Customer Service Job Trends in Chelmsford

Customer Service
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chelmsford requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 8 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Chelmsford 6.84% 7.14% 9.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 10.64% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £25,000 - £27,500
25th Percentile £25,938 £51,250 £27,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £52,500 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +81.03% +7.41%
75th Percentile £28,750 £53,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £29,650 - £44,200
Essex median annual salary £28,000 £28,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +8.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 47 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 88.89% 67.14% 82.98%
Number of salaries quoted 70 23 66
10th Percentile £27,375 £39,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,337 £48,750 £38,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +31.58% -
75th Percentile £60,938 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,600 £71,497
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £49,329
% change year-on-year -13.46% +5.41% -6.04%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Chelmsford

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chelmsford citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chelmsford citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Graduate
1 6 (75.00%) IT Graduate
2 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate IT Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate IT Support
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate IT Support Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Graduate Support Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) IT Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (25.00%) MCDST
2 2 (25.00%) MCP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Sophos