Customer Service Jobs

Customer Service
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +15
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 3,395 6,325 5,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.52% 6.42% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 7.47% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,062 4,725 3,485
10th Percentile £23,504 £22,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £25,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £32,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -9.86% -5.33%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England -3 2,913 £31,500 -1.56% 2,742
UK excluding London +7 2,818 £29,000 -3.33% 2,177
Work from Home +36 1,345 £28,000 -29.11% 1,061
North of England 0 822 £26,500 -14.52% 542
South East -12 551 £32,000 +6.67% 570
London -16 460 £42,500 - 929
North West -17 432 £25,103 -21.25% 285
Midlands -18 410 £28,500 -3.39% 351
South West +17 353 £31,500 +0.80% 250
East of England -2 309 £32,517 +14.09% 244
Yorkshire +4 241 £29,000 -6.45% 206
East Midlands -3 210 £27,500 -5.17% 158
West Midlands -40 199 £29,750 -0.83% 180
Wales +18 181 £25,087 -16.77% 109
Scotland +51 165 £26,968 -26.39% 158
North East +17 149 £25,087 -14.96% 62
Northern Ireland +37 29 £23,504 -21.65% 20

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 203 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 177 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.71%) Confluence
4 21 (0.62%) IBM Domino
5 16 (0.47%) OpenEdge
6 15 (0.44%) IIS
7 8 (0.24%) Camunda
7 8 (0.24%) nginx
8 7 (0.21%) Apache
8 7 (0.21%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
10 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.088%) CMS
12 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.059%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.029%) Exchange Server 2003
13 1 (0.029%) Exchange Server 2007
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 461 (13.58%) Microsoft Office
2 303 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.50%) Trello
5 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.088%) InDesign
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.059%) FrameMaker
8 2 (0.059%) MadCap Flare
8 2 (0.059%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 73 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 10 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.088%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.088%) Shopify
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.059%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.059%) Magento
8 2 (0.059%) PeopleSoft Financials
8 2 (0.059%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.059%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 615 (18.11%) Microsoft 365
2 436 (12.84%) Azure
3 175 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 144 (4.24%) Entra ID
5 130 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
6 120 (3.53%) SaaS
7 87 (2.56%) AWS
8 77 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 75 (2.21%) OneDrive
10 70 (2.06%) PowerApps
11 36 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (0.68%) IBM Cloud
14 19 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (0.56%) Google Workspace
15 18 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.50%) IaaS
17 16 (0.47%) PaaS
18 15 (0.44%) Mimecast
19 12 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 708 (20.85%) Broadband
2 184 (5.42%) Firewall
3 157 (4.62%) DNS
4 117 (3.45%) DHCP
5 113 (3.33%) LAN
6 111 (3.27%) WAN
7 95 (2.80%) VPN
8 78 (2.30%) TCP/IP
9 77 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
10 74 (2.18%) VoIP
11 48 (1.41%) VLAN
12 44 (1.30%) 5G
13 43 (1.27%) 4G
13 43 (1.27%) Internet
14 38 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
14 38 (1.12%) Wireless
15 27 (0.80%) Network Security
16 22 (0.65%) SSL
17 18 (0.53%) SAN
18 15 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.89%) Power BI
3 27 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 24 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (0.59%) Tableau
7 19 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (0.41%) MS Access
10 9 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.27%) Star Schema
11 8 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.21%) DB2
12 7 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.15%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.088%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.088%) Big Data
14 3 (0.088%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 70 (2.06%) JIRA
2 35 (1.03%) Git
3 15 (0.44%) Maven
4 10 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.21%) NDoc
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.088%) GitLab
7 3 (0.088%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.059%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.029%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.029%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.029%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.029%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.029%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.029%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.029%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,145 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 759 (22.36%) Banking
3 591 (17.41%) Games
4 472 (13.90%) Finance
5 286 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 204 (6.01%) Retail
7 152 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 144 (4.24%) Telecoms
9 140 (4.12%) Marketing
10 139 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
11 121 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 98 (2.89%) Legal
13 87 (2.56%) Electronics
14 86 (2.53%) Law
15 81 (2.39%) Public Sector
16 76 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
17 50 (1.47%) Billing
18 32 (0.94%) Local Government
19 24 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
20 19 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 628 (18.50%) Customer Service Advisor
2 452 (13.31%) Analyst
3 358 (10.54%) IT Support
4 251 (7.39%) Support Engineer
5 218 (6.42%) Technical Support
6 176 (5.18%) Support Technician
7 159 (4.68%) 2nd Line Support
8 158 (4.65%) Support Analyst
9 151 (4.45%) Service Analyst
10 149 (4.39%) Senior
11 141 (4.15%) 1st Line Support
12 138 (4.06%) IT Engineer
13 132 (3.89%) Developer
14 114 (3.36%) IT Analyst
15 107 (3.15%) Business Manager
16 101 (2.97%) Development Manager
17 98 (2.89%) Business Development Manager
17 98 (2.89%) IT Support Engineer
18 95 (2.80%) Lead
19 91 (2.68%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (1.59%) .NET
2 28 (0.82%) HTML
3 26 (0.77%) CSS
4 22 (0.65%) .NET Framework
5 19 (0.56%) ASP.NET
5 19 (0.56%) XML
6 16 (0.47%) React
6 16 (0.47%) SAPUI5
7 15 (0.44%) REST
7 15 (0.44%) SOAP
8 14 (0.41%) 802.1X
9 13 (0.38%) EDI
9 13 (0.38%) Web Services
10 12 (0.35%) JSON
11 10 (0.29%) HTML5
11 10 (0.29%) Middleware
12 8 (0.24%) KeystoneJS
12 8 (0.24%) Node.js
12 8 (0.24%) Swagger
13 7 (0.21%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.24%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (3.71%) Driving Licence
3 105 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 98 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 65 (1.91%) Data Centre
6 62 (1.83%) Social Media
7 46 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
10 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (0.80%) EPoS
12 25 (0.74%) Blockchain
13 23 (0.68%) e-Learning
14 21 (0.62%) CCTV
14 21 (0.62%) Learning Management System
15 19 (0.56%) CMDB
16 18 (0.53%) Product Ownership
17 17 (0.50%) Hackathon
18 14 (0.41%) IoT
18 14 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 714 (21.03%) Windows
2 246 (7.25%) Windows Server
3 125 (3.68%) Windows 10
4 124 (3.65%) Mac OS
5 116 (3.42%) Linux
6 73 (2.15%) Android
7 55 (1.62%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.91%) Unix
9 26 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.77%) Windows 7
9 26 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (0.50%) Windows Vista
11 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.44%) Solaris
13 14 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (0.35%) zOS
15 8 (0.24%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.18%) AIX
17 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,375 (40.50%) Problem-Solving
2 422 (12.43%) Customer Experience
3 371 (10.93%) ITIL
4 303 (8.92%) Service Delivery
5 287 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 250 (7.36%) Coaching
7 224 (6.60%) CRM
8 200 (5.89%) Agile
9 188 (5.54%) ITSM
10 187 (5.51%) Business Development
11 177 (5.21%) Cybersecurity
12 176 (5.18%) Service Management
13 168 (4.95%) Mentoring
14 162 (4.77%) Time Management
15 157 (4.62%) Project Management
16 155 (4.57%) Business Enablement
16 155 (4.57%) Roadmaps
17 139 (4.09%) Process Improvement
18 126 (3.71%) Stakeholder Management
19 125 (3.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 157 (4.62%) SQL
2 93 (2.74%) C#
3 91 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 81 (2.39%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.56%) Java
6 48 (1.41%) Python
7 21 (0.62%) Progress 4GL
8 17 (0.50%) Kotlin
9 13 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.32%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.27%) PHP
13 8 (0.24%) Bash
13 8 (0.24%) Lua
13 8 (0.24%) R
13 8 (0.24%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.12%) VBA
15 3 (0.088%) C
15 3 (0.088%) VB
16 2 (0.059%) C++
Qualifications
1 412 (12.14%) Degree
2 162 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 131 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.59%) DBS Check
5 93 (2.74%) NVQ Level 4
6 75 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 68 (2.00%) A+ Certification
8 62 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (1.59%) CCNA
10 53 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
11 30 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 28 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 26 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.68%) MCITP
15 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
16 19 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.53%) JNCIA
18 17 (0.50%) ACCA
18 17 (0.50%) MCSA
18 17 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.86%) SLA
2 62 (1.83%) QA
3 44 (1.30%) GDPR
4 38 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 37 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.32%) GxP
11 10 (0.29%) NIST
12 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.18%) GRC
12 6 (0.18%) PMO
13 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.15%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.12%) Automotive SPICE
14 4 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.088%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.088%) PMBOK
System Software
1 477 (14.05%) Active Directory
2 110 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (2.95%) Hyper-V
4 38 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.38%) Docker
6 13 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.27%) vSphere
8 7 (0.21%) Firmware
8 7 (0.21%) XenApp
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.088%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.059%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.029%) RACF
13 1 (0.029%) Snort
13 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 116 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (1.56%) SCCM
3 16 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (0.38%) vCenter Server
5 12 (0.35%) Ansible
6 11 (0.32%) WSUS
7 8 (0.24%) SCOM
7 8 (0.24%) Terraform
8 7 (0.21%) Puppet
9 6 (0.18%) Opsgenie
10 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.15%) AirWatch
10 5 (0.15%) Autotask
10 5 (0.15%) Grafana
10 5 (0.15%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.15%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.12%) Kubernetes
11 4 (0.12%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,038 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 724 (21.33%) BT
3 147 (4.33%) VMware
4 135 (3.98%) Cisco
5 110 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 93 (2.74%) YouTube
7 69 (2.03%) Apple
8 61 (1.80%) Google
9 55 (1.62%) Citrix
10 54 (1.59%) Oracle
11 50 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 50 (1.47%) SAP
12 46 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 42 (1.24%) IBM
14 41 (1.21%) Meraki
15 39 (1.15%) Fortinet
16 35 (1.03%) Veeam
17 32 (0.94%) Dell
18 27 (0.80%) NetApp
19 24 (0.71%) HP