Customer Service Jobs in the South West

Customer Service
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 35 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +9
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 586 501 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.25% 7.50% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 7.93% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 462 270 275
10th Percentile £21,250 £22,500 £21,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £27,563 £24,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £43,938 £47,500 £45,375
90th Percentile £62,105 £62,625 £59,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,774 6,314 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.96% 94.49% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,501 4,988
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol -20 138 £30,000 -6.98% 71
Gloucestershire +5 94 £31,500 +1.61% 39
Wiltshire +2 89 £30,000 -14.29% 55
Dorset +4 84 £27,500 -11.29% 32
Devon +17 71 £29,000 -35.56% 40
Somerset +5 63 £29,250 -5.65% 64
Cornwall +15 39 £39,005 - 13
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 25 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.54%) Confluence
4 4 (0.68%) CMS
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
5 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.17%) Moodle
6 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 80 (13.65%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.17%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 122 (20.82%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (15.53%) Azure
3 35 (5.97%) Entra ID
4 19 (3.24%) OneDrive
5 18 (3.07%) SaaS
6 16 (2.73%) AWS
6 16 (2.73%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.37%) GCP
9 6 (1.02%) Slack
9 6 (1.02%) WhatsApp
10 5 (0.85%) IaaS
11 3 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.51%) PaaS
11 3 (0.51%) Smartsheet
12 2 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.34%) dbt
12 2 (0.34%) OCI
12 2 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.85%) Firewall
2 43 (7.34%) VPN
3 40 (6.83%) LAN
4 33 (5.63%) DNS
5 29 (4.95%) TCP/IP
6 28 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (4.44%) DHCP
8 25 (4.27%) Remote Desktop
9 22 (3.75%) WAN
10 18 (3.07%) Wireless
11 16 (2.73%) VLAN
12 13 (2.22%) Network Security
13 11 (1.88%) IPsec
14 9 (1.54%) Internet
15 8 (1.37%) VSAT
16 7 (1.19%) SAN
17 6 (1.02%) Telepresence
17 6 (1.02%) VoIP
18 5 (0.85%) NetScaler
18 5 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.58%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.39%) Power BI
3 10 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.68%) OLAP
6 4 (0.68%) OLAP Cube
6 4 (0.68%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.05%) JIRA
2 3 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 280 (47.78%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.51%) Finance
3 67 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 62 (10.58%) Telecoms
5 59 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (9.90%) Retail
7 49 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (6.83%) Law
9 39 (6.66%) Banking
10 30 (5.12%) Legal
11 28 (4.78%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.90%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.39%) Fire and Rescue
16 11 (1.88%) Local Government
17 10 (1.71%) Public Sector
18 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (1.19%) Front Office
19 7 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (14.33%) IT Support
2 83 (14.16%) Analyst
3 82 (13.99%) Support Engineer
4 53 (9.04%) IT Engineer
5 46 (7.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 41 (7.00%) Lead
7 40 (6.83%) Technical Support
8 35 (5.97%) 1st Line Support
9 31 (5.29%) Project Manager
9 31 (5.29%) Service Analyst
10 25 (4.27%) Senior
11 24 (4.10%) Team Leader
12 23 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
13 22 (3.75%) Administrator
14 21 (3.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 18 (3.07%) 2nd Line Support
16 17 (2.90%) Field Engineer
16 17 (2.90%) Service Manager
16 17 (2.90%) Support Analyst
17 16 (2.73%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.02%) Node.js
2 5 (0.85%) HTML
2 5 (0.85%) Middleware
3 4 (0.68%) .NET
3 4 (0.68%) CSS
3 4 (0.68%) React
4 3 (0.51%) LDAP
4 3 (0.51%) OpenID
4 3 (0.51%) RESTful
4 3 (0.51%) SAML
5 2 (0.34%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.34%) D3.js
5 2 (0.34%) GatsbyJS
5 2 (0.34%) jQuery
5 2 (0.34%) SOAP
5 2 (0.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (0.34%) Vue
5 2 (0.34%) Web Services
6 1 (0.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.70%) Driving Licence
2 35 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.22%) NHS
5 11 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (1.37%) Credit Risk
6 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
7 7 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.19%) Derivative
7 7 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.02%) Digital Signage
8 6 (1.02%) Replication
9 3 (0.51%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.51%) Housing Association
9 3 (0.51%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 149 (25.43%) Windows
2 55 (9.39%) Windows Server
3 43 (7.34%) Windows 10
4 28 (4.78%) Mac OS
5 24 (4.10%) Linux
6 11 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.37%) Windows 7
8 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.19%) Unix
9 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.85%) CentOS
11 4 (0.68%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.68%) Windows XP
12 3 (0.51%) AIX
12 3 (0.51%) Android
12 3 (0.51%) Solaris
13 2 (0.34%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (16.04%) ITIL
3 62 (10.58%) Service Delivery
4 55 (9.39%) Project Management
5 53 (9.04%) Service Management
6 44 (7.51%) Time Management
7 41 (7.00%) Process Improvement
8 40 (6.83%) Mentoring
8 40 (6.83%) Project Delivery
9 39 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (6.14%) Customer Experience
11 34 (5.80%) Agile
11 34 (5.80%) Change Management
12 32 (5.46%) Line Management
13 31 (5.29%) Incident Management
14 29 (4.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (4.78%) User Experience
16 25 (4.27%) Roadmaps
17 23 (3.92%) B2B
17 23 (3.92%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.66%) SQL
2 17 (2.90%) PowerShell
3 16 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.39%) Java
5 9 (1.54%) PHP
6 8 (1.37%) C#
7 7 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.02%) Python
8 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.34%) Lisp
11 1 (0.17%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 70 (11.95%) Degree
2 46 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (6.31%) DBS Check
4 32 (5.46%) Security Cleared
5 24 (4.10%) A+ Certification
6 20 (3.41%) MCP
7 14 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (2.05%) SC Cleared
10 9 (1.54%) MCSE
11 8 (1.37%) CCNA
11 8 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.85%) CCNP
12 5 (0.85%) MCITP
12 5 (0.85%) RHCE
12 5 (0.85%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.68%) HNC
14 3 (0.51%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.26%) SLA
2 16 (2.73%) QA
3 15 (2.56%) GDPR
4 13 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.68%) NIST
7 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 112 (19.11%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.37%) XenDesktop
6 6 (1.02%) XenApp
7 3 (0.51%) Firmware
8 2 (0.34%) Docker
8 2 (0.34%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (2.39%) SCCM
2 7 (1.19%) WSUS
3 6 (1.02%) Icinga
3 6 (1.02%) ServiceCenter
4 5 (0.85%) Ansible
4 5 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.85%) Puppet
5 3 (0.51%) Backup Exec
5 3 (0.51%) Nagios
5 3 (0.51%) OfficeScan
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Statspack
5 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 3 (0.51%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.34%) CASB
6 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.34%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 227 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.12%) VMware
3 26 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.07%) Citrix
5 16 (2.73%) Cisco
6 12 (2.05%) Draytek
7 11 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.71%) Ericsson
8 10 (1.71%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.54%) Apple
9 9 (1.54%) Oracle
10 8 (1.37%) HP
11 7 (1.19%) Veeam
12 6 (1.02%) Aderant
12 6 (1.02%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.02%) iManage
12 6 (1.02%) SAP
13 5 (0.85%) Dell
13 5 (0.85%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.68%) IBM