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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 123 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 -15 +34
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,066 639 747
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.34% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.59% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 413 490
10th Percentile £313 £245 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.30% -2.52%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £685 £682
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 17
10th Percentile £13.65 - £12.46
25th Percentile £14.96 £14.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -30.56% +53.15%
75th Percentile £28.75 £33.11 £36.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £42.25 £137.50
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £20.05 £16.97
% change year-on-year -12.70% +18.16% -2.02%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +7 572 £525 +2.44% 452
South East -36 140 £550 +12.82% 289
Midlands +24 132 £470 +1.62% 162
North of England -27 116 £505 +6.21% 211
West Midlands +6 100 £463 - 96
North West -15 81 £510 +7.37% 120
East of England +38 76 £475 -15.56% 65
East Midlands +7 30 £475 +26.67% 66
Yorkshire -46 24 £500 -2.44% 67
South West -36 22 £500 +17.65% 73
North East -33 13 £525 +18.31% 25
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 45 (4.22%) Confluence
2 40 (3.75%) CMS
3 22 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.75%) 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%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.094%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.94%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.84%) 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
9 4 (0.38%) SPSS
10 2 (0.19%) Notion
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.094%) InDesign
11 1 (0.094%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 284 (26.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (5.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 20 (1.88%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.50%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (1.31%) SAP CRM
6 10 (0.94%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.47%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
9 3 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.28%) Finacle
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 247 (23.17%) Azure
2 213 (19.98%) Dynamics 365
3 138 (12.95%) Power Platform
4 96 (9.01%) AWS
5 84 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (6.47%) SaaS
7 62 (5.82%) Power Automate
8 55 (5.16%) PowerApps
9 47 (4.41%) GCP
10 40 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 32 (3.00%) Serverless
13 29 (2.72%) Snowflake
14 23 (2.16%) Azure Functions
14 23 (2.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.78%) GitHub
16 18 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
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%) ADSL
5 1 (0.094%) CTI
5 1 (0.094%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.094%) HTTP
5 1 (0.094%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.094%) LAN
5 1 (0.094%) MPLS
5 1 (0.094%) PSTN
5 1 (0.094%) VPN
5 1 (0.094%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.75%) Power BI
2 32 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 12 (1.13%) Metadata
6 12 (1.13%) Tableau
7 11 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (0.94%) Siebel EIM
9 9 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.84%) 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 83 (7.79%) JIRA
2 17 (1.59%) Git
3 15 (1.41%) Selenium
4 14 (1.31%) Postman
5 9 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.66%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.28%) Protractor
9 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) TestRail
10 2 (0.19%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.094%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.094%) GitLab
11 1 (0.094%) Hudson
11 1 (0.094%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.094%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 379 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 260 (24.39%) Finance
3 207 (19.42%) Marketing
4 135 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (9.57%) Retail
6 94 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 62 (5.82%) Banking
8 47 (4.41%) Billing
8 47 (4.41%) Telecoms
9 40 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (3.00%) Legal
13 28 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (2.53%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.88%) Automotive
16 18 (1.69%) Local Government
17 16 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.13%) Back Office
19 10 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 185 (17.35%) Analyst
2 162 (15.20%) Architect
3 118 (11.07%) Developer
4 97 (9.10%) Business Analyst
5 88 (8.26%) Lead
6 84 (7.88%) Senior
7 70 (6.57%) Consultant
7 70 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 67 (6.29%) Project Manager
9 54 (5.07%) CRM Manager
10 32 (3.00%) Data Analyst
10 32 (3.00%) Data Engineer
11 30 (2.81%) CRM Analyst
12 28 (2.63%) CRM Specialist
12 28 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 27 (2.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 26 (2.44%) Salesforce Analyst
15 25 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (2.25%) Enterprise Architect
16 24 (2.25%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.10%) REST
2 51 (4.78%) Middleware
3 41 (3.85%) .NET
4 31 (2.91%) HTML
5 30 (2.81%) CSS
6 27 (2.53%) SOAP
7 25 (2.35%) JSON
8 24 (2.25%) Kafka
9 17 (1.59%) XML
10 16 (1.50%) Node.js
11 15 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.22%) ONVIF
12 13 (1.22%) SAP PI
13 12 (1.13%) RESTful
14 11 (1.03%) React
14 11 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (1.03%) SAPUI5
15 10 (0.94%) Gherkin
15 10 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
15 10 (0.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.75%) Onboarding
2 52 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 50 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (3.19%) Marketing Technology
6 30 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.50%) IVR
11 15 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.41%) Social Media
12 14 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.22%) Windows
2 9 (0.84%) 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
1 282 (26.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 250 (23.45%) Agile
3 176 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (15.85%) Migration
5 153 (14.35%) Analytics
6 147 (13.79%) ERP
7 137 (12.85%) Roadmaps
8 126 (11.82%) DevOps
9 119 (11.16%) Data Modelling
10 116 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 106 (9.94%) AI
12 105 (9.85%) Customer Service
13 97 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
14 96 (9.01%) CI/CD
15 95 (8.91%) Data Migration
15 95 (8.91%) Decision-Making
16 85 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
17 73 (6.85%) Workflow
18 71 (6.66%) Workshop Facilitation
19 69 (6.47%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (13.32%) SQL
2 80 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 56 (5.25%) C#
3 56 (5.25%) Python
4 21 (1.97%) ABAP
5 19 (1.78%) Java
6 14 (1.31%) Apex Code
7 11 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.28%) Groovy
9 3 (0.28%) Korn
10 2 (0.19%) Bicep
10 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.19%) R
10 2 (0.19%) SOQL
11 1 (0.094%) DAML
11 1 (0.094%) Rust
11 1 (0.094%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 109 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 87 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.60%) Degree
4 23 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.50%) PMP
8 14 (1.31%) CCNA
8 14 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.22%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.22%) MCSA
10 9 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.38%) CBAP
13 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.63%) GDPR
2 82 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.63%) QA
4 19 (1.78%) PMO
4 19 (1.78%) SLA
5 18 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.03%) WCAG
7 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.47%) NIST
7 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.47%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
8 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.38%) SEPA
9 3 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.19%) GMP
10 2 (0.19%) PERC
11 1 (0.094%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (0.75%) Docker
2 7 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.97%) Terraform
2 9 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.094%) Autotask
7 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 289 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 269 (25.23%) Salesforce
3 83 (7.79%) SAP
4 60 (5.63%) Oracle
5 46 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 39 (3.66%) Adobe
6 39 (3.66%) Databricks
7 33 (3.10%) MuleSoft
8 26 (2.44%) Google
9 23 (2.16%) Siebel
10 20 (1.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 18 (1.69%) HubSpot
12 16 (1.50%) Braze
13 14 (1.31%) Workday
14 8 (0.75%) Autodesk
14 8 (0.75%) Conga
14 8 (0.75%) DocuSign
15 7 (0.66%) ION Trading
15 7 (0.66%) Marketo
15 7 (0.66%) Sage