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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 121 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 -28 +37
Contract jobs citing CRM 844 566 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.42% 2.19% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.43% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 355 579
10th Percentile £329 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -0.48% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £613
90th Percentile £678 £769 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.10 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +24.92% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £35.00 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £22.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.04% -3.08% +20.60%

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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +12 480 £525 - 419
South East +4 111 £525 +5.00% 363
North of England -35 85 £475 -5.00% 250
Midlands -36 82 £500 -4.76% 193
West Midlands -38 67 £463 -13.15% 123
North West -29 49 £450 -9.55% 145
East of England +12 45 £525 +13.57% 86
Yorkshire -42 33 £500 -11.39% 74
South West -19 19 £513 +13.89% 94
East Midlands -18 15 £500 - 69
North East - 3 £450 - 31
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 34 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.44%) CMS
3 24 (2.84%) Confluence
4 10 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.71%) Appian
5 6 (0.71%) Camunda
5 6 (0.71%) SugarCRM
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
8 2 (0.24%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 245 (29.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (5.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 2 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 199 (23.58%) Azure
2 192 (22.75%) Dynamics 365
3 158 (18.72%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.41%) Power Automate
5 65 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (7.46%) AWS
7 49 (5.81%) PowerApps
8 39 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
9 37 (4.38%) SaaS
10 35 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (3.67%) Serverless
12 27 (3.20%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.73%) GCP
14 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.78%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 12 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (1.42%) GitHub
19 11 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.30%) HTTP
2 7 (0.83%) DHCP
2 7 (0.83%) DNS
2 7 (0.83%) Internet
2 7 (0.83%) SMS
3 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.59%) VPN
4 4 (0.47%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.24%) ISDN
5 2 (0.24%) PSTN
5 2 (0.24%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) GPRS
6 1 (0.12%) GSM
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.31%) Power BI
2 24 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.42%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.42%) Tableau
5 9 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 8 (0.95%) Metadata
6 8 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.59%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.59%) Looker
8 5 (0.59%) MySQL
8 5 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.47%) Big Data
9 4 (0.47%) GIS
9 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (6.75%) JIRA
2 15 (1.78%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.36%) Postman
5 3 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.36%) TestRail
5 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.24%) fastlane
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.24%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 317 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 182 (21.56%) Finance
3 144 (17.06%) Marketing
4 138 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.55%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.09%) Billing
7 39 (4.62%) Retail
8 35 (4.15%) Banking
9 30 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.49%) Legal
12 19 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.54%) French Language
15 12 (1.42%) Italian Language
15 12 (1.42%) Law
16 11 (1.30%) German Language
16 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.30%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 134 (15.88%) Architect
2 120 (14.22%) Analyst
3 97 (11.49%) Developer
4 76 (9.00%) Business Analyst
5 73 (8.65%) Senior
6 62 (7.35%) Consultant
7 60 (7.11%) Lead
8 56 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
9 53 (6.28%) Project Manager
10 43 (5.09%) CRM Manager
11 39 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 39 (4.62%) Salesforce Architect
12 30 (3.55%) CRM Specialist
13 26 (3.08%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.84%) Functional Consultant
15 22 (2.61%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 20 (2.37%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.25%) Data Engineer
18 18 (2.13%) Marketing Manager
19 17 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.45%) .NET
2 45 (5.33%) REST
3 41 (4.86%) HTML
4 32 (3.79%) JSON
5 23 (2.73%) CSS
5 23 (2.73%) XML
6 17 (2.01%) Middleware
6 17 (2.01%) SOAP
7 15 (1.78%) OAuth
8 11 (1.30%) Node.js
9 10 (1.18%) ADO
9 10 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.18%) RESTful
10 9 (1.07%) SAML
10 9 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.95%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.95%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.95%) OpenID
11 8 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.50%) Product Ownership
2 35 (4.15%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.78%) Social Media
9 14 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.54%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
12 10 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.71%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.30%) Windows
2 7 (0.83%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (24.64%) Agile
2 169 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (15.17%) ERP
5 115 (13.63%) DevOps
6 112 (13.27%) Migration
7 104 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
8 103 (12.20%) Analytics
9 101 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 85 (10.07%) Data Modelling
11 80 (9.48%) AI
12 79 (9.36%) Customer Service
13 77 (9.12%) Roadmaps
14 76 (9.00%) Customer Engagement
15 75 (8.89%) Project Management
15 75 (8.89%) User Experience
16 66 (7.82%) Decision-Making
17 62 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (7.35%) Data Migration
18 61 (7.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.66%) SQL
2 77 (9.12%) JavaScript
3 69 (8.18%) C#
4 51 (6.04%) Python
5 20 (2.37%) Java
6 19 (2.25%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.18%) PHP
8 7 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.71%) ABAP
10 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.36%) Bicep
11 3 (0.36%) C++
11 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.24%) Bash
12 2 (0.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.24%) R
12 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (8.89%) Degree
2 61 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 36 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 24 (2.84%) PMI Certification
4 24 (2.84%) PMP
5 23 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.59%) MBA
10 5 (0.59%) MCDST
11 3 (0.36%) ACCA
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.36%) CIMA
11 3 (0.36%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.24%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.94%) GDPR
2 57 (6.75%) QA
3 54 (6.40%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.18%) SLA
6 9 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.95%) WCAG
8 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) ITGC
10 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (0.95%) Terraform
2 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.59%) SCCM
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 229 (27.13%) Microsoft
2 220 (26.07%) Salesforce
3 60 (7.11%) SAP
4 50 (5.92%) Oracle
5 33 (3.91%) HubSpot
6 28 (3.32%) Databricks
7 24 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.61%) Adobe
9 19 (2.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 15 (1.78%) Google
11 12 (1.42%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.07%) Pega
12 9 (1.07%) Workday
13 8 (0.95%) Genesys
14 6 (0.71%) Foundry
14 6 (0.71%) iManage
15 5 (0.59%) Ariba
15 5 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.59%) Informatica