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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 119 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +24
Contract jobs citing CRM 875 554 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 2.26% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.48% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 357 499
10th Percentile £363 £275 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £752 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 24
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.53 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.50 £18.61
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +58.54% -11.73%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.13
90th Percentile £55.55 £55.31 £69.77
UK median hourly rate £18.28 £29.13 £13.75
% change year-on-year -37.24% +111.82% -34.77%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +8 517 £525 +0.72% 475
South East -29 103 £500 +18.26% 312
Midlands -23 84 £500 +12.68% 182
North of England -51 79 £475 -13.64% 268
West Midlands -25 62 £500 -0.50% 119
East of England +22 61 £525 +5.00% 88
North West -53 39 £450 -18.18% 140
Yorkshire -30 34 £488 +39.29% 100
East Midlands -25 21 £465 +46.69% 63
South West -43 16 £550 +29.41% 80
North East -12 8 £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 29 (3.31%) Confluence
2 26 (2.97%) CMS
2 26 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.80%) Appian
5 5 (0.57%) Camunda
5 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.57%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 264 (30.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (4.11%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.60%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.46%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
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 ERP
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (24.34%) Dynamics 365
2 206 (23.54%) Azure
3 151 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 73 (8.34%) Power Automate
5 68 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (6.63%) AWS
7 52 (5.94%) SaaS
8 51 (5.83%) PowerApps
9 39 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.31%) Serverless
12 27 (3.09%) Azure Functions
13 25 (2.86%) GCP
14 19 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.83%) Snowflake
17 13 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 12 (1.37%) GitHub
18 12 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.26%) HTTP
2 6 (0.69%) Internet
3 3 (0.34%) DHCP
3 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 3 (0.34%) IPv4
3 3 (0.34%) IPv6
3 3 (0.34%) SMS
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) GPRS
5 1 (0.11%) GSM
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 72 (8.23%) Power BI
2 25 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.49%) Metadata
5 9 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.80%) Tableau
8 6 (0.69%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.57%) Big Data
9 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 60 (6.86%) JIRA
2 11 (1.26%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Selenium
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%) Postman
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 323 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 203 (23.20%) Finance
3 134 (15.31%) Marketing
4 129 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.46%) Banking
7 38 (4.34%) Retail
8 36 (4.11%) Billing
9 33 (3.77%) Telecoms
10 31 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.51%) Legal
13 20 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.60%) Automotive
14 14 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.37%) Back Office
15 12 (1.37%) French Language
15 12 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.37%) Local Government
16 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (15.43%) Architect
2 121 (13.83%) Analyst
3 103 (11.77%) Developer
4 83 (9.49%) Senior
5 73 (8.34%) Business Analyst
6 64 (7.31%) Lead
7 57 (6.51%) Consultant
8 55 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.17%) Project Manager
10 51 (5.83%) CRM Manager
11 39 (4.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 32 (3.66%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.74%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 24 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.63%) CRM Specialist
14 23 (2.63%) Data Analyst
14 23 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Developer
16 18 (2.06%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.06%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.17%) .NET
2 44 (5.03%) REST
3 37 (4.23%) HTML
4 34 (3.89%) JSON
5 24 (2.74%) Middleware
6 21 (2.40%) CSS
7 20 (2.29%) XML
8 16 (1.83%) Kafka
9 12 (1.37%) OAuth
9 12 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (1.14%) Node.js
11 10 (1.14%) RESTful
11 10 (1.14%) SAPUI5
12 9 (1.03%) SOAP
13 8 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.51%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
7 17 (1.94%) Social Media
8 15 (1.71%) Cloud Native
9 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.91%) FMCG
12 8 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.57%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (22.86%) Agile
2 187 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 140 (16.00%) Migration
4 125 (14.29%) ERP
5 122 (13.94%) DevOps
6 112 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (11.54%) Analytics
8 94 (10.74%) Roadmaps
9 88 (10.06%) Business Intelligence
10 87 (9.94%) Data Modelling
11 85 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (9.37%) AI
13 80 (9.14%) Data Migration
14 79 (9.03%) Customer Service
15 78 (8.91%) Decision-Making
16 72 (8.23%) Project Management
17 66 (7.54%) Customer Engagement
17 66 (7.54%) User Acceptance Testing
18 64 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (6.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.29%) SQL
2 81 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 72 (8.23%) C#
4 47 (5.37%) Python
5 21 (2.40%) Java
6 15 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.26%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.14%) ABAP
9 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PHP
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.34%) Bicep
11 3 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) XPath
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 76 (8.69%) Security Cleared
2 71 (8.11%) Degree
3 47 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 17 (1.94%) PMP
7 10 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.57%) MBA
10 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) CFA
11 3 (0.34%) IIBA
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CCNA
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.23%) OCA
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.89%) GDPR
2 68 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 49 (5.60%) QA
4 19 (2.17%) SLA
5 13 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.49%) PMO
6 6 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.57%) WCAG
8 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
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%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.11%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
1 9 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 13 (1.49%) Terraform
2 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 243 (27.77%) Microsoft
2 211 (24.11%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.31%) SAP
4 50 (5.71%) Oracle
5 30 (3.43%) HubSpot
6 29 (3.31%) Databricks
6 29 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.86%) Adobe
8 16 (1.83%) Google
8 16 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 13 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.37%) Workday
11 11 (1.26%) Pega
12 9 (1.03%) Foundry
13 8 (0.91%) Ariba
13 8 (0.91%) Braze
14 7 (0.80%) Informatica
14 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.69%) Siebel
16 5 (0.57%) Brio