Customer Service Contracts

Customer Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Service over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 62 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,584 2,013 2,579
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 3.58% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.00% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,063 1,490
10th Percentile £143 £130 £133
25th Percentile £183 £163 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £499 £500 £488
90th Percentile £592 £599 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £274 £215 £213
% change year-on-year +27.21% +1.18% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 467 485
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.25
25th Percentile £12.73 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.84 £13.58 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -9.47% +11.11%
75th Percentile £18.00 £16.59 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £25.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.45 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.79% +7.41%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Service within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 1,432 £275 +13.05% 2,867
UK excluding London +3 1,093 £274 +27.21% 2,468
London +20 436 £275 -8.33% 535
North of England +15 322 £300 +20.00% 633
Work from Home -6 320 £420 +5.00% 810
South East -4 219 £271 +29.41% 602
East of England +3 205 £325 +62.50% 337
North West +32 173 £325 -10.34% 345
Midlands +16 146 £260 -5.45% 442
Yorkshire +6 137 £300 +20.00% 219
Scotland +9 93 £340 +36.00% 148
West Midlands +19 86 £313 -19.35% 245
South West -35 84 £175 -14.46% 352
East Midlands +1 59 £200 -6.98% 197
Wales 0 14 £220 +37.50% 61
North East +11 13 £345 +142.11% 76
Northern Ireland +6 10 £140 -30.00% 38

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 98 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.26%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.69%) CMS
5 9 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.32%) Confluence
10 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
10 4 (0.25%) IBM Notes
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
11 3 (0.19%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Drupal
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2007
13 1 (0.063%) Moodle
Applications
1 265 (16.73%) Microsoft Office
2 157 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 96 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Actimize
5 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.25%) Workfront
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MRS
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 314 (19.82%) Microsoft 365
2 152 (9.60%) Azure
3 78 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
5 51 (3.22%) AWS
6 40 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 33 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.64%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.33%) SaaS
10 17 (1.07%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.82%) Google Workspace
12 13 (0.82%) WhatsApp
13 11 (0.69%) IaaS
14 10 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.63%) GCP
15 7 (0.44%) GitHub
15 7 (0.44%) Slack
16 6 (0.38%) PaaS
17 5 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.12%) VPN
2 63 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
3 58 (3.66%) LAN
4 57 (3.60%) Firewall
5 49 (3.09%) DNS
6 45 (2.84%) WAN
7 43 (2.71%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.71%) Wireless
8 29 (1.83%) DHCP
9 27 (1.70%) SAN
10 24 (1.52%) Internet
11 21 (1.33%) Skype
12 14 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
13 12 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (0.76%) Ethernet
14 11 (0.69%) Network Security
14 11 (0.69%) VLAN
15 10 (0.63%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.57%) HTTP
16 9 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.27%) Power BI
2 18 (1.14%) Big Data
3 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 12 (0.76%) Hadoop
3 12 (0.76%) Tableau
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
5 6 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.19%) MySQL
8 3 (0.19%) OLAP
8 3 (0.19%) OLTP
9 2 (0.13%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.13%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.063%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.063%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.063%) Redash
Development Applications
1 25 (1.58%) JIRA
2 11 (0.69%) Git
3 6 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.19%) Maven
6 2 (0.13%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.063%) GitLab
7 1 (0.063%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.063%) Selenium
7 1 (0.063%) TestRail
General
1 801 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 208 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
3 201 (12.69%) Finance
4 113 (7.13%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.49%) Retail
6 73 (4.61%) Marketing
7 72 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 45 (2.84%) Legal
10 29 (1.83%) Law
11 27 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.58%) Banking
14 21 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.26%) German Language
16 17 (1.07%) Local Government
17 15 (0.95%) Automotive
18 14 (0.88%) Hungarian Language
19 13 (0.82%) Dutch Language
20 12 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 388 (24.49%) Analyst
2 237 (14.96%) Service Analyst
3 217 (13.70%) Service Desk Analyst
4 166 (10.48%) Support Engineer
5 121 (7.64%) IT Support
6 109 (6.88%) IT Engineer
7 79 (4.99%) Desktop Support
8 76 (4.80%) Support Analyst
9 73 (4.61%) Senior
10 70 (4.42%) Consultant
11 62 (3.91%) Administrator
12 60 (3.79%) Desktop Engineer
13 58 (3.66%) Developer
14 50 (3.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 48 (3.03%) 1st Line Support
15 48 (3.03%) Service Desk Agent
16 47 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
16 47 (2.97%) Field Engineer
17 46 (2.90%) IT Analyst
18 45 (2.84%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.15%) Web Services
2 20 (1.26%) CSS
3 15 (0.95%) HTML
4 13 (0.82%) Middleware
5 10 (0.63%) .NET
5 10 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.57%) React
6 9 (0.57%) XMPP
7 7 (0.44%) J2EE
8 6 (0.38%) Spring
9 5 (0.32%) REST
9 5 (0.32%) RxJS
10 4 (0.25%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.25%) jQuery
10 4 (0.25%) LDAP
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 3 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 63 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 56 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 38 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
6 26 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.58%) Smartphone
8 23 (1.45%) iPhone
9 21 (1.33%) iPad
10 20 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.20%) CMDB
12 18 (1.14%) BYOD
12 18 (1.14%) Social Media
13 17 (1.07%) Product Ownership
14 15 (0.95%) Digital Signage
14 15 (0.95%) NHS
15 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.63%) Blackberry
16 10 (0.63%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 526 (33.21%) Windows
2 262 (16.54%) Windows 10
3 99 (6.25%) Windows 7
4 91 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 53 (3.35%) Apple iOS
5 53 (3.35%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.22%) Linux
7 44 (2.78%) Android
8 36 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 31 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.07%) Windows NT
12 14 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (0.76%) Unix
14 11 (0.69%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.63%) Debian
15 10 (0.63%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.63%) Windows 8
16 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (32.13%) Problem-Solving
2 338 (21.34%) ITIL
3 205 (12.94%) Service Delivery
4 164 (10.35%) Incident Management
5 120 (7.58%) Agile
5 120 (7.58%) Service Management
6 101 (6.38%) ITSM
7 92 (5.81%) CRM
8 90 (5.68%) Time Management
9 89 (5.62%) Mathematics
10 72 (4.55%) Asset Management
11 70 (4.42%) Project Management
12 68 (4.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (4.17%) Decision-Making
14 65 (4.10%) Break/Fix
15 59 (3.72%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (3.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (3.54%) Migration
17 50 (3.16%) Customer Experience
18 47 (2.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (3.09%) SQL
2 46 (2.90%) Python
3 27 (1.70%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.01%) C#
5 16 (1.01%) Java
6 12 (0.76%) Bash
7 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.63%) R
9 8 (0.51%) C++
10 7 (0.44%) Perl
11 4 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.19%) ABAP
12 3 (0.19%) C
12 3 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.13%) VB
13 2 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 264 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 186 (11.74%) Degree
3 177 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 88 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (4.73%) A+ Certification
6 63 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 52 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.97%) MCSA
9 44 (2.78%) MCP
10 40 (2.53%) CCNA
11 39 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.20%) MCSE
13 15 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.63%) CCNP
16 10 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
18 7 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.82%) SLA
2 34 (2.15%) QA
3 32 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 20 (1.26%) GDPR
5 19 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.38%) PMO
9 3 (0.19%) GRC
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.19%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) COBIT
10 2 (0.13%) P3O
11 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.063%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 347 (21.91%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.08%) Firmware
4 18 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.76%) vSphere
6 10 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.38%) Docker
9 6 (0.38%) KVM
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.19%) Samba
11 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.063%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 127 (8.02%) SCCM
2 58 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (2.15%) WSUS
4 17 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
4 17 (1.07%) Sysprep
5 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.57%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.38%) Nessus
7 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.32%) AirWatch
8 5 (0.32%) Terraform
8 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.25%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) OpenView
11 2 (0.13%) VxRail
12 1 (0.063%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.063%) vMotion
Vendors
1 613 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 197 (12.44%) ServiceNow
3 89 (5.62%) Citrix
4 76 (4.80%) Cisco
5 67 (4.23%) VMware
6 60 (3.79%) Apple
7 48 (3.03%) HP
8 47 (2.97%) SAP
9 33 (2.08%) Dell
10 30 (1.89%) Google
11 29 (1.83%) Oracle
12 28 (1.77%) Salesforce
13 23 (1.45%) Red Hat
14 17 (1.07%) Adobe
15 11 (0.69%) Avaya
16 9 (0.57%) Computacenter
16 9 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.57%) NEC
16 9 (0.57%) Okta
16 9 (0.57%) Veeam