Customer Service Jobs in Essex

Customer Service
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 8 38
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -27
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 46 99 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 9.09% 10.94% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 13.81% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22 77 39
10th Percentile £25,116 £22,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £32,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year - +16.36% -34.52%
75th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £35,000
90th Percentile £35,550 £50,650 £38,750
East of England median annual salary £32,500 £29,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% -6.45% -22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 717 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 88.14% 79.23% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 200 586 348
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £47,480
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.22% -0.04%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Southend-on-Sea +3 15 £32,500 +47.73% 6
Harlow +1 15 - - 7
Basildon +12 3 £30,000 -29.41% 3
Colchester +11 3 £27,500 -21.99% 2
Chelmsford +5 2 £32,500 -5.80% 3
Saffron Walden +9 1 £14,000 -56.25% 1
Grays +2 1 - -
Chigwell - 1 - -
Waltham Abbey - 1 - -
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.52%) Asana
3 3 (6.52%) Miro
4 2 (4.35%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) SaaS
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Broadband
2 2 (4.35%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) LabVIEW
General
1 23 (50.00%) Finance
2 17 (36.96%) Electronics
3 15 (32.61%) Billing
3 15 (32.61%) Legal
3 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Operations Manager
1 15 (32.61%) Operations Project Manager
1 15 (32.61%) Project Manager
1 15 (32.61%) Sales Manager
1 15 (32.61%) Sales Operations Manager
2 12 (26.09%) 1st Line Support
2 12 (26.09%) Lead
2 12 (26.09%) Support Team Leader
2 12 (26.09%) Team Leader
3 10 (21.74%) Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Customer Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Customer Service Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Service Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Product Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Customer Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Customer Support Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.35%) JSON
1 2 (4.35%) OAuth
1 2 (4.35%) REST
1 2 (4.35%) SOAP
1 2 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Over-the-Top Content
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.52%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Service Delivery
2 21 (45.65%) CRM
3 17 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (32.61%) B2B
4 15 (32.61%) Change Management
4 15 (32.61%) Commercial Awareness
4 15 (32.61%) Customer Retention
4 15 (32.61%) Market Research
4 15 (32.61%) Order Management
4 15 (32.61%) Project Management
4 15 (32.61%) Project Planning
5 12 (26.09%) Coaching
5 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 10 (21.74%) Customer Experience
7 9 (19.57%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (17.39%) Data Protection
8 8 (17.39%) Information Security
8 8 (17.39%) Performance Analysis
8 8 (17.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) C#
1 2 (4.35%) Python
1 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.35%) A+ Certification
2 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Graylog
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Apple
4 1 (2.17%) Siemens