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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 120 90
Rank change year-on-year +11 -30 +41
Contract jobs citing CRM 849 571 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.22% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.46% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 370 584
10th Percentile £326 £300 £313
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -0.34% -1.33%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £613
90th Percentile £686 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.68% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £14.94 £18.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% +27.07% +20.60%
75th Percentile £41.42 £34.44 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.72 £36.55 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £21.11
% change year-on-year -24.27% +21.99% +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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
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 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +6 481 £525 - 283
South East -6 111 £525 +9.38% 305
North of England -36 86 £473 -5.50% 181
Midlands -35 83 £500 -3.85% 153
West Midlands -31 69 £463 -11.90% 103
North West -33 50 £450 -10.00% 99
East of England +11 46 £525 +13.57% 57
Yorkshire -42 33 £494 -12.49% 57
South West -24 19 £513 +8.47% 68
East Midlands -16 14 £500 - 50
North East - 3 £450 - 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 35 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.65%) CMS
3 25 (2.94%) Confluence
4 11 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.71%) Appian
5 6 (0.71%) Camunda
5 6 (0.71%) SugarCRM
6 3 (0.35%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.24%) Apache
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.24%) Documentum
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.24%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
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%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 244 (28.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (5.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 13 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.24%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 2 (0.24%) Shopify
7 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 195 (22.97%) Azure
2 193 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (18.02%) Power Platform
4 70 (8.24%) Power Automate
5 63 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.30%) AWS
7 47 (5.54%) PowerApps
8 39 (4.59%) SaaS
9 38 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.42%) Serverless
12 25 (2.94%) Azure Functions
13 22 (2.59%) GCP
14 20 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (2.00%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 12 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (1.41%) GitHub
18 12 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.30%) HTTP
2 7 (0.82%) DHCP
2 7 (0.82%) DNS
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
2 7 (0.82%) SMS
3 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.59%) VPN
4 4 (0.47%) 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%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
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 84 (9.89%) Power BI
2 24 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.41%) Tableau
6 9 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.06%) Metadata
7 8 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.59%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.59%) Looker
8 5 (0.59%) MySQL
8 5 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.47%) GIS
9 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.35%) Big Data
10 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (6.71%) JIRA
2 15 (1.77%) 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 (0.24%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.24%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.24%) fastlane
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.24%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.24%) Xcode
7 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
General
1 323 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 186 (21.91%) Finance
3 147 (17.31%) Marketing
4 143 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.06%) Billing
7 40 (4.71%) Retail
8 35 (4.12%) Banking
9 32 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.36%) Legal
12 19 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.53%) French Language
16 12 (1.41%) Law
17 11 (1.30%) German Language
17 11 (1.30%) Japanese Language
17 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 138 (16.25%) Architect
2 123 (14.49%) Analyst
3 96 (11.31%) Developer
4 78 (9.19%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.72%) Senior
6 63 (7.42%) Consultant
7 59 (6.95%) Lead
8 57 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
9 52 (6.12%) Project Manager
10 42 (4.95%) CRM Manager
11 38 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 38 (4.48%) Salesforce Architect
12 30 (3.53%) CRM Specialist
13 24 (2.83%) Functional Consultant
13 24 (2.83%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 21 (2.47%) Data Analyst
16 19 (2.24%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.30%) .NET
2 44 (5.18%) REST
3 42 (4.95%) HTML
4 32 (3.77%) JSON
5 24 (2.83%) CSS
6 23 (2.71%) XML
7 18 (2.12%) Middleware
8 17 (2.00%) SOAP
9 15 (1.77%) OAuth
10 11 (1.30%) RESTful
11 10 (1.18%) ADO
11 10 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (1.18%) Node.js
12 9 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (1.06%) SAML
12 9 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (0.94%) GraphQL
13 8 (0.94%) Kafka
13 8 (0.94%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.88%) Social Media
9 15 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.41%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
12 10 (1.18%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.30%) Windows
2 7 (0.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (24.38%) Agile
2 168 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 139 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (14.49%) ERP
5 117 (13.78%) Migration
6 115 (13.55%) DevOps
7 103 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (11.90%) Analytics
9 99 (11.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 86 (10.13%) Data Modelling
11 80 (9.42%) Customer Service
11 80 (9.42%) Roadmaps
12 76 (8.95%) AI
13 73 (8.60%) Customer Engagement
13 73 (8.60%) Project Management
14 70 (8.24%) Decision-Making
15 68 (8.01%) User Experience
16 64 (7.54%) Data Migration
17 61 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (7.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 91 (10.72%) SQL
2 77 (9.07%) JavaScript
3 68 (8.01%) C#
4 51 (6.01%) Python
5 21 (2.47%) Java
6 19 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.18%) PHP
8 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.71%) ABAP
10 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 3 (0.35%) C++
11 3 (0.35%) 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%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (8.83%) Degree
2 61 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 34 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (2.71%) PMI Certification
4 23 (2.71%) PMP
5 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (0.59%) MBA
9 5 (0.59%) MCDST
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) CFA
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.01%) GDPR
2 62 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 60 (7.07%) QA
4 21 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.18%) SLA
6 9 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.71%) WCAG
8 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.59%) 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 (0.24%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) GAAP
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (0.94%) Terraform
2 6 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.59%) SCCM
3 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 229 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 216 (25.44%) Salesforce
3 60 (7.07%) SAP
4 50 (5.89%) Oracle
5 32 (3.77%) HubSpot
6 27 (3.18%) Databricks
7 23 (2.71%) Adobe
7 23 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 14 (1.65%) Google
10 11 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.18%) Workday
12 9 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.06%) Pega
13 7 (0.82%) Genesys
13 7 (0.82%) iManage
14 6 (0.71%) Foundry
14 6 (0.71%) Informatica
15 5 (0.59%) Ariba
15 5 (0.59%) Guidewire