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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 107 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,158 696 584
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.50% 2.50% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.76% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 420 358
10th Percentile £310 £230 £313
25th Percentile £411 £360 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -0.05% -3.80%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 31 9
10th Percentile £12.91 - £23.33
25th Percentile £13.39 £14.75 £26.50
Median hourly rate £14.83 £17.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% -51.43% +105.10%
75th Percentile £18.41 £31.54 £36.50
90th Percentile £28.67 £37.50 £137.50
UK median hourly rate £14.85 £18.75 £29.00
% change year-on-year -20.80% -35.34% +70.59%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 0 600 £525 +5.00% 1,413
South East -31 160 £575 +21.05% 407
Midlands +2 143 £470 +3.01% 251
North of England -15 134 £511 +13.61% 319
West Midlands +5 103 £463 -6.57% 140
North West -12 90 £513 +20.59% 188
East of England +25 75 £450 -10.89% 124
South West -26 39 £410 -3.53% 119
East Midlands -1 37 £475 +31.94% 112
North East -26 23 £523 +19.43% 36
Yorkshire -44 23 £480 -4.00% 98
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 45 (3.89%) CMS
2 34 (2.94%) Confluence
3 28 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.78%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) Apache
9 3 (0.26%) Kentico
9 3 (0.26%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.26%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.26%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.086%) Totara
Applications
1 51 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.86%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.86%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.69%) Revit
7 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.43%) SPSS
9 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.17%) Notion
10 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.086%) InDesign
11 1 (0.086%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 293 (25.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (4.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.38%) SAP CRM
4 16 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.38%) Siebel CRM
5 10 (0.86%) SAP PSCD
6 9 (0.78%) Temenos T24
7 8 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.60%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.52%) Finacle
9 6 (0.52%) Shopify
10 5 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
10 5 (0.43%) Magento
10 5 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
10 5 (0.43%) Sage X3
11 4 (0.35%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.35%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 243 (20.98%) Azure
2 223 (19.26%) Dynamics 365
3 152 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 100 (8.64%) AWS
5 88 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (6.91%) Power Automate
7 68 (5.87%) SaaS
8 62 (5.35%) PowerApps
9 48 (4.15%) GCP
10 45 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (3.54%) Serverless
12 38 (3.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 32 (2.76%) Azure Functions
13 32 (2.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 26 (2.25%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
16 19 (1.64%) GitHub
17 16 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.21%) SMS
2 8 (0.69%) Firewall
3 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.52%) WAN
5 5 (0.43%) NAS
6 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.17%) ADSL
7 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.17%) Internet
7 2 (0.17%) MPLS
7 2 (0.17%) PSTN
7 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.086%) Broadband
8 1 (0.086%) DNS
8 1 (0.086%) HTTP
8 1 (0.086%) LAN
8 1 (0.086%) SMTP
8 1 (0.086%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.22%) Power BI
2 42 (3.63%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.81%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 14 (1.21%) Tableau
6 11 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
7 10 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.52%) GIS
9 6 (0.52%) Metadata
9 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.52%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.43%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 81 (6.99%) JIRA
2 22 (1.90%) Git
3 19 (1.64%) Selenium
4 15 (1.30%) Postman
5 11 (0.95%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.86%) WebDriver
7 6 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.43%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.26%) Protractor
9 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.17%) Appium
10 2 (0.17%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.17%) TestRail
10 2 (0.17%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.086%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.086%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.086%) TeamCity
General
1 429 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 283 (24.44%) Finance
3 230 (19.86%) Marketing
4 128 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (10.36%) Retail
6 93 (8.03%) Public Sector
7 90 (7.77%) Banking
8 58 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (4.23%) Billing
10 44 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 40 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 34 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (2.25%) Legal
16 24 (2.07%) Automotive
17 21 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.73%) Local Government
19 13 (1.12%) Back Office
20 11 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 197 (17.01%) Analyst
2 164 (14.16%) Architect
3 135 (11.66%) Developer
4 109 (9.41%) Lead
5 103 (8.89%) Business Analyst
6 87 (7.51%) Senior
7 80 (6.91%) Consultant
8 68 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
9 61 (5.27%) Project Manager
10 52 (4.49%) CRM Manager
11 41 (3.54%) Administrator
12 40 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 35 (3.02%) Enterprise Architect
14 31 (2.68%) CRM Analyst
15 29 (2.50%) Data Analyst
15 29 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 29 (2.50%) Salesforce Analyst
15 29 (2.50%) Salesforce Developer
16 28 (2.42%) Data Engineer
17 26 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.39%) REST
2 55 (4.75%) .NET
3 46 (3.97%) Middleware
4 36 (3.11%) HTML
5 31 (2.68%) CSS
5 31 (2.68%) SOAP
6 30 (2.59%) JSON
7 25 (2.16%) Kafka
7 25 (2.16%) XML
8 20 (1.73%) Terraform
9 17 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (1.21%) Node.js
11 14 (1.21%) React
12 13 (1.12%) .NET Framework
12 13 (1.12%) ONVIF
12 13 (1.12%) SAP PI
12 13 (1.12%) XSLT
13 12 (1.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.96%) Onboarding
2 53 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
6 28 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.81%) IVR
10 20 (1.73%) Social Media
11 19 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.47%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.86%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.47%) Windows
2 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.69%) Android
3 8 (0.69%) Unix
4 6 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) HPUX
6 2 (0.17%) Linux
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 270 (23.32%) Agile
3 204 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (14.25%) ERP
5 162 (13.99%) Migration
6 157 (13.56%) Analytics
7 141 (12.18%) Customer Service
8 140 (12.09%) Roadmaps
9 131 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 125 (10.79%) DevOps
11 119 (10.28%) AI
12 112 (9.67%) Data Modelling
13 105 (9.07%) Decision-Making
14 102 (8.81%) CI/CD
15 98 (8.46%) Data Migration
16 90 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
17 89 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
18 87 (7.51%) Customer Engagement
19 79 (6.82%) Customer Experience
19 79 (6.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 144 (12.44%) SQL
2 101 (8.72%) JavaScript
3 72 (6.22%) C#
4 48 (4.15%) Python
5 23 (1.99%) TypeScript
6 22 (1.90%) Java
7 20 (1.73%) ABAP
8 18 (1.55%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.35%) Korn
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.17%) Bicep
14 2 (0.17%) Groovy
14 2 (0.17%) SOQL
15 1 (0.086%) DAML
15 1 (0.086%) Rust
15 1 (0.086%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 108 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 80 (6.91%) Degree
3 79 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 32 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (1.64%) PMP
6 17 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.21%) CCNA
8 14 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.12%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.12%) MCSA
10 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.43%) IIBA
14 5 (0.43%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.35%) CBAP
15 4 (0.35%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.82%) GDPR
3 72 (6.22%) QA
4 26 (2.25%) PMO
5 19 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.38%) SLA
7 15 (1.30%) WCAG
8 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.52%) SEPA
10 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.43%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
11 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.17%) IFRS
12 2 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.17%) PERC
12 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.086%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.086%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.43%) Docker
3 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (0.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.086%) Autotask
5 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 333 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 284 (24.53%) Salesforce
3 91 (7.86%) SAP
4 57 (4.92%) Oracle
5 51 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 41 (3.54%) Adobe
7 33 (2.85%) Databricks
7 33 (2.85%) MuleSoft
8 26 (2.25%) Braze
8 26 (2.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 24 (2.07%) Google
10 23 (1.99%) HubSpot
11 22 (1.90%) Siebel
12 11 (0.95%) Workday
13 8 (0.69%) Autodesk
13 8 (0.69%) Conga
13 8 (0.69%) DocuSign
13 8 (0.69%) Meraki
14 7 (0.60%) ION Trading
14 7 (0.60%) Sitecore