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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 106 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 +1
Contract jobs citing CRM 1,148 686 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.50% 2.50% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.76% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 413 353
10th Percentile £310 £229 £313
25th Percentile £411 £358 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 31 8
10th Percentile £12.71 - £21.87
25th Percentile £13.33 £14.75 £26.44
Median hourly rate £14.81 £17.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -47.69% +58.04%
75th Percentile £18.59 £31.54 £61.75
90th Percentile £30.22 £37.50 £137.50
UK median hourly rate £14.70 £18.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year -21.60% -33.04% +58.82%

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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -3 601 £525 +5.00% 1,548
South East -36 155 £575 +21.05% 441
Midlands +9 142 £465 +1.92% 262
North of England -18 132 £511 +13.61% 347
West Midlands +2 101 £460 -7.54% 148
North West -15 89 £513 +20.59% 202
East of England +30 71 £450 -10.89% 126
South West -21 39 £410 -3.53% 131
East Midlands -2 38 £490 +36.49% 115
Yorkshire -43 23 £480 -4.00% 98
North East -20 22 £523 +19.43% 50
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 44 (3.83%) CMS
2 35 (3.05%) Confluence
3 28 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.78%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) Apache
9 3 (0.26%) Kentico
9 3 (0.26%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.26%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.26%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.087%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.087%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.087%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (0.87%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.70%) Revit
7 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.44%) SPSS
9 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.17%) Notion
10 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.087%) InDesign
11 1 (0.087%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 293 (25.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (4.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 19 (1.66%) NetSuite
4 16 (1.39%) Siebel CRM
5 15 (1.31%) SAP CRM
5 15 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.87%) SAP PSCD
7 9 (0.78%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
9 7 (0.61%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.52%) Finacle
10 6 (0.52%) Shopify
11 5 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
11 5 (0.44%) Magento
11 5 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
11 5 (0.44%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.35%) NEC Housing
12 4 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 245 (21.34%) Azure
2 224 (19.51%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 103 (8.97%) AWS
5 88 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (6.97%) Power Automate
7 68 (5.92%) SaaS
8 62 (5.40%) PowerApps
9 50 (4.36%) GCP
10 44 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (3.57%) Serverless
12 38 (3.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 32 (2.79%) Azure Functions
14 31 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 26 (2.26%) Snowflake
16 20 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.57%) GitHub
18 15 (1.31%) Entra ID
18 15 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.22%) SMS
2 8 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.52%) WAN
5 5 (0.44%) NAS
6 3 (0.26%) IPv4
6 3 (0.26%) IPv6
6 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.17%) ADSL
7 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.17%) HTTP
7 2 (0.17%) Internet
7 2 (0.17%) MPLS
7 2 (0.17%) PSTN
7 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.087%) VPN
8 1 (0.087%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.36%) Power BI
2 43 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 14 (1.22%) Tableau
6 11 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
7 10 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.52%) GIS
9 6 (0.52%) Metadata
9 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.44%) Looker
10 5 (0.44%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.44%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (7.23%) JIRA
2 22 (1.92%) Git
3 19 (1.66%) Selenium
4 15 (1.31%) Postman
5 11 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.87%) WebDriver
7 6 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.26%) Protractor
9 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.17%) Appium
10 2 (0.17%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.17%) TestRail
10 2 (0.17%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.087%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.087%) REST Assured
General
1 424 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 280 (24.39%) Finance
3 221 (19.25%) Marketing
4 132 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (9.76%) Retail
6 93 (8.10%) Public Sector
7 91 (7.93%) Banking
8 54 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
9 50 (4.36%) Telecoms
10 49 (4.27%) Billing
11 38 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 34 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (2.53%) Legal
16 22 (1.92%) Automotive
17 21 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.74%) Local Government
19 13 (1.13%) Back Office
20 11 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 197 (17.16%) Analyst
2 166 (14.46%) Architect
3 136 (11.85%) Developer
4 106 (9.23%) Lead
5 103 (8.97%) Business Analyst
6 90 (7.84%) Senior
7 85 (7.40%) Consultant
8 71 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
9 62 (5.40%) Project Manager
10 50 (4.36%) CRM Manager
11 40 (3.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 39 (3.40%) Administrator
13 35 (3.05%) Enterprise Architect
14 31 (2.70%) CRM Analyst
15 30 (2.61%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 29 (2.53%) Data Analyst
16 29 (2.53%) Data Engineer
16 29 (2.53%) Salesforce Analyst
16 29 (2.53%) Salesforce Developer
17 26 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.45%) REST
2 55 (4.79%) .NET
3 49 (4.27%) Middleware
4 36 (3.14%) HTML
5 31 (2.70%) CSS
5 31 (2.70%) JSON
6 30 (2.61%) SOAP
7 25 (2.18%) XML
8 24 (2.09%) Kafka
9 20 (1.74%) Terraform
10 17 (1.48%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (1.22%) Node.js
12 14 (1.22%) React
13 13 (1.13%) .NET Framework
13 13 (1.13%) ONVIF
13 13 (1.13%) XSLT
14 12 (1.05%) Gherkin
14 12 (1.05%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 70 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 55 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 53 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (3.40%) Marketing Technology
6 27 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 24 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.83%) IVR
10 19 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.39%) Social Media
13 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.48%) Windows
2 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.70%) Android
3 8 (0.70%) Unix
4 6 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) HPUX
6 2 (0.17%) Linux
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 273 (23.78%) Agile
3 205 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (14.29%) ERP
5 163 (14.20%) Migration
6 154 (13.41%) Analytics
7 137 (11.93%) Roadmaps
8 135 (11.76%) Customer Service
9 130 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 125 (10.89%) DevOps
11 118 (10.28%) AI
12 112 (9.76%) Data Modelling
13 104 (9.06%) CI/CD
14 102 (8.89%) Decision-Making
15 98 (8.54%) Data Migration
16 91 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
17 88 (7.67%) User Acceptance Testing
18 84 (7.32%) Customer Engagement
19 82 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
20 80 (6.97%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 146 (12.72%) SQL
2 102 (8.89%) JavaScript
3 72 (6.27%) C#
4 51 (4.44%) Python
5 23 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 22 (1.92%) Java
7 19 (1.66%) ABAP
8 18 (1.57%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.35%) Korn
13 3 (0.26%) R
14 2 (0.17%) Bicep
14 2 (0.17%) Groovy
14 2 (0.17%) SOQL
15 1 (0.087%) DAML
15 1 (0.087%) Rust
15 1 (0.087%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 111 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 82 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.06%) Degree
4 32 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.66%) PMP
6 16 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.22%) CCNA
7 14 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.13%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.13%) MCSA
9 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.44%) IIBA
14 5 (0.44%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.35%) CBAP
15 4 (0.35%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 80 (6.97%) GDPR
3 72 (6.27%) QA
4 26 (2.26%) PMO
5 19 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.66%) SLA
6 15 (1.31%) WCAG
7 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.52%) SEPA
9 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.44%) NIST
9 5 (0.44%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
10 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.17%) IFRS
11 2 (0.17%) PERC
11 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.70%) Docker
3 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 8 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (0.26%) Grafana
2 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.087%) Autotask
4 1 (0.087%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.087%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 332 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 281 (24.48%) Salesforce
3 87 (7.58%) SAP
4 56 (4.88%) Oracle
5 54 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 41 (3.57%) Adobe
7 34 (2.96%) Databricks
8 33 (2.87%) MuleSoft
9 26 (2.26%) Google
10 25 (2.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 24 (2.09%) Braze
12 22 (1.92%) Siebel
13 20 (1.74%) HubSpot
14 12 (1.05%) Workday
15 8 (0.70%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.70%) Conga
15 8 (0.70%) DocuSign
15 8 (0.70%) Meraki
16 7 (0.61%) ION Trading
16 7 (0.61%) Sitecore