Customer Service Jobs in the North West

Customer Service
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 53 42
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 591 478 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.10% 6.00% 7.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 6.27% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 498 309 369
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,500 £21,250
25th Percentile £24,250 £25,004 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,875 £31,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -4.62% -10.96%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North West

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in the North West

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the North West

Customer Service
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +35 324 £36,000 -4.00% 173
Cheshire +11 117 £25,500 -4.10% 89
Lancashire -3 67 £27,500 -8.14% 36
Merseyside -10 61 £32,500 - 36
Cumbria 0 21 £24,200 -21.94% 14
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 27 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.37%) IIS
4 5 (0.85%) CMS
5 4 (0.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (5.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.20%) Infor SunSystems
2 13 (2.20%) iTrent
3 5 (0.85%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.85%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.34%) Demantra
5 2 (0.34%) Magento
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle ASCP
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.17%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.17%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 101 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
2 93 (15.74%) Azure
3 28 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 24 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (3.05%) Power Automate
7 14 (2.37%) AWS
8 10 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.69%) SaaS
9 9 (1.52%) GCP
10 7 (1.18%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.85%) IaaS
11 5 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.85%) PaaS
12 3 (0.51%) Anthos
12 3 (0.51%) GitHub
12 3 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 53 (8.97%) LAN
2 52 (8.80%) Wi-Fi
3 48 (8.12%) WAN
4 43 (7.28%) Internet
5 42 (7.11%) TCP/IP
6 40 (6.77%) Firewall
7 35 (5.92%) Wireless
8 33 (5.58%) DHCP
9 31 (5.25%) BGP
9 31 (5.25%) Ethernet
9 31 (5.25%) MPLS
9 31 (5.25%) OSPF
10 25 (4.23%) DSL
11 23 (3.89%) VoIP
12 21 (3.55%) DNS
13 17 (2.88%) Broadband
14 16 (2.71%) VPN
15 14 (2.37%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (1.35%) SSL
17 6 (1.02%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
3 10 (1.69%) Power BI
4 8 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.51%) Tableau
8 2 (0.34%) GIS
8 2 (0.34%) MySQL
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.34%) Power Query
8 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (1.86%) Jasmine
1 11 (1.86%) Karma Test Runner
2 4 (0.68%) Git
3 3 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.17%) Maven
4 1 (0.17%) QADirector
General
1 267 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 130 (22.00%) Finance
3 98 (16.58%) Retail
4 84 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (6.43%) Legal
7 36 (6.09%) Marketing
8 30 (5.08%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.06%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.38%) Law
11 17 (2.88%) Banking
12 15 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.37%) Local Government
14 11 (1.86%) Billing
14 11 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.35%) Back Office
15 8 (1.35%) Games
16 5 (0.85%) German Language
16 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (18.27%) Analyst
2 52 (8.80%) Service Analyst
3 50 (8.46%) Service Desk Analyst
4 48 (8.12%) IT Support
5 45 (7.61%) Senior
6 43 (7.28%) Developer
6 43 (7.28%) Support Engineer
7 38 (6.43%) Administrator
8 35 (5.92%) Technical Support
9 28 (4.74%) Consultant
10 26 (4.40%) IT Analyst
11 25 (4.23%) Network Engineer
12 24 (4.06%) Support Consultant
13 23 (3.89%) 1st Line Support
13 23 (3.89%) Support Analyst
14 21 (3.55%) IT Engineer
14 21 (3.55%) Support Technician
15 19 (3.21%) IP Network Engineer
15 19 (3.21%) IT Technician
15 19 (3.21%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.74%) .NET
2 19 (3.21%) REST
3 18 (3.05%) JSON
4 16 (2.71%) OLE
4 16 (2.71%) XML
5 13 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.20%) ASP.NET
5 13 (2.20%) SOAP
6 11 (1.86%) RxJS
6 11 (1.86%) Sass
6 11 (1.86%) Web Services
6 11 (1.86%) XML Schema
7 8 (1.35%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.85%) CSS
8 5 (0.85%) HTML
8 5 (0.85%) OpenID
9 4 (0.68%) React
10 3 (0.51%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.51%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.34%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.66%) Driving Licence
2 50 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (7.11%) Management Information System
4 36 (6.09%) Smartphone
5 18 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.20%) CCTV
8 12 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.86%) EPoS
9 11 (1.86%) iPad
10 9 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.35%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.35%) NHS
11 8 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 7 (1.18%) Fat Client
12 7 (1.18%) Thin Client
13 6 (1.02%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.85%) Social Media
15 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.74%) Windows
2 42 (7.11%) Windows Server
3 19 (3.21%) VyOS
4 14 (2.37%) Linux
5 13 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.03%) Unix
7 9 (1.52%) Windows Phone
8 8 (1.35%) Android
8 8 (1.35%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.85%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (17.77%) ITIL
3 76 (12.86%) CRM
4 63 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (10.15%) Time Management
6 59 (9.98%) Agile
7 51 (8.63%) Service Delivery
8 50 (8.46%) ITSM
9 45 (7.61%) Customer Experience
10 42 (7.11%) Decision-Making
11 40 (6.77%) DevOps
12 32 (5.41%) Roadmaps
13 31 (5.25%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (5.25%) Project Management
14 30 (5.08%) Service Management
15 27 (4.57%) ERP
16 26 (4.40%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (4.23%) Incident Management
18 24 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 24 (4.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.15%) SQL
2 37 (6.26%) C#
3 31 (5.25%) JavaScript
4 16 (2.71%) R
5 13 (2.20%) T-SQL
5 13 (2.20%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.20%) VB.NET
6 11 (1.86%) Java
6 11 (1.86%) VB
6 11 (1.86%) VB6
7 8 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.35%) Python
8 3 (0.51%) Bash
8 3 (0.51%) Go
8 3 (0.51%) Groovy
8 3 (0.51%) Ruby
9 2 (0.34%) PHP
9 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (12.52%) Degree
2 41 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 38 (6.43%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (5.41%) CCNA
5 27 (4.57%) DBS Check
6 25 (4.23%) JNCIA
7 14 (2.37%) A+ Certification
8 12 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.69%) MCP
10 8 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.35%) PhD
10 8 (1.35%) Security Cleared
11 7 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.02%) CCDP
12 6 (1.02%) CCNP
12 6 (1.02%) HNC
12 6 (1.02%) HND
12 6 (1.02%) JNCIP
13 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.58%) SLA
2 21 (3.55%) QA
3 17 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.71%) GDPR
5 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.18%) ISO 9001
7 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.68%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.51%) PMO
10 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (17.43%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.89%) Hyper-V
3 22 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.86%) Terminal Services
5 8 (1.35%) Docker
6 6 (1.02%) vSphere
7 5 (0.85%) Firmware
8 4 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (1.52%) AirWatch
2 8 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.18%) Terraform
4 5 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 220 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.61%) Cisco
3 34 (5.75%) VMware
4 32 (5.41%) Fortinet
5 31 (5.25%) Juniper
5 31 (5.25%) Nokia
6 27 (4.57%) Ruckus Wireless
7 19 (3.21%) Vyatta
8 16 (2.71%) SAP
9 15 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.54%) Veeam
10 13 (2.20%) Infor
11 12 (2.03%) Dell
11 12 (2.03%) HP
11 12 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.86%) Virgin Media
13 9 (1.52%) Apple
13 9 (1.52%) IBM
13 9 (1.52%) NetApp
13 9 (1.52%) Sun