Customer Service Jobs in Reading

Customer Service
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 29 138 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.71% 8.08% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 9.16% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 130 90
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £20,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £44,875 £54,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £46,000 £65,000 £43,750
Berkshire median annual salary £31,250 £31,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +12.50% -0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 438 1,506 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.22% 88.17% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 230 908 790
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,748 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -12.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in Reading.

Salary trend for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Reading over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) LAN
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) Wireless
3 1 (3.45%) WLAN
General
1 13 (44.83%) Manufacturing
2 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Marketing
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) German Language
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
6 2 (6.90%) Electronics
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Technical Support
2 11 (37.93%) Support Technician
3 4 (13.79%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (13.79%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 4 (13.79%) Support Specialist
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Support Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (6.90%) Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Field Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Junior Field Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Junior IT Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Service Delivery
2 11 (37.93%) Coaching
2 11 (37.93%) Customer Experience
2 11 (37.93%) Technical Analysis
3 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) CRM
4 4 (13.79%) Decision Tree
4 4 (13.79%) Presales
4 4 (13.79%) Time Management
5 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.90%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) User Stories
6 2 (6.90%) Validation
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) NVQ Level 4
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.34%) Veeam
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Apple
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.45%) HubSpot