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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 124 108
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 +24
Contract jobs citing CRM 883 544 786
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 2.23% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.46% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 351 511
10th Percentile £350 £281 £350
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.15% -2.67%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 27
10th Percentile - £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.89 £29.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -39.36% +27.07% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.58 £55.31 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £17.89 £29.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -38.58% +53.29% -1.30%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
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 £614 £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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +17 509 £525 +0.72% 531
South East -23 111 £500 +11.11% 346
North of England -35 92 £480 -8.57% 263
Midlands -27 81 £464 +15.94% 179
West Midlands -27 62 £500 +8.11% 113
East of England +16 60 £538 +7.55% 101
North West -28 50 £450 -18.18% 124
Yorkshire -27 36 £494 +27.42% 112
East Midlands -26 19 £463 +45.90% 66
South West -30 13 £595 +36.00% 94
North East -9 8 £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 31 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.40%) CMS
2 30 (3.40%) Confluence
3 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.68%) Appian
4 6 (0.68%) Camunda
5 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.57%) 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 27 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 253 (28.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (5.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 16 (1.81%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.91%) 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
7 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
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%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 205 (23.22%) Azure
1 205 (23.22%) Dynamics 365
2 155 (17.55%) Power Platform
3 71 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (8.04%) Power Automate
4 61 (6.91%) AWS
5 50 (5.66%) PowerApps
6 45 (5.10%) SaaS
7 37 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 34 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (3.40%) Serverless
10 26 (2.94%) Azure Functions
11 25 (2.83%) GCP
12 19 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
15 15 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.36%) PaaS
16 12 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 11 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.36%) HTTP
2 5 (0.57%) 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%) 5G
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco ICM
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 79 (8.95%) Power BI
2 26 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.47%) Metadata
5 9 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.91%) Tableau
7 7 (0.79%) Big Data
8 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.57%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) GIS
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.23%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 60 (6.80%) JIRA
2 12 (1.36%) Git
3 8 (0.91%) 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%) 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
6 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
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
1 327 (37.03%) Social Skills
2 201 (22.76%) Finance
3 142 (16.08%) Marketing
4 137 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.64%) Banking
7 38 (4.30%) Retail
8 37 (4.19%) Billing
9 32 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (3.62%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.60%) Legal
12 19 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.59%) Automotive
14 14 (1.59%) French Language
14 14 (1.59%) Law
15 11 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 144 (16.31%) Architect
2 119 (13.48%) Analyst
3 98 (11.10%) Developer
4 86 (9.74%) Senior
5 72 (8.15%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.13%) Lead
7 60 (6.80%) Consultant
8 58 (6.57%) Project Manager
8 58 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
9 49 (5.55%) CRM Manager
10 37 (4.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 37 (4.19%) Salesforce Architect
11 26 (2.94%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.83%) Senior Manager
13 24 (2.72%) CRM Specialist
14 22 (2.49%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 20 (2.27%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (2.04%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.44%) .NET
2 41 (4.64%) REST
3 36 (4.08%) HTML
4 33 (3.74%) JSON
5 21 (2.38%) Middleware
5 21 (2.38%) XML
6 20 (2.27%) CSS
7 16 (1.81%) Kafka
8 12 (1.36%) OAuth
8 12 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
9 10 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.13%) Node.js
9 10 (1.13%) SAPUI5
9 10 (1.13%) SOAP
10 9 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.02%) RESTful
11 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
12 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
9 17 (1.93%) Social Media
10 15 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.02%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.79%) 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
1 203 (22.99%) Agile
2 182 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 137 (15.52%) Migration
4 129 (14.61%) ERP
5 122 (13.82%) DevOps
6 115 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (12.23%) Analytics
8 97 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (10.42%) Roadmaps
9 92 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 90 (10.19%) Data Modelling
11 82 (9.29%) Decision-Making
12 80 (9.06%) Customer Service
13 79 (8.95%) Project Management
14 78 (8.83%) Data Migration
15 77 (8.72%) AI
16 67 (7.59%) Customer Engagement
17 64 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (6.91%) Data Governance
19 60 (6.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 92 (10.42%) SQL
2 73 (8.27%) JavaScript
3 67 (7.59%) C#
4 49 (5.55%) Python
5 21 (2.38%) Java
6 18 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.13%) ABAP
9 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.45%) PHP
9 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.34%) Bicep
10 3 (0.34%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) Bash
11 2 (0.23%) XPath
12 1 (0.11%) Groovy
12 1 (0.11%) R
12 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 78 (8.83%) Security Cleared
2 76 (8.61%) Degree
3 49 (5.55%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 21 (2.38%) PMP
6 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.68%) MBA
9 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.34%) CFA
9 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.23%) APMP
10 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.23%) IIBA
10 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.23%) OCA
10 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.38%) GDPR
3 49 (5.55%) QA
4 17 (1.93%) SLA
5 15 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.59%) PMO
7 10 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.57%) 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%) 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%) GMP
11 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 14 (1.59%) Terraform
2 8 (0.91%) 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%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 230 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 221 (25.03%) Salesforce
3 63 (7.13%) SAP
4 56 (6.34%) Oracle
5 36 (4.08%) HubSpot
6 31 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 28 (3.17%) Databricks
8 23 (2.60%) Adobe
9 16 (1.81%) Google
9 16 (1.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 11 (1.25%) Workday
11 10 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.13%) Pega
12 9 (1.02%) Braze
13 8 (0.91%) Ariba
13 8 (0.91%) Foundry
14 7 (0.79%) Informatica
14 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.68%) Siebel
16 5 (0.57%) Brio