Customer Service Jobs in the North of England

Customer Service
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Customer Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Service over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 63 35
Rank change year-on-year +38 -28 +16
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,187 935 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.77% 5.50% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 5.68% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 966 547 827
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £31,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -10.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £46,050 £48,750 £51,696
90th Percentile £63,125 £66,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Customer Service is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,622 16,466 17,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.38% 96.84% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,233 7,859 10,647
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in the North of England

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 +31 615 £30,438 -1.81% 336
Yorkshire +44 444 £31,000 -3.13% 211
North East +7 128 £30,000 -25.00% 90
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 83 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.85%) IIS
4 10 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.67%) Anypoint
5 8 (0.67%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.42%) SAS
7 4 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.084%) Apache
8 1 (0.084%) Confluence
8 1 (0.084%) Moodle
8 1 (0.084%) nginx
Applications
1 185 (15.59%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.51%) LightWave 3D
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.084%) InDesign
7 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.18%) NEC Housing
3 13 (1.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (1.10%) iTrent
4 10 (0.84%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.42%) Sage 50
5 5 (0.42%) Sage CRM
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.084%) Demantra
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle ASCP
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.084%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.084%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 310 (26.12%) Microsoft 365
2 231 (19.46%) Azure
3 48 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 46 (3.88%) Entra ID
5 42 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
6 40 (3.37%) AWS
7 38 (3.20%) Power Automate
8 32 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.02%) GCP
10 22 (1.85%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.68%) SaaS
12 12 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.93%) IaaS
13 11 (0.93%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.84%) PaaS
15 9 (0.76%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.67%) OneDrive
17 5 (0.42%) DigitalOcean
18 4 (0.34%) OCI
19 3 (0.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 102 (8.59%) Firewall
2 74 (6.23%) TCP/IP
3 69 (5.81%) LAN
4 64 (5.39%) WAN
5 60 (5.05%) Internet
6 56 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (4.13%) DHCP
8 42 (3.54%) DNS
9 39 (3.29%) VoIP
9 39 (3.29%) VPN
9 39 (3.29%) Wireless
10 36 (3.03%) BGP
10 36 (3.03%) MPLS
10 36 (3.03%) OSPF
11 30 (2.53%) Ethernet
12 29 (2.44%) Broadband
13 24 (2.02%) DSL
14 22 (1.85%) Network Security
15 18 (1.52%) VLAN
16 15 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 28 (2.36%) Power BI
3 15 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 12 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.76%) MySQL
7 9 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
9 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.34%) DB2
11 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.25%) Tableau
13 2 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 16 (1.35%) Jasmine
1 16 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
2 11 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
3 8 (0.67%) Git
4 6 (0.51%) JIRA
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.084%) Maven
7 1 (0.084%) QADirector
7 1 (0.084%) Selenium
General
1 614 (51.73%) Social Skills
2 269 (22.66%) Finance
3 173 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (11.37%) Retail
5 113 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (6.66%) Legal
7 48 (4.04%) Marketing
8 45 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 42 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 40 (3.37%) Banking
11 37 (3.12%) Games
11 37 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.86%) Law
13 24 (2.02%) Local Government
14 23 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.77%) Billing
16 19 (1.60%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.26%) Police
18 11 (0.93%) Back Office
18 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (20.39%) Analyst
2 140 (11.79%) IT Support
3 105 (8.85%) Service Analyst
4 103 (8.68%) Service Desk Analyst
5 93 (7.83%) Support Engineer
6 81 (6.82%) Lead
7 75 (6.32%) Senior
8 64 (5.39%) Developer
8 64 (5.39%) Support Technician
9 62 (5.22%) IT Technician
10 55 (4.63%) IT Analyst
11 54 (4.55%) Support Analyst
12 52 (4.38%) Administrator
13 48 (4.04%) Team Leader
14 47 (3.96%) 1st Line Support
14 47 (3.96%) IT Support Technician
15 46 (3.88%) Technical Support
16 43 (3.62%) 2nd Line Support
17 42 (3.54%) Consultant
17 42 (3.54%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.62%) .NET
2 28 (2.36%) JSON
3 27 (2.27%) REST
4 23 (1.94%) ASP.NET
4 23 (1.94%) XML
5 21 (1.77%) AngularJS
6 20 (1.68%) CSS
7 19 (1.60%) Web Services
8 18 (1.52%) SOAP
9 17 (1.43%) HTML
10 16 (1.35%) OLE
10 16 (1.35%) RxJS
10 16 (1.35%) Sass
10 16 (1.35%) XML Schema
11 13 (1.10%) React
12 10 (0.84%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.76%) OpenID
14 6 (0.51%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.51%) jQuery
14 6 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.09%) Driving Licence
2 74 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
3 58 (4.89%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.12%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.03%) Smartphone
6 32 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.68%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.26%) EPoS
10 14 (1.18%) CCTV
11 12 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 11 (0.93%) iPad
13 10 (0.84%) Blockchain
14 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.67%) NHS
15 8 (0.67%) Social Media
16 7 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.59%) Fat Client
16 7 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 270 (22.75%) Windows
2 118 (9.94%) Windows Server
3 88 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 43 (3.62%) Linux
5 25 (2.11%) Android
6 24 (2.02%) Unix
6 24 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.94%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.94%) Windows 7
8 22 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.52%) VyOS
11 15 (1.26%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.76%) Windows Phone
13 7 (0.59%) Windows Vista
14 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.42%) VMS
16 4 (0.34%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.25%) CentOS
17 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
2 237 (19.97%) ITIL
3 121 (10.19%) Agile
4 110 (9.27%) Customer Experience
5 104 (8.76%) CRM
6 100 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (7.83%) Service Management
8 92 (7.75%) Time Management
9 82 (6.91%) ITSM
10 78 (6.57%) Project Management
11 77 (6.49%) Mentoring
12 76 (6.40%) Service Delivery
13 69 (5.81%) Collaborative Working
14 67 (5.64%) DevOps
15 65 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 62 (5.22%) Coaching
16 62 (5.22%) Line Management
17 59 (4.97%) Incident Management
18 57 (4.80%) Cybersecurity
18 57 (4.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 107 (9.01%) SQL
2 54 (4.55%) C#
3 46 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 26 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.60%) VB.NET
8 17 (1.43%) Java
8 17 (1.43%) Python
9 16 (1.35%) R
9 16 (1.35%) VB
9 16 (1.35%) VB6
10 11 (0.93%) Groovy
11 6 (0.51%) PHP
11 6 (0.51%) Ruby
12 5 (0.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.084%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (13.48%) Degree
2 84 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 79 (6.66%) DBS Check
4 52 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (3.88%) CCNA
6 32 (2.70%) Security Cleared
7 29 (2.44%) MCP
8 26 (2.19%) A+ Certification
9 24 (2.02%) JNCIA
10 20 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (1.60%) MCSE
12 16 (1.35%) HNC
13 15 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (1.26%) MCSA
14 14 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 13 (1.10%) HND
16 12 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.01%) PhD
17 11 (0.93%) PMP
18 10 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.24%) SLA
2 32 (2.70%) QA
3 29 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (1.52%) GDPR
6 16 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.18%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.084%) NCSC
11 1 (0.084%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.73%) Hyper-V
3 56 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.35%) vSphere
5 11 (0.93%) Terminal Services
5 11 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.76%) Docker
6 9 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.51%) XenApp
8 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.34%) vCloud
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.084%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 54 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.11%) SCCM
3 18 (1.52%) Terraform
4 11 (0.93%) Ansible
4 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
4 11 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.76%) AirWatch
6 6 (0.51%) Nagios
7 5 (0.42%) Autotask
7 5 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.17%) SmoothWall
8 2 (0.17%) WSUS
9 1 (0.084%) Graylog
9 1 (0.084%) yum
Vendors
1 450 (37.91%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.42%) VMware
3 67 (5.64%) Cisco
4 44 (3.71%) Citrix
5 39 (3.29%) IBM
6 37 (3.12%) Fortinet
7 30 (2.53%) Juniper
7 30 (2.53%) Nokia
8 28 (2.36%) SAP
9 26 (2.19%) Oracle
9 26 (2.19%) Ruckus Wireless
9 26 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 26 (2.19%) Veeam
10 25 (2.11%) Google
11 24 (2.02%) Dell
12 18 (1.52%) Vyatta
13 17 (1.43%) Sun
13 17 (1.43%) Virgin Media
14 16 (1.35%) Apple
14 16 (1.35%) HP