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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 514 557
Rank change year-on-year -15 +43 +154
Contract jobs citing Salesforce CRM 66 30 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.09% 1.18% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 36
10th Percentile £350 £270 £310
25th Percentile £404 £344 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.05%
75th Percentile £614 £581 £575
90th Percentile £650 £629 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £350 £513
% change year-on-year +42.86% -31.71% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.50

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 3,158 2,537 3,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 7.42% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 1,354 1,987
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £660 £665 £674
90th Percentile £760 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 55 88
10th Percentile £18.76 £22.27 £30.00
25th Percentile £29.18 £30.21 £49.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £91.19 £80.75 £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.93% -18.25% +51.45%

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 18 December 2025.

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 11 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 18 December 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 -6 62 £500 -2.44% 141
UK excluding London -25 32 £500 +42.86% 136
London +9 28 £500 -9.09% 22
Work from Home +3 21 £520 +34.19% 48
South East -3 19 £500 +42.86% 34
North of England -45 7 £581 +78.85% 27
North West - 7 £581 - 14
East Midlands -15 4 £359 - 12
Midlands -39 4 £359 +43.60% 28
South West -3 1 - - 19
East of England - 1 £400 - 17

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 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 10 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.61%) Azure
5 3 (4.55%) AWS
6 2 (3.03%) Figma
6 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) FinancialForce
7 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.52%) PaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Power BI
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.55%) Big Data
3 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.55%) Metadata
3 3 (4.55%) Tableau
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.52%) ERwin
2 1 (1.52%) Postman
2 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Marketing
4 14 (21.21%) Finance
5 6 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 2 (3.03%) Billing
8 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Analyst
2 17 (25.76%) Architect
3 15 (22.73%) Salesforce Architect
4 12 (18.18%) Salesforce Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Business Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Data Analyst
6 8 (12.12%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 5 (7.58%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (6.06%) CRM Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) CRM Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) CRM Business Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (6.06%) XML
3 3 (4.55%) jQuery
3 3 (4.55%) Visualforce
3 3 (4.55%) XSL
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) CSS
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) PySpark
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) RESTful
4 1 (1.52%) SOAP
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.58%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) CRM
2 20 (30.30%) Agile
3 13 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (16.67%) Change Management
4 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 10 (15.15%) Data Analysis
5 10 (15.15%) Migration
5 10 (15.15%) Project Management
6 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
6 8 (12.12%) Impact Assessments
6 8 (12.12%) Waterfall
7 7 (10.61%) Data Governance
7 7 (10.61%) Data Migration
7 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.09%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 6 (9.09%) E-Commerce
8 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (7.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) SQL
2 4 (6.06%) Apex Code
3 3 (4.55%) C#
3 3 (4.55%) Java
3 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (3.03%) SOQL
4 2 (3.03%) SOSL
5 1 (1.52%) R
5 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.03%) PMP
4 1 (1.52%) APMG
4 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) GDPR
2 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) QA
4 3 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.52%) COBIT
6 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.06%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Databricks
5 2 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.52%) Adobe
6 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) Vertica
6 1 (1.52%) Workday