Customer Service Jobs in the North of England

Customer Service
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Customer Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Service over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 62 34
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 +12
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,179 895 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.60% 5.32% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 5.50% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 959 534 840
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,790 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £31,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -10.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £46,000 £48,750 £51,549
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Customer Service is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,744 16,282 17,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.48% 96.75% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,305 7,858 10,675
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the North of England.

Salary trend for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the North of England

Customer Service
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
North West +31 612 £30,469 -1.71% 343
Yorkshire +44 438 £30,500 -6.15% 228
North East +4 129 £29,500 -26.25% 82
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 85 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.87%) IIS
4 10 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 8 (0.68%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.42%) SAS
7 4 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.085%) Apache
8 1 (0.085%) Confluence
8 1 (0.085%) Moodle
8 1 (0.085%) nginx
Applications
1 182 (15.44%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.51%) LightWave 3D
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.085%) InDesign
7 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.19%) NEC Housing
3 13 (1.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (1.10%) iTrent
4 10 (0.85%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.42%) Sage 50
5 5 (0.42%) Sage CRM
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.17%) Magento
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.085%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 312 (26.46%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (19.51%) Azure
3 48 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.82%) Entra ID
5 42 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (3.22%) AWS
6 38 (3.22%) Power Automate
7 32 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.87%) GCP
8 22 (1.87%) PowerApps
9 18 (1.53%) SaaS
10 12 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (0.93%) OpenShift
12 9 (0.76%) Google Workspace
12 9 (0.76%) IaaS
13 8 (0.68%) OneDrive
13 8 (0.68%) PaaS
14 5 (0.42%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (0.25%) GitHub
15 3 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 103 (8.74%) Firewall
2 75 (6.36%) TCP/IP
3 69 (5.85%) LAN
4 66 (5.60%) WAN
5 60 (5.09%) Internet
6 56 (4.75%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (4.16%) DHCP
8 42 (3.56%) DNS
9 40 (3.39%) VPN
10 39 (3.31%) Wireless
11 38 (3.22%) BGP
11 38 (3.22%) MPLS
11 38 (3.22%) OSPF
11 38 (3.22%) VoIP
12 30 (2.54%) Ethernet
13 27 (2.29%) Broadband
14 24 (2.04%) DSL
15 22 (1.87%) Network Security
16 19 (1.61%) VLAN
17 15 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 28 (2.37%) Power BI
3 15 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.76%) MySQL
6 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 8 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
9 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.34%) DB2
11 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.25%) Tableau
13 2 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 16 (1.36%) Jasmine
1 16 (1.36%) Karma Test Runner
2 11 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
3 8 (0.68%) Git
4 6 (0.51%) JIRA
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.085%) Maven
7 1 (0.085%) QADirector
7 1 (0.085%) Selenium
General
1 608 (51.57%) Social Skills
2 263 (22.31%) Finance
3 173 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (11.45%) Retail
5 115 (9.75%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (6.36%) Legal
7 48 (4.07%) Marketing
8 45 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 40 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 37 (3.14%) Games
11 35 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.88%) Banking
12 34 (2.88%) Law
13 24 (2.04%) Local Government
14 23 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.78%) Billing
16 19 (1.61%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.27%) Police
18 11 (0.93%) Back Office
18 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (20.36%) Analyst
2 138 (11.70%) IT Support
3 107 (9.08%) Service Analyst
4 105 (8.91%) Service Desk Analyst
5 94 (7.97%) Support Engineer
6 80 (6.79%) Lead
7 76 (6.45%) Senior
8 64 (5.43%) Support Technician
9 63 (5.34%) Developer
10 62 (5.26%) IT Technician
11 56 (4.75%) IT Analyst
12 54 (4.58%) Support Analyst
13 52 (4.41%) Administrator
14 47 (3.99%) IT Support Technician
14 47 (3.99%) Team Leader
15 46 (3.90%) Technical Support
16 44 (3.73%) 1st Line Support
17 43 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support
18 42 (3.56%) IT Engineer
19 41 (3.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.65%) .NET
2 28 (2.37%) JSON
3 27 (2.29%) REST
4 24 (2.04%) XML
5 23 (1.95%) AngularJS
5 23 (1.95%) ASP.NET
6 20 (1.70%) Web Services
7 19 (1.61%) CSS
7 19 (1.61%) SOAP
8 16 (1.36%) HTML
8 16 (1.36%) OLE
8 16 (1.36%) RxJS
8 16 (1.36%) Sass
8 16 (1.36%) XML Schema
9 14 (1.19%) React
10 10 (0.85%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.59%) OpenID
12 6 (0.51%) .NET Framework
13 5 (0.42%) HTML5
13 5 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (8.23%) Driving Licence
2 75 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 58 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.05%) Smartphone
6 34 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 16 (1.36%) EPoS
10 14 (1.19%) CCTV
11 13 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.02%) iPad
13 10 (0.85%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.68%) Blockchain
15 8 (0.68%) NHS
15 8 (0.68%) Social Media
16 7 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 7 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 268 (22.73%) Windows
2 116 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 86 (7.29%) Windows 10
4 43 (3.65%) Linux
5 25 (2.12%) Android
6 23 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.78%) Unix
8 21 (1.78%) Windows 7
8 21 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.53%) VyOS
10 15 (1.27%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.76%) Windows Phone
12 7 (0.59%) Windows Vista
13 5 (0.42%) VMS
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.25%) CentOS
14 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
2 235 (19.93%) ITIL
3 116 (9.84%) Agile
4 111 (9.41%) Customer Experience
5 103 (8.74%) CRM
6 100 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 94 (7.97%) Service Management
8 93 (7.89%) Time Management
9 84 (7.12%) ITSM
10 79 (6.70%) Project Management
11 75 (6.36%) Mentoring
11 75 (6.36%) Service Delivery
12 69 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
13 67 (5.68%) DevOps
13 67 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 63 (5.34%) Line Management
15 62 (5.26%) Coaching
16 59 (5.00%) Incident Management
17 58 (4.92%) Decision-Making
18 54 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 105 (8.91%) SQL
2 54 (4.58%) C#
3 46 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 28 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.70%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 17 (1.44%) Python
9 16 (1.36%) R
9 16 (1.36%) VB
9 16 (1.36%) VB6
10 15 (1.27%) Java
11 11 (0.93%) Groovy
12 6 (0.51%) PHP
12 6 (0.51%) Ruby
13 5 (0.42%) Bash
14 3 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 156 (13.23%) Degree
2 81 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 80 (6.79%) DBS Check
4 51 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
5 45 (3.82%) CCNA
6 32 (2.71%) Security Cleared
7 29 (2.46%) MCP
8 26 (2.21%) A+ Certification
9 24 (2.04%) JNCIA
10 20 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
11 18 (1.53%) MCSE
12 16 (1.36%) HNC
13 15 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (1.27%) MCSA
14 14 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 13 (1.10%) HND
16 12 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.02%) PhD
16 12 (1.02%) PMP
17 11 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.33%) SLA
2 32 (2.71%) QA
3 28 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.44%) GDPR
6 16 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.19%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.085%) NCSC
11 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 223 (18.91%) Active Directory
2 71 (6.02%) Hyper-V
3 57 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.36%) vSphere
5 11 (0.93%) Terminal Services
5 11 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.76%) Docker
6 9 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.68%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.51%) XenApp
8 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.34%) vCloud
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.085%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.12%) SCCM
3 18 (1.53%) Terraform
4 13 (1.10%) Kubernetes
5 11 (0.93%) Ansible
5 11 (0.93%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.76%) AirWatch
7 6 (0.51%) Nagios
8 5 (0.42%) Autotask
8 5 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.34%) WSUS
10 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.17%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.17%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.085%) Graylog
11 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.085%) yum
Vendors
1 447 (37.91%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.74%) VMware
3 67 (5.68%) Cisco
4 45 (3.82%) Citrix
5 40 (3.39%) IBM
6 37 (3.14%) Fortinet
7 30 (2.54%) Juniper
7 30 (2.54%) Nokia
8 29 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 28 (2.37%) SAP
10 26 (2.21%) Ruckus Wireless
10 26 (2.21%) Veeam
11 25 (2.12%) Dell
11 25 (2.12%) Google
12 23 (1.95%) Oracle
13 18 (1.53%) Vyatta
14 17 (1.44%) Apple
14 17 (1.44%) HP
14 17 (1.44%) Sun
15 15 (1.27%) Salesforce