Customer Service Contracts in Bedfordshire

Customer Service
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 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 25 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 8 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.29% 4.92% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 5.39% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £178 £183 -
25th Percentile £200 £206 £95
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £210 £125
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% +68.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £338 £436 £145
90th Percentile - £518 £418
East of England median daily rate £325 £210 £244
% change year-on-year +54.76% -13.85% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £13.05 - -
25th Percentile £13.89 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £15.29 £15.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile - - £15.38
90th Percentile - - £16.05
East of England median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 167 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.42% 91.26% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 120 135
10th Percentile £301 £207 £263
25th Percentile £403 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £539
90th Percentile £664 £626 £638
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 6 19
10th Percentile £15.33 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £38.33 £87.50 £61.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
% change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Bedfordshire

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Bedfordshire

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Bedfordshire

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Bedfordshire

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedford - 6 £263 - 9
Luton -7 1 - - 13
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Applications Support
1 3 (37.50%) Applications Support Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy