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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +17
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 3,558 6,372 5,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.57% 6.43% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 7.51% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 4,707 3,423
10th Percentile £23,504 £22,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £25,468 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £32,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% -4.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,700 £64,475 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £30,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year -3.33% -8.40% -6.43%

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 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £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 9 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 9 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
UK excluding London +6 2,982 £29,000 -3.33% 2,505
England -9 2,966 £31,500 -1.56% 3,181
Work from Home +32 1,465 £26,984 -31.69% 1,234
North of England -3 849 £26,500 -12.94% 636
South East -12 558 £32,000 +6.67% 721
London -14 454 £42,500 - 1,074
North West -27 429 £25,103 -17.53% 331
Midlands -23 405 £28,500 -1.72% 383
South West +17 367 £31,500 +3.80% 290
East of England -9 326 £32,500 +12.07% 268
Wales +21 253 £25,087 -16.38% 78
Yorkshire +4 249 £29,000 -4.92% 238
East Midlands -6 213 £27,500 -5.17% 167
Scotland +57 197 £32,419 -7.37% 180
West Midlands -42 191 £29,500 +1.72% 199
North East +17 171 £25,087 -15.67% 80
Northern Ireland +40 31 £23,504 -21.65% 31

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
1 198 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 176 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.67%) Confluence
4 19 (0.53%) IBM Domino
4 19 (0.53%) IIS
5 15 (0.42%) OpenEdge
6 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.20%) Apache
7 7 (0.20%) WordPress
8 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.056%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.056%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.028%) CICS
11 1 (0.028%) Exchange Server 2003
11 1 (0.028%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 465 (13.07%) Microsoft Office
2 285 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 76 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.45%) Trello
5 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.084%) InDesign
9 2 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.056%) FrameMaker
9 2 (0.056%) MadCap Flare
9 2 (0.056%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.028%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 72 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.22%) Infor M3
6 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.14%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.14%) Shopify
8 4 (0.11%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.084%) Sage CRM
9 3 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
10 2 (0.056%) PeopleSoft Financials
10 2 (0.056%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 618 (17.37%) Microsoft 365
2 439 (12.34%) Azure
3 176 (4.95%) Power Platform
4 151 (4.24%) Entra ID
5 129 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
6 128 (3.60%) SaaS
7 78 (2.19%) Power Automate
8 77 (2.16%) AWS
9 76 (2.14%) OneDrive
10 68 (1.91%) PowerApps
11 34 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (0.53%) IaaS
14 18 (0.51%) PaaS
15 17 (0.48%) Google Workspace
16 15 (0.42%) Mimecast
17 13 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 807 (22.68%) Broadband
2 203 (5.71%) Firewall
3 156 (4.38%) DNS
4 117 (3.29%) LAN
5 116 (3.26%) WAN
6 113 (3.18%) DHCP
7 101 (2.84%) VPN
8 80 (2.25%) TCP/IP
9 79 (2.22%) VoIP
10 76 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (1.24%) 5G
11 44 (1.24%) VLAN
12 43 (1.21%) 4G
13 40 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
13 40 (1.12%) Wireless
14 35 (0.98%) Internet
15 27 (0.76%) Network Security
16 25 (0.70%) SSL
17 17 (0.48%) SAN
18 16 (0.45%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 101 (2.84%) Power BI
3 27 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 24 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.62%) Tableau
6 21 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.39%) MS Access
10 9 (0.25%) Star Schema
11 8 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.20%) DB2
13 6 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.14%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.084%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.084%) Big Data
15 3 (0.084%) MySQL
15 3 (0.084%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.084%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 67 (1.88%) JIRA
2 20 (0.56%) Git
3 10 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (0.20%) NDoc
5 7 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.084%) GitLab
6 3 (0.084%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.056%) ERwin
7 2 (0.056%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.028%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.028%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.028%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.028%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.028%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.028%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.028%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,192 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 857 (24.09%) Banking
3 687 (19.31%) Games
4 531 (14.92%) Finance
5 284 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 255 (7.17%) Retail
7 157 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 155 (4.36%) Telecoms
9 150 (4.22%) Marketing
10 141 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 106 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 103 (2.89%) Legal
13 91 (2.56%) Electronics
14 89 (2.50%) Law
15 76 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
16 59 (1.66%) Public Sector
17 54 (1.52%) Billing
18 31 (0.87%) Local Government
19 26 (0.73%) Back Office
19 26 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 722 (20.29%) Customer Service Advisor
2 455 (12.79%) Analyst
3 360 (10.12%) IT Support
4 259 (7.28%) Support Engineer
5 234 (6.58%) Technical Support
6 186 (5.23%) Support Technician
7 170 (4.78%) Support Analyst
8 166 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 154 (4.33%) 1st Line Support
10 150 (4.22%) Service Analyst
11 134 (3.77%) Senior
12 131 (3.68%) IT Engineer
13 127 (3.57%) Developer
14 115 (3.23%) Business Manager
15 111 (3.12%) IT Analyst
16 108 (3.04%) Development Manager
17 104 (2.92%) Business Development Manager
17 104 (2.92%) Lead
18 93 (2.61%) Service Desk Analyst
19 92 (2.59%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (1.38%) .NET
2 26 (0.73%) HTML
3 24 (0.67%) CSS
4 21 (0.59%) .NET Framework
4 21 (0.59%) XML
5 17 (0.48%) ASP.NET
5 17 (0.48%) REST
5 17 (0.48%) SOAP
6 16 (0.45%) SAPUI5
7 15 (0.42%) JSON
8 14 (0.39%) 802.1X
9 13 (0.37%) EDI
10 12 (0.34%) Web Services
11 9 (0.25%) HTML5
12 8 (0.22%) Middleware
13 7 (0.20%) React
14 6 (0.17%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.17%) LDAP
14 6 (0.17%) SPFx
15 5 (0.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
2 135 (3.79%) Driving Licence
3 108 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 106 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 69 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 62 (1.74%) Social Media
7 45 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 34 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
9 32 (0.90%) EPoS
10 29 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (0.62%) CCTV
12 21 (0.59%) Learning Management System
13 19 (0.53%) Product Ownership
14 17 (0.48%) CMDB
14 17 (0.48%) Hackathon
15 16 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.42%) IoT
17 14 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.39%) Private Cloud
18 13 (0.37%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 716 (20.12%) Windows
2 246 (6.91%) Windows Server
3 130 (3.65%) Windows 10
4 122 (3.43%) Mac OS
5 111 (3.12%) Linux
6 69 (1.94%) Android
7 54 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.84%) Unix
9 27 (0.76%) Windows 7
10 25 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (0.42%) Windows Vista
14 11 (0.31%) Solaris
15 10 (0.28%) zOS
16 8 (0.22%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.11%) AIX
17 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,501 (42.19%) Problem-Solving
2 461 (12.96%) Customer Experience
3 379 (10.65%) ITIL
4 302 (8.49%) Service Delivery
5 281 (7.90%) Coaching
6 280 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 233 (6.55%) CRM
8 205 (5.76%) Business Development
9 196 (5.51%) Agile
10 190 (5.34%) ITSM
11 188 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
12 178 (5.00%) Time Management
13 175 (4.92%) Service Management
14 167 (4.69%) Business Enablement
15 161 (4.53%) Project Management
16 154 (4.33%) Roadmaps
17 150 (4.22%) Mentoring
18 132 (3.71%) Decision-Making
19 127 (3.57%) Change Management
20 126 (3.54%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 162 (4.55%) SQL
2 88 (2.47%) C#
3 84 (2.36%) JavaScript
4 81 (2.28%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.29%) Python
6 35 (0.98%) Java
7 20 (0.56%) Progress 4GL
8 17 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.28%) R
10 10 (0.28%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.25%) PHP
12 8 (0.22%) Bash
12 8 (0.22%) VB.NET
12 8 (0.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.084%) C
13 3 (0.084%) VB
14 2 (0.056%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.056%) C++
Qualifications
1 397 (11.16%) Degree
2 158 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 124 (3.49%) DBS Check
4 118 (3.32%) Security Cleared
5 93 (2.61%) NVQ Level 4
6 85 (2.39%) SC Cleared
7 64 (1.80%) A+ Certification
8 61 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (1.49%) CCNA
10 46 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
11 29 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 29 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 27 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (0.70%) MCITP
14 23 (0.65%) JNCIA
15 20 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.51%) DV Cleared
17 17 (0.48%) PhD
18 16 (0.45%) CCNP
18 16 (0.45%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (7.00%) SLA
2 62 (1.74%) QA
3 48 (1.35%) GDPR
4 40 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.31%) GxP
11 9 (0.25%) NIST
12 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.22%) GRC
13 6 (0.17%) PMO
14 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.14%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
15 4 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 3 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.084%) PMBOK
System Software
1 477 (13.41%) Active Directory
2 117 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (2.84%) Hyper-V
4 38 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.25%) Firmware
7 9 (0.25%) vSphere
8 7 (0.20%) XenApp
9 6 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.14%) Docker
10 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.084%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.084%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.028%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.028%) RACF
12 1 (0.028%) Snort
12 1 (0.028%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 121 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (1.43%) SCCM
3 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.37%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.34%) Ansible
7 8 (0.22%) SCOM
7 8 (0.22%) Terraform
8 7 (0.20%) Puppet
8 7 (0.20%) WSUS
9 6 (0.17%) Grafana
9 6 (0.17%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.17%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.14%) AirWatch
10 5 (0.14%) Autotask
10 5 (0.14%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.11%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,057 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 864 (24.28%) BT
3 158 (4.44%) VMware
4 143 (4.02%) Cisco
5 108 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 104 (2.92%) YouTube
7 68 (1.91%) Apple
8 59 (1.66%) Google
9 51 (1.43%) Citrix
9 51 (1.43%) Oracle
9 51 (1.43%) SAP
10 45 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 42 (1.18%) Meraki
12 40 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 33 (0.93%) Dell
13 33 (0.93%) Veeam
14 27 (0.76%) NetApp
15 25 (0.70%) HP
16 21 (0.59%) Intel
16 21 (0.59%) Red Hat