azure Functions
13 25 (2.84%) GCP
14 19 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (1.93%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (1.36%) PaaS
19 11 (1.25%) GitHub
19 11 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.36%) HTTP
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SMS
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) Broadband
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) 5G
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco ICM
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) SSL
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
6 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.09%) Power BI
2 26 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.48%) Metadata
5 9 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (1.02%) Tableau
6 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.80%) Big Data
8 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.57%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) GIS
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 57 (6.48%) JIRA
2 9 (1.02%) Git
3 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.45%) 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%) Cucumber
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
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 328 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 197 (22.39%) Finance
3 140 (15.91%) Marketing
4 136 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.43%) Banking
7 37 (4.20%) Billing
7 37 (4.20%) Retail
8 33 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.73%) Legal
11 23 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.70%) French Language
15 14 (1.59%) Automotive
16 12 (1.36%) Law
17 11 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 144 (16.36%) Architect
2 118 (13.41%) Analyst
3 101 (11.48%) Developer
4 81 (9.20%) Senior
5 71 (8.07%) Business Analyst
6 65 (7.39%) Lead
7 62 (7.05%) Consultant
8 58 (6.59%) Project Manager
8 58 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
9 49 (5.57%) CRM Manager
10 38 (4.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 36 (4.09%) Salesforce Architect
12 25 (2.84%) CRM Specialist
12 25 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.61%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 20 (2.27%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (2.05%) Change Manager
17 18 (2.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.34%) .NET
2 42 (4.77%) REST
3 36 (4.09%) HTML
4 34 (3.86%) JSON
5 23 (2.61%) Middleware
6 22 (2.50%) XML
7 20 (2.27%) CSS
8 16 (1.82%) Kafka
9 13 (1.48%) OAuth
10 11 (1.25%) 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 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (1.02%) SAPUI5
13 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.80%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (1.82%) Social Media
9 15 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.14%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.02%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
16 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.80%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (22.84%) Agile
2 180 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 132 (15.00%) ERP
3 132 (15.00%) Migration
4 120 (13.64%) DevOps
5 115 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (12.05%) Analytics
7 97 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
8 94 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 92 (10.45%) Roadmaps
10 90 (10.23%) Data Modelling
11 81 (9.20%) Project Management
12 79 (8.98%) Decision-Making
13 78 (8.86%) Customer Service
14 77 (8.75%) Data Migration
15 71 (8.07%) AI
16 67 (7.61%) Customer Engagement
17 64 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (7.05%) Data Governance
19 61 (6.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 92 (10.45%) SQL
2 76 (8.64%) JavaScript
3 69 (7.84%) C#
4 49 (5.57%) Python
5 21 (2.39%) Java
6 19 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.02%) ABAP
9 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.45%) PHP
9 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.34%) Bicep
10 3 (0.34%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) Bash
11 2 (0.23%) XPath
12 1 (0.11%) Groovy
12 1 (0.11%) R
12 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 80 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 77 (8.75%) Degree
3 51 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.50%) PMP
6 10 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.68%) MBA
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) CFA
10 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.23%) APMP
11 2 (0.23%) IIBA
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) OCA
11 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.52%) Data Quality
1 75 (8.52%) GDPR
2 51 (5.80%) QA
3 17 (1.93%) SLA
4 16 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.59%) PMO
6 10 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.57%) WCAG
8 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.34%) ITGC
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 3 (0.34%) NIST
9 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) EMIR
10 2 (0.23%) GMP
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 9 (1.02%) Docker
2 8 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.25%) Terraform
2 9 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 231 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 220 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 62 (7.05%) SAP
4 56 (6.36%) Oracle
5 37 (4.20%) HubSpot
6 28 (3.18%) Databricks
6 28 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.61%) Adobe
8 17 (1.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 16 (1.82%) Google
10 11 (1.25%) Workday
11 10 (1.14%) Braze
11 10 (1.14%) Pega
12 9 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.91%) Ariba
13 8 (0.91%) Foundry
14 7 (0.80%) Informatica
14 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.68%) Siebel
16 5 (0.57%) Brio