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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 125 105
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 888 528 744
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 2.22% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.43% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 346 474
10th Percentile £330 £275 £316
25th Percentile £413 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.55% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 22
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.22 -
25th Percentile £14.53 £20.46 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.50 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +114.55% -28.57%
75th Percentile £23.75 £39.06 £28.88
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.20 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £29.13 £13.50
% change year-on-year -45.06% +115.74% -29.87%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -3 503 £515 +0.49% 627
South East -22 114 £550 +52.78% 335
Midlands 0 97 £470 +10.59% 197
North of England -51 75 £480 +3.23% 287
East of England +26 70 £523 +4.50% 67
West Midlands -24 62 £463 -3.39% 119
North West -37 41 £450 -5.26% 164
East Midlands -2 33 £475 +42.43% 78
Yorkshire -41 25 £500 +53.85% 100
South West -39 16 £525 +23.53% 73
North East -12 11 £450 -18.18% 26
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 30 (3.38%) Confluence
2 26 (2.93%) CMS
3 21 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.45%) Appian
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.45%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.45%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.11%) Drupal
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Kentico
7 1 (0.11%) Moodle
7 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.34%) Revit
10 2 (0.23%) Notion
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 253 (28.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (4.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (1.91%) NetSuite
4 12 (1.35%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.01%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
11 1 (0.11%) SAP BRIM
11 1 (0.11%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 201 (22.64%) Dynamics 365
2 188 (21.17%) Azure
3 140 (15.77%) Power Platform
4 66 (7.43%) Power Automate
5 63 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (6.42%) AWS
7 53 (5.97%) SaaS
8 52 (5.86%) PowerApps
9 39 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 26 (2.93%) Serverless
12 23 (2.59%) GCP
12 23 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 20 (2.25%) Azure Functions
14 17 (1.91%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) HTTP
1 7 (0.79%) SMS
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 3 (0.34%) DHCP
3 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 3 (0.34%) IPv4
3 3 (0.34%) IPv6
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
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 62 (6.98%) Power BI
2 24 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.13%) Metadata
6 9 (1.01%) Tableau
7 8 (0.90%) Siebel EIM
8 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
10 5 (0.56%) Big Data
10 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (6.64%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 6 (0.68%) Selenium
4 5 (0.56%) Postman
5 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.23%) GitLab
7 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.23%) TestRail
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
8 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 309 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 185 (20.83%) Finance
3 146 (16.44%) Marketing
4 112 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.18%) Retail
7 35 (3.94%) Telecoms
8 34 (3.83%) Banking
8 34 (3.83%) Billing
9 26 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.48%) Legal
11 17 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.69%) Automotive
13 13 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.35%) Local Government
14 12 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.90%) Advertising
15 8 (0.90%) French Language
Job Titles
1 133 (14.98%) Analyst
2 121 (13.63%) Architect
3 114 (12.84%) Developer
4 77 (8.67%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.33%) Senior
6 63 (7.09%) Lead
7 57 (6.42%) Project Manager
8 53 (5.97%) CRM Manager
9 50 (5.63%) Consultant
10 46 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.94%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 29 (3.27%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.70%) Data Analyst
14 21 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (2.36%) Senior Manager
15 20 (2.25%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 18 (2.03%) CRM Analyst
16 18 (2.03%) Salesforce Analyst
17 16 (1.80%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.18%) REST
2 41 (4.62%) .NET
3 38 (4.28%) HTML
4 31 (3.49%) Middleware
5 27 (3.04%) CSS
5 27 (3.04%) JSON
6 19 (2.14%) Kafka
7 17 (1.91%) Node.js
8 12 (1.35%) XML
9 11 (1.24%) RESTful
10 10 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.13%) React
11 9 (1.01%) Ajax
11 9 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (1.01%) SOAP
12 8 (0.90%) ADO
12 8 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
13 7 (0.79%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.79%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.91%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
7 15 (1.69%) Social Media
8 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.90%) FMCG
13 7 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.79%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.35%) Windows
2 8 (0.90%) Android
2 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) HPUX
5 1 (0.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (22.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 180 (20.27%) Agile
3 148 (16.67%) Migration
4 127 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (13.63%) ERP
6 102 (11.49%) DevOps
6 102 (11.49%) Roadmaps
7 101 (11.37%) Analytics
8 86 (9.68%) Customer Service
8 86 (9.68%) Data Migration
8 86 (9.68%) Decision-Making
9 83 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 79 (8.90%) AI
10 79 (8.90%) Data Modelling
11 76 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
12 67 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
13 65 (7.32%) Project Management
14 62 (6.98%) CI/CD
15 61 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (6.64%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 110 (12.39%) SQL
2 80 (9.01%) JavaScript
3 57 (6.42%) C#
4 39 (4.39%) Python
5 17 (1.91%) Java
6 15 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.79%) ABAP
9 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.34%) C++
11 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) Korn
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
13 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 82 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.43%) Degree
3 56 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.24%) PMP
7 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.90%) CCNA
9 8 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.79%) A+ Certification
10 7 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.79%) MCSA
11 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.34%) IIBA
13 3 (0.34%) MBA
14 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.78%) GDPR
2 72 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 45 (5.07%) QA
4 19 (2.14%) SLA
5 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.35%) PMO
6 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.56%) WCAG
7 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.23%) GMP
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.23%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
9 1 (0.11%) GAAP
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.01%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (1.24%) Terraform
2 10 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Autotask
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 233 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 229 (25.79%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.21%) SAP
4 59 (6.64%) Oracle
5 32 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.27%) Databricks
7 25 (2.82%) Adobe
8 22 (2.48%) MuleSoft
9 19 (2.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (1.91%) Google
10 17 (1.91%) HubSpot
11 15 (1.69%) Siebel
12 13 (1.46%) Workday
13 9 (1.01%) Foundry
14 7 (0.79%) Braze
14 7 (0.79%) Pega
15 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.56%) Informatica
17 4 (0.45%) Ariba
17 4 (0.45%) Remedy