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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 123 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +25
Contract jobs citing CRM 886 548 772
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 2.25% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.47% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 353 505
10th Percentile £355 £276 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £589 £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 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.13 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +55.26% -1.30%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.00
90th Percentile £55.55 £55.31 £68.72
UK median hourly rate £18.28 £29.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year -37.24% +108.04% -27.27%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +11 516 £525 +1.45% 515
South East -27 108 £500 +14.29% 318
North of England -35 92 £478 -13.18% 267
Midlands -25 80 £465 +16.25% 181
West Midlands -29 62 £500 +8.11% 117
East of England +23 59 £538 +7.50% 82
North West -36 52 £450 -18.18% 133
Yorkshire -27 34 £488 +25.81% 111
East Midlands -24 18 £463 +45.90% 64
South West -32 14 £595 +32.22% 86
North East -12 8 £450 -18.18% 27
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 30 (3.39%) Confluence
1 30 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.16%) CMS
3 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.68%) Appian
4 6 (0.68%) Camunda
5 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.23%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 256 (28.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (5.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.90%) SAP CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.45%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.45%) 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%) Payment Gateway
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
1 203 (22.91%) Azure
1 203 (22.91%) Dynamics 365
2 156 (17.61%) Power Platform
3 70 (7.90%) Power Automate
4 69 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (6.77%) AWS
6 50 (5.64%) PowerApps
7 49 (5.53%) SaaS
8 37 (4.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 34 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (3.05%) Serverless
11 24 (2.71%) Azure Functions
11 24 (2.71%) GCP
12 18 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
14 15 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.35%) GitHub
15 12 (1.35%) PaaS
15 12 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.35%) HTTP
2 5 (0.56%) 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
5 1 (0.11%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) GPRS
5 1 (0.11%) GSM
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) LAN
5 1 (0.11%) SSL
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.80%) Power BI
2 27 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.47%) Metadata
5 9 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.90%) Tableau
7 7 (0.79%) Big Data
8 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 62 (7.00%) JIRA
2 11 (1.24%) Git
3 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.45%) 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%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 325 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 202 (22.80%) Finance
3 137 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (15.24%) Marketing
5 95 (10.72%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.51%) Banking
7 37 (4.18%) Billing
8 36 (4.06%) Retail
9 33 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (3.61%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.48%) Legal
13 20 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.58%) Automotive
14 14 (1.58%) French Language
14 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.35%) Back Office
15 12 (1.35%) Law
16 11 (1.24%) Local Government
16 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (15.91%) Architect
2 122 (13.77%) Analyst
3 101 (11.40%) Developer
4 86 (9.71%) Senior
5 72 (8.13%) Business Analyst
6 59 (6.66%) Consultant
6 59 (6.66%) Lead
7 56 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 56 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
8 49 (5.53%) CRM Manager
9 38 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 38 (4.29%) Salesforce Architect
10 27 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 26 (2.93%) Senior Manager
12 24 (2.71%) CRM Specialist
13 23 (2.60%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 21 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.03%) Change Manager
15 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Developer
15 18 (2.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.53%) .NET
2 40 (4.51%) REST
3 36 (4.06%) HTML
4 33 (3.72%) JSON
5 23 (2.60%) Middleware
6 21 (2.37%) XML
7 20 (2.26%) CSS
8 16 (1.81%) Kafka
9 12 (1.35%) OAuth
9 12 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (1.13%) RESTful
10 10 (1.13%) SAPUI5
11 9 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (1.02%) Node.js
11 9 (1.02%) SOAP
12 8 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.90%) OAuth2
13 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
8 17 (1.92%) Social Media
9 14 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.02%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.90%) IoT
14 7 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.56%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (22.69%) Agile
2 186 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 136 (15.35%) Migration
4 125 (14.11%) ERP
5 122 (13.77%) DevOps
6 115 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (12.08%) Analytics
8 94 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (10.38%) Roadmaps
10 90 (10.16%) Data Modelling
11 89 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 84 (9.48%) Decision-Making
13 81 (9.14%) Customer Service
14 78 (8.80%) AI
15 77 (8.69%) Project Management
16 76 (8.58%) Data Migration
17 67 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 67 (7.56%) Customer Engagement
18 64 (7.22%) User Acceptance Testing
19 61 (6.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 92 (10.38%) SQL
2 72 (8.13%) JavaScript
3 69 (7.79%) C#
4 48 (5.42%) Python
5 21 (2.37%) Java
6 16 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.13%) ABAP
9 5 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) PHP
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.45%) T-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 80 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.13%) Degree
3 50 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.26%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.14%) PMP
7 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.68%) MBA
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) CFA
11 3 (0.34%) IIBA
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) APMP
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) OCA
12 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.35%) GDPR
3 48 (5.42%) QA
4 18 (2.03%) SLA
5 16 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.58%) PMO
7 10 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.56%) WCAG
9 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.34%) GxP
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%) GMP
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 8 (0.90%) Active Directory
1 8 (0.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 13 (1.47%) Terraform
2 8 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Grafana
3 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 230 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 229 (25.85%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.22%) SAP
4 56 (6.32%) Oracle
5 36 (4.06%) HubSpot
6 34 (3.84%) ServiceNow
7 28 (3.16%) Databricks
8 24 (2.71%) Adobe
9 16 (1.81%) Google
9 16 (1.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 13 (1.47%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.24%) Workday
12 10 (1.13%) Pega
13 9 (1.02%) Braze
14 8 (0.90%) Ariba
14 8 (0.90%) Foundry
15 7 (0.79%) Informatica
15 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.68%) Siebel
17 5 (0.56%) Brio