Customer Service Job Trends in Staffordshire

Customer Service
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Customer Service skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 46 47 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 4.80% 8.80% 11.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 9.75% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 31 24 49
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £20,475
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,938 £21,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,875 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +57.81% -4.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £51,563 £32,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £45,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £45,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year -17.58% +42.19% -1.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 482 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.46% 90.26% 85.65%
Number of salaries quoted 337 304 331
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,822 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in Staffordshire

Customer Service
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Cannock - 10 £40,000 -
Stoke-on-Trent +8 9 £27,234 -9.22% 2
Tamworth -1 7 £50,000 - 1
Lichfield -5 2 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Stafford +5 1 £30,000 -22.59% 1
Cradley Heath - 1 £40,000 -
Customer Service
West Midlands

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (15.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.35%) Azure
2 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.17%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) RFID
4 3 (6.52%) Broadband
4 3 (6.52%) Firewall
4 3 (6.52%) VPN
5 2 (4.35%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.35%) LAN
5 2 (4.35%) MPLS
5 2 (4.35%) PSTN
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) VoIP
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (36.96%) Retail
2 10 (21.74%) Electronics
3 7 (15.22%) Manufacturing
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Advertising
5 3 (6.52%) Marketing
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Analyst
2 8 (17.39%) Business Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Business Development Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Development Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Support Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Trainer
4 6 (13.04%) Logistics Manager
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Support
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) IT Support
6 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Help Desk Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Help Desk Support
6 4 (8.70%) Help Desk Support Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Onboarding
2 10 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 4 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (8.70%) SCADA
4 3 (6.52%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) iSeries
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Business Development
1 12 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (21.74%) Customer-Centricity
3 7 (15.22%) AI
3 7 (15.22%) Conversational UI
4 6 (13.04%) Customer Experience
4 6 (13.04%) Logistics
4 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) Telesales
6 4 (8.70%) B2B
6 4 (8.70%) B2B Sales
6 4 (8.70%) Commercial Awareness
6 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
6 4 (8.70%) Data Entry
6 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (8.70%) ERP
6 4 (8.70%) ITIL
6 4 (8.70%) Mathematics
6 4 (8.70%) Server Building
7 2 (4.35%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Ladder Logic
2 1 (2.17%) SQL
2 1 (2.17%) VB
2 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) HNC
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.70%) MCP
4 4 (8.70%) MCSA
5 2 (4.35%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Functional Safety
2 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.17%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) PayPal
3 6 (13.04%) VMware
4 4 (8.70%) Veeam
5 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.35%) Juniper
6 1 (2.17%) BT
6 1 (2.17%) Symantec