Customer Service Job Trends in the South West

Customer Service
England > South West

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +23
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 407 346 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.54% 9.84% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 11.74% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 206 235 319
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £29,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -7.05%
75th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £44,500
90th Percentile £56,875 £54,995 £63,750
England median annual salary £31,500 £31,500 £34,250
% change year-on-year - -8.03% -6.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,418 2,946 6,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 83.76% 75.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,230 1,892 4,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -11.01% -0.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in the South West

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Bristol -3 87 £37,500 -12.28% 29
Wiltshire +5 79 £32,500 -4.41% 20
Somerset -12 68 £37,499 0.00% 30
Dorset +12 61 £31,500 -10.00% 9
Devon -19 49 £30,000 -4.76% 29
Gloucestershire -22 45 £31,250 +7.76% 34
Cornwall -7 16 £29,000 -9.38% 10
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 97 (23.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 68 (16.71%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 152 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
2 103 (25.31%) Azure
3 25 (6.14%) SaaS
4 24 (5.90%) AWS
4 24 (5.90%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.97%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.23%) PaaS
8 4 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.49%) IaaS
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 88 (21.62%) DHCP
1 88 (21.62%) DNS
2 21 (5.16%) VPN
3 18 (4.42%) WAN
4 17 (4.18%) Firewall
5 11 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.70%) Wireless
6 10 (2.46%) Broadband
7 9 (2.21%) LAN
7 9 (2.21%) WLAN
8 8 (1.97%) SAN
9 7 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.23%) Network Security
11 4 (0.98%) VLAN
12 3 (0.74%) Internet
13 2 (0.49%) BGP
13 2 (0.49%) EIGRP
13 2 (0.49%) OSPF
13 2 (0.49%) PPP
13 2 (0.49%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.20%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (5.41%) JIRA
2 8 (1.97%) Selenium
3 5 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 246 (60.44%) Social Skills
2 90 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (18.92%) Finance
4 74 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (12.53%) Legal
6 22 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.16%) Marketing
8 19 (4.67%) Aviation
9 16 (3.93%) Retail
10 11 (2.70%) Games
10 11 (2.70%) Law
10 11 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.46%) Military
11 10 (2.46%) Swedish Language
12 9 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.47%) Banking
14 6 (1.47%) Billing
14 6 (1.47%) Electronics
14 6 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (20.15%) Systems Engineer
2 61 (14.99%) IT Support
3 49 (12.04%) Support Engineer
4 43 (10.57%) IT Engineer
5 42 (10.32%) Analyst
6 35 (8.60%) IT Support Engineer
7 30 (7.37%) Administrator
8 29 (7.13%) Service Analyst
9 28 (6.88%) Service Desk Analyst
10 19 (4.67%) IT Analyst
11 17 (4.18%) Senior
12 16 (3.93%) Field Engineer
12 16 (3.93%) Field Service Engineer
13 15 (3.69%) Technical Support
14 14 (3.44%) Support Analyst
15 13 (3.19%) Lead
16 12 (2.95%) Sales Administrator
17 10 (2.46%) Facilities Administrator
17 10 (2.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 10 (2.46%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.98%) XML
2 3 (0.74%) JSON
2 3 (0.74%) Playwright
3 2 (0.49%) Hugging Face
3 2 (0.49%) Matplotlib
3 2 (0.49%) NumPy
3 2 (0.49%) Pandas
3 2 (0.49%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.49%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.25%) Vue
4 1 (0.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 70 (17.20%) Legacy Systems
2 49 (12.04%) Driving Licence
3 44 (10.81%) Podcast
3 44 (10.81%) Virtual Team
3 44 (10.81%) Web Conferencing
4 22 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.97%) Client/Server
6 8 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.72%) NHS
8 6 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.23%) CCTV
9 5 (1.23%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.98%) Digital Signage
10 4 (0.98%) EPoS
10 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 140 (34.40%) Windows
2 97 (23.83%) Windows Server
3 74 (18.18%) Linux
4 70 (17.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 8 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.72%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.98%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (38.82%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (25.06%) Customer Experience
3 71 (17.44%) Kalman Filter
3 71 (17.44%) Migration
4 70 (17.20%) Email Filtering
4 70 (17.20%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 70 (17.20%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 70 (17.20%) Web Filtering
5 40 (9.83%) ITIL
6 33 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (7.37%) CRM
8 29 (7.13%) Service Delivery
9 25 (6.14%) AI
10 20 (4.91%) ITSM
11 18 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (3.69%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (3.69%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (3.44%) ERP
14 13 (3.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (2.95%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.65%) SQL
2 12 (2.95%) JavaScript
3 9 (2.21%) C#
3 9 (2.21%) Python
4 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.25%) C++
5 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 37 (9.09%) Degree
5 29 (7.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (4.42%) MCSE
7 13 (3.19%) A+ Certification
8 12 (2.95%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.21%) CCNA
11 8 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.98%) HNC
14 3 (0.74%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.49%) CCNP
15 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 1 (0.25%) City & Guilds
16 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.25%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (17.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 70 (17.20%) PCI DSS
2 25 (6.14%) QA
3 14 (3.44%) SLA
4 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 112 (27.52%) Active Directory
2 82 (20.15%) Hyper-V
3 70 (17.20%) Terminal Server
4 15 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 192 (47.17%) Microsoft
2 86 (21.13%) VMware
3 74 (18.18%) Veeam
4 73 (17.94%) SolarWinds
5 70 (17.20%) Brocade
5 70 (17.20%) Nimble Storage
5 70 (17.20%) Splunk
5 70 (17.20%) Tanium
6 12 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.21%) BT
7 9 (2.21%) Dell
8 7 (1.72%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.23%) Adobe
9 5 (1.23%) Apple
10 4 (0.98%) HP
11 3 (0.74%) Cisco
11 3 (0.74%) Sage
12 2 (0.49%) Citrix
12 2 (0.49%) Draytek
12 2 (0.49%) McAfee