Customer Service Jobs in Durham

Customer Service
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham requiring Customer Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Customer Service over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -18
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 78 25 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 31.71% 5.85% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 38.61% 6.76% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 26 8 14
10th Percentile - £26,825 £25,400
25th Percentile £23,504 £29,375 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £34,750 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.81% +12.10% -7.46%
75th Percentile £28,188 £83,750 £52,063
90th Percentile £32,000 - £60,125
North East median annual salary £25,087 £30,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -16.38% -25.00% +37.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 370 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 82.11% 86.65% 97.78%
Number of salaries quoted 61 260 127
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £34,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +12.50% +6.18%
75th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £61,700
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Durham

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Durham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in Durham.

Salary trend for Customer Service in Durham

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Durham over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in Durham

Customer Service
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Darlington +15 15 £28,188 - 3
Newton Aycliffe +4 15 £23,504 -16.06% 1
Ferryhill 0 11 £24,296 - 1
Barnard Castle - 11 £24,296 - 1
Spennymoor - 10 £23,504 - 1
Stockton-on-Tees +15 6 £23,504 -17.53% 4
Customer Service
North East

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 60 (76.92%) Broadband
2 5 (6.41%) DHCP
2 5 (6.41%) DNS
2 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 5 (6.41%) VPN
General
1 60 (76.92%) Banking
2 59 (75.64%) Games
3 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Retail
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (70.51%) Customer Service Advisor
2 6 (7.69%) Customer Service Representative
2 6 (7.69%) Technical Product Support
2 6 (7.69%) Technical Support
3 5 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (1.28%) IT Engineer
4 1 (1.28%) Software Tester
4 1 (1.28%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Windows
1 6 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (79.49%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (7.69%) CRM
2 6 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (6.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (6.41%) Patch Management
3 5 (6.41%) Process Improvement
4 4 (5.13%) Coaching
5 1 (1.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (1.28%) Incident Management
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL
5 1 (1.28%) Manual Testing
5 1 (1.28%) SDLC
5 1 (1.28%) Software Engineering
5 1 (1.28%) Software Testing
5 1 (1.28%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) Hyper-V
2 5 (6.41%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 64 (82.05%) BT
2 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) VMware