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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 122 93
Rank change year-on-year +10 -29 +35
Contract jobs citing CRM 855 561 871
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.20% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.43% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 365 570
10th Percentile £332 £293 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.24% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £682 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £514
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.09% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.21 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.10 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +24.92% +25.49%
75th Percentile £41.25 £32.75 £36.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £38.10 £64.61
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £21.11
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.60% +14.09%

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 31,620 23,110 32,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.89% 90.44% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,216 14,677 21,786
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £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 1,956 785 2,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.11
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.15 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +13 493 £525 +1.45% 545
South East -18 109 £513 +9.04% 430
North of England -37 86 £473 -10.00% 296
Midlands -37 79 £463 -11.06% 214
West Midlands -35 64 £463 -13.15% 133
North West -19 50 £450 -10.00% 155
East of England +7 46 £525 +13.57% 122
Yorkshire -38 33 £494 -12.49% 112
South West -22 19 £513 +8.47% 125
East Midlands -18 15 £500 +57.73% 76
North East -11 3 £450 -18.18% 29
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 (3.86%) CMS
1 33 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.04%) Confluence
3 11 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.70%) Appian
4 6 (0.70%) Camunda
4 6 (0.70%) SugarCRM
5 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.23%) Documentum
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) Drupal
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Portal
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 241 (28.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (1.52%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.35%) 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 FI
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI-CA
7 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 203 (23.74%) Azure
2 192 (22.46%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (17.89%) Power Platform
4 73 (8.54%) Power Automate
5 69 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (7.37%) AWS
7 50 (5.85%) PowerApps
8 43 (5.03%) SaaS
9 38 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.39%) Serverless
12 25 (2.92%) Azure Functions
13 21 (2.46%) GCP
14 20 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (2.22%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (1.52%) PaaS
18 12 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (1.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.29%) HTTP
2 7 (0.82%) DHCP
2 7 (0.82%) DNS
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
2 7 (0.82%) SMS
3 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.58%) VPN
4 4 (0.47%) Broadband
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco ICM
5 2 (0.23%) ISDN
5 2 (0.23%) PSTN
5 2 (0.23%) WebEx
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) GPRS
6 1 (0.12%) GSM
6 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.36%) Power BI
2 24 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.40%) Tableau
6 9 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.05%) Metadata
7 8 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.58%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.58%) Looker
9 5 (0.58%) MySQL
10 4 (0.47%) GIS
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.35%) Big Data
11 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (6.78%) JIRA
2 15 (1.75%) Git
3 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.35%) TestRail
5 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.35%) 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%) GitLab
6 2 (0.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.23%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 326 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 191 (22.34%) Finance
3 151 (17.66%) Marketing
4 142 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.03%) Billing
7 40 (4.68%) Retail
8 37 (4.33%) Banking
9 31 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.22%) Legal
13 17 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.52%) French Language
15 12 (1.40%) Law
16 11 (1.29%) German Language
16 11 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.29%) Japanese Language
16 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (15.91%) Architect
2 126 (14.74%) Analyst
3 96 (11.23%) Developer
4 81 (9.47%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.65%) Senior
6 62 (7.25%) Consultant
7 57 (6.67%) Lead
8 56 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.32%) Project Manager
10 43 (5.03%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 38 (4.44%) Salesforce Architect
12 26 (3.04%) CRM Specialist
13 24 (2.81%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 21 (2.46%) Data Analyst
15 21 (2.46%) Functional Consultant
16 18 (2.11%) Data Engineer
17 17 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (1.99%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.38%) .NET
2 42 (4.91%) HTML
2 42 (4.91%) REST
3 31 (3.63%) JSON
4 24 (2.81%) CSS
5 21 (2.46%) XML
6 17 (1.99%) Middleware
7 15 (1.75%) OAuth
7 15 (1.75%) SOAP
8 11 (1.29%) RESTful
9 10 (1.17%) ADO
9 10 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (1.05%) Node.js
10 9 (1.05%) SAML
10 9 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.94%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.94%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.94%) OpenID
11 8 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.03%) Onboarding
1 43 (5.03%) Product Ownership
2 34 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.11%) Social Media
7 17 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.82%) FMCG
13 7 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.29%) Windows
2 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (24.21%) Agile
2 173 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 136 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (14.27%) ERP
5 120 (14.04%) DevOps
6 117 (13.68%) Migration
7 104 (12.16%) Analytics
8 101 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
9 99 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 86 (10.06%) Data Modelling
11 85 (9.94%) Roadmaps
12 82 (9.59%) Customer Service
13 77 (9.01%) AI
14 74 (8.65%) Project Management
15 72 (8.42%) Customer Engagement
16 69 (8.07%) Decision-Making
17 67 (7.84%) User Experience
18 63 (7.37%) Data Migration
19 61 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
20 60 (7.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.41%) SQL
2 74 (8.65%) JavaScript
3 67 (7.84%) C#
4 50 (5.85%) Python
5 19 (2.22%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.11%) Java
7 10 (1.17%) PHP
8 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.70%) ABAP
10 5 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.35%) Bicep
12 3 (0.35%) C++
12 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.23%) Bash
13 2 (0.23%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.23%) Swift
13 2 (0.23%) VBA
13 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (8.89%) Degree
2 65 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 38 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (2.69%) PMI Certification
4 23 (2.69%) PMP
5 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.58%) MBA
9 5 (0.58%) MCDST
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.35%) CFA
10 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.95%) GDPR
2 62 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 59 (6.90%) QA
4 20 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.17%) SLA
6 9 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.70%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) PMO
9 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.35%) ITGC
11 2 (0.23%) GMP
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) GAAP
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (0.94%) Terraform
2 6 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.58%) SCCM
3 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 229 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 217 (25.38%) Salesforce
3 58 (6.78%) SAP
4 48 (5.61%) Oracle
5 33 (3.86%) HubSpot
6 27 (3.16%) Databricks
7 24 (2.81%) Adobe
7 24 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 14 (1.64%) Google
10 11 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.29%) Workday
11 9 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.05%) Pega
12 7 (0.82%) Foundry
12 7 (0.82%) Genesys
12 7 (0.82%) iManage
13 6 (0.70%) Informatica
14 5 (0.58%) Ariba
14 5 (0.58%) Mitel