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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 132 101
Rank change year-on-year +25 -31 +27
Contract jobs citing CRM 877 520 831
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.13% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.34% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 337 535
10th Percentile £350 £281 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £597 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £752 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.13 £19.67 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +29.23% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.46 £39.19
90th Percentile £55.55 £50.50 £65.65
UK median hourly rate £18.89 £29.25 £21.11
% change year-on-year -35.42% +38.58% +9.65%

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 32,109 22,180 32,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.75% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,603 14,473 21,697
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 1,967 822 2,143
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.04
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.47 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +29 507 £525 +2.44% 549
South East -20 115 £513 +13.89% 349
North of England -43 87 £475 -4.04% 239
Midlands -28 82 £500 +21.95% 173
West Midlands -33 64 £500 +14.94% 114
North West -33 50 £450 -10.00% 117
East of England +18 49 £523 +4.60% 84
Yorkshire -33 33 £494 +41.07% 98
South West -23 18 £519 +9.21% 86
East Midlands -29 18 £500 +57.73% 59
North East -11 4 £450 -18.18% 25
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 33 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.65%) CMS
3 29 (3.31%) Confluence
4 10 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.68%) Appian
5 6 (0.68%) Camunda
6 5 (0.57%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.57%) 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
8 2 (0.23%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 245 (27.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 14 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.91%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.34%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 202 (23.03%) Azure
2 196 (22.35%) Dynamics 365
3 158 (18.02%) Power Platform
4 74 (8.44%) Power Automate
5 69 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.73%) AWS
7 52 (5.93%) PowerApps
8 43 (4.90%) SaaS
9 38 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.31%) Serverless
12 25 (2.85%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.62%) GCP
14 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (2.17%) Snowflake
15 17 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (1.48%) GitHub
17 13 (1.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) HTTP
2 7 (0.80%) Internet
2 7 (0.80%) SMS
3 4 (0.46%) Broadband
3 4 (0.46%) DHCP
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) IPv4
4 3 (0.34%) IPv6
4 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) WebEx
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) 5G
6 1 (0.11%) GPRS
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.12%) Power BI
2 23 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.14%) Metadata
4 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.03%) Tableau
5 7 (0.80%) Big Data
6 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.57%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.34%) GIS
9 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.34%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 57 (6.50%) JIRA
2 12 (1.37%) Git
3 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
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%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.23%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.23%) fastlane
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.23%) Xcode
7 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
General
1 339 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 193 (22.01%) Finance
3 147 (16.76%) Marketing
4 144 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.33%) Billing
7 37 (4.22%) Banking
7 37 (4.22%) Retail
8 31 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 23 (2.62%) Legal
11 22 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.82%) French Language
13 16 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.48%) German Language
14 13 (1.48%) Law
15 12 (1.37%) Japanese Language
16 11 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (15.96%) Architect
2 113 (12.88%) Analyst
3 97 (11.06%) Developer
4 77 (8.78%) Senior
5 71 (8.10%) Business Analyst
6 67 (7.64%) Consultant
7 62 (7.07%) Project Manager
8 59 (6.73%) Lead
9 55 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (5.36%) CRM Manager
11 37 (4.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 37 (4.22%) Salesforce Architect
12 26 (2.96%) CRM Specialist
13 25 (2.85%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.74%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 23 (2.62%) Data Analyst
16 21 (2.39%) Data Engineer
16 21 (2.39%) Functional Consultant
17 18 (2.05%) Technical Architect
18 16 (1.82%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.25%) .NET
2 41 (4.68%) REST
3 37 (4.22%) HTML
4 31 (3.53%) JSON
5 22 (2.51%) XML
6 21 (2.39%) CSS
7 20 (2.28%) Middleware
8 15 (1.71%) OAuth
9 11 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
9 11 (1.25%) SOAP
10 10 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.14%) Kafka
10 10 (1.14%) Node.js
10 10 (1.14%) RESTful
11 9 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (1.03%) PySpark
11 9 (1.03%) SAPUI5
12 8 (0.91%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 8 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.59%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.94%) Social Media
8 14 (1.60%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
9 13 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
11 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.03%) Windows
2 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (23.26%) Agile
2 178 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 128 (14.60%) ERP
4 125 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (14.03%) Migration
6 121 (13.80%) DevOps
7 109 (12.43%) Analytics
8 99 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 89 (10.15%) Roadmaps
11 85 (9.69%) Customer Service
12 83 (9.46%) Project Management
13 81 (9.24%) Data Modelling
14 77 (8.78%) AI
15 72 (8.21%) Decision-Making
16 71 (8.10%) Customer Engagement
17 68 (7.75%) Data Migration
18 64 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
19 63 (7.18%) User Experience
20 61 (6.96%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.03%) SQL
2 74 (8.44%) JavaScript
3 67 (7.64%) C#
4 55 (6.27%) Python
5 22 (2.51%) Java
6 19 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.03%) ABAP
7 9 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.68%) PHP
9 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.34%) Bicep
10 3 (0.34%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) Bash
11 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.23%) VBA
11 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 78 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 77 (8.78%) Degree
3 50 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.62%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.62%) PMP
6 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.80%) MBA
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.46%) CFA
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.23%) CCNP
12 2 (0.23%) OCA
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.67%) GDPR
2 67 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 54 (6.16%) QA
4 20 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.82%) SLA
6 11 (1.25%) PMO
7 9 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.68%) WCAG
9 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.34%) GxP
11 3 (0.34%) ITGC
11 3 (0.34%) MiFID
11 3 (0.34%) NIST
11 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.23%) GMP
12 2 (0.23%) IFRS
12 2 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.25%) Terraform
2 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.34%) Grafana
4 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 233 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 214 (24.40%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.30%) SAP
4 51 (5.82%) Oracle
5 36 (4.10%) HubSpot
6 26 (2.96%) Databricks
6 26 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.74%) Adobe
8 17 (1.94%) Google
8 17 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 12 (1.37%) Workday
10 10 (1.14%) Pega
11 8 (0.91%) Ariba
11 8 (0.91%) Foundry
11 8 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.80%) Genesys
13 6 (0.68%) Informatica
14 4 (0.46%) iManage
14 4 (0.46%) Remedy