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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 123 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +33
Contract jobs citing CRM 890 549 750
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 2.26% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.48% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 357 483
10th Percentile £350 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £739 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 22
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £15.03 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.75 £30.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +118.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile £44.85 £41.88 £28.88
90th Percentile £58.83 £50.50 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £29.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year -39.32% +116.67% -32.50%

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 34,571 22,170 31,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.23% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,077 14,511 20,880
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 929 2,248
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.50 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +6 504 £515 +0.49% 528
South East -35 107 £525 +33.84% 329
Midlands -5 96 £470 +1.62% 167
North of England -36 83 £475 -5.00% 260
East of England +24 70 £513 +2.50% 85
West Midlands -18 66 £463 -6.57% 103
North West -40 40 £450 -10.00% 144
Yorkshire -26 35 £488 +39.29% 88
East Midlands -13 28 £475 +49.84% 63
South West -41 18 £500 +17.65% 58
North East -9 10 £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 32 (3.60%) Confluence
2 26 (2.92%) CMS
3 24 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.45%) Appian
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
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%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.34%) Revit
8 2 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 269 (30.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (4.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.24%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 216 (24.27%) Dynamics 365
2 194 (21.80%) Azure
3 148 (16.63%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.75%) Power Automate
5 60 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.63%) AWS
7 55 (6.18%) SaaS
8 48 (5.39%) PowerApps
9 38 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 26 (2.92%) GCP
12 24 (2.70%) Serverless
13 22 (2.47%) Azure Functions
14 18 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 17 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.80%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
19 12 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.12%) HTTP
2 6 (0.67%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SMS
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) WAN
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) 5G
6 1 (0.11%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) Broadband
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) MPLS
6 1 (0.11%) PSTN
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.98%) Power BI
2 21 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.35%) Metadata
5 11 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.01%) Tableau
7 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.67%) Star Schema
10 5 (0.56%) Big Data
11 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 62 (6.97%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 6 (0.67%) Selenium
4 5 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
5 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) TestRail
6 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.22%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 321 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 194 (21.80%) Finance
3 136 (15.28%) Marketing
4 120 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.61%) Retail
7 39 (4.38%) Banking
8 35 (3.93%) Telecoms
9 34 (3.82%) Billing
10 26 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.36%) Legal
13 19 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.69%) Automotive
15 14 (1.57%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.46%) Local Government
16 13 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.90%) French Language
18 8 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 134 (15.06%) Analyst
2 128 (14.38%) Architect
3 106 (11.91%) Developer
4 81 (9.10%) Senior
5 80 (8.99%) Business Analyst
6 65 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 58 (6.52%) Lead
8 57 (6.40%) Consultant
9 53 (5.96%) CRM Manager
10 48 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (4.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 32 (3.60%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (2.81%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 24 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.70%) Senior Manager
15 23 (2.58%) Data Analyst
16 19 (2.13%) Functional Consultant
16 19 (2.13%) Salesforce Analyst
17 18 (2.02%) CRM Specialist
17 18 (2.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.94%) REST
2 42 (4.72%) .NET
3 37 (4.16%) HTML
4 27 (3.03%) JSON
4 27 (3.03%) Middleware
5 22 (2.47%) CSS
6 18 (2.02%) Kafka
7 15 (1.69%) Node.js
8 11 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (1.12%) React
9 10 (1.12%) RESTful
10 9 (1.01%) ADO
10 9 (1.01%) Ajax
10 9 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
10 9 (1.01%) XML
11 8 (0.90%) OAuth
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.90%) SAPUI5
11 8 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 44 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 16 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.80%) Social Media
8 12 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.90%) FMCG
11 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.24%) Windows
2 7 (0.79%) Android
2 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) HPUX
4 1 (0.11%) Linux
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 195 (21.91%) Agile
3 141 (15.84%) Migration
4 126 (14.16%) ERP
5 123 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (12.25%) DevOps
7 102 (11.46%) Roadmaps
8 97 (10.90%) Analytics
9 85 (9.55%) Customer Service
10 84 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (9.33%) Decision-Making
12 81 (9.10%) AI
13 80 (8.99%) Data Migration
14 79 (8.88%) Data Modelling
14 79 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 73 (8.20%) Project Management
16 66 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
17 62 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (6.85%) Customer Engagement
19 59 (6.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 99 (11.12%) SQL
2 79 (8.88%) JavaScript
3 58 (6.52%) C#
4 41 (4.61%) Python
5 19 (2.13%) Java
6 15 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.90%) ABAP
9 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.34%) C++
12 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.22%) Bicep
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 2 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.11%) C
14 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.11%) VBA
14 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 78 (8.76%) Security Cleared
2 74 (8.31%) Degree
3 50 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.02%) PMP
6 17 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.67%) CCNA
9 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.67%) MBA
10 5 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 5 (0.56%) MCSA
11 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.34%) CFA
12 3 (0.34%) IIBA
13 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.98%) GDPR
2 66 (7.42%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.39%) QA
4 19 (2.13%) SLA
5 13 (1.46%) PMO
6 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.45%) WCAG
9 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) IFRS
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 2 (0.22%) EMIR
10 2 (0.22%) GMP
10 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.22%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 10 (1.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 10 (1.12%) Kubernetes
1 10 (1.12%) Terraform
2 3 (0.34%) Grafana
2 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.11%) Autotask
4 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 242 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 221 (24.83%) Salesforce
3 66 (7.42%) SAP
4 52 (5.84%) Oracle
5 31 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.26%) Databricks
7 24 (2.70%) Adobe
8 21 (2.36%) HubSpot
9 19 (2.13%) MuleSoft
9 19 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (1.91%) Google
11 13 (1.46%) Workday
12 9 (1.01%) Foundry
13 8 (0.90%) Braze
13 8 (0.90%) Pega
13 8 (0.90%) Siebel
14 6 (0.67%) Ariba
14 6 (0.67%) Informatica
14 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.45%) Remedy