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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 125 112
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +30
Contract jobs citing CRM 906 538 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.25% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.46% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 349 469
10th Percentile £330 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £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 £700 £683
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.55% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 22
10th Percentile £13.24 £13.76 -
25th Percentile £14.67 £17.30 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £29.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.24% +110.91% -31.25%
75th Percentile £28.19 £36.63 £28.88
90th Percentile £54.63 £49.30 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £16.75 £29.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -42.24% +114.81% -32.50%

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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 0 511 £515 +3.00% 584
South East -9 116 £550 +52.78% 324
Midlands +4 101 £500 +19.05% 174
North of England -48 80 £484 +2.93% 268
East of England +31 68 £505 +1.00% 67
West Midlands -22 66 £500 +8.11% 111
North West -29 46 £460 -3.16% 161
East Midlands -1 33 £475 +35.71% 63
Yorkshire -40 25 £500 +17.65% 84
South West -38 16 £525 +23.53% 74
North East -18 11 £450 -8.86% 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 32 (3.53%) CMS
2 31 (3.42%) Confluence
3 21 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.44%) Appian
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.44%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) Kentico
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.44%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.44%) Revit
8 2 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 260 (28.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (4.97%) Salesforce CRM
3 16 (1.77%) NetSuite
4 12 (1.32%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.99%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
10 2 (0.22%) Shopify
11 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (22.52%) Dynamics 365
2 196 (21.63%) Azure
3 147 (16.23%) Power Platform
4 66 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (7.28%) Power Automate
5 60 (6.62%) AWS
6 55 (6.07%) PowerApps
7 54 (5.96%) SaaS
8 39 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 27 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (2.76%) GCP
11 25 (2.76%) Serverless
12 19 (2.10%) Azure Functions
13 18 (1.99%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (1.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (1.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.88%) SMS
2 6 (0.66%) HTTP
2 6 (0.66%) Internet
3 3 (0.33%) DHCP
3 3 (0.33%) DNS
3 3 (0.33%) IPv4
3 3 (0.33%) IPv6
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) 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 66 (7.28%) Power BI
2 24 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.10%) Metadata
5 10 (1.10%) Tableau
6 8 (0.88%) Siebel EIM
7 7 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.55%) Big Data
9 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.55%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.33%) Looker
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (6.73%) JIRA
2 12 (1.32%) Git
3 6 (0.66%) Selenium
4 5 (0.55%) Postman
5 4 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.22%) TestRail
7 2 (0.22%) 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
1 324 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 188 (20.75%) Finance
3 151 (16.67%) Marketing
4 115 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 53 (5.85%) Retail
7 35 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 33 (3.64%) Banking
8 33 (3.64%) Billing
9 29 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.65%) Legal
12 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.66%) Automotive
14 12 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.32%) Local Government
14 12 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.88%) French Language
15 8 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 141 (15.56%) Analyst
2 122 (13.47%) Architect
3 112 (12.36%) Developer
4 79 (8.72%) Business Analyst
5 75 (8.28%) Senior
6 65 (7.17%) Lead
7 57 (6.29%) Project Manager
8 53 (5.85%) CRM Manager
9 51 (5.63%) Consultant
10 46 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (3.75%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 31 (3.42%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.76%) Data Analyst
14 22 (2.43%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 21 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.21%) CRM Analyst
16 20 (2.21%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) Salesforce Analyst
17 19 (2.10%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.97%) REST
2 41 (4.53%) .NET
3 40 (4.42%) HTML
4 32 (3.53%) Middleware
5 30 (3.31%) CSS
6 24 (2.65%) JSON
7 18 (1.99%) Kafka
8 17 (1.88%) Node.js
9 12 (1.32%) XML
10 11 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (1.10%) React
12 9 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
12 9 (0.99%) RESTful
12 9 (0.99%) SOAP
13 8 (0.88%) ADO
13 8 (0.88%) Ajax
13 8 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.77%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.62%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (1.99%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
8 15 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.66%) Social Media
9 13 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.88%) FMCG
14 7 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.77%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.43%) Windows
2 8 (0.88%) Android
2 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) HPUX
5 2 (0.22%) Linux
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (23.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 184 (20.31%) Agile
3 148 (16.34%) Migration
4 132 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (13.25%) ERP
6 106 (11.70%) Roadmaps
7 105 (11.59%) DevOps
8 104 (11.48%) Analytics
9 92 (10.15%) Customer Service
10 85 (9.38%) Data Migration
10 85 (9.38%) Decision-Making
11 83 (9.16%) AI
11 83 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 80 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
13 79 (8.72%) Data Modelling
14 67 (7.40%) Project Management
15 65 (7.17%) CI/CD
16 64 (7.06%) User Acceptance Testing
17 63 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (6.62%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 114 (12.58%) SQL
2 81 (8.94%) JavaScript
3 57 (6.29%) C#
4 41 (4.53%) Python
5 17 (1.88%) Java
6 14 (1.55%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.77%) ABAP
9 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.33%) C++
12 2 (0.22%) Bicep
12 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
13 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 85 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.51%) Degree
3 60 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.21%) PMP
7 10 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 9 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.88%) CCNA
9 8 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.77%) A+ Certification
10 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.77%) MCSA
11 6 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.55%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.33%) IIBA
14 3 (0.33%) MBA
15 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.16%) GDPR
2 73 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.30%) QA
4 21 (2.32%) SLA
5 13 (1.43%) PMO
6 12 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.55%) WCAG
8 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.44%) IFRS
8 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.44%) NIST
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.33%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 2 (0.22%) GMP
10 2 (0.22%) GxP
10 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) GAAP
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
1 7 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (1.21%) Terraform
2 8 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
4 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 240 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 232 (25.61%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.06%) SAP
4 58 (6.40%) Oracle
5 36 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.09%) Databricks
7 27 (2.98%) Adobe
8 24 (2.65%) MuleSoft
9 20 (2.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (1.88%) Google
11 15 (1.66%) HubSpot
11 15 (1.66%) Siebel
12 13 (1.43%) Workday
13 10 (1.10%) Braze
14 9 (0.99%) Foundry
15 7 (0.77%) Pega
16 6 (0.66%) OpenAI
17 5 (0.55%) Informatica
18 4 (0.44%) Ariba
18 4 (0.44%) Autodesk