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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 59 34
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 +12
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,178 881 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.47% 5.32% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 5.51% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 951 533 850
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,790 £21,250
25th Percentile £24,875 £26,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,438 £31,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -10.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46,000 £48,750 £51,696
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% +2.04%

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 14,895 16,001 17,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.86% 96.69% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 7,839 10,706
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,074 £40,000 £38,386
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 £81,250 £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 28 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 28 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 +29 612 £30,438 -1.81% 350
Yorkshire +45 438 £30,500 -6.15% 229
North East +5 128 £29,500 -26.25% 78
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 86 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.52%) 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
1 182 (15.45%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (5.09%) 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 36 (3.06%) 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
1 315 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (19.52%) Azure
3 49 (4.16%) Power Platform
4 44 (3.74%) Entra ID
5 43 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (3.31%) Power Automate
7 36 (3.06%) AWS
8 32 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.95%) PowerApps
10 20 (1.70%) GCP
11 16 (1.36%) SaaS
12 12 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.93%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.76%) Google Workspace
15 8 (0.68%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.59%) IaaS
17 6 (0.51%) PaaS
18 5 (0.42%) DigitalOcean
19 3 (0.25%) GitHub
19 3 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (8.57%) Firewall
2 76 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 69 (5.86%) LAN
4 66 (5.60%) WAN
5 60 (5.09%) Internet
6 56 (4.75%) Wi-Fi
7 50 (4.24%) DHCP
8 43 (3.65%) DNS
9 40 (3.40%) VPN
10 39 (3.31%) Wireless
11 38 (3.23%) BGP
11 38 (3.23%) MPLS
11 38 (3.23%) OSPF
12 37 (3.14%) VoIP
13 30 (2.55%) Ethernet
14 27 (2.29%) Broadband
15 24 (2.04%) DSL
16 21 (1.78%) Network Security
17 19 (1.61%) VLAN
18 15 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 28 (2.38%) Power BI
3 16 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.76%) MySQL
6 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 8 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
9 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
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 9 (0.76%) 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
1 609 (51.70%) Social Skills
2 262 (22.24%) Finance
3 173 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (11.29%) Retail
5 116 (9.85%) Organisational Skills
6 76 (6.45%) Legal
7 48 (4.07%) Marketing
8 45 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 41 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 37 (3.14%) Games
11 35 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.89%) Law
13 29 (2.46%) Banking
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 (20.37%) Analyst
2 138 (11.71%) IT Support
3 108 (9.17%) Service Analyst
4 106 (9.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 94 (7.98%) Support Engineer
6 81 (6.88%) Lead
7 77 (6.54%) Senior
8 64 (5.43%) Developer
8 64 (5.43%) Support Technician
9 63 (5.35%) IT Technician
10 57 (4.84%) IT Analyst
11 54 (4.58%) Support Analyst
12 52 (4.41%) Administrator
13 48 (4.07%) Team Leader
14 47 (3.99%) IT Support Technician
15 46 (3.90%) Technical Support
16 43 (3.65%) 1st Line Support
17 42 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
17 42 (3.57%) IT Engineer
18 41 (3.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.74%) .NET
2 28 (2.38%) JSON
2 28 (2.38%) REST
3 24 (2.04%) XML
4 23 (1.95%) AngularJS
4 23 (1.95%) ASP.NET
5 21 (1.78%) Web Services
6 20 (1.70%) CSS
7 19 (1.61%) SOAP
8 17 (1.44%) HTML
9 16 (1.36%) OLE
9 16 (1.36%) RxJS
9 16 (1.36%) Sass
9 16 (1.36%) XML Schema
10 14 (1.19%) React
11 10 (0.85%) .NET Core
12 7 (0.59%) .NET Framework
13 5 (0.42%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.42%) HTML5
13 5 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.15%) Driving Licence
2 75 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
3 58 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 39 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.06%) Smartphone
6 34 (2.89%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.27%) EPoS
10 14 (1.19%) CCTV
10 14 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.02%) iPad
12 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (0.68%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.68%) NHS
13 8 (0.68%) Social Media
14 7 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.59%) Fat Client
14 7 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 7 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 270 (22.92%) Windows
2 116 (9.85%) Windows Server
3 87 (7.39%) Windows 10
4 43 (3.65%) Linux
5 26 (2.21%) Android
6 24 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (1.87%) Apple iOS
8 22 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (1.78%) Windows 7
10 19 (1.61%) Unix
11 18 (1.53%) VyOS
12 15 (1.27%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.76%) Windows Phone
14 7 (0.59%) Windows Vista
15 5 (0.42%) VMS
16 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.25%) CentOS
17 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (19.86%) ITIL
3 114 (9.68%) Customer Experience
4 110 (9.34%) Agile
5 105 (8.91%) CRM
6 100 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 94 (7.98%) Time Management
8 93 (7.89%) Service Management
9 84 (7.13%) ITSM
10 81 (6.88%) Project Management
11 77 (6.54%) Mentoring
12 75 (6.37%) Service Delivery
13 68 (5.77%) Collaborative Working
13 68 (5.77%) DevOps
13 68 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 64 (5.43%) Coaching
15 63 (5.35%) Line Management
16 59 (5.01%) Decision-Making
16 59 (5.01%) Incident Management
17 53 (4.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 105 (8.91%) SQL
2 55 (4.67%) C#
3 47 (3.99%) JavaScript
4 28 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.70%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 17 (1.44%) Python
9 16 (1.36%) R
9 16 (1.36%) VB
9 16 (1.36%) VB6
10 15 (1.27%) Java
11 11 (0.93%) Groovy
12 6 (0.51%) PHP
12 6 (0.51%) Ruby
13 5 (0.42%) Bash
14 3 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 155 (13.16%) Degree
2 82 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 81 (6.88%) DBS Check
4 51 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
5 45 (3.82%) CCNA
6 32 (2.72%) 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 18 (1.53%) MCSE
12 16 (1.36%) HNC
13 15 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (1.27%) MCSA
14 13 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.10%) HND
15 12 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.02%) PhD
15 12 (1.02%) PMP
16 11 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.35%) SLA
2 33 (2.80%) QA
3 28 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (1.61%) GDPR
6 16 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.19%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
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 (18.85%) Active Directory
2 73 (6.20%) Hyper-V
3 57 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.44%) vSphere
5 11 (0.93%) Terminal Services
6 10 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.76%) Docker
7 9 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.68%) Firmware
9 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.42%) XenApp
9 5 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.34%) vCloud
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.085%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.04%) SCCM
3 18 (1.53%) Terraform
4 13 (1.10%) Kubernetes
5 11 (0.93%) Ansible
5 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.76%) AirWatch
7 6 (0.51%) Nagios
8 5 (0.42%) Autotask
8 5 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.34%) WSUS
10 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.17%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.085%) Graylog
11 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.085%) yum
Vendors
1 447 (37.95%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.83%) VMware
3 67 (5.69%) Cisco
4 46 (3.90%) Citrix
5 39 (3.31%) IBM
6 36 (3.06%) Fortinet
7 31 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.55%) Juniper
8 30 (2.55%) Nokia
9 28 (2.38%) SAP
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%) Apple
14 18 (1.53%) Vyatta
15 17 (1.44%) Sun
16 16 (1.36%) HP
17 15 (1.27%) Salesforce