Customer Service Job Trends in the North of England

Customer Service
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,068 686 846
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.45% 7.21% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 8.19% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 650 513 340
10th Percentile £25,625 £24,000 £23,158
25th Percentile £27,000 £25,087 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £27,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £55,000
England median annual salary £31,963 £31,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -17.33% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,026 8,374 10,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.93% 87.95% 80.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,612 4,056 5,242
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.67% -8.99%
75th Percentile £74,112 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
North West +33 576 £31,500 +10.53% 253
Yorkshire +7 354 £30,000 +11.11% 149
North East -38 138 £40,000 +48.15% 71
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 93 (8.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (7.77%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.03%) CMS
4 10 (0.94%) IIS
4 10 (0.94%) WordPress
5 8 (0.75%) Apache
6 4 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 123 (11.52%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.37%) Solid Edge
7 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.31%) Shopify
2 11 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.56%) Magento
5 5 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.28%) Aareon QL
6 3 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.28%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.28%) Orchard Housing
6 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.094%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.094%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 273 (25.56%) Microsoft 365
2 136 (12.73%) Azure
3 92 (8.61%) Entra ID
4 56 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 56 (5.24%) SaaS
5 54 (5.06%) OneDrive
6 38 (3.56%) AWS
7 33 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (3.09%) PowerApps
8 23 (2.15%) Power Automate
9 12 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (0.94%) Viva Engage
12 8 (0.75%) Serverless
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Functions
14 6 (0.56%) GitHub
15 5 (0.47%) Boomi
15 5 (0.47%) Canva
15 5 (0.47%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 116 (10.86%) Broadband
2 74 (6.93%) DNS
3 66 (6.18%) DHCP
4 64 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
5 53 (4.96%) VPN
6 49 (4.59%) Firewall
6 49 (4.59%) TCP/IP
7 45 (4.21%) VoIP
8 43 (4.03%) VLAN
9 28 (2.62%) LAN
10 23 (2.15%) WAN
11 15 (1.40%) Wireless
12 14 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
13 13 (1.22%) Internet
14 11 (1.03%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
15 10 (0.94%) WLAN
16 7 (0.66%) Network Security
17 6 (0.56%) WebEx
18 5 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.28%) Power BI
2 14 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.75%) MySQL
4 8 (0.75%) Power Query
5 4 (0.37%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.37%) EDRMS
5 4 (0.37%) Metadata
6 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.094%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.094%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.094%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (2.15%) JIRA
2 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
2 3 (0.28%) GitLab
2 3 (0.28%) RStudio
3 1 (0.094%) Git
3 1 (0.094%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 536 (50.19%) Social Skills
2 171 (16.01%) Finance
3 154 (14.42%) Organisational Skills
4 133 (12.45%) Retail
5 102 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (8.15%) Law
7 82 (7.68%) Legal
8 67 (6.27%) Telecoms
9 46 (4.31%) Marketing
10 43 (4.03%) Advertising
10 43 (4.03%) Military
11 41 (3.84%) Games
11 41 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 41 (3.84%) Public Sector
12 38 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.62%) Banking
15 23 (2.15%) Electronics
16 17 (1.59%) Billing
17 13 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 178 (16.67%) IT Support
2 135 (12.64%) Analyst
3 98 (9.18%) Support Engineer
4 76 (7.12%) Support Analyst
5 66 (6.18%) Support Technician
6 65 (6.09%) Customer Service Advisor
7 61 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 61 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 61 (5.71%) IT Technician
8 52 (4.87%) IT Support Technician
9 48 (4.49%) IT Analyst
10 47 (4.40%) Lead
11 44 (4.12%) 2nd Line Support
12 42 (3.93%) Administrator
13 41 (3.84%) Customer Service Representative
14 35 (3.28%) IT Support Analyst
15 32 (3.00%) Service Desk Analyst
16 31 (2.90%) Service Analyst
17 29 (2.72%) 1st Line Support
17 29 (2.72%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.31%) JSON
2 13 (1.22%) REST
3 10 (0.94%) SOAP
3 10 (0.94%) XML
4 9 (0.84%) Middleware
5 7 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.56%) HTML
6 6 (0.56%) Terraform
7 5 (0.47%) EDI
8 4 (0.37%) Web Services
8 4 (0.37%) WSDL
8 4 (0.37%) XSD
8 4 (0.37%) XSLT
9 2 (0.19%) CSS
9 2 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.094%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.094%) CrewAI
10 1 (0.094%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.094%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.094%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.33%) Driving Licence
2 99 (9.27%) Onboarding
3 64 (5.99%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (4.59%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.46%) Web Conferencing
6 28 (2.62%) Podcast
6 28 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.43%) Renewable Energy
8 25 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.69%) CCTV
10 17 (1.59%) iPad
10 17 (1.59%) iPhone
11 15 (1.40%) Smart Home
12 13 (1.22%) EPoS
13 12 (1.12%) Social Media
14 9 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.75%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.75%) Smart Meter
15 8 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
16 7 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 248 (23.22%) Windows
2 88 (8.24%) Windows Server
3 53 (4.96%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 25 (2.34%) Linux
6 19 (1.78%) Android
7 18 (1.69%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.56%) Unix
12 2 (0.19%) AIX
12 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (33.15%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 143 (13.39%) ITIL
4 137 (12.83%) Customer Experience
5 128 (11.99%) Coaching
6 115 (10.77%) CRM
7 109 (10.21%) AI
8 89 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
8 89 (8.33%) Service Management
9 88 (8.24%) Decision-Making
10 86 (8.05%) Service Delivery
11 79 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
12 75 (7.02%) ITSM
13 69 (6.46%) Time Management
14 63 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (5.81%) B2B
16 59 (5.52%) Mentoring
17 56 (5.24%) Business Development
18 53 (4.96%) Agile
19 52 (4.87%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 38 (3.56%) SQL
2 19 (1.78%) PowerShell
3 14 (1.31%) Python
4 7 (0.66%) ABAP
5 5 (0.47%) Bash
5 5 (0.47%) VBScript
6 4 (0.37%) C#
6 4 (0.37%) XPath
7 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.28%) Go
7 3 (0.28%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.28%) R
8 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.094%) C++
9 1 (0.094%) Java
9 1 (0.094%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.094%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.094%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (7.40%) Degree
2 51 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 28 (2.62%) Security Cleared
4 24 (2.25%) DBS Check
4 24 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.87%) HNC
6 13 (1.22%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (1.12%) MCSE
8 10 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.66%) HND
11 6 (0.56%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.56%) CCNA
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.47%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.31%) SLA
2 42 (3.93%) QA
3 41 (3.84%) GDPR
4 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.47%) TickIT
9 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.37%) NIST
9 4 (0.37%) PMO
10 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.094%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 173 (16.20%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 29 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.66%) Firmware
6 4 (0.37%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.40%) SCCM
3 8 (0.75%) WSUS
4 5 (0.47%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.37%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Autotask
5 4 (0.37%) FTK
5 4 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.28%) cPanel
6 3 (0.28%) Plesk
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.094%) Opsview
8 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.094%) SCOM
Vendors
1 415 (38.86%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.77%) BT
3 77 (7.21%) YouTube
4 44 (4.12%) VMware
5 28 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.34%) SAP
7 24 (2.25%) SonicWALL
8 21 (1.97%) Cisco
8 21 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.87%) HP
9 20 (1.87%) Veeam
10 17 (1.59%) HubSpot
11 16 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.31%) Meraki
13 12 (1.12%) Apple
14 10 (0.94%) Dell
14 10 (0.94%) ProCurve
15 8 (0.75%) Aruba
15 8 (0.75%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.75%) NetApp