CRM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring CRM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 80 58
Rank change year-on-year +38 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing CRM 22 16 27
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.67% 1.46% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 1.67% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £332 £230 £528
25th Percentile £386 £281 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -18.57% +29.39%
75th Percentile £591 £580 £750
90th Percentile £609 £607 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £573 £538
% change year-on-year -8.34% +6.56% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - £61.04
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £61.79
75th Percentile £16.25 - £62.54
90th Percentile £19.70 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £15.50 - £61.79
% change year-on-year - - +174.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 548 956 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.49% 87.31% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 531 657
10th Percentile £346 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -40.51% -5.34% +22.36%

CRM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CRM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

CRM job vacancy trend in Reading

CRM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CRM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CRM

CRM
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CRM in Reading over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CRM in Reading

CRM
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CRM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CRM

CRM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) SaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco ICM
1 1 (4.55%) CTI
1 1 (4.55%) VoIP
1 1 (4.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Telecoms
3 6 (27.27%) French Language
4 3 (13.64%) Billing
4 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Customer Service Advisor
2 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Support Representative
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) CRM Manager
5 1 (4.55%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Email Designer
5 1 (4.55%) EPoS Manager
5 1 (4.55%) EPoS Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) IT Support
5 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.55%) EPoS
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ERP
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
3 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Experience
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Project Governance
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (13.64%) Sprint Review
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Test Management
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) User Stories
6 2 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) CCIE
1 1 (4.55%) CCIE Collaboration
1 1 (4.55%) CCNP
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.55%) PMP
1 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Salesforce
2 9 (40.91%) SAP
3 3 (13.64%) HubSpot
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Adobe
5 1 (4.55%) Avaya
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Genesys
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy