Customer Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 52 68
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 6,316 5,808 7,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.41% 5.61% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 5.87% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,710 3,491 4,641
10th Percentile £22,500 £23,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £25,476 £27,750 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £36,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 19 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 4 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
England +26 5,701 £32,000 -8.57% 2,748
UK excluding London +10 5,244 £30,000 -7.69% 2,399
Work from Home +14 1,564 £39,066 -13.19% 795
South East +10 1,403 £30,000 -7.69% 609
North of England +35 1,166 £30,469 -2.50% 596
Midlands +33 1,087 £29,000 -17.14% 414
London -1 872 £42,500 -5.56% 532
West Midlands +28 728 £29,542 -25.48% 257
North West +22 597 £31,000 - 340
South West +2 583 £31,000 -4.62% 345
East of England +20 567 £29,000 -6.45% 323
Yorkshire +43 444 £30,500 -3.94% 184
East Midlands +36 353 £29,000 -6.45% 157
Scotland -49 264 £35,776 -9.98% 149
Wales +31 139 £30,000 -3.23% 87
North East +7 125 £29,500 -26.25% 84
Northern Ireland -29 24 £30,000 -40.00% 23
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 +142.86%

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
1 412 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 342 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (0.90%) IIS
4 51 (0.81%) CMS
5 47 (0.74%) Confluence
6 44 (0.70%) nginx
7 36 (0.57%) Camunda
8 17 (0.27%) WordPress
9 12 (0.19%) SAS
10 10 (0.16%) Apache
10 10 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
12 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.11%) Moodle
14 6 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2010
15 5 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.079%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,130 (17.89%) Microsoft Office
2 404 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.28%) Trello
7 16 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.095%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.095%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.063%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.047%) InDesign
13 1 (0.016%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 155 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 23 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 18 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.28%) Sage 200
6 16 (0.25%) iTrent
7 13 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 13 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
7 13 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 12 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 11 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 10 (0.16%) Shopify
11 9 (0.14%) SAP HR
12 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.095%) Elite 3E
13 6 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
13 6 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.095%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 6 (0.095%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,472 (23.31%) Microsoft 365
2 949 (15.03%) Azure
3 270 (4.27%) Power Platform
4 261 (4.13%) Entra ID
5 218 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 199 (3.15%) AWS
7 153 (2.42%) SaaS
8 151 (2.39%) Power Automate
9 110 (1.74%) PowerApps
10 102 (1.61%) OneDrive
11 79 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (1.01%) GCP
13 55 (0.87%) OpenShift
14 53 (0.84%) Mimecast
15 48 (0.76%) IaaS
16 44 (0.70%) IBM Cloud
17 42 (0.66%) Serverless
18 40 (0.63%) WhatsApp
19 36 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
20 35 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 444 (7.03%) Firewall
2 287 (4.54%) DNS
3 279 (4.42%) LAN
4 248 (3.93%) WAN
5 239 (3.78%) TCP/IP
6 221 (3.50%) DHCP
7 217 (3.44%) VPN
8 198 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
9 182 (2.88%) Wireless
10 173 (2.74%) Internet
11 141 (2.23%) VoIP
12 107 (1.69%) VLAN
13 84 (1.33%) Intranet
14 83 (1.31%) Network Security
15 74 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
16 66 (1.04%) Broadband
17 57 (0.90%) MPLS
18 51 (0.81%) SAN
19 42 (0.66%) BGP
19 42 (0.66%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 159 (2.52%) Power BI
3 68 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 64 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 53 (0.84%) MySQL
6 48 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 45 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 38 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 34 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 28 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (0.36%) NoSQL
14 22 (0.35%) Data Lake
15 21 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
15 21 (0.33%) GIS
16 19 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
17 14 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
18 11 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 126 (1.99%) JIRA
2 52 (0.82%) Git
3 28 (0.44%) Jasmine
3 28 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
4 18 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.13%) Maven
8 7 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.095%) Mercurial
9 6 (0.095%) MSI
10 5 (0.079%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.079%) GitLab
10 5 (0.079%) webpack
11 4 (0.063%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.047%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.047%) Moq
12 3 (0.047%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.047%) Subversion
General
1 3,189 (50.49%) Social Skills
2 1,011 (16.01%) Finance
3 920 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 707 (11.19%) Organisational Skills
5 548 (8.68%) Retail
6 387 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 321 (5.08%) Legal
8 305 (4.83%) Telecoms
9 287 (4.54%) Marketing
10 244 (3.86%) Public Sector
11 204 (3.23%) Law
12 175 (2.77%) Banking
13 166 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 161 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
15 160 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
16 137 (2.17%) Billing
17 130 (2.06%) Military
18 108 (1.71%) Local Government
19 96 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
20 83 (1.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,053 (16.67%) Analyst
2 835 (13.22%) IT Support
3 570 (9.02%) Support Engineer
4 437 (6.92%) Senior
5 361 (5.72%) IT Engineer
6 332 (5.26%) Support Analyst
7 326 (5.16%) Lead
8 316 (5.00%) Administrator
9 313 (4.96%) IT Technician
10 303 (4.80%) Service Analyst
11 286 (4.53%) Support Technician
12 283 (4.48%) Technical Support
13 277 (4.39%) 1st Line Support
14 276 (4.37%) IT Support Engineer
15 273 (4.32%) Consultant
16 272 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
17 240 (3.80%) IT Analyst
18 236 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
19 227 (3.59%) Developer
20 216 (3.42%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.55%) .NET
2 90 (1.42%) HTML
3 80 (1.27%) CSS
4 78 (1.23%) React
5 71 (1.12%) JSON
6 60 (0.95%) XML
7 53 (0.84%) AngularJS
8 51 (0.81%) Node.js
9 49 (0.78%) ASP.NET
10 47 (0.74%) REST
11 42 (0.66%) Web Services
12 36 (0.57%) KeystoneJS
12 36 (0.57%) Swagger
13 35 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
13 35 (0.55%) SOAP
14 33 (0.52%) Sass
15 28 (0.44%) RxJS
15 28 (0.44%) XML Schema
16 22 (0.35%) .NET Core
17 21 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 544 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
2 343 (5.43%) Driving Licence
3 287 (4.54%) Management Information System
4 273 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 145 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 143 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
7 109 (1.73%) Digital Signage
8 89 (1.41%) Smartphone
8 89 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
9 80 (1.27%) Social Media
10 76 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 68 (1.08%) CCTV
12 66 (1.04%) Blockchain
13 61 (0.97%) e-Learning
14 60 (0.95%) EPoS
15 57 (0.90%) Replication
16 56 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 55 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
18 50 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
19 47 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,489 (23.58%) Windows
2 542 (8.58%) Windows Server
3 489 (7.74%) Windows 10
4 224 (3.55%) Linux
5 145 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 140 (2.22%) Android
7 129 (2.04%) Mac OS
8 111 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 108 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 90 (1.42%) Windows 7
11 84 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 76 (1.20%) Unix
13 37 (0.59%) Mac OS X
14 30 (0.47%) Windows 8
15 29 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 23 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.33%) CentOS
18 19 (0.30%) VyOS
19 16 (0.25%) VMS
20 14 (0.22%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,788 (28.31%) Problem-Solving
2 927 (14.68%) ITIL
3 607 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 560 (8.87%) Agile
5 543 (8.60%) Project Management
6 486 (7.69%) Service Delivery
7 452 (7.16%) CRM
8 445 (7.05%) Customer Experience
9 424 (6.71%) Service Management
10 384 (6.08%) Time Management
11 351 (5.56%) Mentoring
12 333 (5.27%) ITSM
13 305 (4.83%) Project Delivery
14 290 (4.59%) Logistics
15 274 (4.34%) Process Improvement
16 273 (4.32%) Mathematics
17 269 (4.26%) Decision-Making
18 267 (4.23%) Line Management
19 262 (4.15%) Coaching
20 252 (3.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 457 (7.24%) SQL
2 226 (3.58%) JavaScript
3 205 (3.25%) C#
4 149 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 109 (1.73%) Java
6 95 (1.50%) Python
7 66 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 56 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 45 (0.71%) PHP
10 42 (0.66%) Bash
11 40 (0.63%) VB
12 36 (0.57%) C++
12 36 (0.57%) Lua
13 32 (0.51%) VB.NET
14 28 (0.44%) VB6
15 24 (0.38%) R
16 21 (0.33%) Groovy
17 19 (0.30%) C
18 15 (0.24%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,045 (16.55%) Degree
2 336 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 312 (4.94%) DBS Check
4 286 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 161 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 140 (2.22%) A+ Certification
7 131 (2.07%) SC Cleared
8 123 (1.95%) CCNA
9 119 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 113 (1.79%) MCP
11 99 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 76 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
13 74 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 66 (1.04%) Master's Degree
15 62 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 56 (0.89%) HNC
17 50 (0.79%) MCSE
18 46 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 38 (0.60%) CCNP
19 38 (0.60%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 682 (10.80%) SLA
2 157 (2.49%) GDPR
3 156 (2.47%) QA
4 104 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 47 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.71%) ISO 9001
8 25 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 25 (0.40%) PMO
9 14 (0.22%) NIST
10 11 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.14%) NEBOSH
13 7 (0.11%) IFRS
14 6 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.095%) GAAP
14 6 (0.095%) ISO 14001
14 6 (0.095%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.079%) COSHH
System Software
1 1,045 (16.55%) Active Directory
2 235 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 224 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 59 (0.93%) Docker
5 56 (0.89%) Firmware
6 39 (0.62%) vSphere
7 34 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 19 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (0.24%) KVM
12 15 (0.24%) XenApp
13 14 (0.22%) XenDesktop
14 12 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.063%) vCloud
15 4 (0.063%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.047%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 227 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 161 (2.55%) SCCM
3 47 (0.74%) WSUS
4 38 (0.60%) Ansible
5 36 (0.57%) Kubernetes
6 30 (0.47%) Terraform
7 22 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.28%) AirWatch
10 15 (0.24%) Autotask
11 13 (0.21%) Sysprep
12 12 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.14%) Nagios
15 8 (0.13%) Icinga
15 8 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.13%) SmoothWall
16 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 7 (0.11%) Puppet
16 7 (0.11%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 2,327 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 360 (5.70%) VMware
3 285 (4.51%) Cisco
4 158 (2.50%) SAP
5 145 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 139 (2.20%) Citrix
7 131 (2.07%) Oracle
8 124 (1.96%) Apple
9 119 (1.88%) Dell
10 116 (1.84%) IBM
11 98 (1.55%) HP
12 95 (1.50%) Fortinet
13 94 (1.49%) Google
14 89 (1.41%) Salesforce
15 66 (1.04%) Veeam
16 62 (0.98%) Juniper
17 60 (0.95%) Red Hat
17 60 (0.95%) Sophos
18 52 (0.82%) Meraki
19 49 (0.78%) EMC