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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 126 106
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 914 548 760
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.27% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.48% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 354 486
10th Percentile £332 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £613
90th Percentile £690 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 22
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.95 -
25th Percentile £14.92 £17.70 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £29.50 £18.61
Median % change year-on-year -43.22% +58.54% -17.78%
75th Percentile £26.61 £36.44 £31.75
90th Percentile £48.88 £49.00 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.75 £29.13 £13.75
% change year-on-year -42.49% +111.82% -39.24%

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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +1 518 £515 +3.00% 637
South East -15 118 £550 +54.93% 343
Midlands +5 100 £500 +8.11% 206
North of England -53 82 £494 +3.95% 288
East of England +33 69 £503 +0.50% 79
West Midlands -20 66 £500 +8.11% 135
North West -37 48 £488 - 172
East Midlands -1 32 £490 +30.67% 71
Yorkshire -53 25 £500 +5.26% 88
South West -35 15 £525 +23.53% 83
North East -18 11 £450 +2.86% 31
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 36 (3.94%) CMS
2 34 (3.72%) Confluence
3 19 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.44%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.44%) SAS
7 3 (0.33%) Appian
7 3 (0.33%) Kentico
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.55%) Revit
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.22%) Notion
9 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 257 (28.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (5.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.53%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.42%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.98%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
10 2 (0.22%) Shopify
11 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.11%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 204 (22.32%) Azure
2 195 (21.33%) Dynamics 365
3 150 (16.41%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (7.00%) AWS
6 63 (6.89%) Power Automate
7 57 (6.24%) SaaS
8 53 (5.80%) PowerApps
9 37 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 28 (3.06%) GCP
12 27 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (2.84%) Serverless
14 19 (2.08%) Azure Functions
15 18 (1.97%) Snowflake
16 17 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 16 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
19 10 (1.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.98%) SMS
2 6 (0.66%) HTTP
2 6 (0.66%) Internet
3 3 (0.33%) DHCP
3 3 (0.33%) DNS
3 3 (0.33%) IPv4
3 3 (0.33%) IPv6
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) CTI
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) LAN
5 1 (0.11%) MPLS
5 1 (0.11%) PSTN
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.77%) Power BI
2 24 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.31%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.31%) Tableau
5 11 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.09%) Metadata
7 8 (0.88%) Siebel EIM
8 6 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.55%) Big Data
9 5 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.55%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.33%) Looker
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (7.11%) JIRA
2 12 (1.31%) Git
3 6 (0.66%) Postman
4 5 (0.55%) Selenium
5 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.22%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) Hudson
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 329 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 184 (20.13%) Finance
3 157 (17.18%) Marketing
4 116 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 60 (6.56%) Retail
7 38 (4.16%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.94%) Billing
9 31 (3.39%) Banking
10 30 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.95%) Legal
12 17 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.75%) Automotive
13 16 (1.75%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.53%) Local Government
15 12 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.98%) Advertising
16 9 (0.98%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 146 (15.97%) Analyst
2 137 (14.99%) Architect
3 113 (12.36%) Developer
4 81 (8.86%) Business Analyst
5 78 (8.53%) Senior
6 69 (7.55%) Lead
7 56 (6.13%) Project Manager
8 51 (5.58%) CRM Manager
8 51 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.03%) Consultant
10 35 (3.83%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 25 (2.74%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.41%) Data Engineer
14 22 (2.41%) Salesforce Analyst
15 21 (2.30%) CRM Analyst
15 21 (2.30%) Senior Manager
16 20 (2.19%) Salesforce Developer
16 20 (2.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.14%) REST
2 42 (4.60%) .NET
3 41 (4.49%) HTML
4 39 (4.27%) Middleware
5 33 (3.61%) CSS
6 26 (2.84%) JSON
7 17 (1.86%) Kafka
7 17 (1.86%) Node.js
8 13 (1.42%) XML
9 11 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (1.20%) RESTful
9 11 (1.20%) SOAP
10 10 (1.09%) React
11 9 (0.98%) Ajax
11 9 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.88%) ONVIF
12 8 (0.88%) SAPUI5
13 7 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.78%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 43 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
8 15 (1.64%) Social Media
9 14 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.98%) IoT
14 8 (0.88%) FMCG
14 8 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.42%) Windows
2 8 (0.88%) Android
2 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) HPUX
5 2 (0.22%) Linux
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 188 (20.57%) Agile
3 149 (16.30%) Migration
4 136 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (13.24%) ERP
6 112 (12.25%) Roadmaps
7 109 (11.93%) Analytics
8 106 (11.60%) DevOps
9 90 (9.85%) Customer Service
10 89 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
11 86 (9.41%) Decision-Making
11 86 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 84 (9.19%) AI
12 84 (9.19%) Data Migration
13 82 (8.97%) Data Modelling
14 68 (7.44%) CI/CD
15 66 (7.22%) User Acceptance Testing
16 64 (7.00%) Project Management
17 60 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (6.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 118 (12.91%) SQL
2 80 (8.75%) JavaScript
3 56 (6.13%) C#
4 39 (4.27%) Python
5 15 (1.64%) Java
6 13 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.88%) ABAP
9 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.22%) Bicep
10 2 (0.22%) C++
10 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.22%) Korn
10 2 (0.22%) SOQL
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.55%) Degree
2 69 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (1.20%) PMP
6 10 (1.09%) PMI Certification
7 9 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.98%) CCNA
7 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (0.88%) A+ Certification
8 8 (0.88%) MCSA
9 7 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.33%) IIBA
12 3 (0.33%) MBA
13 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.75%) GDPR
2 73 (7.99%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.25%) QA
4 21 (2.30%) SLA
5 14 (1.53%) PMO
6 12 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.55%) WCAG
8 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.44%) NIST
9 3 (0.33%) IFRS
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.33%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 2 (0.22%) GMP
10 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) GAAP
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
1 7 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (1.31%) Terraform
2 8 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
4 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 244 (26.70%) Salesforce
2 240 (26.26%) Microsoft
3 62 (6.78%) SAP
4 56 (6.13%) Oracle
5 39 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.17%) Databricks
7 28 (3.06%) Adobe
8 26 (2.84%) MuleSoft
9 22 (2.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (2.08%) Google
11 15 (1.64%) Siebel
12 14 (1.53%) HubSpot
13 12 (1.31%) Workday
14 10 (1.09%) Braze
15 9 (0.98%) Foundry
16 6 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.66%) Pega
17 5 (0.55%) Conga
17 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
17 5 (0.55%) Informatica