CRM Contracts

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CRM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CRM over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 109 138
Rank change year-on-year -24 +29 -16
Contract jobs citing CRM 628 889 1,141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 2.04% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.36% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 584 796
10th Percentile £275 £349 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £742 £675 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 23
10th Percentile £15.22 £12.43 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.22 £13.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £29.13 £13.75 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +111.82% -37.95% +34.30%
75th Percentile £35.07 £34.38 £44.00
90th Percentile £49.08 £67.68 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £13.44 £18.50
% change year-on-year +117.71% -27.38% +12.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

CRM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CRM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CRM in the UK

CRM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CRM.

Daily rate trend for CRM in the UK

CRM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CRM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CRM in the UK

CRM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CRM.

Hourly rate trend for CRM in the UK

CRM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CRM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CRM in the UK

CRM
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRM within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England -11 551 £500 - 2,090
London +8 329 £518 +1.12% 1,097
Work from Home -7 252 £500 - 1,007
UK excluding London -10 247 £480 -4.00% 1,038
South East +18 78 £422 -15.52% 274
North of England -30 55 £525 +5.00% 325
North West -8 45 £550 +10.00% 211
Scotland +9 39 £500 -4.31% 39
Midlands -9 37 £463 -15.14% 212
West Midlands -10 26 £525 -3.05% 121
South West +13 23 £425 -19.05% 96
East Midlands +4 10 £317 -42.36% 88
Wales +8 9 £600 +200.00% 25
Yorkshire -23 9 £350 -31.71% 83
East of England +9 6 £500 +17.65% 70
North East -4 1 £550 +3.29% 33
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 18

CRM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.18%) CMS
3 12 (1.91%) Confluence
4 8 (1.27%) IBM Domino
5 7 (1.11%) NetWeaver
5 7 (1.11%) SAP EP
5 7 (1.11%) WordPress
6 6 (0.96%) Drupal
6 6 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.48%) Camunda
7 3 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.32%) govService
8 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.96%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.96%) InfoPath
4 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.80%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 203 (32.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (5.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (2.23%) SAP CRM
4 12 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.64%) Magento
6 4 (0.64%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.48%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.48%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.48%) Shopify
8 2 (0.32%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.32%) FastStats
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 141 (22.45%) Dynamics 365
2 122 (19.43%) Power Platform
3 121 (19.27%) Azure
4 75 (11.94%) PowerApps
5 70 (11.15%) Power Automate
6 27 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.98%) Serverless
9 23 (3.66%) SaaS
10 22 (3.50%) AWS
10 22 (3.50%) Azure Functions
11 19 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (2.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 14 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (2.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 13 (2.07%) Oracle CX
15 12 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (1.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
17 10 (1.59%) Entra ID
18 9 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.96%) 5G
2 5 (0.80%) LAN
2 5 (0.80%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.32%) 4G
4 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.32%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.32%) VoWiFi
4 2 (0.32%) WAN
4 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.32%) Wireless
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) SMS
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.19%) Power BI
2 42 (6.69%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.91%) Tableau
8 6 (0.96%) GIS
9 5 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.64%) Big Data
10 4 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.64%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.48%) Metadata
12 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.32%) MS Access
12 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (6.21%) JIRA
2 6 (0.96%) Postman
3 4 (0.64%) Selenium
3 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.16%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 223 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 133 (21.18%) Finance
3 110 (17.52%) Marketing
4 89 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.73%) Billing
7 34 (5.41%) Banking
8 28 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.82%) Retail
9 24 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.91%) Legal
14 10 (1.59%) Back Office
15 9 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.27%) Advertising
17 7 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.96%) Local Government
18 6 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (14.33%) Analyst
2 80 (12.74%) Architect
3 77 (12.26%) Developer
4 55 (8.76%) Project Manager
5 50 (7.96%) Business Analyst
6 44 (7.01%) Lead
7 42 (6.69%) Consultant
8 39 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (5.41%) Senior
10 25 (3.98%) CRM Analyst
10 25 (3.98%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 21 (3.34%) CRM Developer
12 20 (3.18%) CRM Architect
13 19 (3.03%) CRM Manager
14 17 (2.71%) CRM Business Analyst
14 17 (2.71%) Programme Manager
15 16 (2.55%) Administrator
16 15 (2.39%) Coordinator
17 14 (2.23%) Data Analyst
17 14 (2.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.92%) .NET
2 31 (4.94%) CSS
3 27 (4.30%) REST
4 26 (4.14%) .NET Framework
4 26 (4.14%) HTML
5 23 (3.66%) Web Services
6 21 (3.34%) ASP.NET Web API
7 19 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
8 17 (2.71%) JSON
9 16 (2.55%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (2.55%) WCF
10 15 (2.39%) Middleware
10 15 (2.39%) SOAP
11 14 (2.23%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.07%) XML
13 11 (1.75%) Entity Framework
14 10 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
15 9 (1.43%) SAP PI
15 9 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.43%) Social Media
9 7 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.11%) TM Forum
10 6 (0.96%) FMCG
10 6 (0.96%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.80%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.80%) Frameworx
11 5 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.75%) Windows
2 8 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
4 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (24.04%) Agile
2 107 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (14.01%) Migration
5 87 (13.85%) Analytics
6 84 (13.38%) Project Management
7 82 (13.06%) ERP
8 76 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (8.44%) DevOps
10 52 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (8.12%) Decision-Making
12 47 (7.48%) Data Migration
12 47 (7.48%) Roadmaps
13 46 (7.32%) Customer Service
14 44 (7.01%) Customer Experience
15 43 (6.85%) Data Management
16 39 (6.21%) Scrum
17 38 (6.05%) Data Analysis
18 36 (5.73%) Data Modelling
19 34 (5.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 103 (16.40%) SQL
2 75 (11.94%) C#
3 74 (11.78%) JavaScript
4 22 (3.50%) Java
4 22 (3.50%) Python
5 19 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.87%) Apex Code
7 17 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.07%) ABAP
9 9 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.96%) R
11 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.48%) PHP
13 2 (0.32%) C
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) Rust
14 1 (0.16%) SOQL
14 1 (0.16%) SOSL
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (9.24%) Degree
2 43 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.18%) PMP
5 16 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.80%) MCPD
9 5 (0.80%) MCSD
10 3 (0.48%) IIBA
10 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.32%) CISA
11 2 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.32%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.46%) QA
2 25 (3.98%) GDPR
3 15 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.59%) PMO
5 9 (1.43%) SLA
6 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.48%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) LXC
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (0.64%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.32%) Terraform
4 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.16%) SCOM
4 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 184 (29.30%) Microsoft
2 127 (20.22%) Salesforce
3 40 (6.37%) SAP
4 33 (5.25%) Oracle
5 17 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.23%) Adobe
6 14 (2.23%) Workday
7 12 (1.91%) HubSpot
8 10 (1.59%) Google
9 8 (1.27%) Ariba
10 6 (0.96%) Sage
10 6 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.64%) Amdocs
11 4 (0.64%) Ciena
11 4 (0.64%) Ericsson
11 4 (0.64%) NetCracker
11 4 (0.64%) Nokia
11 4 (0.64%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.64%) Pardot
11 4 (0.64%) Siebel