Customer Service Jobs in the North West

Customer Service
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 25 54
Rank change year-on-year -30 +29 -14
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 433 615 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.37% 6.17% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 7.49% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 516 295
10th Percentile £20,280 £22,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £23,504 £24,200 £25,004
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,103 £30,438 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -1.81% -11.43%
75th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £31,000 £32,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -8.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,729 8,213 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.82% 82.46% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 6,229 3,873
10th Percentile £26,092 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 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 18 May 2025.

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 18 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
Cheshire +17 156 £23,504 -7.83% 74
Manchester -20 148 £31,500 -11.27% 155
Lancashire -67 74 £25,087 -8.77% 78
Cumbria -63 31 £23,504 -2.88% 10
Merseyside -2 23 £30,250 -6.92% 39
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 14 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.92%) Sage 200
1 4 (0.92%) Sage CRM
2 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (8.55%) Azure
3 16 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.31%) SaaS
5 9 (2.08%) AWS
6 6 (1.39%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.15%) GCP
7 5 (1.15%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.92%) Nutanix
9 3 (0.69%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.69%) PaaS
10 2 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.46%) IaaS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.23%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 212 (48.96%) Broadband
2 18 (4.16%) VPN
3 15 (3.46%) DNS
4 14 (3.23%) Firewall
5 11 (2.54%) WAN
6 6 (1.39%) LAN
6 6 (1.39%) MPLS
7 5 (1.15%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) VoIP
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.92%) HTTP
8 4 (0.92%) SSH
8 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.69%) Skype
10 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.23%) Power BI
2 5 (1.15%) Tableau
3 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.23%) Power Query
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.39%) JIRA
2 4 (0.92%) Git
3 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.23%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 192 (44.34%) Banking
2 147 (33.95%) Games
3 115 (26.56%) Social Skills
4 57 (13.16%) Finance
5 31 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.39%) Retail
7 13 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.39%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Military
13 2 (0.46%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.23%) Billing
14 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 201 (46.42%) Customer Service Advisor
2 66 (15.24%) Analyst
3 36 (8.31%) IT Support
4 23 (5.31%) Service Analyst
5 18 (4.16%) 1st Line Support
5 18 (4.16%) Lead
6 17 (3.93%) Administrator
6 17 (3.93%) IT Analyst
7 16 (3.70%) IT Administrator
7 16 (3.70%) Senior
8 15 (3.46%) Support Analyst
9 14 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
10 12 (2.77%) IT Support Analyst
10 12 (2.77%) Service Manager
11 11 (2.54%) 1st Line Support Analyst
12 10 (2.31%) Customer Service Representative
13 9 (2.08%) Customer Analyst
13 9 (2.08%) Operations Analyst
13 9 (2.08%) Support Team Leader
13 9 (2.08%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.92%) LDAP
2 2 (0.46%) CSS
2 2 (0.46%) HTML
2 2 (0.46%) jQuery
2 2 (0.46%) JSON
2 2 (0.46%) Kafka
2 2 (0.46%) REST
2 2 (0.46%) SOAP
2 2 (0.46%) Web Services
2 2 (0.46%) XML
3 1 (0.23%) .NET
3 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.23%) RxJS
3 1 (0.23%) Sass
3 1 (0.23%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.70%) Social Media
2 17 (3.93%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.54%) EPoS
4 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.15%) IoT
8 4 (0.92%) Anti-Spyware
9 3 (0.69%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.23%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.23%) iSeries
11 1 (0.23%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.23%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (14.78%) Windows
2 27 (6.24%) Windows 10
3 22 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.08%) Linux
5 8 (1.85%) Windows Vista
6 7 (1.62%) Android
7 5 (1.15%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.46%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (54.97%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (13.39%) ITIL
3 44 (10.16%) Customer Experience
4 35 (8.08%) Service Delivery
5 31 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (6.93%) Mentoring
7 29 (6.70%) Process Improvement
8 27 (6.24%) ITSM
9 25 (5.77%) Coaching
10 22 (5.08%) Time Management
11 21 (4.85%) Asset Management
11 21 (4.85%) CRM
12 20 (4.62%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (4.62%) Service Management
13 17 (3.93%) Data Protection
14 16 (3.70%) Decision-Making
14 16 (3.70%) Line Management
15 14 (3.23%) Customer-Centricity
16 13 (3.00%) Incident Management
17 12 (2.77%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.54%) SQL
2 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
3 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.69%) Java
4 3 (0.69%) Python
5 1 (0.23%) C#
5 1 (0.23%) Perl
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby
5 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.23%) VB
5 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.23%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (11.09%) DBS Check
2 24 (5.54%) Degree
3 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.85%) ACCA
4 8 (1.85%) CIMA
4 8 (1.85%) MOS
4 8 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (1.62%) A+ Certification
6 5 (1.15%) ACSP
6 5 (1.15%) HP AIS
6 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.15%) MCSA
6 5 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (0.92%) AAT
7 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.69%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.69%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) GSEC
9 1 (0.23%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.01%) SLA
2 8 (1.85%) QA
3 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) GDPR
4 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.15%) vSphere
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (3.70%) SCCM
2 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (1.39%) Proxmox
4 4 (0.92%) Ansible
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.69%) Autotask
6 2 (0.46%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 219 (50.58%) BT
2 110 (25.40%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.85%) VMware
4 20 (4.62%) Cisco
5 19 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.31%) Apple
7 6 (1.39%) Citrix
7 6 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.15%) HP
8 5 (1.15%) Meraki
8 5 (1.15%) Sophos
8 5 (1.15%) Veeam
9 4 (0.92%) Cognos
9 4 (0.92%) Google
9 4 (0.92%) Okta
9 4 (0.92%) Perforce
9 4 (0.92%) Sage
10 3 (0.69%) Avaya
10 3 (0.69%) Dell
10 3 (0.69%) Remedy