Customer Service Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Customer Service
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 11 19 8
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 9 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 5.45% 14.52% 14.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 15.65% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 24
10th Percentile £26,322 £27,800 -
25th Percentile £26,430 £29,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,234 £30,000 £21,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% +39.53% -
75th Percentile £28,305 £33,750 £31,313
90th Percentile £28,572 - £52,475
Staffordshire median annual salary £40,000 £37,875 £24,000
% change year-on-year +5.61% +57.81% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 115 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 69.70% 92.74% 85.28%
Number of salaries quoted 65 81 124
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £21,950
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £28,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,866 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,800 £54,500 £60,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Customer Service
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Customer Service.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 7 (77.78%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Trainer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 1 (11.11%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) AI
1 7 (77.78%) Conversational UI
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VB
1 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) PayPal
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec