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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 53 69
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Customer Service 6,371 5,598 8,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.43% 5.53% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 5.78% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,700 3,420 4,608
10th Percentile £22,614 £23,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £25,468 £28,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £36,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.00% +0.20%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,500 £71,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £33,193 £35,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% -5.16% +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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 13 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 13 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 +27 5,755 £32,000 -8.57% 2,772
UK excluding London +15 5,296 £30,000 -9.62% 2,425
Work from Home +15 1,558 £39,500 -12.22% 824
South East +11 1,386 £30,000 -9.09% 619
North of England +37 1,184 £30,469 -3.27% 615
Midlands +36 1,132 £29,000 -19.44% 435
London -2 871 £42,500 -4.49% 522
West Midlands +37 764 £29,000 -27.50% 262
North West +30 615 £30,438 -1.81% 337
South West +1 586 £30,347 -6.62% 330
East of England +21 571 £29,000 -6.45% 323
Yorkshire +45 442 £30,500 -5.43% 204
East Midlands +43 362 £29,000 -6.45% 173
Scotland -50 264 £35,000 -12.50% 144
Wales +29 137 £30,000 -3.23% 83
North East +9 127 £30,000 -25.00% 86
Northern Ireland -25 25 £30,000 -40.00% 21
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
1 410 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 340 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (0.88%) IIS
4 50 (0.78%) CMS
5 46 (0.72%) Confluence
6 44 (0.69%) nginx
7 36 (0.57%) Camunda
8 16 (0.25%) 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 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2010
15 5 (0.078%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.063%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 4 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,160 (18.21%) Microsoft Office
2 444 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (0.91%) 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 (0.094%) LightWave 3D
11 5 (0.078%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.063%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
12 4 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.047%) InDesign
14 1 (0.016%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 156 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 22 (0.35%) 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 14 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 13 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
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 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.094%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.094%) Oracle General Ledger
14 6 (0.094%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 6 (0.094%) Sage CRM
15 5 (0.078%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 1,459 (22.90%) Microsoft 365
2 951 (14.93%) Azure
3 268 (4.21%) Power Platform
4 262 (4.11%) Entra ID
5 220 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 201 (3.15%) AWS
7 154 (2.42%) Power Automate
8 153 (2.40%) SaaS
9 110 (1.73%) PowerApps
10 102 (1.60%) OneDrive
11 80 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
12 65 (1.02%) GCP
13 56 (0.88%) OpenShift
14 54 (0.85%) Mimecast
15 47 (0.74%) IaaS
16 44 (0.69%) IBM Cloud
17 43 (0.67%) WhatsApp
18 42 (0.66%) Serverless
19 37 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
20 35 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 446 (7.00%) Firewall
2 286 (4.49%) DNS
3 267 (4.19%) LAN
4 240 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 235 (3.69%) WAN
6 218 (3.42%) DHCP
7 213 (3.34%) VPN
8 197 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
9 174 (2.73%) Internet
10 168 (2.64%) Wireless
11 136 (2.13%) VoIP
12 95 (1.49%) VLAN
13 86 (1.35%) Intranet
14 80 (1.26%) Network Security
15 73 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
16 56 (0.88%) MPLS
17 55 (0.86%) Broadband
18 49 (0.77%) SAN
19 41 (0.64%) BGP
19 41 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 158 (2.48%) Power BI
3 66 (1.04%) Oracle Database
3 66 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 54 (0.85%) MySQL
5 48 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 45 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 35 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 31 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (0.39%) Data Lake
12 24 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 22 (0.35%) Oracle Database 12c
14 21 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
14 21 (0.33%) GIS
15 15 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 127 (1.99%) JIRA
2 52 (0.82%) Git
3 28 (0.44%) Jasmine
3 28 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
4 19 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
6 15 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.17%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.13%) Maven
9 7 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.094%) Mercurial
10 6 (0.094%) MSI
11 5 (0.078%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.078%) webpack
12 4 (0.063%) GitLab
12 4 (0.063%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.047%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.047%) Moq
13 3 (0.047%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.047%) Subversion
General
1 3,187 (50.02%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (15.81%) Finance
3 928 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 709 (11.13%) Organisational Skills
5 564 (8.85%) Retail
6 392 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 320 (5.02%) Legal
8 299 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 286 (4.49%) Marketing
10 249 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 204 (3.20%) Law
12 168 (2.64%) Banking
12 168 (2.64%) Military
13 164 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 164 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 160 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
15 139 (2.18%) Billing
16 112 (1.76%) Local Government
17 94 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
18 85 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,048 (16.45%) Analyst
2 824 (12.93%) IT Support
3 561 (8.81%) Support Engineer
4 438 (6.87%) Senior
5 359 (5.63%) IT Engineer
6 328 (5.15%) Lead
7 323 (5.07%) Support Analyst
8 320 (5.02%) Administrator
9 313 (4.91%) IT Technician
10 305 (4.79%) Service Analyst
11 288 (4.52%) Support Technician
12 285 (4.47%) Technical Support
13 277 (4.35%) Consultant
14 276 (4.33%) 1st Line Support
15 274 (4.30%) IT Support Engineer
16 273 (4.29%) Service Desk Analyst
17 235 (3.69%) IT Analyst
18 230 (3.61%) 2nd Line Support
19 227 (3.56%) Developer
20 216 (3.39%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (2.54%) .NET
2 93 (1.46%) HTML
3 81 (1.27%) CSS
4 77 (1.21%) React
5 73 (1.15%) JSON
6 66 (1.04%) XML
7 53 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 52 (0.82%) Node.js
9 48 (0.75%) ASP.NET
9 48 (0.75%) REST
10 44 (0.69%) Web Services
11 36 (0.57%) KeystoneJS
11 36 (0.57%) Swagger
12 35 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
12 35 (0.55%) SOAP
13 33 (0.52%) Sass
14 28 (0.44%) RxJS
14 28 (0.44%) XML Schema
15 21 (0.33%) .NET Core
15 21 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 549 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 348 (5.46%) Driving Licence
3 317 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 289 (4.54%) Management Information System
5 145 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 145 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
6 109 (1.71%) Digital Signage
7 90 (1.41%) Smartphone
8 89 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
9 81 (1.27%) Social Media
10 77 (1.21%) Product Ownership
11 68 (1.07%) CCTV
12 66 (1.04%) Blockchain
13 63 (0.99%) e-Learning
14 62 (0.97%) EPoS
15 58 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 57 (0.89%) Replication
17 54 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
18 51 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
19 48 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,470 (23.07%) Windows
2 533 (8.37%) Windows Server
3 471 (7.39%) Windows 10
4 225 (3.53%) Linux
5 146 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 138 (2.17%) Android
7 127 (1.99%) Mac OS
8 107 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 102 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 84 (1.32%) Windows 7
11 82 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 78 (1.22%) Unix
13 36 (0.57%) Mac OS X
14 28 (0.44%) Windows 8
15 27 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
16 23 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.33%) CentOS
18 18 (0.28%) VyOS
19 17 (0.27%) VMS
20 13 (0.20%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,795 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 932 (14.63%) ITIL
3 654 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 556 (8.73%) Agile
5 539 (8.46%) Project Management
6 496 (7.79%) Customer Experience
7 486 (7.63%) Service Delivery
8 456 (7.16%) CRM
9 425 (6.67%) Service Management
10 391 (6.14%) Time Management
11 361 (5.67%) Mentoring
12 331 (5.20%) ITSM
12 331 (5.20%) Logistics
13 312 (4.90%) Process Improvement
14 307 (4.82%) Project Delivery
15 285 (4.47%) Mathematics
16 275 (4.32%) Line Management
17 269 (4.22%) Decision-Making
18 262 (4.11%) Coaching
19 258 (4.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 458 (7.19%) SQL
2 227 (3.56%) JavaScript
3 206 (3.23%) C#
4 149 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 112 (1.76%) Java
6 98 (1.54%) Python
7 65 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 56 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 47 (0.74%) Bash
10 44 (0.69%) PHP
11 40 (0.63%) VB
12 36 (0.57%) C++
12 36 (0.57%) Lua
13 34 (0.53%) VB.NET
14 28 (0.44%) VB6
15 24 (0.38%) R
16 21 (0.33%) Groovy
17 19 (0.30%) C
18 16 (0.25%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,099 (17.25%) Degree
2 331 (5.20%) Security Cleared
3 321 (5.04%) DBS Check
4 276 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 156 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
6 140 (2.20%) A+ Certification
7 123 (1.93%) SC Cleared
8 118 (1.85%) CCNA
8 118 (1.85%) MCP
9 114 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 95 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 77 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
12 67 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 66 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
14 63 (0.99%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.96%) HNC
16 54 (0.85%) MCSE
17 46 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 39 (0.61%) CCNP
19 38 (0.60%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 686 (10.77%) SLA
2 161 (2.53%) GDPR
3 152 (2.39%) QA
4 104 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 54 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.71%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.42%) Data Quality
9 24 (0.38%) PMO
10 14 (0.22%) NIST
11 11 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.14%) NEBOSH
14 7 (0.11%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.094%) GAAP
15 6 (0.094%) IFRS
15 6 (0.094%) ISO 14001
16 5 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.078%) COSHH
System Software
1 1,040 (16.32%) Active Directory
2 231 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 223 (3.50%) Hyper-V
4 62 (0.97%) Docker
5 57 (0.89%) Firmware
6 38 (0.60%) vSphere
7 33 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 20 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (0.30%) Terminal Services
12 16 (0.25%) XenApp
13 15 (0.24%) XenDesktop
14 14 (0.22%) KVM
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 (0.047%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 225 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (2.42%) SCCM
3 46 (0.72%) WSUS
4 42 (0.66%) Kubernetes
5 39 (0.61%) Ansible
6 31 (0.49%) Terraform
7 21 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 21 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.27%) AirWatch
9 15 (0.24%) Autotask
10 12 (0.19%) Sysprep
11 11 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.14%) Nagios
14 8 (0.13%) SmoothWall
15 7 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (0.11%) Icinga
15 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 7 (0.11%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 2,326 (36.51%) Microsoft
2 356 (5.59%) VMware
3 274 (4.30%) Cisco
4 156 (2.45%) SAP
5 144 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 138 (2.17%) Citrix
7 135 (2.12%) Oracle
8 125 (1.96%) Apple
9 121 (1.90%) Dell
10 118 (1.85%) IBM
11 95 (1.49%) HP
12 94 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 94 (1.48%) Google
13 85 (1.33%) Salesforce
14 64 (1.00%) Veeam
15 61 (0.96%) Juniper
15 61 (0.96%) Red Hat
15 61 (0.96%) Sophos
16 51 (0.80%) Meraki
17 49 (0.77%) NetApp