Salesforce CRM Contract Job Trends

Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Salesforce CRM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 498 547
Rank change year-on-year -134 +49 +42
Contract jobs citing Salesforce CRM 63 55 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.061%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.64% 1.93% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 13
10th Percentile £402 £266 £381
25th Percentile £456 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £563 £625
90th Percentile £675 £644 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £400
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.73 - -
25th Percentile £29.81 - -
Median hourly rate £32.75 - -
75th Percentile £36.81 - -
90th Percentile £38.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.75 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Salesforce CRM falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,848 2,856 2,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 8.62% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,090 1,625 1,485
10th Percentile £363 £358 £354
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £751 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 51 72
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 £25.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -22.62% -25.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.50 £85.00 £67.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.93 £38.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +2.45% -5.77% -28.62%

Salesforce CRM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Salesforce CRM job vacancy trend in the UK

Salesforce CRM
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce CRM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce CRM

Salesforce CRM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce CRM over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce CRM in the UK

Salesforce CRM
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce CRM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Salesforce CRM

Salesforce CRM
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Salesforce CRM within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 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
England -114 57 £550 +10.00% 102
UK excluding London -85 33 £500 +2.56% 39
London -88 26 £625 +25.00% 69
Work from Home -61 18 £538 +7.50% 34
South East -64 12 £500 -3.61% 10
Midlands -44 8 £550 +68.45% 5
West Midlands -47 6 £580 +120.95% 2
North of England - 6 - - 10
South West -27 3 £475 -22.45% 2
North East - 3 - - 3
North West - 3 - - 4
East Midlands -11 2 £475 +32.31% 3
Scotland - 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £334 - 2

Salesforce CRM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 8 (12.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 6 (9.52%) Salesforce Einstein
3 6 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.94%) SaaS
5 3 (4.76%) Azure
5 3 (4.76%) GitHub
5 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (3.17%) AWS
6 2 (3.17%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Google Gemini
6 2 (3.17%) Google Sheets
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Tableau
2 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.76%) Power BI
3 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.76%) Selenium
2 3 (4.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.59%) Eclipse
General
1 25 (39.68%) Finance
2 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
3 22 (34.92%) Marketing
4 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.70%) Banking
6 6 (9.52%) Billing
6 6 (9.52%) Legal
6 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.35%) Retail
8 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.76%) Automotive
10 2 (3.17%) Advertising
10 2 (3.17%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.59%) Back Office
11 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Analyst
2 16 (25.40%) Business Analyst
3 13 (20.63%) Lead
4 7 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Architect
5 6 (9.52%) Salesforce Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Coordinator
8 3 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (4.76%) Playwright
1 3 (4.76%) RESTful
1 3 (4.76%) SOAP
1 3 (4.76%) Swagger
2 2 (3.17%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.17%) IVR
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.17%) PMI
5 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.59%) Life Science
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) CRM
2 32 (50.79%) Agile
3 23 (36.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (28.57%) Analytics
4 18 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 16 (25.40%) AI
6 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (17.46%) Customer Experience
8 11 (17.46%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
9 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (12.70%) Business Analysis
10 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
10 8 (12.70%) ERP
10 8 (12.70%) Personalization
10 8 (12.70%) Scrum
10 8 (12.70%) Strategic Roadmap
11 7 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (11.11%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 6 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Apex Code
3 3 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Degree
2 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.17%) CBAP
7 1 (1.59%) CSPO
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
1 8 (12.70%) GDPR
2 7 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (4.76%) PMO
5 2 (3.17%) PERC
6 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 63 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 5 (7.94%) Google
5 4 (6.35%) Pardot
5 4 (6.35%) SAP
6 3 (4.76%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) Adyen
7 2 (3.17%) Avaloq
7 2 (3.17%) Databricks
7 2 (3.17%) FIS
7 2 (3.17%) Fiserv
7 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.17%) PayPal
7 2 (3.17%) WorldPay
8 1 (1.59%) Adobe
8 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.59%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.59%) YouTube