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 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 8 24 33
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -18
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 172 127 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.81% 6.84% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.48% 7.87% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 78 95 68
10th Percentile - £22,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £23,504 £24,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £30,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% -25.00% +37.93%
75th Percentile - £45,063 £48,750
90th Percentile £32,000 £56,000 £63,250
England median annual salary £31,250 £32,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% -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 675 1,614 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 89.52% 86.87% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 370 1,312 597
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,885 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £66,354 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £73,750
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 14 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 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
Tyne and Wear +21 88 £25,087 -22.81% 51
Durham +22 78 £25,087 -27.81% 19
Cleveland - 4 £25,087 -
Northumberland -6 2 £32,851 +34.09% 3
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 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.91%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 138 (80.23%) Broadband
2 7 (4.07%) Firewall
3 5 (2.91%) DHCP
3 5 (2.91%) DNS
3 5 (2.91%) VPN
4 1 (0.58%) PSTN
4 1 (0.58%) VoIP
General
1 137 (79.65%) Banking
2 136 (79.07%) Games
3 24 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.98%) Billing
5 7 (4.07%) Retail
6 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Finance
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (77.33%) Customer Service Advisor
2 9 (5.23%) Technical Support
3 6 (3.49%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (3.49%) Customer Service Representative
3 6 (3.49%) Technical Product Support
4 3 (1.74%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (1.16%) Analyst
5 2 (1.16%) IT Engineer
5 2 (1.16%) IT Support
5 2 (1.16%) Technical Advisor
5 2 (1.16%) Technical Support Advisor
6 1 (0.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) Customer Analyst
6 1 (0.58%) Digital Account Manager
6 1 (0.58%) Help Desk Technician
6 1 (0.58%) IT Analyst
6 1 (0.58%) IT Security Specialist
6 1 (0.58%) IT Technician
6 1 (0.58%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.58%) RSS
1 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.23%) Windows
2 7 (4.07%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) AIX
3 1 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Solaris
3 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (84.30%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (4.07%) Coaching
2 7 (4.07%) CRM
2 7 (4.07%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (3.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (2.91%) Patch Management
4 5 (2.91%) Process Improvement
5 4 (2.33%) Customer Experience
6 3 (1.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (1.16%) Incident Management
7 2 (1.16%) ITIL
7 2 (1.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (0.58%) Change Management
8 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis
8 1 (0.58%) Information Security
8 1 (0.58%) Project Management
8 1 (0.58%) Service Delivery
8 1 (0.58%) Service Management
8 1 (0.58%) Software Engineering
8 1 (0.58%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.58%) CCDA
2 1 (0.58%) CCNA
2 1 (0.58%) CCNP
2 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.58%) Degree
2 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.58%) MCSD
2 1 (0.58%) MCSE
2 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.16%) SLA
2 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.91%) Hyper-V
2 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 143 (83.14%) BT
2 14 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.91%) VMware
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco