CRM Job Trends in the North of England

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CRM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 35 67
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +53
Permanent jobs citing CRM 671 662 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.80% 6.91% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 7.84% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 519 234 194
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,250 £60,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,625 £78,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

CRM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,979 8,439 10,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.90% 88.03% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,630 4,065 5,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

CRM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CRM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

CRM job vacancy trend in the North of England

CRM
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CRM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CRM

CRM
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CRM in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CRM in the North of England

CRM
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CRM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +43 432 £40,000 +3.23% 294
Yorkshire -48 170 £45,000 +3.45% 146
North East -11 69 £30,500 -12.86% 45
CRM
England

CRM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 19 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.34%) CMS
3 7 (1.04%) WordPress
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Moodle
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 65 (9.69%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.30%) Trello
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 64 (9.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.04%) Shopify
4 6 (0.89%) Magento
5 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.60%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.60%) Sonata
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.45%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.45%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.30%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.07%) Power Platform
2 64 (9.54%) Azure
3 61 (9.09%) SaaS
4 46 (6.86%) Dynamics 365
5 35 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.62%) PowerApps
7 30 (4.47%) Power Automate
8 20 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (1.49%) GitHub
11 9 (1.34%) AWS
11 9 (1.34%) Copilot Studio
12 8 (1.19%) Boomi
12 8 (1.19%) Serverless
13 5 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.53%) Broadband
2 11 (1.64%) Internet
3 9 (1.34%) SMS
4 4 (0.60%) VoIP
5 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.30%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) Modbus
5 2 (0.30%) Network Security
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.30%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) DSL
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.66%) Power BI
2 14 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.89%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.45%) MySQL
7 2 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Looker
8 1 (0.15%) Metabase
8 1 (0.15%) OLAP
8 1 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (0.15%) OLTP
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (5.07%) JIRA
2 4 (0.60%) Git
3 2 (0.30%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 247 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 174 (25.93%) Marketing
3 156 (23.25%) Finance
4 123 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (12.37%) Organisational Skills
6 66 (9.84%) Legal
7 62 (9.24%) Retail
8 51 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (6.11%) Manufacturing
10 35 (5.22%) Law
11 32 (4.77%) Telecoms
12 29 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (3.73%) Advertising
14 18 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (2.38%) Automotive
16 13 (1.94%) Public Sector
17 12 (1.79%) Billing
18 9 (1.34%) Brand Awareness
18 9 (1.34%) Electronics
18 9 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (12.97%) Business Manager
2 60 (8.94%) Development Manager
3 59 (8.79%) Business Development Manager
4 46 (6.86%) Developer
5 43 (6.41%) Sales Executive
6 40 (5.96%) Analyst
7 37 (5.51%) CRM Executive
8 36 (5.37%) Coordinator
9 29 (4.32%) Lead
9 29 (4.32%) Senior
10 28 (4.17%) Sales Representative
11 27 (4.02%) Analytics Manager
11 27 (4.02%) Technical Manager
12 26 (3.87%) CRM Manager
13 25 (3.73%) Account Manager
14 24 (3.58%) Business Analytics Manager
14 24 (3.58%) Junior
15 22 (3.28%) IT Manager
15 22 (3.28%) Support Analyst
16 21 (3.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.98%) REST
2 12 (1.79%) .NET
3 11 (1.64%) Middleware
3 11 (1.64%) XML
4 10 (1.49%) CSS
4 10 (1.49%) EDI
4 10 (1.49%) HTML
5 9 (1.34%) Node.js
5 9 (1.34%) SOAP
6 7 (1.04%) JSON
7 6 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (0.75%) Kafka
8 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.75%) Terraform
9 4 (0.60%) React
10 3 (0.45%) Web Services
11 2 (0.30%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.30%) Electron
11 2 (0.30%) Flask
11 2 (0.30%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.50%) Self-Motivation
2 89 (13.26%) Onboarding
3 54 (8.05%) Driving Licence
4 24 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.43%) Social Media
6 22 (3.28%) Web Conferencing
7 19 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.09%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.64%) Educational Technology
10 10 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (0.89%) NHS
11 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.75%) Blog
12 5 (0.75%) CCTV
12 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.75%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.19%) Windows
2 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (20.72%) Business Development
1 139 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (16.99%) Customer Service
3 112 (16.69%) Customer Experience
4 108 (16.10%) Decision-Making
5 101 (15.05%) B2B
6 97 (14.46%) ERP
7 95 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 79 (11.77%) AI
10 68 (10.13%) Analytics
11 56 (8.35%) B2B Sales
11 56 (8.35%) Lead Generation
12 50 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (7.15%) Commercial Awareness
14 46 (6.86%) Mentoring
15 43 (6.41%) Project Management
16 42 (6.26%) Collaborative Working
17 41 (6.11%) Agile
17 41 (6.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (7.90%) SQL
2 26 (3.87%) JavaScript
3 23 (3.43%) Python
4 16 (2.38%) C#
5 8 (1.19%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.89%) R
7 5 (0.75%) Java
7 5 (0.75%) PHP
8 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.15%) ABAP
10 1 (0.15%) Ada
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (7.15%) Degree
2 15 (2.24%) DBS Check
3 11 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.19%) CCA
5 6 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.45%) CIPD
7 3 (0.45%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.30%) HNC
8 2 (0.30%) HND
8 2 (0.30%) PMP
9 1 (0.15%) ACCA
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) CIMA
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.35%) GDPR
2 40 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.19%) QA
4 8 (1.19%) TickIT
5 7 (1.04%) SLA
6 6 (0.89%) PMO
7 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.45%) GRC
9 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (0.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 180 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 101 (15.05%) Salesforce
3 68 (10.13%) HubSpot
4 27 (4.02%) Cisco
5 18 (2.68%) Oracle
6 16 (2.38%) SAP
7 15 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.09%) Google
9 12 (1.79%) TikTok
10 8 (1.19%) Sage
10 8 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.04%) Samsung
12 5 (0.75%) Databricks
13 4 (0.60%) Foundry
13 4 (0.60%) NEC
14 3 (0.45%) Facebook
15 2 (0.30%) Apple
15 2 (0.30%) Broadcom
15 2 (0.30%) Siemens