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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 52 67
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 -10
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 6,307 5,851 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.43% 5.59% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 5.85% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,710 3,513 4,603
10th Percentile £22,500 £23,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £25,500 £27,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,400 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -5.60% +2.74%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,000 £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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +27 5,698 £32,000 -8.57% 2,713
UK excluding London +12 5,241 £30,000 -7.69% 2,429
Work from Home +13 1,565 £39,066 -13.19% 735
South East +14 1,408 £30,000 -7.69% 595
North of England +37 1,160 £31,000 - 605
Midlands +27 1,088 £29,500 -15.11% 434
London +3 869 £42,500 -5.56% 508
West Midlands +24 729 £30,000 -22.58% 270
North West +26 591 £31,875 +2.82% 345
South West +2 584 £31,250 -3.85% 354
East of England +19 566 £28,750 -7.26% 312
Yorkshire +44 446 £31,000 -3.13% 174
East Midlands +35 353 £29,000 -6.45% 164
Scotland -52 263 £36,638 -2.30% 158
Wales +31 138 £30,140 -2.77% 91
North East +6 123 £29,500 -26.25% 97
Northern Ireland -30 23 £30,000 -40.00% 29
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 - 2
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
1 417 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 344 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (0.90%) IIS
4 49 (0.78%) CMS
5 46 (0.73%) 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%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.11%) Moodle
14 5 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.079%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,139 (18.06%) Microsoft Office
2 401 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.29%) Trello
7 15 (0.24%) 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 (0.048%) InDesign
13 1 (0.016%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 156 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 24 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 18 (0.29%) Sage 200
6 17 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.25%) iTrent
8 13 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 13 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
9 12 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 12 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 11 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.16%) Shopify
12 9 (0.14%) SAP HR
13 8 (0.13%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
15 6 (0.095%) Elite 3E
15 6 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 6 (0.095%) Sage CRM
16 5 (0.079%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 1,480 (23.47%) Microsoft 365
2 950 (15.06%) Azure
3 269 (4.27%) Power Platform
4 266 (4.22%) Entra ID
5 216 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
6 200 (3.17%) AWS
7 155 (2.46%) SaaS
8 150 (2.38%) Power Automate
9 111 (1.76%) PowerApps
10 102 (1.62%) OneDrive
11 80 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
12 65 (1.03%) GCP
13 55 (0.87%) Mimecast
13 55 (0.87%) OpenShift
14 51 (0.81%) IaaS
15 44 (0.70%) IBM Cloud
16 43 (0.68%) Serverless
17 41 (0.65%) WhatsApp
18 37 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
19 35 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 446 (7.07%) Firewall
2 288 (4.57%) DNS
3 285 (4.52%) LAN
4 253 (4.01%) WAN
5 240 (3.81%) TCP/IP
6 223 (3.54%) DHCP
7 218 (3.46%) VPN
8 198 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
9 189 (3.00%) Wireless
10 173 (2.74%) Internet
11 139 (2.20%) VoIP
12 114 (1.81%) VLAN
13 85 (1.35%) Intranet
14 84 (1.33%) Network Security
15 73 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
16 71 (1.13%) Broadband
17 57 (0.90%) MPLS
18 52 (0.82%) SAN
19 42 (0.67%) BGP
19 42 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 158 (2.51%) Power BI
3 69 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 61 (0.97%) Oracle Database
5 55 (0.87%) MySQL
6 48 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 45 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 37 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 34 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 25 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (0.36%) NoSQL
13 22 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
14 21 (0.33%) GIS
15 16 (0.25%) Oracle Database 12c
16 14 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 124 (1.97%) JIRA
2 53 (0.84%) Git
3 28 (0.44%) Jasmine
3 28 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
4 20 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
5 17 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.16%) Maven
7 9 (0.14%) Robot Framework
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 (0.048%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.048%) GCC
12 3 (0.048%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.048%) Subversion
General
1 3,191 (50.59%) Social Skills
2 1,011 (16.03%) Finance
3 919 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 707 (11.21%) Organisational Skills
5 546 (8.66%) Retail
6 382 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 323 (5.12%) Legal
8 310 (4.92%) Telecoms
9 283 (4.49%) Marketing
10 239 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 199 (3.16%) Law
12 172 (2.73%) Banking
13 165 (2.62%) Manufacturing
14 161 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
15 158 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
16 133 (2.11%) Billing
17 131 (2.08%) Military
18 104 (1.65%) Local Government
19 98 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
20 79 (1.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,060 (16.81%) Analyst
2 837 (13.27%) IT Support
3 573 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 439 (6.96%) Senior
5 365 (5.79%) IT Engineer
6 337 (5.34%) Support Analyst
7 326 (5.17%) Lead
8 314 (4.98%) Administrator
9 312 (4.95%) IT Technician
10 303 (4.80%) Service Analyst
11 285 (4.52%) Support Technician
11 285 (4.52%) Technical Support
12 277 (4.39%) 1st Line Support
12 277 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
13 275 (4.36%) Consultant
14 272 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
15 243 (3.85%) IT Analyst
16 238 (3.77%) 2nd Line Support
17 230 (3.65%) Developer
18 215 (3.41%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.55%) .NET
2 92 (1.46%) HTML
3 82 (1.30%) CSS
4 80 (1.27%) React
5 70 (1.11%) JSON
6 59 (0.94%) XML
7 55 (0.87%) AngularJS
8 50 (0.79%) Node.js
9 49 (0.78%) ASP.NET
10 47 (0.75%) REST
11 42 (0.67%) 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
1 545 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
2 339 (5.37%) Driving Licence
3 289 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 274 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 143 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 142 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
7 104 (1.65%) Digital Signage
8 88 (1.40%) Smartphone
8 88 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
9 75 (1.19%) Social Media
10 73 (1.16%) Product Ownership
11 68 (1.08%) CCTV
12 66 (1.05%) Blockchain
13 61 (0.97%) e-Learning
14 60 (0.95%) EPoS
15 57 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 57 (0.90%) Replication
16 55 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 49 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
18 48 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,501 (23.80%) Windows
2 545 (8.64%) Windows Server
3 494 (7.83%) Windows 10
4 221 (3.50%) Linux
5 145 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 139 (2.20%) Android
7 131 (2.08%) Mac OS
8 114 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 109 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 92 (1.46%) Windows 7
11 83 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 75 (1.19%) Unix
13 37 (0.59%) Mac OS X
14 32 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 31 (0.49%) Windows 8
16 23 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.33%) CentOS
18 19 (0.30%) VyOS
19 16 (0.25%) VMS
20 15 (0.24%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,788 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
2 937 (14.86%) ITIL
3 607 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 559 (8.86%) Agile
5 541 (8.58%) Project Management
6 498 (7.90%) Service Delivery
7 452 (7.17%) CRM
8 434 (6.88%) Customer Experience
9 428 (6.79%) Service Management
10 380 (6.03%) Time Management
11 349 (5.53%) Mentoring
12 331 (5.25%) ITSM
13 302 (4.79%) Project Delivery
14 290 (4.60%) Logistics
15 275 (4.36%) Mathematics
16 274 (4.34%) Process Improvement
17 269 (4.27%) Decision-Making
18 266 (4.22%) Line Management
19 252 (4.00%) Coaching
20 251 (3.98%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 463 (7.34%) SQL
2 228 (3.62%) JavaScript
3 205 (3.25%) C#
4 152 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 109 (1.73%) Java
6 97 (1.54%) Python
7 67 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 55 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 45 (0.71%) PHP
10 43 (0.68%) Bash
11 40 (0.63%) VB
12 36 (0.57%) Lua
13 35 (0.55%) C++
14 32 (0.51%) VB.NET
15 28 (0.44%) VB6
16 24 (0.38%) R
17 21 (0.33%) Groovy
18 19 (0.30%) C
19 17 (0.27%) PL/SQL
20 12 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,047 (16.60%) Degree
2 339 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 308 (4.88%) DBS Check
4 293 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 167 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 142 (2.25%) A+ Certification
7 135 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 129 (2.05%) CCNA
9 122 (1.93%) DV Cleared
10 112 (1.78%) MCP
11 101 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 80 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 76 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
14 65 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 62 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 57 (0.90%) 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 (10.81%) SLA
2 158 (2.51%) GDPR
3 155 (2.46%) QA
4 104 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 45 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.71%) ISO 9001
7 25 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.40%) PMO
8 13 (0.21%) NIST
9 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.14%) NEBOSH
11 7 (0.11%) IFRS
12 6 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.095%) ISO 14001
12 6 (0.095%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.079%) COSHH
13 5 (0.079%) GAAP
System Software
1 1,054 (16.71%) Active Directory
2 240 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 225 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 59 (0.94%) Docker
5 57 (0.90%) Firmware
6 38 (0.60%) vSphere
7 35 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 19 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 18 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (0.24%) KVM
13 14 (0.22%) XenApp
14 13 (0.21%) XenDesktop
15 12 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.063%) vCloud
16 4 (0.063%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.048%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 232 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 163 (2.58%) SCCM
3 48 (0.76%) WSUS
4 37 (0.59%) Ansible
5 34 (0.54%) Kubernetes
6 30 (0.48%) Terraform
7 22 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 20 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.27%) AirWatch
10 15 (0.24%) Autotask
11 14 (0.22%) Sysprep
12 11 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.14%) Nagios
15 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.13%) Icinga
15 8 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.13%) SmoothWall
16 7 (0.11%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 2,332 (36.97%) Microsoft
2 364 (5.77%) VMware
3 293 (4.65%) Cisco
4 158 (2.51%) SAP
5 143 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 137 (2.17%) Citrix
7 127 (2.01%) Oracle
8 125 (1.98%) Apple
9 120 (1.90%) Dell
10 116 (1.84%) IBM
11 100 (1.59%) HP
12 95 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 95 (1.51%) Google
13 90 (1.43%) Salesforce
14 70 (1.11%) Veeam
15 62 (0.98%) Juniper
15 62 (0.98%) Sophos
16 59 (0.94%) Red Hat
17 54 (0.86%) Meraki
18 49 (0.78%) EMC