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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 124 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +20
Contract jobs citing CRM 888 550 777
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.26% 2.25% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.48% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 355 508
10th Percentile £355 £278 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £754 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.13 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.28 £29.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +55.26% -1.30%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.86 £36.00
90th Percentile £55.55 £55.31 £68.72
UK median hourly rate £18.28 £29.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year -37.24% +108.04% -27.27%

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 33,547 22,212 32,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 91.02% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,492 14,606 21,309
10th Percentile £314 £311 £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 £613 £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 2,069 881 2,207
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +11 517 £525 +0.72% 508
South East -27 105 £500 +17.65% 320
North of England -36 91 £480 -12.73% 268
Midlands -29 84 £500 +13.31% 179
West Midlands -28 63 £500 -0.50% 113
East of England +18 61 £525 +5.00% 80
North West -30 51 £460 -16.36% 134
Yorkshire -29 34 £488 +25.81% 109
East Midlands -23 21 £465 +46.69% 65
South West -32 14 £595 +32.22% 84
North East -10 8 £450 -18.18% 28
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 30 (3.38%) Confluence
2 29 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.04%) CMS
4 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.68%) Appian
6 5 (0.56%) Camunda
6 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 261 (29.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (4.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.58%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.90%) 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
8 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 208 (23.42%) Dynamics 365
2 204 (22.97%) Azure
3 155 (17.45%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (7.77%) Power Automate
5 58 (6.53%) AWS
6 50 (5.63%) PowerApps
6 50 (5.63%) SaaS
7 38 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 33 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.04%) Serverless
10 25 (2.82%) Azure Functions
10 25 (2.82%) GCP
11 19 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 12 (1.35%) GitHub
15 12 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) HTTP
2 5 (0.56%) 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%) 4G
5 1 (0.11%) 5G
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 76 (8.56%) Power BI
2 25 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.46%) Metadata
5 9 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.90%) Big Data
6 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.90%) Tableau
7 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 61 (6.87%) JIRA
2 11 (1.24%) Git
3 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.45%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.34%) TestRail
5 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
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 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 200 (22.52%) Finance
3 139 (15.65%) Marketing
4 134 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.50%) Banking
7 37 (4.17%) Retail
8 36 (4.05%) Billing
9 33 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.48%) Legal
13 20 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.58%) Automotive
14 14 (1.58%) French Language
14 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.46%) Law
16 12 (1.35%) Back Office
17 11 (1.24%) Local Government
17 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (15.88%) Architect
2 121 (13.63%) Analyst
3 101 (11.37%) Developer
4 87 (9.80%) Senior
5 73 (8.22%) Business Analyst
6 62 (6.98%) Lead
7 59 (6.64%) Consultant
8 57 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (6.19%) Project Manager
10 50 (5.63%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.28%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 38 (4.28%) Salesforce Architect
12 26 (2.93%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.70%) CRM Specialist
15 23 (2.59%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 22 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (2.03%) Change Manager
17 18 (2.03%) Microsoft Developer
17 18 (2.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.74%) .NET
2 40 (4.50%) REST
3 37 (4.17%) HTML
4 32 (3.60%) JSON
5 23 (2.59%) Middleware
6 21 (2.36%) CSS
7 19 (2.14%) XML
8 16 (1.80%) Kafka
9 12 (1.35%) OAuth
9 12 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.13%) RESTful
10 10 (1.13%) SAPUI5
11 9 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.01%) Node.js
12 8 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (0.90%) OAuth2
12 8 (0.90%) SOAP
13 7 (0.79%) Ajax
13 7 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
8 17 (1.91%) Social Media
9 16 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.01%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.56%) 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
1 200 (22.52%) Agile
2 187 (21.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 139 (15.65%) Migration
4 125 (14.08%) ERP
5 122 (13.74%) DevOps
6 115 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (12.16%) Analytics
8 93 (10.47%) Roadmaps
9 92 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
10 89 (10.02%) Data Modelling
10 89 (10.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 83 (9.35%) Decision-Making
12 81 (9.12%) Customer Service
13 80 (9.01%) AI
14 78 (8.78%) Data Migration
15 74 (8.33%) Project Management
16 67 (7.55%) Customer Engagement
17 66 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
19 61 (6.87%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.59%) SQL
2 76 (8.56%) JavaScript
3 69 (7.77%) C#
4 47 (5.29%) Python
5 21 (2.36%) Java
6 15 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.13%) ABAP
9 5 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) PHP
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) XPath
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 76 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.11%) Degree
3 47 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 18 (2.03%) PMP
7 10 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.68%) MBA
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) CFA
11 3 (0.34%) IIBA
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) APMP
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) OCA
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.22%) GDPR
3 47 (5.29%) QA
4 18 (2.03%) SLA
5 15 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.58%) PMO
7 10 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.56%) 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%) 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%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 8 (0.90%) Active Directory
1 8 (0.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 13 (1.46%) Terraform
2 8 (0.90%) 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%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 234 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 226 (25.45%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.21%) SAP
4 54 (6.08%) Oracle
5 35 (3.94%) HubSpot
6 31 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 29 (3.27%) Databricks
8 24 (2.70%) Adobe
9 17 (1.91%) Google
9 17 (1.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 13 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.35%) Workday
12 10 (1.13%) Pega
13 9 (1.01%) Braze
14 8 (0.90%) Ariba
14 8 (0.90%) Foundry
15 7 (0.79%) Informatica
15 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.68%) Siebel
17 5 (0.56%) Brio