Customer Service Jobs in the Thames Valley

Customer Service
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 446 349 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.63% 5.91% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 6.23% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 342 250 182
10th Percentile £23,500 £23,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £30,000 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -22.67%
75th Percentile £40,000 £39,875 £40,000
90th Percentile £57,375 £48,750 £48,750
South East median annual salary £30,000 £34,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.03% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,679 5,600 6,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.48% 94.82% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 3,066 3,886
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,769 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the Thames Valley

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Customer Service in the Thames Valley

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the Thames Valley

Customer Service
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +15 195 £31,500 +12.50% 90
Buckinghamshire +6 132 £32,500 +4.84% 71
Oxfordshire +28 119 £31,500 - 50
Customer Service
South East

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 86 (19.28%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.90%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 123 (27.58%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (13.68%) Azure
3 21 (4.71%) Entra ID
4 20 (4.48%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.14%) WhatsApp
6 12 (2.69%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.24%) AWS
8 9 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.02%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.79%) SaaS
10 4 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.90%) IaaS
11 3 (0.67%) Intacct
11 3 (0.67%) Taleo
12 2 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.45%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (0.45%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.45%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.17%) DNS
2 18 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.36%) Firewall
3 15 (3.36%) Wireless
4 14 (3.14%) LAN
5 13 (2.91%) DHCP
6 12 (2.69%) WAN
7 8 (1.79%) VoIP
7 8 (1.79%) VPN
8 7 (1.57%) VLAN
9 6 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.12%) Internet
10 5 (1.12%) Wireless Security
11 4 (0.90%) 5G
11 4 (0.90%) Network Security
12 3 (0.67%) Broadband
12 3 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.45%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.36%) Power BI
2 9 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.67%) DTS
4 3 (0.67%) MySQL
4 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (1.35%) JIRA
2 5 (1.12%) AdminStudio
2 5 (1.12%) InstallShield
2 5 (1.12%) MSI
3 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.45%) GitLab
3 2 (0.45%) PowerBuilder
General
1 197 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.02%) Organisational Skills
3 53 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.42%) Finance
5 36 (8.07%) Legal
6 29 (6.50%) Marketing
7 26 (5.83%) Retail
8 25 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.91%) Back Office
12 13 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (2.69%) Games
14 9 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.79%) Military
16 5 (1.12%) Law
17 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.67%) Banking
17 3 (0.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 100 (22.42%) IT Support
2 80 (17.94%) Analyst
3 55 (12.33%) IT Technician
4 48 (10.76%) Support Technician
5 44 (9.87%) IT Support Technician
6 41 (9.19%) Support Analyst
7 40 (8.97%) Support Engineer
8 37 (8.30%) IT Analyst
9 21 (4.71%) Consultant
9 21 (4.71%) IT Support Analyst
9 21 (4.71%) Senior
10 20 (4.48%) Service Analyst
11 19 (4.26%) IT Engineer
12 18 (4.04%) Support Specialist
12 18 (4.04%) Technical Support
13 17 (3.81%) Hardware Engineer
13 17 (3.81%) Technical Engineer
14 16 (3.59%) 2nd Line Support
15 15 (3.36%) 1st Line Support
15 15 (3.36%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.91%) .NET
2 9 (2.02%) XML
3 8 (1.79%) CSS
3 8 (1.79%) HTML
3 8 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
4 7 (1.57%) JSON
5 4 (0.90%) YAML
6 3 (0.67%) Kafka
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.45%) RESTful
7 2 (0.45%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.45%) Web Services
8 1 (0.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.85%) Driving Licence
2 28 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.14%) Smartphone
5 9 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.79%) CCTV
6 8 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.57%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.57%) IoT
8 5 (1.12%) Shadow IT
9 4 (0.90%) Life Science
9 4 (0.90%) Social Media
9 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.67%) FMCG
11 2 (0.45%) Clustering
11 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.45%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 114 (25.56%) Windows
2 66 (14.80%) Windows 10
3 48 (10.76%) Windows Server
4 26 (5.83%) Windows 7
5 17 (3.81%) Android
6 14 (3.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (2.69%) Windows NT
9 11 (2.47%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.79%) Linux
11 7 (1.57%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.45%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (21.97%) ITIL
3 54 (12.11%) Service Delivery
4 42 (9.42%) Service Management
5 33 (7.40%) Project Management
6 32 (7.17%) Asset Management
7 30 (6.73%) ITSM
8 29 (6.50%) Customer Experience
9 26 (5.83%) Agile
10 24 (5.38%) CRM
11 20 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (4.48%) Process Improvement
12 19 (4.26%) Decision-Making
13 18 (4.04%) Creative Thinking
13 18 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (3.81%) ERP
15 16 (3.59%) B2B
15 16 (3.59%) Logistics
16 15 (3.36%) Mentoring
16 15 (3.36%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.74%) SQL
2 18 (4.04%) C#
2 18 (4.04%) JavaScript
3 11 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.12%) VB
5 3 (0.67%) Java
5 3 (0.67%) Python
6 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 94 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 87 (19.51%) DV Cleared
3 60 (13.45%) Degree
4 46 (10.31%) SC Cleared
5 29 (6.50%) NVQ Level 3
6 28 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (5.83%) A+ Certification
8 25 (5.61%) MCP
9 22 (4.93%) DBS Check
10 14 (3.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 11 (2.47%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (1.12%) CCNA
14 5 (1.12%) HNC
15 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.67%) MCITP
16 3 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 2 (0.45%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.56%) SLA
2 22 (4.93%) GDPR
3 10 (2.24%) QA
4 7 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 86 (19.28%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.16%) Firmware
3 13 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 13 (2.91%) KVM
4 7 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.67%) Docker
7 2 (0.45%) GPFS
7 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (9.87%) SCCM
2 20 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (4.48%) WSUS
3 12 (2.69%) Sysprep
4 5 (1.12%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.67%) Ansible
5 3 (0.67%) Terraform
6 1 (0.22%) Autotask
Vendors
1 225 (50.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.59%) Cisco
3 14 (3.14%) HP
4 12 (2.69%) Citrix
4 12 (2.69%) Google
5 11 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.02%) VMware
8 8 (1.79%) WatchGuard
9 5 (1.12%) Autodesk
9 5 (1.12%) Datto
9 5 (1.12%) Draytek
9 5 (1.12%) Oracle
9 5 (1.12%) Sage
9 5 (1.12%) Sophos
10 3 (0.67%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.45%) Acronis
11 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.45%) RedGate
11 2 (0.45%) WorldPay