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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 128 104
Rank change year-on-year +15 -24 +26
Contract jobs citing CRM 863 531 831
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 2.16% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.38% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 345 534
10th Percentile £338 £281 £358
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.54%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £613
90th Percentile £688 £769 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 -
25th Percentile £14.13 £18.10 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +24.92% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £39.19
90th Percentile £55.55 £60.11 £65.65
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £22.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.04% -3.08% +20.60%

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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £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 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +29 503 £525 +1.45% 541
South East -14 109 £500 +8.70% 350
North of England -37 86 £474 -4.77% 254
Midlands -24 80 £500 +21.95% 177
West Midlands -37 62 £500 +14.94% 118
North West -31 49 £450 -10.00% 130
East of England +7 46 £520 +4.10% 83
Yorkshire -28 33 £494 +41.07% 94
South West -22 18 £519 +15.28% 84
East Midlands -25 18 £500 +57.73% 58
North East -8 4 £450 -18.18% 31
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 32 (3.71%) CMS
1 32 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.36%) Confluence
3 10 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.70%) Appian
4 6 (0.70%) Camunda
5 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Documentum
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.23%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.23%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Kentico
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 245 (28.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.62%) NetSuite
3 14 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 204 (23.64%) Azure
2 193 (22.36%) Dynamics 365
3 157 (18.19%) Power Platform
4 74 (8.57%) Power Automate
5 70 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (7.07%) AWS
7 52 (6.03%) PowerApps
8 43 (4.98%) SaaS
9 38 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (3.48%) Serverless
12 26 (3.01%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.67%) GCP
14 19 (2.20%) Snowflake
15 18 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.51%) GitHub
17 13 (1.51%) PaaS
18 12 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.39%) HTTP
2 7 (0.81%) Internet
2 7 (0.81%) SMS
3 5 (0.58%) DHCP
3 5 (0.58%) DNS
4 4 (0.46%) Broadband
5 3 (0.35%) IPv4
5 3 (0.35%) IPv6
5 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.35%) VPN
6 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
6 2 (0.23%) WebEx
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) 5G
7 1 (0.12%) CTI
7 1 (0.12%) GPRS
7 1 (0.12%) GSM
7 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.12%) Intranet
7 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.27%) Power BI
2 23 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.16%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.16%) Metadata
4 9 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.04%) Tableau
5 7 (0.81%) Big Data
6 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.46%) GIS
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 58 (6.72%) JIRA
2 11 (1.27%) Git
3 9 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.35%) TestRail
5 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.35%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.23%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.23%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) fastlane
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.23%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 326 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 190 (22.02%) Finance
3 148 (17.15%) Marketing
4 143 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.40%) Billing
6 38 (4.40%) Retail
7 36 (4.17%) Banking
8 31 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.55%) Legal
11 21 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.74%) French Language
13 15 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.51%) German Language
14 13 (1.51%) Law
15 12 (1.39%) Japanese Language
16 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 138 (15.99%) Architect
2 117 (13.56%) Analyst
3 95 (11.01%) Developer
4 77 (8.92%) Senior
5 75 (8.69%) Business Analyst
6 65 (7.53%) Consultant
7 60 (6.95%) Lead
8 59 (6.84%) Project Manager
9 57 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (5.21%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.40%) Salesforce Architect
12 37 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 26 (3.01%) CRM Specialist
14 25 (2.90%) Senior Manager
15 24 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 23 (2.67%) Data Analyst
17 21 (2.43%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.43%) Functional Consultant
18 17 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (1.97%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.33%) .NET
2 42 (4.87%) REST
3 37 (4.29%) HTML
4 31 (3.59%) JSON
5 22 (2.55%) XML
6 21 (2.43%) CSS
7 20 (2.32%) Middleware
8 15 (1.74%) OAuth
9 11 (1.27%) SOAP
10 10 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.16%) Node.js
10 10 (1.16%) PySpark
10 10 (1.16%) RESTful
11 9 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.04%) Kafka
11 9 (1.04%) SAML
12 8 (0.93%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.93%) OAuth2
12 8 (0.93%) OpenID
12 8 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.97%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.97%) Social Media
8 15 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
9 14 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.27%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.04%) Windows
2 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (23.75%) Agile
2 175 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (14.37%) ERP
5 121 (14.02%) DevOps
5 121 (14.02%) Migration
6 105 (12.17%) Analytics
7 98 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 84 (9.73%) Roadmaps
10 82 (9.50%) Data Modelling
11 81 (9.39%) Customer Service
12 80 (9.27%) Project Management
13 76 (8.81%) AI
14 71 (8.23%) Customer Engagement
15 68 (7.88%) Decision-Making
16 67 (7.76%) Data Migration
17 64 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (7.30%) User Experience
19 60 (6.95%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.31%) SQL
2 73 (8.46%) JavaScript
3 67 (7.76%) C#
4 55 (6.37%) Python
5 19 (2.20%) Java
5 19 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.70%) ABAP
7 6 (0.70%) PHP
8 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.35%) Bicep
9 3 (0.35%) C++
9 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.23%) Bash
10 2 (0.23%) Korn
10 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 77 (8.92%) Degree
2 72 (8.34%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 24 (2.78%) PMP
5 14 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.81%) MBA
9 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.46%) CFA
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.23%) APMP
11 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) MCDST
11 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.57%) GDPR
2 66 (7.65%) Data Quality
3 54 (6.26%) QA
4 20 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.74%) SLA
6 9 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.93%) PMO
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) ITGC
11 3 (0.35%) MiFID
11 3 (0.35%) NIST
11 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.23%) GMP
12 2 (0.23%) IFRS
12 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 14 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.27%) Terraform
2 9 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.35%) Grafana
4 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.23%) SCCM
5 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 233 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 210 (24.33%) Salesforce
3 57 (6.60%) SAP
4 49 (5.68%) Oracle
5 35 (4.06%) HubSpot
6 27 (3.13%) Databricks
7 26 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.78%) Adobe
9 18 (2.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (1.97%) Google
11 12 (1.39%) Workday
12 10 (1.16%) Pega
13 9 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.93%) Foundry
14 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.81%) Genesys
16 6 (0.70%) Informatica
17 5 (0.58%) Ariba
18 4 (0.46%) Guidewire
18 4 (0.46%) Remedy