Customer Service Job Trends in Cardiff

Customer Service
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 19 24 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 5.21% 6.30% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 7.87% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 17
10th Percentile £24,000 - £23,350
25th Percentile £27,544 £27,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £28,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -40.72% +21.25%
75th Percentile £37,500 £49,099 £72,433
90th Percentile £48,000 £82,500 £76,560
South Wales median annual salary £25,087 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -28.32% -22.22% +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Customer Service 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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 305 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 72.60% 80.05% 93.45%
Number of salaries quoted 181 197 280
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,550 £32,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,312 £78,340 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,250
% change year-on-year +0.50% -1.00% +0.61%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Service relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in Cardiff

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) DHCP
1 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Broadband
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 4 (21.05%) Games
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Desktop Support
1 5 (26.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Customer Service Advisor
3 3 (15.79%) Trainer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Coordinator
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) Training Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) AI
2 3 (15.79%) Conversational UI
2 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.53%) Case Management
3 2 (10.53%) Hardware Maintenance
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (5.26%) Business Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) IT Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.26%) Minimum Viable Product
4 1 (5.26%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.26%) Product Backlog
4 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.26%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CCNP
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) PayPal
3 1 (5.26%) BT
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) ESRI
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.26%) Zscaler