Customer Service Jobs in the South East

Customer Service
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 30 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +16
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,059 832 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.02% 7.18% 9.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 7.57% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 767 595 877
10th Percentile £23,000 £23,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £24,500 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% -
75th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -11.39% +7.48%

All Process and 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 12,301 10,994 21,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.50% 94.87% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,138 7,007 11,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,620 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the South East.

Salary trend for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Thames Valley +11 343 £32,500 +4.84% 117
Hampshire +6 249 £30,000 - 104
Surrey 0 200 £25,000 -44.44% 42
Kent +3 158 £30,000 -22.08% 54
Berkshire +2 142 £31,500 -1.56% 41
Oxfordshire +28 121 £31,500 +1.61% 31
Buckinghamshire -5 80 £32,500 +4.84% 45
East Sussex +27 44 £32,500 -8.45% 13
West Sussex +6 41 £30,000 -45.45% 20
Middlesex -7 10 £35,000 -44.00% 4
Isle of Wight - 5 £25,000 - 1
Sussex -22 3 £40,000 +42.86% 1
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 74 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 53 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.21%) nginx
4 33 (3.12%) Camunda
5 3 (0.28%) Confluence
6 2 (0.19%) CMS
6 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.094%) Apache
7 1 (0.094%) Site Server
7 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 151 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 21 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (0.94%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
5 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.38%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.38%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.094%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.094%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 273 (25.78%) Microsoft 365
2 153 (14.45%) Azure
3 70 (6.61%) Entra ID
4 38 (3.59%) IBM Cloud
5 33 (3.12%) OpenShift
6 26 (2.46%) SaaS
7 25 (2.36%) OneDrive
8 24 (2.27%) AWS
9 18 (1.70%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.94%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.94%) WhatsApp
12 6 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.57%) IaaS
13 5 (0.47%) Mimecast
14 4 (0.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 3 (0.28%) Taleo
16 2 (0.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (9.73%) Firewall
2 69 (6.52%) DNS
3 50 (4.72%) VPN
4 49 (4.63%) DHCP
4 49 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 45 (4.25%) LAN
5 45 (4.25%) Wireless
6 44 (4.15%) WAN
7 33 (3.12%) VoIP
8 24 (2.27%) VLAN
9 19 (1.79%) WLAN
10 14 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.85%) Network Security
12 9 (0.85%) SAN
12 9 (0.85%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.76%) 5G
13 8 (0.76%) HTTP
14 7 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (0.57%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.06%) Oracle Database
2 34 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.23%) Power BI
5 11 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.76%) MySQL
7 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.28%) DTS
7 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.094%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.094%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.094%) DB2
9 1 (0.094%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.094%) Redis
9 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (1.98%) JIRA
2 13 (1.23%) AdminStudio
2 13 (1.23%) InstallShield
2 13 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.23%) MSI
2 13 (1.23%) Robot Framework
3 12 (1.13%) PowerBuilder
4 10 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (0.57%) Git
6 5 (0.47%) Maven
7 1 (0.094%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.094%) GitLab
7 1 (0.094%) Hudson
7 1 (0.094%) Subversion
General
1 526 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 141 (13.31%) Finance
3 140 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (9.35%) Billing
5 80 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 78 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (5.67%) Public Sector
8 54 (5.10%) Telecoms
9 48 (4.53%) Marketing
10 46 (4.34%) Manufacturing
10 46 (4.34%) Retail
11 42 (3.97%) Legal
12 34 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.08%) Military
14 15 (1.42%) Local Government
15 14 (1.32%) Law
15 14 (1.32%) Police
16 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (16.81%) IT Support
2 146 (13.79%) Analyst
3 91 (8.59%) Support Engineer
4 76 (7.18%) IT Technician
5 74 (6.99%) Support Technician
6 68 (6.42%) Support Analyst
7 67 (6.33%) Senior
8 66 (6.23%) Consultant
9 63 (5.95%) IT Support Technician
10 61 (5.76%) Technical Support
11 59 (5.57%) IT Engineer
12 57 (5.38%) IT Analyst
13 41 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
13 41 (3.87%) Lead
14 40 (3.78%) 2nd Line Support
15 37 (3.49%) 1st Line Support
16 34 (3.21%) IT Support Analyst
17 33 (3.12%) Full Stack Engineer
17 33 (3.12%) IT Manager
18 32 (3.02%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.87%) React
2 40 (3.78%) XML
3 36 (3.40%) HTML
4 33 (3.12%) KeystoneJS
4 33 (3.12%) Node.js
4 33 (3.12%) Swagger
5 31 (2.93%) .NET
6 23 (2.17%) CSS
7 15 (1.42%) JSON
8 13 (1.23%) Web Services
9 11 (1.04%) REST
10 10 (0.94%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (0.94%) SOAP
11 8 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (0.38%) YAML
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
14 2 (0.19%) ADO
14 2 (0.19%) Kafka
15 1 (0.094%) LAMP
15 1 (0.094%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (16.34%) Self-Motivation
2 92 (8.69%) Video Conferencing
3 89 (8.40%) Digital Signage
3 89 (8.40%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (4.25%) Onboarding
5 43 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 42 (3.97%) Driving Licence
7 39 (3.68%) e-Learning
7 39 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (3.59%) Blockchain
9 30 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.17%) Smartphone
11 18 (1.70%) NHS
12 17 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.23%) Shadow IT
14 11 (1.04%) EPoS
14 11 (1.04%) IoT
15 10 (0.94%) Social Media
16 9 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 265 (25.02%) Windows
2 114 (10.76%) Windows 10
3 103 (9.73%) Windows Server
4 38 (3.59%) Android
5 35 (3.31%) Apple iOS
6 28 (2.64%) Linux
7 25 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.70%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.85%) Windows NT
12 8 (0.76%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.47%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.19%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.094%) VMS
15 1 (0.094%) Windows Mobile
15 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
2 139 (13.13%) ITIL
3 135 (12.75%) Logistics
4 114 (10.76%) Service Delivery
5 99 (9.35%) Presales
6 97 (9.16%) Mentoring
7 96 (9.07%) Preventative Maintenance
8 74 (6.99%) Customer Experience
9 73 (6.89%) Coaching
9 73 (6.89%) Service Management
10 67 (6.33%) Agile
10 67 (6.33%) Project Management
11 66 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (5.95%) Change Management
13 57 (5.38%) ERP
14 54 (5.10%) ITSM
14 54 (5.10%) Line Management
15 52 (4.91%) Artificial Intelligence
16 50 (4.72%) Time Management
17 49 (4.63%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 83 (7.84%) SQL
2 58 (5.48%) JavaScript
3 53 (5.00%) Java
4 44 (4.15%) C#
5 34 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 33 (3.12%) Lua
7 25 (2.36%) Python
8 22 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 14 (1.32%) Bash
10 13 (1.23%) VB
11 12 (1.13%) C
11 12 (1.13%) VB.NET
12 10 (0.94%) Ruby
13 7 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.094%) ABAP
14 1 (0.094%) C++
14 1 (0.094%) R
14 1 (0.094%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (12.28%) Degree
2 83 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 79 (7.46%) DBS Check
4 52 (4.91%) SC Cleared
5 33 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.74%) A+ Certification
7 28 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.89%) MCP
10 18 (1.70%) CCNA
11 16 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.85%) HNC
14 9 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
16 6 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (16.71%) SLA
2 58 (5.48%) GDPR
3 22 (2.08%) QA
4 16 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.57%) PMO
8 4 (0.38%) COSHH
8 4 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.19%) GRC
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.19%) NCSC
11 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 206 (19.45%) Active Directory
2 54 (5.10%) Hyper-V
3 48 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (3.49%) Docker
5 14 (1.32%) Firmware
6 13 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 13 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.28%) KVM
10 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (4.53%) SCCM
2 32 (3.02%) WSUS
3 31 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.70%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.94%) Autotask
6 9 (0.85%) Sysprep
7 6 (0.57%) Ansible
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (0.57%) SCDPM
7 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.19%) SmoothWall
10 1 (0.094%) QRadar
10 1 (0.094%) Terraform
Vendors
1 377 (35.60%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.57%) Oracle
2 59 (5.57%) VMware
3 44 (4.15%) Cisco
4 43 (4.06%) Red Hat
5 39 (3.68%) IBM
6 31 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.27%) SAP
8 22 (2.08%) Citrix
9 19 (1.79%) WatchGuard
10 18 (1.70%) Dell
11 16 (1.51%) HP
12 15 (1.42%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.32%) NEC
14 13 (1.23%) Apple
14 13 (1.23%) Autodesk
14 13 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.23%) Sophos
15 12 (1.13%) Adobe
16 11 (1.04%) Aruba