Customer Service Jobs in the South East

Customer Service
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 0
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 1,403 964 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.64% 7.11% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 7.53% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 630 755
10th Percentile £22,750 £23,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,250 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -2.21% -2.86%
75th Percentile £38,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,775 £62,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -6.67% +2.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,144 12,801 20,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.48% 94.40% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,339 7,621 11,951
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,268 £85,000 £82,500
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Service in the South East

Customer Service
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Thames Valley +7 446 £31,500 +5.00% 201
Hampshire +11 333 £29,000 -4.92% 104
Surrey +12 267 £25,000 -47.37% 71
Berkshire +12 195 £31,500 +12.50% 90
Kent -3 186 £30,000 -25.00% 59
Buckinghamshire -6 126 £32,500 +4.84% 51
Oxfordshire +22 125 £32,000 +3.23% 60
East Sussex +43 70 £30,000 -14.29% 18
West Sussex +13 67 £34,000 -38.18% 18
Middlesex -7 12 £35,000 -43.32% 5
Sussex -15 10 £35,000 +25.00%
Isle of Wight - 5 £25,000 - 7
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 121 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 79 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (2.49%) nginx
4 34 (2.42%) Camunda
5 4 (0.29%) Confluence
6 2 (0.14%) CMS
6 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.14%) WordPress
7 1 (0.071%) Apache
7 1 (0.071%) Site Server
Applications
1 230 (16.39%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 20 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.50%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
7 4 (0.29%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 369 (26.30%) Microsoft 365
2 194 (13.83%) Azure
3 68 (4.85%) Entra ID
4 41 (2.92%) IBM Cloud
5 40 (2.85%) AWS
6 39 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 34 (2.42%) OpenShift
8 30 (2.14%) OneDrive
9 23 (1.64%) Mimecast
10 19 (1.35%) SaaS
11 18 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.93%) WhatsApp
13 12 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (0.71%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.64%) IaaS
16 8 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
18 4 (0.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
19 3 (0.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (10.19%) Firewall
2 87 (6.20%) DNS
3 64 (4.56%) VPN
4 56 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.85%) Wireless
6 53 (3.78%) DHCP
6 53 (3.78%) VoIP
7 52 (3.71%) LAN
8 35 (2.49%) WAN
9 33 (2.35%) Intranet
10 26 (1.85%) VLAN
11 24 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (1.14%) Unified Communications
13 13 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
14 12 (0.86%) WLAN
15 11 (0.78%) Network Security
16 10 (0.71%) SAN
17 9 (0.64%) 5G
18 8 (0.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.42%) MongoDB
1 34 (2.42%) Oracle Database
2 33 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.71%) Power BI
4 16 (1.14%) MySQL
5 11 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.21%) DTS
9 3 (0.21%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.14%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.071%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.071%) DB2
11 1 (0.071%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.071%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (2.21%) JIRA
2 13 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 13 (0.93%) Robot Framework
3 8 (0.57%) Git
4 7 (0.50%) AdminStudio
4 7 (0.50%) InstallShield
4 7 (0.50%) Maven
4 7 (0.50%) MSI
5 5 (0.36%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) GitLab
6 2 (0.14%) Hudson
7 1 (0.071%) Subversion
General
1 724 (51.60%) Social Skills
2 172 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
3 163 (11.62%) Finance
4 130 (9.27%) Organisational Skills
5 119 (8.48%) Retail
6 104 (7.41%) Billing
7 90 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 86 (6.13%) Telecoms
9 60 (4.28%) Legal
10 58 (4.13%) Marketing
11 55 (3.92%) Manufacturing
11 55 (3.92%) Public Sector
12 38 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.92%) Back Office
14 26 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.71%) Banking
16 20 (1.43%) Military
17 19 (1.35%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.14%) Law
19 15 (1.07%) Games
Job Titles
1 234 (16.68%) IT Support
2 187 (13.33%) Analyst
3 124 (8.84%) Support Engineer
4 104 (7.41%) IT Technician
5 97 (6.91%) Support Technician
6 85 (6.06%) Administrator
6 85 (6.06%) Support Analyst
7 83 (5.92%) IT Engineer
8 82 (5.84%) IT Support Technician
9 76 (5.42%) Senior
10 70 (4.99%) Consultant
11 68 (4.85%) IT Analyst
12 67 (4.78%) Technical Support
13 59 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
13 59 (4.21%) Lead
14 54 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
15 50 (3.56%) 2nd Line Support
16 47 (3.35%) IT Administrator
17 46 (3.28%) Service Analyst
18 42 (2.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.99%) React
2 34 (2.42%) KeystoneJS
2 34 (2.42%) Node.js
2 34 (2.42%) Swagger
3 29 (2.07%) HTML
4 26 (1.85%) XML
5 25 (1.78%) .NET
6 16 (1.14%) CSS
7 8 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (0.57%) JSON
8 5 (0.36%) Kafka
8 5 (0.36%) Web Services
9 4 (0.29%) YAML
10 3 (0.21%) ADO
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.14%) RESTful
11 2 (0.14%) Software Packaging
12 1 (0.071%) LAMP
12 1 (0.071%) Laravel
12 1 (0.071%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 199 (14.18%) Self-Motivation
2 92 (6.56%) Video Conferencing
3 91 (6.49%) Digital Signage
4 89 (6.34%) Video\Live Streaming
5 60 (4.28%) Driving Licence
6 52 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.28%) e-Learning
8 42 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (2.92%) Blockchain
10 40 (2.85%) Onboarding
11 30 (2.14%) Data Centre
12 27 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.85%) CCTV
14 25 (1.78%) Smartphone
15 18 (1.28%) IoT
16 16 (1.14%) Social Media
17 13 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
18 10 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 9 (0.64%) Credit Risk
19 9 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 345 (24.59%) Windows
2 158 (11.26%) Windows Server
3 131 (9.34%) Windows 10
4 42 (2.99%) Linux
5 38 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 37 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 35 (2.49%) Android
8 34 (2.42%) Apple iOS
9 26 (1.85%) Windows 7
9 26 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.86%) Windows NT
11 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.57%) Mac OS X
12 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.29%) VMS
15 2 (0.14%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (12.83%) ITIL
3 135 (9.62%) Logistics
4 128 (9.12%) Project Management
5 127 (9.05%) Service Delivery
6 111 (7.91%) Presales
7 104 (7.41%) Agile
7 104 (7.41%) Mentoring
8 96 (6.84%) Preventative Maintenance
9 90 (6.41%) Customer Experience
10 83 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 82 (5.84%) Line Management
11 82 (5.84%) Service Management
12 81 (5.77%) Coaching
13 68 (4.85%) CRM
14 67 (4.78%) Time Management
15 65 (4.63%) Change Management
16 57 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence
16 57 (4.06%) ERP
16 57 (4.06%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (6.20%) SQL
2 66 (4.70%) JavaScript
3 46 (3.28%) Java
4 37 (2.64%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.42%) Lua
6 33 (2.35%) C#
7 25 (1.78%) Python
8 19 (1.35%) Bash
9 8 (0.57%) PHP
10 7 (0.50%) VB
11 5 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.36%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.14%) C
12 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.071%) C++
Qualifications
1 139 (9.91%) Degree
2 130 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 91 (6.49%) DBS Check
4 76 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 71 (5.06%) SC Cleared
6 46 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 44 (3.14%) A+ Certification
8 33 (2.35%) MCP
9 32 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.57%) CCNA
11 22 (1.57%) NVQ Level 3
12 20 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
13 16 (1.14%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
18 8 (0.57%) MCSE
19 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (16.04%) SLA
2 66 (4.70%) GDPR
3 29 (2.07%) QA
4 12 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.50%) PMO
5 7 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.29%) COSHH
8 4 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.14%) GRC
10 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 251 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 78 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 48 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (2.92%) Docker
5 26 (1.85%) Firmware
6 13 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (0.78%) KVM
8 8 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.14%) XenApp
12 1 (0.071%) GPFS
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (4.92%) SCCM
2 36 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (2.35%) WSUS
4 21 (1.50%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.86%) Sysprep
6 10 (0.71%) Ansible
7 6 (0.43%) Autotask
7 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (0.43%) SCDPM
7 6 (0.43%) SmoothWall
7 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.29%) Terraform
10 1 (0.071%) QRadar
Vendors
1 542 (38.63%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.35%) VMware
3 60 (4.28%) Cisco
4 46 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 42 (2.99%) IBM
5 42 (2.99%) Oracle
6 36 (2.57%) SAP
7 29 (2.07%) Apple
8 27 (1.92%) Sophos
9 26 (1.85%) Citrix
10 25 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.78%) WatchGuard
11 23 (1.64%) HP
12 19 (1.35%) Meraki
12 19 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.28%) Dell
14 16 (1.14%) Aruba
14 16 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.07%) Google
16 13 (0.93%) Barracuda Networks