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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 119 108
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,062 642 755
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.36% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.60% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 416 500
10th Percentile £313 £253 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £614
90th Percentile £700 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 16
10th Percentile £13.55 - -
25th Percentile £14.92 £14.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £20.50 £25.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -20.28% +40.90%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.48 £33.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £43.30 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £17.63 £20.50 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.02% +4.65% +15.24%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +9 576 £523 +1.95% 393
South East -28 141 £550 +12.82% 313
Midlands +9 126 £470 +1.62% 178
North of England -41 114 £500 +5.26% 215
West Midlands +1 94 £463 -3.39% 101
North West -22 78 £509 +7.16% 128
East of England +40 77 £475 -15.56% 62
East Midlands +9 30 £475 +26.67% 77
Yorkshire -44 25 £500 -2.44% 64
South West -28 23 £525 +23.53% 81
North East -29 13 £525 +18.31% 24
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 47 (4.43%) Confluence
2 39 (3.67%) CMS
3 22 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.66%) SAS
6 6 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.38%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.38%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) Kentico
8 3 (0.28%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.094%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.094%) Drupal
10 1 (0.094%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.094%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 37 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.94%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.75%) Revit
6 8 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.28%) SPSS
11 2 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.094%) InDesign
12 1 (0.094%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 288 (27.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (5.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 21 (1.98%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.51%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (1.32%) SAP CRM
6 13 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (1.04%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.47%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.28%) Finacle
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 256 (24.11%) Azure
2 216 (20.34%) Dynamics 365
3 139 (13.09%) Power Platform
4 101 (9.51%) AWS
5 88 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (6.40%) SaaS
7 65 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 54 (5.08%) PowerApps
9 52 (4.90%) GCP
10 39 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 31 (2.92%) Serverless
13 29 (2.73%) Snowflake
14 22 (2.07%) Azure Functions
14 22 (2.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 20 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (1.79%) GitHub
17 18 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
18 17 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.94%) SMS
2 4 (0.38%) Firewall
2 4 (0.38%) Internet
3 3 (0.28%) DHCP
3 3 (0.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.28%) IPv4
3 3 (0.28%) IPv6
3 3 (0.28%) WAN
4 2 (0.19%) SSL
4 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.094%) 4G
5 1 (0.094%) 5G
5 1 (0.094%) CTI
5 1 (0.094%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.094%) NAS
5 1 (0.094%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.094%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.094%) VPN
5 1 (0.094%) WebEx
5 1 (0.094%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.40%) Power BI
2 31 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 12 (1.13%) Metadata
6 12 (1.13%) Tableau
7 11 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (0.94%) Siebel EIM
9 9 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.47%) Big Data
12 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.47%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.47%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (8.00%) JIRA
2 17 (1.60%) Git
3 14 (1.32%) Selenium
4 13 (1.22%) Postman
5 8 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.66%) SpecFlow
6 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.28%) Protractor
8 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.19%) TestRail
9 2 (0.19%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.094%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.094%) GitLab
10 1 (0.094%) Hudson
10 1 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.094%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 381 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 256 (24.11%) Finance
3 201 (18.93%) Marketing
4 134 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (9.51%) Retail
6 93 (8.76%) Public Sector
7 59 (5.56%) Banking
8 51 (4.80%) Billing
8 51 (4.80%) Telecoms
9 41 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (2.73%) Legal
13 28 (2.64%) Manufacturing
14 27 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.60%) Automotive
16 16 (1.51%) Local Government
16 16 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.13%) Back Office
18 10 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 181 (17.04%) Analyst
2 161 (15.16%) Architect
3 125 (11.77%) Developer
4 96 (9.04%) Business Analyst
5 86 (8.10%) Lead
6 82 (7.72%) Senior
7 70 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 69 (6.50%) Consultant
9 67 (6.31%) Project Manager
10 53 (4.99%) CRM Manager
11 32 (3.01%) Data Engineer
12 31 (2.92%) Data Analyst
13 29 (2.73%) CRM Analyst
13 29 (2.73%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 27 (2.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 26 (2.45%) Salesforce Analyst
16 24 (2.26%) CRM Specialist
16 24 (2.26%) Salesforce Architect
16 24 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 23 (2.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.12%) REST
2 53 (4.99%) Middleware
3 43 (4.05%) .NET
4 32 (3.01%) HTML
5 30 (2.82%) CSS
6 28 (2.64%) SOAP
7 25 (2.35%) JSON
8 24 (2.26%) Kafka
9 18 (1.69%) XML
10 17 (1.60%) Node.js
11 14 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.22%) ONVIF
12 13 (1.22%) SAP PI
13 12 (1.13%) React
13 12 (1.13%) RESTful
13 12 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (1.13%) SAPUI5
14 10 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
14 10 (0.94%) OAuth
15 9 (0.85%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.69%) Onboarding
2 51 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
2 51 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.11%) Marketing Technology
5 29 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 19 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.41%) IVR
8 14 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.32%) Social Media
9 13 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
10 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.85%) IoT
13 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.22%) Windows
2 9 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.75%) Android
3 8 (0.75%) Unix
4 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.19%) HPUX
5 2 (0.19%) Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (26.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 248 (23.35%) Agile
3 174 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (16.20%) Migration
5 153 (14.41%) Analytics
6 151 (14.22%) ERP
7 134 (12.62%) DevOps
8 133 (12.52%) Roadmaps
9 119 (11.21%) Data Modelling
10 113 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 108 (10.17%) AI
12 106 (9.98%) Customer Service
13 99 (9.32%) Decision-Making
14 98 (9.23%) Data Migration
15 97 (9.13%) CI/CD
16 95 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
17 85 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
18 74 (6.97%) Workflow
19 70 (6.59%) Workshop Facilitation
20 69 (6.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (13.37%) SQL
2 81 (7.63%) JavaScript
3 59 (5.56%) C#
3 59 (5.56%) Python
4 22 (2.07%) ABAP
4 22 (2.07%) Java
5 13 (1.22%) Apex Code
5 13 (1.22%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.66%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.28%) Groovy
7 3 (0.28%) Korn
8 2 (0.19%) Bicep
8 2 (0.19%) C++
8 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.19%) R
8 2 (0.19%) SOQL
9 1 (0.094%) Go
9 1 (0.094%) Rust
Qualifications
1 113 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 91 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.63%) Degree
4 22 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.51%) PMP
8 14 (1.32%) CCNA
8 14 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.22%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.22%) MCSA
10 9 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.38%) CBAP
14 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.76%) GDPR
2 80 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 58 (5.46%) QA
4 22 (2.07%) SLA
5 19 (1.79%) PMO
6 16 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.94%) WCAG
8 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.47%) NIST
8 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.38%) SEPA
9 4 (0.38%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 3 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.19%) GMP
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (0.75%) Docker
2 6 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.98%) Terraform
2 9 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.28%) Grafana
4 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.094%) Autotask
6 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 291 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 267 (25.14%) Salesforce
3 82 (7.72%) SAP
4 63 (5.93%) Oracle
5 46 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 40 (3.77%) Adobe
7 39 (3.67%) Databricks
8 33 (3.11%) MuleSoft
9 27 (2.54%) Google
10 23 (2.17%) Siebel
11 19 (1.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 18 (1.69%) HubSpot
13 15 (1.41%) Braze
14 14 (1.32%) Workday
15 9 (0.85%) Foundry
16 8 (0.75%) Autodesk
16 8 (0.75%) Conga
16 8 (0.75%) DocuSign
17 7 (0.66%) ION Trading
17 7 (0.66%) Marketo