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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 124 107
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 +22
Contract jobs citing CRM 886 552 779
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.26% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.48% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 355 507
10th Percentile £353 £275 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.19 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.02 £29.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +55.26% -1.30%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.00
90th Percentile £54.58 £55.31 £68.72
UK median hourly rate £18.02 £29.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year -38.15% +108.04% -27.27%

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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +5 516 £525 +0.72% 466
South East -31 102 £500 +17.95% 311
North of England -37 91 £480 -12.73% 258
Midlands -33 84 £500 +17.65% 175
West Midlands -28 63 £500 +4.17% 114
East of England +24 61 £525 +5.00% 82
North West -31 51 £460 -16.36% 128
Yorkshire -27 34 £488 +25.81% 105
East Midlands -22 21 £465 +46.69% 61
South West -34 15 £595 +32.22% 79
North East -11 8 £450 -18.18% 28
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 (3.27%) Confluence
2 26 (2.93%) CMS
2 26 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.68%) Appian
5 5 (0.56%) Camunda
5 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.56%) 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 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 263 (29.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (4.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.58%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.90%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.45%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
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
1 210 (23.70%) Dynamics 365
2 207 (23.36%) Azure
3 154 (17.38%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.90%) Power Automate
5 69 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (6.55%) AWS
7 51 (5.76%) PowerApps
8 50 (5.64%) SaaS
9 38 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 32 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (2.93%) GCP
11 26 (2.93%) Serverless
12 25 (2.82%) Azure Functions
13 19 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
16 15 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 12 (1.35%) GitHub
18 12 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) HTTP
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
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%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) GPRS
5 1 (0.11%) GSM
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) MPLS
5 1 (0.11%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.47%) Power BI
2 24 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.47%) Metadata
5 9 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.90%) Big Data
6 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.90%) Tableau
7 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (6.88%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.45%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
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%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 328 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 202 (22.80%) Finance
3 137 (15.46%) Marketing
4 131 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (10.72%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.63%) Banking
7 37 (4.18%) Retail
8 36 (4.06%) Billing
9 33 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (3.61%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.48%) Legal
13 18 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.58%) Automotive
14 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.47%) French Language
15 13 (1.47%) Law
16 12 (1.35%) Back Office
17 11 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 141 (15.91%) Architect
2 119 (13.43%) Analyst
3 102 (11.51%) Developer
4 86 (9.71%) Senior
5 73 (8.24%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.11%) Lead
7 58 (6.55%) Consultant
8 56 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.09%) Project Manager
10 50 (5.64%) CRM Manager
11 39 (4.40%) Salesforce Architect
12 38 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 24 (2.71%) CRM Specialist
13 24 (2.71%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 22 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (2.03%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.03%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.87%) .NET
2 41 (4.63%) REST
3 37 (4.18%) HTML
4 32 (3.61%) JSON
5 23 (2.60%) Middleware
6 21 (2.37%) CSS
7 19 (2.14%) XML
8 16 (1.81%) Kafka
9 12 (1.35%) OAuth
9 12 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.13%) RESTful
10 10 (1.13%) SAPUI5
11 9 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.02%) SOAP
12 8 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.90%) Node.js
12 8 (0.90%) OAuth2
13 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
8 17 (1.92%) Social Media
9 14 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.02%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.56%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (22.69%) Agile
2 186 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 138 (15.58%) Migration
4 125 (14.11%) ERP
5 122 (13.77%) DevOps
6 115 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (12.19%) Analytics
8 93 (10.50%) Roadmaps
9 91 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (10.27%) Data Modelling
10 88 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (9.26%) Decision-Making
12 81 (9.14%) Customer Service
13 80 (9.03%) AI
14 77 (8.69%) Data Migration
15 72 (8.13%) Project Management
16 67 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (7.45%) Customer Engagement
18 65 (7.34%) User Acceptance Testing
19 60 (6.77%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 95 (10.72%) SQL
2 76 (8.58%) JavaScript
3 70 (7.90%) C#
4 48 (5.42%) Python
5 21 (2.37%) Java
6 14 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.13%) ABAP
9 5 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) PHP
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) XPath
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
13 1 (0.11%) SOSL
13 1 (0.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (8.35%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.13%) Degree
3 45 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.03%) PMI Certification
6 17 (1.92%) PMP
7 10 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.68%) MBA
11 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.34%) CFA
12 3 (0.34%) IIBA
12 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) APMP
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) OCA
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.35%) GDPR
3 48 (5.42%) QA
4 19 (2.14%) SLA
5 14 (1.58%) PMO
6 13 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) WCAG
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) ITGC
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%) IFRS
10 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (0.90%) Active Directory
1 8 (0.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 12 (1.35%) Terraform
2 8 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 238 (26.86%) Microsoft
2 222 (25.06%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.22%) SAP
4 52 (5.87%) Oracle
5 33 (3.72%) HubSpot
6 29 (3.27%) Databricks
6 29 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.71%) Adobe
8 17 (1.92%) Google
8 17 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 13 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.35%) Workday
11 11 (1.24%) Pega
12 9 (1.02%) Braze
12 9 (1.02%) Foundry
13 8 (0.90%) Ariba
14 7 (0.79%) Informatica
14 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.68%) Siebel
16 5 (0.56%) Brio