Customer Service Contracts in Dorset

Customer Service
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 19 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 11.59% 1.85% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.57% 2.23% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £172 £157 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 £163 £300
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -45.67% -42.86%
75th Percentile £175 £170 £325
90th Percentile £176 - -
South West median daily rate £176 £204 £250
% change year-on-year -13.73% -18.40% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.49
25th Percentile £11.87 £12.75 £13.74
Median hourly rate £14.66 £13.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -15.61% -20.01%
75th Percentile £15.28 £14.25 £18.08
90th Percentile £15.51 - £19.23
South West median hourly rate £14.00 £9.80 £23.25
% change year-on-year +42.86% -57.85% +40.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 179 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.37% 82.87% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 103 89
10th Percentile £174 £160 £276
25th Percentile £175 £243 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £575
90th Percentile £825 £638 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 39
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £45.36
Median hourly rate £15.31 £56.29 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +7.22% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56.49 £62.72 £63.97
90th Percentile £61.25 £70.77 £79.28
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Dorset

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Dorset

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Dorset over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Dorset

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Dorset

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bournemouth +9 15 £173 +6.13% 10
Blandford Forum - 3 - - 2
Customer Service
South West

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) FTP
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
1 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.26%) IPsec
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.26%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
1 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Law
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Analyst
1 15 (78.95%) Service Analyst
1 15 (78.95%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Coordinator
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Incident Management
1 14 (73.68%) Line Management
2 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
2 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
2 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Samba
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) VMware