CRM Contracts

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CRM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CRM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 136 118
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -10
Contract jobs citing CRM 870 1,086 2,017
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 1.94% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.16% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 765 1,393
10th Percentile £342 £369 £375
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +11.58%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £677 £735 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £12.20 £12.65 £15.50
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.21 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.75 £21.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.49% +29.18% +26.92%
75th Percentile £30.25 £33.34 £23.19
90th Percentile £61.98 £48.28 £48.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.37 £15.21 £16.50
% change year-on-year -12.10% -7.82% +26.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CRM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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 +28 745 £500 -4.76% 1,365
UK excluding London +17 395 £500 -4.31% 891
London +35 367 £512 -9.02% 452
Work from Home +26 350 £510 +2.00% 627
South East -15 116 £500 -4.76% 222
North of England +24 108 £500 - 287
Midlands +2 67 £538 +7.60% 171
South West +36 61 £525 - 81
North West +18 59 £500 - 177
West Midlands -6 54 £538 +4.98% 102
Yorkshire +23 42 £495 -6.82% 83
Scotland +44 37 £500 - 26
East of England +18 29 £425 -15.00% 93
East Midlands +12 13 £500 +14.29% 69
Wales +14 6 £200 -60.00% 24
North East +11 6 £533 +12.11% 30
Northern Ireland +1 1 £95 -87.33% 15

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 23 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.18%) CMS
3 8 (0.92%) SAS
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.46%) Confluence
6 3 (0.34%) govService
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.26%) Chatbot
4 10 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 285 (32.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (3.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 18 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (1.61%) NetSuite
5 9 (1.03%) SAP CRM
6 8 (0.92%) Shopify
7 7 (0.80%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
9 4 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
11 2 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.23%) PeopleSoft CRM
11 2 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
11 2 (0.23%) SAP PM
12 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 202 (23.22%) Dynamics 365
2 194 (22.30%) Azure
3 138 (15.86%) Power Platform
4 53 (6.09%) Power Automate
5 50 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (4.94%) AWS
7 41 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (4.60%) PowerApps
9 32 (3.68%) SaaS
10 23 (2.64%) Serverless
11 19 (2.18%) GCP
12 14 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.38%) PaaS
14 11 (1.26%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.26%) Twilio
15 10 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (1.03%) OCI
17 8 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.49%) VoIP
2 11 (1.26%) CTI
2 11 (1.26%) Internet
3 9 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.69%) WAN
5 5 (0.57%) Intranet
5 5 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.46%) MPLS
6 4 (0.46%) SMS
7 3 (0.34%) ADSL
7 3 (0.34%) Broadband
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) Firewall
7 3 (0.34%) LAN
7 3 (0.34%) PSTN
8 2 (0.23%) Softphone
8 2 (0.23%) Wireless
9 1 (0.11%) DNS
9 1 (0.11%) FTP
9 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.62%) Power BI
2 29 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (3.10%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.99%) Tableau
5 18 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.38%) MySQL
8 12 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.15%) GIS
10 6 (0.69%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.34%) Big Data
12 3 (0.34%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.34%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 3 (0.34%) Siebel EIM
12 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.98%) JIRA
2 9 (1.03%) ERwin
3 8 (0.92%) Git
4 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (0.69%) GitLab
5 6 (0.69%) Selenium
6 5 (0.57%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.46%) JUnit
7 4 (0.46%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.46%) TestNG
8 3 (0.34%) JMeter
8 3 (0.34%) Maven
8 3 (0.34%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.34%) TestComplete
8 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 279 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 170 (19.54%) Finance
3 134 (15.40%) Marketing
4 68 (7.82%) Retail
5 64 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 36 (4.14%) Billing
8 33 (3.79%) Telecoms
9 25 (2.87%) Banking
10 23 (2.64%) Local Government
10 23 (2.64%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.49%) Back Office
11 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.49%) Legal
11 13 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.92%) Law
14 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (18.85%) Analyst
2 127 (14.60%) Architect
3 119 (13.68%) Developer
4 96 (11.03%) Consultant
5 86 (9.89%) Project Manager
6 84 (9.66%) Business Analyst
7 81 (9.31%) Senior
8 62 (7.13%) Lead
9 56 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.25%) CRM Consultant
11 31 (3.56%) CRM Manager
12 29 (3.33%) Data Analyst
13 28 (3.22%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 27 (3.10%) CRM Analyst
15 23 (2.64%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 23 (2.64%) Functional Consultant
16 22 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
16 22 (2.53%) Microsoft Developer
17 19 (2.18%) CRM Business Analyst
17 19 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.09%) .NET
2 26 (2.99%) HTML
2 26 (2.99%) Middleware
3 23 (2.64%) Web Services
4 22 (2.53%) CSS
5 20 (2.30%) JSON
6 19 (2.18%) Node.js
7 18 (2.07%) .NET Framework
7 18 (2.07%) REST
8 17 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.61%) XML
10 13 (1.49%) React
11 10 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (0.92%) React Native
12 8 (0.92%) RESTful
13 7 (0.80%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.80%) Entity Framework
13 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
13 7 (0.80%) OAuth
13 7 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.52%) Cyber Defence
4 47 (5.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 45 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
6 29 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.84%) IVR
8 13 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
9 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.03%) Social Media
13 8 (0.92%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.80%) Digital Signage
15 6 (0.69%) EPoS
15 6 (0.69%) Life Science
15 6 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.57%) Data Centre
16 5 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.26%) Windows
2 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 7 (0.80%) Windows 10
2 7 (0.80%) Windows 7
3 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) Linux
4 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (26.90%) Agile
2 130 (14.94%) Migration
3 109 (12.53%) DevOps
4 106 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 105 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
7 92 (10.57%) ERP
8 91 (10.46%) Customer Service
9 82 (9.43%) Analytics
9 82 (9.43%) Data Migration
10 71 (8.16%) Data Modelling
11 69 (7.93%) Project Management
11 69 (7.93%) Scrum
12 68 (7.82%) Use Case
13 66 (7.59%) Case Management
14 62 (7.13%) Mentoring
15 57 (6.55%) Incident Management
16 56 (6.44%) Root Cause Analysis
17 53 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
18 52 (5.98%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 124 (14.25%) SQL
2 76 (8.74%) JavaScript
3 51 (5.86%) C#
4 31 (3.56%) Python
5 24 (2.76%) Java
6 20 (2.30%) Apex Code
7 19 (2.18%) PL/SQL
8 13 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.80%) SOQL
10 5 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.46%) R
12 2 (0.23%) C
12 2 (0.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.11%) ABAP
13 1 (0.11%) C++
13 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.11%) VBA
13 1 (0.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 79 (9.08%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.93%) Degree
3 48 (5.52%) DV Cleared
4 22 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.80%) PMP
12 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.34%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.23%) APMP
15 2 (0.23%) CBAP
15 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.52%) NIST
3 47 (5.40%) NIST 800
4 45 (5.17%) QA
5 36 (4.14%) GDPR
6 16 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.72%) SLA
8 8 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.92%) PMO
8 8 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.23%) P3O
11 1 (0.11%) DICOM
11 1 (0.11%) GxP
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (1.26%) Kibana
2 10 (1.15%) logstash
3 4 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 274 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 144 (16.55%) Salesforce
3 75 (8.62%) SAP
4 34 (3.91%) Oracle
5 21 (2.41%) Avaloq
5 21 (2.41%) Google
6 16 (1.84%) Cisco
7 13 (1.49%) Adobe
7 13 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 13 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 12 (1.38%) HubSpot
9 11 (1.26%) Avaya
9 11 (1.26%) Genesys
9 11 (1.26%) Informatica
9 11 (1.26%) Pardot
10 9 (1.03%) Tanium
11 8 (0.92%) Siebel
12 6 (0.69%) Databricks
12 6 (0.69%) Sage
13 5 (0.57%) Cognizant