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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 115 108
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +35
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,018 611 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.32% 2.32% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.55% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 395 498
10th Percentile £315 £255 £313
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £618
90th Percentile £700 £675 £677
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 15
10th Percentile £14.25 - -
25th Percentile £14.96 £14.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.75 £26.50 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +8.47% +22.15%
75th Percentile £33.75 £34.68 £31.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £47.50 £36.30
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £26.50 £14.34
% change year-on-year -24.53% +84.80% -28.30%

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 37,549 23,970 31,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 91.01% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,634 15,421 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,193 2,304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +13 554 £515 +1.73% 666
South East -21 137 £550 +17.33% 372
Midlands +7 121 £481 +4.00% 202
North of England -46 102 £500 +6.38% 306
West Midlands -9 88 £481 -2.83% 119
East of England +38 75 £475 -5.00% 82
North West -24 65 £515 +10.75% 188
East Midlands +6 31 £505 +34.67% 83
Yorkshire -46 26 £500 -9.09% 88
South West -33 21 £525 +23.53% 82
North East -26 13 £525 +18.31% 33
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 47 (4.62%) Confluence
2 39 (3.83%) CMS
3 21 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.59%) SAS
6 4 (0.39%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.39%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.29%) Kentico
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.098%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.098%) Drupal
9 1 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 36 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.98%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.79%) Revit
7 7 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.20%) Notion
10 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.20%) SPSS
11 1 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.098%) InDesign
11 1 (0.098%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 265 (26.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (5.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 21 (2.06%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.57%) Siebel CRM
5 13 (1.28%) SAP CRM
5 13 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (1.08%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.49%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.49%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.39%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.29%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
10 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 243 (23.87%) Azure
2 202 (19.84%) Dynamics 365
3 135 (13.26%) Power Platform
4 95 (9.33%) AWS
5 87 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (6.58%) SaaS
7 61 (5.99%) Power Automate
8 52 (5.11%) PowerApps
9 49 (4.81%) GCP
10 37 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (3.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 31 (3.05%) Serverless
13 27 (2.65%) Snowflake
14 23 (2.26%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 19 (1.87%) GitHub
18 18 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
19 17 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.98%) SMS
2 6 (0.59%) Internet
3 3 (0.29%) DHCP
3 3 (0.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.29%) IPv4
3 3 (0.29%) IPv6
3 3 (0.29%) WAN
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.098%) ADSL
5 1 (0.098%) Broadband
5 1 (0.098%) CTI
5 1 (0.098%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.098%) HTTP
5 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.098%) LAN
5 1 (0.098%) MPLS
5 1 (0.098%) PSTN
5 1 (0.098%) SSL
5 1 (0.098%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.39%) Power BI
2 30 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.16%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 12 (1.18%) Metadata
5 12 (1.18%) Tableau
6 10 (0.98%) Siebel EIM
7 9 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.49%) Big Data
10 5 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.49%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.49%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (8.06%) JIRA
2 17 (1.67%) Git
3 12 (1.18%) Selenium
4 11 (1.08%) Postman
5 7 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.69%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.49%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.20%) Protractor
9 2 (0.20%) TestRail
9 2 (0.20%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.098%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.098%) GitLab
10 1 (0.098%) Hudson
10 1 (0.098%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.098%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 367 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 237 (23.28%) Finance
3 192 (18.86%) Marketing
4 124 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (8.74%) Retail
6 84 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 53 (5.21%) Banking
8 49 (4.81%) Billing
8 49 (4.81%) Telecoms
9 41 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.75%) Legal
12 28 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.67%) Automotive
15 13 (1.28%) Local Government
16 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Back Office
18 10 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 174 (17.09%) Analyst
2 147 (14.44%) Architect
3 121 (11.89%) Developer
4 91 (8.94%) Business Analyst
5 83 (8.15%) Senior
6 80 (7.86%) Lead
7 65 (6.39%) Project Manager
8 63 (6.19%) Consultant
9 61 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (5.01%) CRM Manager
11 32 (3.14%) Data Analyst
12 30 (2.95%) Data Engineer
13 28 (2.75%) CRM Analyst
14 26 (2.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 26 (2.55%) Salesforce Analyst
15 25 (2.46%) Salesforce Architect
15 25 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (2.26%) Salesforce Developer
16 23 (2.26%) Technical Architect
17 22 (2.16%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.48%) REST
2 48 (4.72%) Middleware
3 43 (4.22%) .NET
4 33 (3.24%) HTML
5 31 (3.05%) CSS
6 28 (2.75%) SOAP
7 24 (2.36%) JSON
8 21 (2.06%) Kafka
9 17 (1.67%) XML
10 16 (1.57%) Node.js
11 14 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.28%) ONVIF
12 13 (1.28%) RESTful
12 13 (1.28%) SAP PI
13 12 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (1.18%) SAPUI5
14 11 (1.08%) React
15 10 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
16 9 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 9 (0.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.48%) Onboarding
2 52 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
3 49 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.75%) Marketing Technology
6 27 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.77%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.57%) Social Media
11 13 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.88%) FMCG
14 9 (0.88%) IoT
14 9 (0.88%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.18%) Windows
2 8 (0.79%) Android
2 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.79%) Unix
3 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.20%) HPUX
4 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (25.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 238 (23.38%) Agile
3 165 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
4 162 (15.91%) Migration
5 147 (14.44%) Analytics
6 146 (14.34%) ERP
7 130 (12.77%) DevOps
8 123 (12.08%) Roadmaps
9 111 (10.90%) Data Modelling
10 104 (10.22%) AI
11 103 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 94 (9.23%) CI/CD
12 94 (9.23%) Decision-Making
13 93 (9.14%) Data Migration
14 91 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
15 90 (8.84%) Customer Service
16 78 (7.66%) User Acceptance Testing
17 72 (7.07%) Workflow
18 67 (6.58%) Data Governance
19 65 (6.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (13.36%) SQL
2 78 (7.66%) JavaScript
3 58 (5.70%) C#
4 55 (5.40%) Python
5 22 (2.16%) ABAP
6 21 (2.06%) Java
7 14 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.39%) Korn
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) C++
11 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.20%) Groovy
11 2 (0.20%) SOQL
12 1 (0.098%) C
12 1 (0.098%) R
12 1 (0.098%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 111 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 89 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.86%) Degree
4 22 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.57%) PMP
8 14 (1.38%) CCNA
8 14 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.28%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.28%) MCSA
10 9 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.29%) CCA
14 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.64%) GDPR
2 81 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 58 (5.70%) QA
4 22 (2.16%) SLA
5 17 (1.67%) PMO
6 15 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.79%) WCAG
8 7 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.49%) NIST
9 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) IFRS
11 3 (0.29%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
12 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.20%) GMP
12 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) PERC
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (0.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (1.96%) Terraform
2 9 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.098%) Autotask
6 1 (0.098%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 269 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 266 (26.13%) Salesforce
3 80 (7.86%) SAP
4 62 (6.09%) Oracle
5 47 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.73%) Adobe
7 36 (3.54%) Databricks
8 33 (3.24%) MuleSoft
9 27 (2.65%) Google
10 23 (2.26%) Siebel
11 21 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 17 (1.67%) HubSpot
13 14 (1.38%) Workday
14 12 (1.18%) Braze
15 9 (0.88%) Foundry
16 8 (0.79%) Autodesk
16 8 (0.79%) Conga
16 8 (0.79%) DocuSign
17 7 (0.69%) Marketo
17 7 (0.69%) Sage