Customer Service Jobs in the North of England

Customer Service
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Customer Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Service over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 63 35
Rank change year-on-year +38 -28 +14
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,179 907 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.67% 5.37% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 5.55% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 959 543 838
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,790 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,438 £32,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £46,000 £48,750 £51,584
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Customer Service is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,671 16,349 17,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.99% 96.81% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,247 7,908 10,703
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the North of England.

Salary trend for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
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 Customer Service within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +31 612 £30,438 -1.81% 341
Yorkshire +40 439 £30,500 -6.15% 238
North East +6 128 £29,500 -26.25% 91
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 84 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.87%) IIS
4 10 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 8 (0.68%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.42%) SAS
7 4 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.085%) Apache
8 1 (0.085%) Confluence
8 1 (0.085%) Moodle
8 1 (0.085%) nginx
Applications
1 181 (15.35%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.51%) LightWave 3D
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.085%) InDesign
7 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.19%) NEC Housing
3 13 (1.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (1.10%) iTrent
4 10 (0.85%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.42%) Sage 50
5 5 (0.42%) Sage CRM
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.17%) Magento
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.085%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 311 (26.38%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (19.51%) Azure
3 48 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.82%) Entra ID
5 42 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
6 40 (3.39%) AWS
7 38 (3.22%) Power Automate
8 32 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.04%) GCP
10 22 (1.87%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.70%) SaaS
12 12 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.93%) IaaS
13 11 (0.93%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.85%) PaaS
15 9 (0.76%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.68%) OneDrive
17 5 (0.42%) DigitalOcean
18 3 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
18 3 (0.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 101 (8.57%) Firewall
2 74 (6.28%) TCP/IP
3 69 (5.85%) LAN
4 64 (5.43%) WAN
5 60 (5.09%) Internet
6 56 (4.75%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (4.16%) DHCP
8 42 (3.56%) DNS
9 39 (3.31%) VPN
9 39 (3.31%) Wireless
10 38 (3.22%) VoIP
11 36 (3.05%) BGP
11 36 (3.05%) MPLS
11 36 (3.05%) OSPF
12 30 (2.54%) Ethernet
13 27 (2.29%) Broadband
14 24 (2.04%) DSL
15 22 (1.87%) Network Security
16 18 (1.53%) VLAN
17 15 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 28 (2.37%) Power BI
3 15 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 12 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.76%) MySQL
7 9 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
9 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.34%) DB2
11 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.25%) Tableau
13 2 (0.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (1.36%) Jasmine
1 16 (1.36%) Karma Test Runner
2 11 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
3 8 (0.68%) Git
4 6 (0.51%) JIRA
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.085%) Maven
7 1 (0.085%) QADirector
7 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 611 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 263 (22.31%) Finance
3 173 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (11.37%) Retail
5 114 (9.67%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (6.36%) Legal
7 48 (4.07%) Marketing
8 45 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 42 (3.56%) Telecoms
10 37 (3.14%) Games
11 36 (3.05%) Banking
12 35 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 34 (2.88%) Law
14 24 (2.04%) Local Government
15 23 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.78%) Billing
17 19 (1.61%) Manufacturing
18 15 (1.27%) Police
19 11 (0.93%) Back Office
19 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (20.36%) Analyst
2 139 (11.79%) IT Support
3 106 (8.99%) Service Analyst
4 104 (8.82%) Service Desk Analyst
5 93 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 81 (6.87%) Lead
7 75 (6.36%) Senior
8 64 (5.43%) Support Technician
9 63 (5.34%) Developer
10 62 (5.26%) IT Technician
11 56 (4.75%) IT Analyst
12 54 (4.58%) Support Analyst
13 52 (4.41%) Administrator
14 48 (4.07%) Team Leader
15 47 (3.99%) IT Support Technician
16 46 (3.90%) 1st Line Support
16 46 (3.90%) Technical Support
17 43 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support
18 42 (3.56%) IT Engineer
19 41 (3.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.65%) .NET
2 28 (2.37%) JSON
3 27 (2.29%) REST
4 23 (1.95%) ASP.NET
4 23 (1.95%) XML
5 21 (1.78%) AngularJS
6 20 (1.70%) CSS
7 19 (1.61%) Web Services
8 18 (1.53%) SOAP
9 17 (1.44%) HTML
10 16 (1.36%) OLE
10 16 (1.36%) RxJS
10 16 (1.36%) Sass
10 16 (1.36%) XML Schema
11 13 (1.10%) React
12 10 (0.85%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.76%) OpenID
14 6 (0.51%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.51%) jQuery
15 5 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.14%) Driving Licence
2 74 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
3 58 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.05%) Smartphone
6 32 (2.71%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.27%) EPoS
10 14 (1.19%) CCTV
11 13 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.02%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.93%) iPad
14 10 (0.85%) Blockchain
15 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
16 8 (0.68%) NHS
16 8 (0.68%) Social Media
17 7 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.59%) Fat Client
17 7 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 267 (22.65%) Windows
2 116 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 87 (7.38%) Windows 10
4 43 (3.65%) Linux
5 25 (2.12%) Android
6 23 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.95%) Unix
6 23 (1.95%) Windows 7
6 23 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.53%) VyOS
10 15 (1.27%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.76%) Windows Phone
12 7 (0.59%) Windows Vista
13 5 (0.42%) VMS
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.34%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.25%) CentOS
15 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
2 236 (20.02%) ITIL
3 117 (9.92%) Agile
4 111 (9.41%) Customer Experience
5 103 (8.74%) CRM
6 100 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (7.80%) Service Management
7 92 (7.80%) Time Management
8 82 (6.96%) ITSM
9 79 (6.70%) Project Management
10 77 (6.53%) Mentoring
11 75 (6.36%) Service Delivery
12 69 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
13 67 (5.68%) DevOps
14 65 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 63 (5.34%) Line Management
16 62 (5.26%) Coaching
17 59 (5.00%) Incident Management
18 58 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
18 58 (4.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 106 (8.99%) SQL
2 54 (4.58%) C#
3 46 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 26 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.70%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 17 (1.44%) Java
8 17 (1.44%) Python
9 16 (1.36%) R
9 16 (1.36%) VB
9 16 (1.36%) VB6
10 11 (0.93%) Groovy
11 6 (0.51%) PHP
11 6 (0.51%) Ruby
12 5 (0.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 159 (13.49%) Degree
2 84 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 80 (6.79%) DBS Check
4 52 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (3.90%) CCNA
6 32 (2.71%) Security Cleared
7 29 (2.46%) MCP
8 26 (2.21%) A+ Certification
9 24 (2.04%) JNCIA
10 20 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (1.61%) MCSE
12 16 (1.36%) HNC
13 15 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (1.27%) MCSA
14 14 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 13 (1.10%) HND
16 12 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.02%) PhD
16 12 (1.02%) PMP
17 11 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (14.42%) SLA
2 32 (2.71%) QA
3 29 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.44%) GDPR
6 16 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.19%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.085%) NCSC
11 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 222 (18.83%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 56 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.36%) vSphere
5 11 (0.93%) Terminal Services
5 11 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.76%) Docker
6 9 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.51%) XenApp
8 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.34%) vCloud
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.085%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 54 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.12%) SCCM
3 18 (1.53%) Terraform
4 11 (0.93%) Ansible
4 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
4 11 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.76%) AirWatch
6 6 (0.51%) Nagios
7 5 (0.42%) Autotask
7 5 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.17%) SmoothWall
8 2 (0.17%) WSUS
9 1 (0.085%) Graylog
9 1 (0.085%) yum
Vendors
1 445 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.48%) VMware
3 67 (5.68%) Cisco
4 44 (3.73%) Citrix
5 39 (3.31%) IBM
6 37 (3.14%) Fortinet
7 30 (2.54%) Juniper
7 30 (2.54%) Nokia
8 28 (2.37%) SAP
9 27 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.21%) Ruckus Wireless
10 26 (2.21%) Veeam
11 25 (2.12%) Google
12 24 (2.04%) Dell
13 23 (1.95%) Oracle
14 18 (1.53%) Vyatta
15 17 (1.44%) Sun
16 16 (1.36%) Apple
16 16 (1.36%) HP
17 15 (1.27%) Salesforce