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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 117 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +36
Contract jobs citing CRM 838 557 871
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.23% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.46% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 361 571
10th Percentile £332 £293 £313
25th Percentile £420 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £685 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £516
% change year-on-year -0.99% -2.13% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.94 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% +27.07% +25.49%
75th Percentile £41.42 £34.44 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.72 £36.55 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £21.11
% change year-on-year -24.27% +21.99% +14.09%

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 30,978 22,606 33,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.35% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,831 14,326 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 770 2,093
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £73.43 £75.28 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.71% -1.52% -5.71%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +14 478 £525 - 541
South East -5 108 £513 +9.04% 509
North of England -32 86 £473 -5.50% 385
Midlands -38 79 £481 -8.33% 276
West Midlands -36 65 £463 -13.15% 126
North West -33 50 £450 -10.00% 182
East of England +7 45 £525 +13.57% 227
Yorkshire -40 33 £494 -12.49% 158
South West -13 19 £513 +8.47% 203
East Midlands -25 14 £500 - 141
North East - 3 £450 - 45
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 33 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.70%) CMS
3 25 (2.98%) Confluence
4 11 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Camunda
5 6 (0.72%) SugarCRM
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 238 (28.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (1.55%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.48%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
6 2 (0.24%) Shopify
6 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 196 (23.39%) Azure
2 188 (22.43%) Dynamics 365
3 150 (17.90%) Power Platform
4 70 (8.35%) Power Automate
5 63 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.40%) AWS
7 46 (5.49%) PowerApps
8 40 (4.77%) SaaS
9 38 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.46%) Serverless
12 25 (2.98%) Azure Functions
13 21 (2.51%) GCP
13 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (2.03%) Snowflake
15 14 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (1.43%) GitHub
17 12 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.31%) HTTP
2 7 (0.84%) DHCP
2 7 (0.84%) DNS
2 7 (0.84%) Internet
2 7 (0.84%) SMS
3 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
4 4 (0.48%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.24%) ISDN
5 2 (0.24%) PSTN
5 2 (0.24%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) GPRS
6 1 (0.12%) GSM
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.79%) Power BI
2 23 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.55%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.43%) Tableau
6 9 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.07%) Metadata
7 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.60%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.60%) Looker
8 5 (0.60%) MySQL
8 5 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.48%) GIS
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.36%) Big Data
10 3 (0.36%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 57 (6.80%) JIRA
2 15 (1.79%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.48%) Selenium
5 3 (0.36%) Postman
5 3 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.36%) TestRail
5 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.24%) fastlane
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.24%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 322 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 186 (22.20%) Finance
3 147 (17.54%) Marketing
4 142 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.62%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.13%) Billing
7 40 (4.77%) Retail
8 36 (4.30%) Banking
9 32 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.22%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.15%) Legal
11 18 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.55%) French Language
14 12 (1.43%) Law
15 11 (1.31%) German Language
15 11 (1.31%) Japanese Language
15 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.19%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 137 (16.35%) Architect
2 123 (14.68%) Analyst
3 94 (11.22%) Developer
4 78 (9.31%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.83%) Senior
6 62 (7.40%) Consultant
7 57 (6.80%) Lead
7 57 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
8 52 (6.21%) Project Manager
9 42 (5.01%) CRM Manager
10 38 (4.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 38 (4.53%) Salesforce Architect
11 27 (3.22%) CRM Specialist
12 24 (2.86%) Senior Manager
13 23 (2.74%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 21 (2.51%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.15%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.03%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.03%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.37%) .NET
2 42 (5.01%) HTML
2 42 (5.01%) REST
3 31 (3.70%) JSON
4 24 (2.86%) CSS
5 22 (2.63%) XML
6 17 (2.03%) Middleware
7 15 (1.79%) OAuth
7 15 (1.79%) SOAP
8 11 (1.31%) RESTful
9 10 (1.19%) ADO
9 10 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (1.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.07%) Node.js
10 9 (1.07%) SAML
10 9 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.95%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.95%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.95%) OpenID
11 8 (0.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.77%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.91%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.91%) Social Media
9 14 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.72%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.31%) Windows
2 7 (0.84%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (24.34%) Agile
2 167 (19.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 137 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (14.20%) ERP
5 114 (13.60%) DevOps
6 112 (13.37%) Migration
7 101 (12.05%) Analytics
7 101 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
8 97 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 85 (10.14%) Data Modelling
10 81 (9.67%) Roadmaps
11 80 (9.55%) Customer Service
12 77 (9.19%) AI
13 73 (8.71%) Project Management
14 72 (8.59%) Customer Engagement
15 68 (8.11%) Decision-Making
16 67 (8.00%) User Experience
17 61 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (7.16%) Data Governance
18 60 (7.16%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.50%) SQL
2 76 (9.07%) JavaScript
3 68 (8.11%) C#
4 50 (5.97%) Python
5 19 (2.27%) Java
5 19 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.19%) PHP
7 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.72%) ABAP
9 5 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.36%) Bicep
11 3 (0.36%) C++
11 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.24%) Bash
12 2 (0.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.24%) Swift
12 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (8.95%) Degree
2 61 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 34 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (2.74%) PMI Certification
4 23 (2.74%) PMP
5 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.60%) MBA
9 5 (0.60%) MCDST
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) CFA
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.11%) GDPR
2 61 (7.28%) Data Quality
3 59 (7.04%) QA
4 20 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.19%) SLA
6 9 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.72%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) PMO
9 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) ITGC
11 2 (0.24%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) GAAP
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (0.95%) Terraform
2 6 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.60%) SCCM
3 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 225 (26.85%) Microsoft
2 213 (25.42%) Salesforce
3 58 (6.92%) SAP
4 48 (5.73%) Oracle
5 32 (3.82%) HubSpot
6 26 (3.10%) Databricks
7 23 (2.74%) Adobe
7 23 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 13 (1.55%) Google
10 11 (1.31%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.19%) Workday
12 9 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.07%) Pega
13 7 (0.84%) Foundry
13 7 (0.84%) Genesys
13 7 (0.84%) iManage
14 6 (0.72%) Informatica
15 5 (0.60%) Ariba
15 5 (0.60%) Mitel