Customer Service Jobs in the North East

Customer Service
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 25 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 149 125 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.16% 6.83% 8.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.92% 7.86% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 67 96 69
10th Percentile - £22,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £23,504 £24,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £29,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% -26.25% +45.45%
75th Percentile £28,750 £44,594 £48,750
90th Percentile £38,000 £56,000 £63,000
England median annual salary £31,500 £32,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% -8.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 623 1,590 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 88.49% 86.89% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 367 1,293 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,873 £30,050
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £37,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,125
Median % change year-on-year - -1.30% +13.24%
75th Percentile £66,945 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,950 £75,772 £73,850
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the North East.

Salary trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Durham +21 74 £24,296 -30.08% 13
Tyne and Wear +21 71 £25,087 -21.60% 36
Cleveland - 4 £25,087 - 1
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (3.36%) Azure
3 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 118 (79.19%) Broadband
2 8 (5.37%) Firewall
3 5 (3.36%) DHCP
3 5 (3.36%) DNS
3 5 (3.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) NAS
4 1 (0.67%) PSTN
4 1 (0.67%) SAN
4 1 (0.67%) VoIP
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.67%) WLAN
General
1 117 (78.52%) Banking
2 112 (75.17%) Games
3 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.05%) Billing
5 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (75.84%) Customer Service Advisor
2 9 (6.04%) Technical Support
3 6 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (4.03%) Customer Service Representative
3 6 (4.03%) Technical Product Support
4 4 (2.68%) IT Engineer
5 2 (1.34%) Analyst
5 2 (1.34%) Business Analyst
5 2 (1.34%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (1.34%) IT Analyst
5 2 (1.34%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (1.34%) IT Manager
5 2 (1.34%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (1.34%) IT Support
5 2 (1.34%) Service Manager
5 2 (1.34%) Technical Advisor
5 2 (1.34%) Technical Support Advisor
5 2 (1.34%) Unix Engineer
6 1 (0.67%) Account Manager
6 1 (0.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.67%) RSS
1 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.71%) Windows
2 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.34%) AIX
3 2 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) Solaris
3 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (84.56%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (4.70%) Customer Requirements
2 7 (4.70%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (4.03%) CRM
4 5 (3.36%) Patch Management
4 5 (3.36%) Process Improvement
5 4 (2.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (2.01%) ITIL
7 2 (1.34%) Business Analysis
7 2 (1.34%) Change Control
7 2 (1.34%) Change Management
7 2 (1.34%) Coaching
7 2 (1.34%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 2 (1.34%) Incident Management
7 2 (1.34%) Information Security
7 2 (1.34%) Mentoring
7 2 (1.34%) Problem Management
7 2 (1.34%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (1.34%) Service Delivery
7 2 (1.34%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (1.34%) Degree
1 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (1.34%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.67%) CCDA
2 1 (0.67%) CCNA
2 1 (0.67%) CCNP
2 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.67%) MCSD
2 1 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) SLA
2 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.03%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 117 (78.52%) BT
2 15 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.03%) VMware
4 1 (0.67%) Cisco