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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 117 106
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing CRM 926 565 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.31% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.53% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 366 494
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.06% -2.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £614
90th Percentile £690 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 21
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.05 -
25th Percentile £15.03 £16.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -39.66% +24.92% +2.59%
75th Percentile £25.22 £36.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £46.00 £48.70 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £29.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -38.79% +107.14% -38.14%

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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -2 525 £515 +3.00% 454
South East -18 119 £550 +54.93% 312
Midlands -8 99 £500 +8.11% 192
North of England -60 86 £496 +5.53% 266
East of England +37 71 £503 +0.50% 76
West Midlands -21 65 £500 +4.44% 125
North West -41 50 £492 +5.81% 151
East Midlands -4 32 £490 +30.67% 67
Yorkshire -42 26 £500 -9.09% 84
South West -32 15 £525 +23.53% 66
North East -19 12 £488 +11.43% 34
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 37 (4.00%) Confluence
2 35 (3.78%) CMS
3 20 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.43%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.43%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.43%) SAS
7 3 (0.32%) Kentico
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.76%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.76%) Revit
5 7 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.22%) Notion
9 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 257 (27.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (5.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (1.94%) NetSuite
4 13 (1.40%) SAP CRM
5 10 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
6 5 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.22%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.22%) Shopify
9 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 212 (22.89%) Azure
2 196 (21.17%) Dynamics 365
3 149 (16.09%) Power Platform
4 72 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (7.56%) AWS
6 64 (6.91%) Power Automate
7 58 (6.26%) SaaS
8 54 (5.83%) PowerApps
9 37 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 30 (3.24%) GCP
12 27 (2.92%) Serverless
13 25 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (2.27%) Snowflake
15 20 (2.16%) Azure Functions
16 17 (1.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 16 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.97%) SMS
2 6 (0.65%) Internet
3 5 (0.54%) HTTP
4 3 (0.32%) DHCP
4 3 (0.32%) DNS
4 3 (0.32%) IPv4
4 3 (0.32%) 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%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) Broadband
6 1 (0.11%) CTI
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 72 (7.78%) Power BI
2 26 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.62%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.30%) Tableau
6 10 (1.08%) Metadata
6 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
8 6 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.54%) Big Data
9 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.54%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 68 (7.34%) JIRA
2 14 (1.51%) Git
3 6 (0.65%) Postman
4 5 (0.54%) Selenium
5 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.11%) Hudson
7 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.11%) TestRail
7 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 332 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 194 (20.95%) Finance
3 160 (17.28%) Marketing
4 115 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 63 (6.80%) Retail
7 41 (4.43%) Telecoms
8 38 (4.10%) Banking
8 38 (4.10%) Billing
9 32 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.81%) Legal
12 18 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.73%) Automotive
14 16 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.51%) Local Government
16 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.97%) Advertising
17 9 (0.97%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 149 (16.09%) Analyst
2 134 (14.47%) Architect
3 119 (12.85%) Developer
4 82 (8.86%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.75%) Senior
6 72 (7.78%) Lead
7 58 (6.26%) Project Manager
8 51 (5.51%) CRM Manager
9 49 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
10 44 (4.75%) Consultant
11 32 (3.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 32 (3.46%) Salesforce Architect
12 26 (2.81%) Data Engineer
13 25 (2.70%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.70%) Salesforce Analyst
14 23 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (2.38%) Salesforce Developer
16 21 (2.27%) CRM Analyst
17 20 (2.16%) Senior Manager
17 20 (2.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.29%) REST
2 42 (4.54%) HTML
3 41 (4.43%) .NET
3 41 (4.43%) Middleware
4 35 (3.78%) CSS
5 25 (2.70%) JSON
6 17 (1.84%) Kafka
6 17 (1.84%) Node.js
7 14 (1.51%) XML
8 12 (1.30%) SOAP
9 11 (1.19%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (1.19%) RESTful
10 10 (1.08%) Ajax
10 10 (1.08%) React
11 9 (0.97%) ONVIF
11 9 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.86%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (0.86%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 45 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 43 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
8 15 (1.62%) Social Media
9 14 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.97%) IoT
13 9 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.86%) FMCG
14 8 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.30%) Windows
2 8 (0.86%) Android
2 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.43%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.22%) HPUX
4 2 (0.22%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 196 (21.17%) Agile
3 149 (16.09%) Migration
4 143 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (13.71%) ERP
6 112 (12.10%) Analytics
7 109 (11.77%) DevOps
7 109 (11.77%) Roadmaps
8 90 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
8 90 (9.72%) Customer Service
9 87 (9.40%) Decision-Making
9 87 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 84 (9.07%) Data Migration
10 84 (9.07%) Data Modelling
11 82 (8.86%) AI
12 72 (7.78%) CI/CD
13 67 (7.24%) User Acceptance Testing
14 64 (6.91%) Project Management
15 61 (6.59%) Workflow
16 58 (6.26%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (12.74%) SQL
2 80 (8.64%) JavaScript
3 56 (6.05%) C#
4 40 (4.32%) Python
5 16 (1.73%) Java
6 12 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.86%) ABAP
8 8 (0.86%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.22%) Bicep
11 2 (0.22%) C++
11 2 (0.22%) Korn
11 2 (0.22%) SOQL
12 1 (0.11%) C
12 1 (0.11%) Groovy
12 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.56%) Degree
4 25 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.30%) PMP
7 11 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.08%) CCNA
8 10 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.97%) A+ Certification
9 9 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.97%) MCSA
10 7 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.32%) IIBA
13 3 (0.32%) MBA
14 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.64%) GDPR
2 77 (8.32%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.18%) QA
4 21 (2.27%) SLA
5 15 (1.62%) PMO
6 11 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.43%) NIST
8 4 (0.43%) WCAG
9 3 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.32%) IFRS
9 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.32%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 2 (0.22%) GMP
10 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) GAAP
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 7 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (1.62%) Terraform
2 8 (0.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.32%) Grafana
4 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 248 (26.78%) Salesforce
2 242 (26.13%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.80%) SAP
4 56 (6.05%) Oracle
5 41 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 32 (3.46%) Adobe
7 30 (3.24%) Databricks
8 28 (3.02%) MuleSoft
9 23 (2.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 21 (2.27%) Google
11 16 (1.73%) Siebel
12 14 (1.51%) HubSpot
13 13 (1.40%) Workday
14 11 (1.19%) Braze
15 9 (0.97%) Foundry
16 7 (0.76%) Autodesk
16 7 (0.76%) Conga
16 7 (0.76%) DocuSign
17 6 (0.65%) OpenAI
18 5 (0.54%) Informatica