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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 122 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +27
Contract jobs citing CRM 876 553 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.26% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.48% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 356 504
10th Percentile £350 £275 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £593 £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 23 10 24
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.53 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.50 £18.61
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +58.54% -3.34%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.13
90th Percentile £55.55 £55.31 £69.77
UK median hourly rate £18.28 £29.13 £13.75
% change year-on-year -37.24% +111.82% -28.57%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
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 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +16 514 £525 +0.72% 476
South East -21 102 £500 +18.26% 313
Midlands -26 85 £500 +8.11% 176
North of England -43 84 £475 -13.64% 268
West Midlands -32 64 £500 -4.76% 116
East of England +20 60 £525 +5.00% 80
North West -50 44 £450 -18.18% 139
Yorkshire -31 34 £488 +39.29% 103
East Midlands -24 21 £465 +46.69% 60
South West -33 16 £550 +29.41% 75
North East -6 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 (3.31%) Confluence
2 27 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.97%) CMS
4 8 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.80%) Appian
6 5 (0.57%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 265 (30.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (4.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.60%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.46%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
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
1 212 (24.20%) Dynamics 365
2 208 (23.74%) Azure
3 153 (17.47%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 70 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (6.62%) AWS
7 51 (5.82%) PowerApps
7 51 (5.82%) SaaS
8 38 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
9 32 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (3.08%) Serverless
11 26 (2.97%) Azure Functions
11 26 (2.97%) GCP
12 19 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (1.83%) Snowflake
15 15 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.37%) GitHub
16 12 (1.37%) PaaS
16 12 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.26%) 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%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) GPRS
5 1 (0.11%) GSM
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) LAN
5 1 (0.11%) PSTN
5 1 (0.11%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.45%) Power BI
2 25 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.48%) Metadata
5 9 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.80%) Tableau
8 6 (0.68%) Big Data
8 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 60 (6.85%) JIRA
2 12 (1.37%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) 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%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 204 (23.29%) Finance
3 136 (15.53%) Marketing
4 128 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.68%) Banking
7 38 (4.34%) Retail
8 35 (4.00%) Billing
9 32 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.51%) Legal
12 19 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.60%) Automotive
13 14 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.37%) Back Office
14 12 (1.37%) French Language
14 12 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.26%) Local Government
15 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (15.18%) Architect
2 119 (13.58%) Analyst
3 102 (11.64%) Developer
4 86 (9.82%) Senior
5 73 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 64 (7.31%) Lead
7 56 (6.39%) Consultant
8 54 (6.16%) Project Manager
9 53 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (5.71%) CRM Manager
11 39 (4.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 33 (3.77%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.74%) CRM Specialist
13 24 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.63%) Data Analyst
14 23 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 23 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Developer
16 18 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.05%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.94%) .NET
2 42 (4.79%) REST
3 36 (4.11%) HTML
4 34 (3.88%) JSON
5 24 (2.74%) Middleware
6 20 (2.28%) CSS
6 20 (2.28%) XML
7 16 (1.83%) Kafka
8 12 (1.37%) OAuth
8 12 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
9 10 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.14%) RESTful
9 10 (1.14%) SAPUI5
10 9 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.03%) Node.js
10 9 (1.03%) SOAP
11 8 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.39%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
7 17 (1.94%) Social Media
8 14 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.91%) FMCG
12 8 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.57%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.72%) Agile
2 185 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 135 (15.41%) Migration
4 124 (14.16%) ERP
5 123 (14.04%) DevOps
6 110 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (11.99%) Analytics
8 92 (10.50%) Roadmaps
9 90 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
10 87 (9.93%) Data Modelling
11 85 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (9.36%) AI
13 79 (9.02%) Decision-Making
14 78 (8.90%) Customer Service
15 76 (8.68%) Data Migration
16 72 (8.22%) Project Management
17 65 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (7.42%) Customer Engagement
18 64 (7.31%) User Acceptance Testing
19 60 (6.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 92 (10.50%) SQL
2 78 (8.90%) JavaScript
3 71 (8.11%) C#
4 48 (5.48%) Python
5 21 (2.40%) Java
6 14 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.14%) ABAP
9 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PHP
10 4 (0.46%) 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%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 74 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.88%) Degree
3 45 (5.14%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 17 (1.94%) PMP
7 10 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.57%) MBA
11 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.34%) CFA
12 3 (0.34%) IIBA
12 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.23%) OCA
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.22%) GDPR
2 68 (7.76%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.48%) QA
4 19 (2.17%) SLA
5 13 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.48%) PMO
6 7 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.57%) WCAG
8 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
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%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 8 (0.91%) Active Directory
1 8 (0.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 12 (1.37%) Terraform
2 8 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 238 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 214 (24.43%) Salesforce
3 63 (7.19%) SAP
4 51 (5.82%) Oracle
5 32 (3.65%) HubSpot
6 29 (3.31%) Databricks
6 29 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.85%) Adobe
8 16 (1.83%) Google
8 16 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 13 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.37%) Workday
11 11 (1.26%) Pega
12 9 (1.03%) Braze
12 9 (1.03%) Foundry
13 8 (0.91%) Ariba
14 7 (0.80%) Informatica
14 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.68%) Siebel
16 5 (0.57%) Brio