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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 125 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 -30 +37
Contract jobs citing CRM 829 552 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.45% 2.13% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.37% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 338 565
10th Percentile £319 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -1.20% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £676 £784 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 26
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.69 £18.10 £13.05
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +24.92% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £56.53 £35.00 £67.72
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -24.27% +10.92% +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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +20 478 £525 - 422
South East -2 113 £500 - 361
North of England -37 78 £475 -5.00% 233
Midlands -43 76 £463 -13.15% 194
West Midlands -45 58 £456 -15.51% 126
North West -24 45 £450 -3.23% 141
East of England +12 43 £505 +18.82% 82
Yorkshire -42 31 £500 -11.82% 72
South West -23 20 £506 +12.50% 87
East Midlands -15 18 £500 - 68
North East - 2 £508 - 21
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 35 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.98%) CMS
3 22 (2.65%) Confluence
4 10 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Camunda
5 6 (0.72%) SugarCRM
6 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.48%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.36%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 241 (29.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (6.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (1.69%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) SAP CRM
5 5 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.36%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
8 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
8 2 (0.24%) Shopify
8 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
9 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 184 (22.20%) Azure
2 182 (21.95%) Dynamics 365
3 155 (18.70%) Power Platform
4 69 (8.32%) Power Automate
5 63 (7.60%) AWS
6 57 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.79%) PowerApps
8 38 (4.58%) SaaS
9 37 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (3.38%) Serverless
12 25 (3.02%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.77%) GCP
14 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.69%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (1.21%) Entra ID
17 10 (1.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.33%) HTTP
2 7 (0.84%) DHCP
2 7 (0.84%) DNS
2 7 (0.84%) Internet
2 7 (0.84%) SMS
3 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
4 4 (0.48%) 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%) 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 85 (10.25%) Power BI
2 23 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.45%) Tableau
4 10 (1.21%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.09%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.72%) Metadata
7 5 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 5 (0.60%) Looker
7 5 (0.60%) MySQL
7 5 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.48%) Big Data
8 4 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 4 (0.48%) GIS
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.36%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (6.51%) JIRA
2 14 (1.69%) Git
3 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.36%) Selenium
4 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.24%) CocoaPods
5 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
5 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.24%) fastlane
5 2 (0.24%) GitLab
5 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
5 2 (0.24%) Postman
5 2 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.24%) TestRail
5 2 (0.24%) Xcode
5 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.12%) gulp
General
1 319 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 176 (21.23%) Finance
3 147 (17.73%) Marketing
4 141 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.07%) Billing
7 38 (4.58%) Banking
7 38 (4.58%) Retail
8 30 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 21 (2.53%) Legal
11 19 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.45%) French Language
15 12 (1.45%) Italian Language
16 11 (1.33%) German Language
16 11 (1.33%) Japanese Language
17 10 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (15.32%) Architect
2 116 (13.99%) Analyst
3 94 (11.34%) Developer
4 70 (8.44%) Business Analyst
5 67 (8.08%) Senior
6 62 (7.48%) Lead
7 61 (7.36%) Consultant
8 54 (6.51%) Project Manager
9 53 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (4.83%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 39 (4.70%) CRM Manager
12 36 (4.34%) Salesforce Architect
13 25 (3.02%) CRM Specialist
14 24 (2.90%) Functional Consultant
14 24 (2.90%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 20 (2.41%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.29%) Marketing Manager
18 16 (1.93%) Change Manager
18 16 (1.93%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.43%) .NET
2 44 (5.31%) REST
3 42 (5.07%) HTML
4 33 (3.98%) JSON
5 23 (2.77%) CSS
5 23 (2.77%) XML
6 18 (2.17%) SOAP
7 15 (1.81%) OAuth
8 14 (1.69%) Middleware
9 11 (1.33%) Node.js
10 10 (1.21%) ADO
10 10 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.21%) RESTful
10 10 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
11 9 (1.09%) SAML
12 8 (0.97%) OAuth2
12 8 (0.97%) OpenID
12 8 (0.97%) PySpark
12 8 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 30 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 15 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
8 14 (1.69%) Social Media
9 13 (1.57%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.33%) Windows
2 7 (0.84%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (24.85%) Agile
2 168 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 144 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (15.80%) ERP
5 104 (12.55%) Migration
6 103 (12.42%) DevOps
7 102 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 98 (11.82%) Analytics
8 98 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
9 84 (10.13%) User Experience
10 82 (9.89%) Data Modelling
11 80 (9.65%) Customer Engagement
12 78 (9.41%) Customer Service
13 74 (8.93%) AI
14 72 (8.69%) Project Management
15 71 (8.56%) Roadmaps
16 62 (7.48%) Change Management
16 62 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (7.48%) Decision-Making
17 61 (7.36%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.62%) SQL
2 75 (9.05%) JavaScript
3 65 (7.84%) C#
4 47 (5.67%) Python
5 21 (2.53%) Java
6 19 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.21%) PHP
8 7 (0.84%) ABAP
8 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.36%) Bicep
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%) Swift
12 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (9.17%) Degree
2 62 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.90%) PMP
6 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.60%) MBA
10 5 (0.60%) 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%) CFA
12 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.96%) GDPR
2 56 (6.76%) QA
3 49 (5.91%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.45%) SLA
6 10 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.84%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) GxP
9 4 (0.48%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) ITGC
10 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) GMP
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (0.84%) Terraform
2 6 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.60%) SCCM
4 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 223 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 214 (25.81%) Salesforce
3 65 (7.84%) SAP
4 46 (5.55%) Oracle
5 31 (3.74%) HubSpot
6 27 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.77%) Databricks
8 22 (2.65%) Adobe
9 19 (2.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 16 (1.93%) Google
11 10 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.21%) Workday
12 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.09%) Pega
13 8 (0.97%) Genesys
14 6 (0.72%) Ariba
14 6 (0.72%) Foundry
14 6 (0.72%) iManage
15 5 (0.60%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.60%) Mitel