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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 124 106
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 +22
Contract jobs citing CRM 876 530 811
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.18% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.41% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 343 530
10th Percentile £350 £281 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £618 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +29.23% +16.08%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.46 £39.19
90th Percentile £56.53 £50.50 £65.65
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £29.25 £21.11
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.58% +5.54%

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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +19 503 £525 - 531
South East -20 112 £500 +14.29% 346
North of England -36 90 £475 -5.00% 263
Midlands -27 80 £500 +25.00% 179
West Midlands -25 62 £500 +19.05% 113
East of England +12 56 £538 +7.61% 101
North West -29 52 £450 -10.00% 124
Yorkshire -28 34 £488 +25.81% 112
East Midlands -31 18 £500 +57.73% 66
South West -28 15 £550 +18.92% 94
North East -9 4 £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 32 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.54%) CMS
3 29 (3.31%) Confluence
4 8 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.68%) Appian
5 6 (0.68%) Camunda
6 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.57%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 245 (27.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (5.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.71%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
8 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
9 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 200 (22.83%) Azure
2 199 (22.72%) Dynamics 365
3 156 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 72 (8.22%) Power Automate
5 70 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.85%) AWS
7 50 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 41 (4.68%) SaaS
9 37 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.31%) Serverless
12 25 (2.85%) Azure Functions
13 24 (2.74%) GCP
14 19 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (2.05%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (1.37%) PaaS
18 11 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 11 (1.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) HTTP
2 6 (0.68%) Internet
3 5 (0.57%) SMS
4 3 (0.34%) Broadband
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) WebEx
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) 5G
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.13%) Power BI
2 26 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.37%) Metadata
5 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.91%) Tableau
7 7 (0.80%) Big Data
8 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.46%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.34%) GIS
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.23%) Looker
12 2 (0.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 55 (6.28%) JIRA
2 9 (1.03%) Git
3 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
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%) 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%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 326 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 196 (22.37%) Finance
3 146 (16.67%) Marketing
4 139 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (10.50%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.45%) Banking
6 39 (4.45%) Billing
7 37 (4.22%) Retail
8 32 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.85%) Legal
11 22 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.83%) French Language
13 16 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.48%) Automotive
14 13 (1.48%) Law
15 12 (1.37%) German Language
16 11 (1.26%) Japanese Language
16 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (15.98%) Architect
2 116 (13.24%) Analyst
3 99 (11.30%) Developer
4 81 (9.25%) Senior
5 71 (8.11%) Business Analyst
6 64 (7.31%) Consultant
7 63 (7.19%) Lead
8 59 (6.74%) Project Manager
9 56 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
10 48 (5.48%) CRM Manager
11 37 (4.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 34 (3.88%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.85%) CRM Specialist
13 25 (2.85%) Data Analyst
14 24 (2.74%) Senior Manager
15 22 (2.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 20 (2.28%) Data Engineer
17 18 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (2.05%) Technical Architect
18 16 (1.83%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.25%) .NET
2 41 (4.68%) REST
3 36 (4.11%) HTML
4 33 (3.77%) JSON
5 22 (2.51%) Middleware
5 22 (2.51%) XML
6 20 (2.28%) CSS
7 15 (1.71%) Kafka
8 13 (1.48%) OAuth
9 11 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.14%) Node.js
10 10 (1.14%) RESTful
10 10 (1.14%) SOAP
11 9 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.03%) SAPUI5
12 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
8 17 (1.94%) Social Media
9 15 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.91%) Windows
2 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (22.60%) Agile
2 181 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (14.50%) Migration
4 124 (14.16%) ERP
5 120 (13.70%) DevOps
6 117 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (12.56%) Analytics
8 97 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (10.39%) Roadmaps
9 91 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 86 (9.82%) Data Modelling
11 84 (9.59%) Project Management
12 82 (9.36%) Customer Service
13 77 (8.79%) Decision-Making
14 73 (8.33%) Data Migration
15 70 (7.99%) AI
15 70 (7.99%) Customer Engagement
16 65 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (7.19%) Data Governance
18 62 (7.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 91 (10.39%) SQL
2 76 (8.68%) JavaScript
3 68 (7.76%) C#
4 53 (6.05%) Python
5 21 (2.40%) Java
6 19 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.03%) ABAP
9 5 (0.57%) PHP
10 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.46%) T-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%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 78 (8.90%) Degree
3 51 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.51%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.51%) PMP
6 10 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.80%) MBA
9 4 (0.46%) CFA
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.23%) APMP
11 2 (0.23%) CCNP
11 2 (0.23%) IIBA
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.68%) GDPR
2 72 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.71%) QA
4 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.83%) SLA
6 14 (1.60%) PMO
7 10 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.57%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.34%) GxP
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) ITGC
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
1 9 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.26%) Terraform
2 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 227 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 216 (24.66%) Salesforce
3 62 (7.08%) SAP
4 54 (6.16%) Oracle
5 38 (4.34%) HubSpot
6 27 (3.08%) Databricks
7 26 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.51%) Adobe
9 17 (1.94%) Google
10 16 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 11 (1.26%) Workday
12 10 (1.14%) Pega
13 9 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.91%) Ariba
14 8 (0.91%) Foundry
15 7 (0.80%) Informatica
15 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.68%) Genesys
17 5 (0.57%) Siebel
18 4 (0.46%) Remedy