Customer Service Job Trends in the South East

Customer Service
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 782 656 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.97% 7.63% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 8.62% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 627 472 983
10th Percentile £25,181 £23,731 £22,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £26,000 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,878 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +6.26% -7.69%
75th Percentile £39,250 £43,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £56,571
England median annual salary £31,000 £31,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.08% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,298 7,614 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.87% 88.57% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,040 3,982 9,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,888 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in the South East

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Thames Valley +8 274 £30,000 -14.29% 106
Hampshire 0 239 £30,000 -4.76% 48
Berkshire +20 110 £30,000 +1.69% 59
Kent -12 97 £27,500 -1.79% 30
Buckinghamshire +2 91 £34,500 -1.43% 26
Surrey -27 82 £30,000 -6.98% 42
Oxfordshire +10 73 £30,000 -50.00% 24
West Sussex -1 45 £26,500 -29.33% 12
Sussex +3 23 £30,000 +15.38% 5
East Sussex -19 19 £30,000 -0.83% 11
Middlesex +37 2 £35,000 - 8
Home Counties - 1 £28,500 -
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.26%) Apache
4 2 (0.26%) Gentran
4 2 (0.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 89 (11.38%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.77%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 184 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 70 (8.95%) Azure
3 40 (5.12%) Entra ID
4 22 (2.81%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.05%) AWS
6 14 (1.79%) SaaS
7 13 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (1.53%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.02%) Google Workspace
10 7 (0.90%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.51%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.38%) GCP
12 3 (0.38%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.13%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.13%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.13%) Google Analytics
13 1 (0.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (10.10%) Firewall
2 47 (6.01%) DNS
2 47 (6.01%) VPN
3 40 (5.12%) TCP/IP
4 36 (4.60%) DHCP
5 33 (4.22%) VoIP
6 31 (3.96%) LAN
7 30 (3.84%) WAN
8 25 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (2.81%) Broadband
10 17 (2.17%) Wireless
11 15 (1.92%) VLAN
12 6 (0.77%) WLAN
13 5 (0.64%) Network Security
14 4 (0.51%) IP Telephony
14 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.51%) SSL
15 3 (0.38%) NAS
16 2 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
17 1 (0.13%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.02%) Power BI
2 8 (1.02%) Power Query
3 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (1.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 329 (42.07%) Social Skills
2 75 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
3 65 (8.31%) Finance
4 59 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (4.99%) Marketing
6 36 (4.60%) Retail
7 21 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.79%) Legal
9 14 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.41%) Electronics
11 10 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.28%) French Language
12 9 (1.15%) Law
12 9 (1.15%) Military
13 8 (1.02%) Automotive
13 8 (1.02%) Banking
13 8 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (20.33%) IT Support
2 102 (13.04%) Support Engineer
3 96 (12.28%) IT Engineer
4 87 (11.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 86 (11.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 83 (10.61%) Analyst
7 77 (9.85%) Support Technician
8 58 (7.42%) 1st Line Support
9 51 (6.52%) Account Manager
9 51 (6.52%) Coordinator
10 44 (5.63%) Technical Support
11 37 (4.73%) Consultant
12 33 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support Technician
13 30 (3.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 30 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 30 (3.84%) Senior
14 29 (3.71%) Junior
14 29 (3.71%) Support Analyst
15 28 (3.58%) Business Manager
15 28 (3.58%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.90%) JSON
2 3 (0.38%) EDI
3 2 (0.26%) .NET
4 1 (0.13%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.13%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.13%) NumPy
4 1 (0.13%) Pandas
4 1 (0.13%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.13%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.23%) Driving Licence
2 48 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 26 (3.32%) EPoS
5 22 (2.81%) Life Science
6 20 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.17%) CCTV
8 14 (1.79%) Credit Risk
9 13 (1.66%) Pharmacovigilance
10 9 (1.15%) Social Media
11 7 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
11 7 (0.90%) Hackathon
11 7 (0.90%) Learning Management System
11 7 (0.90%) NHS
12 6 (0.77%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.51%) FMCG
14 3 (0.38%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.38%) Clustering
14 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
15 2 (0.26%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 208 (26.60%) Windows
2 71 (9.08%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 14 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.53%) Linux
6 10 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (10.23%) ITIL
3 59 (7.54%) Business Development
4 57 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (7.16%) Project Management
6 55 (7.03%) Logistics
7 54 (6.91%) CRM
8 52 (6.65%) Project Delivery
9 48 (6.14%) Time Management
10 47 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (5.75%) Customer Experience
12 44 (5.63%) Decision-Making
13 43 (5.50%) ITSM
14 40 (5.12%) Service Delivery
15 37 (4.73%) Process Improvement
16 34 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
17 33 (4.22%) Mentoring
17 33 (4.22%) Service Management
18 29 (3.71%) AI
19 25 (3.20%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.99%) SQL
2 18 (2.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.15%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.02%) Python
5 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.26%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) ABAP
7 1 (0.13%) Bash
7 1 (0.13%) C#
7 1 (0.13%) Perl
7 1 (0.13%) Uniface
7 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (12.02%) Degree
2 63 (8.06%) DBS Check
3 31 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.30%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
7 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.90%) City & Guilds
8 7 (0.90%) MCSE
9 5 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.64%) ICAEW
10 4 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) HNC
13 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.97%) SLA
2 34 (4.35%) QA
3 21 (2.69%) GDPR
4 16 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.66%) Good Clinical Practice
5 13 (1.66%) GxP
6 5 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.64%) NEBOSH
7 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (12.92%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.86%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.77%) vSphere
5 5 (0.64%) ClearTrust
6 3 (0.38%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (3.58%) SCCM
3 4 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.26%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.13%) Autotask
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 277 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.73%) ServiceNow
3 28 (3.58%) VMware
4 21 (2.69%) SonicWALL
5 20 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 15 (1.92%) Cisco
6 15 (1.92%) SAP
7 13 (1.66%) HP
7 13 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.53%) Google
8 12 (1.53%) Veeam
9 10 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.15%) Meraki
11 8 (1.02%) Qualys
11 8 (1.02%) Sophos
12 6 (0.77%) Citrix
12 6 (0.77%) Oracle
13 5 (0.64%) Datto
14 4 (0.51%) Apple
14 4 (0.51%) Epicor