Customer Service Contracts in England

Customer Service
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 44 60 78
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,492 1,880 2,272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.04% 3.72% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.12% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 986 1,282
10th Percentile £140 £132 £130
25th Percentile £181 £170 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £240
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £450
90th Percentile £588 £600 £612
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 466 445 495
10th Percentile £11.10 £9.80 £11.14
25th Percentile £13.23 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.58 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% -9.47% +3.45%
75th Percentile £18.26 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.25 £22.00 £24.75
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.81% -8.93% +6.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +33 459 £263 -12.50% 499
North of England +14 347 £300 +30.43% 607
South East +4 235 £255 +13.33% 586
East of England +2 203 £325 +54.76% 304
North West +30 188 £325 +30.00% 348
Yorkshire +9 145 £291 +16.30% 175
Midlands +10 133 £310 -4.62% 437
South West -28 90 £176 -13.94% 354
West Midlands +30 77 £338 +3.85% 270
East Midlands +1 55 £218 -27.50% 167
North East +21 15 £345 +130.00% 95
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 104 (6.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.21%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (0.60%) CMS
6 8 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.47%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.47%) Confluence
8 4 (0.27%) IBM Notes
8 4 (0.27%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 270 (18.10%) Microsoft Office
2 138 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (5.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 38 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.34%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.27%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.27%) Shopify
5 4 (0.27%) Workfront
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MRS
7 2 (0.13%) Actimize
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%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 325 (21.78%) Microsoft 365
2 144 (9.65%) Azure
3 76 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 52 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
5 38 (2.55%) Power Automate
6 35 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 31 (2.08%) AWS
7 31 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 20 (1.34%) SaaS
9 18 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 15 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (0.94%) WhatsApp
12 11 (0.74%) Google Workspace
13 9 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.60%) IaaS
14 7 (0.47%) Slack
15 5 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (0.34%) OCI
15 5 (0.34%) PaaS
15 5 (0.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 91 (6.10%) VPN
2 68 (4.56%) LAN
3 61 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
4 51 (3.42%) Firewall
5 49 (3.28%) WAN
6 45 (3.02%) Wireless
7 43 (2.88%) TCP/IP
8 42 (2.82%) DNS
9 27 (1.81%) DHCP
10 23 (1.54%) SAN
11 22 (1.47%) Internet
12 19 (1.27%) Skype
13 14 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (0.94%) Network Security
14 13 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
15 12 (0.80%) Ethernet
16 10 (0.67%) OSPF
16 10 (0.67%) Unified Communications
17 8 (0.54%) VoIP
17 8 (0.54%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.35%) Power BI
2 16 (1.07%) Big Data
3 13 (0.87%) Data Lake
3 13 (0.87%) Tableau
4 12 (0.80%) Hadoop
5 8 (0.54%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.20%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata
9 2 (0.13%) OLAP
9 2 (0.13%) OLTP
9 2 (0.13%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.067%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (1.68%) JIRA
2 11 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.67%) Git
4 3 (0.20%) GitLab
4 3 (0.20%) Maven
5 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.067%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.067%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.067%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.067%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.067%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.067%) TestRail
6 1 (0.067%) Valgrind
General
1 790 (52.95%) Social Skills
2 204 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
3 180 (12.06%) Finance
4 95 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
6 84 (5.63%) Retail
7 74 (4.96%) Marketing
8 61 (4.09%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.95%) Legal
10 33 (2.21%) Law
11 32 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.27%) Local Government
14 18 (1.21%) Banking
15 15 (1.01%) Dutch Language
15 15 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.01%) German Language
15 15 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.94%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 364 (24.40%) Analyst
2 238 (15.95%) Service Analyst
3 221 (14.81%) Service Desk Analyst
4 173 (11.60%) Support Engineer
5 125 (8.38%) IT Support
6 112 (7.51%) IT Engineer
7 82 (5.50%) Desktop Support
8 68 (4.56%) Senior
9 60 (4.02%) Administrator
10 59 (3.95%) Consultant
10 59 (3.95%) Desktop Engineer
11 58 (3.89%) Support Analyst
12 56 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
13 55 (3.69%) Service Desk Agent
14 53 (3.55%) 2nd Line Support
15 52 (3.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 50 (3.35%) Developer
17 44 (2.95%) 1st Line Support
18 41 (2.75%) Architect
19 39 (2.61%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.14%) Web Services
2 11 (0.74%) CSS
2 11 (0.74%) Middleware
3 10 (0.67%) .NET
4 9 (0.60%) XMPP
5 7 (0.47%) HTML
6 6 (0.40%) REST
7 5 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.34%) LDAP
7 5 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.27%) J2EE
8 4 (0.27%) jQuery
8 4 (0.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.20%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.20%) React
9 3 (0.20%) Sass
9 3 (0.20%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.20%) VML
9 3 (0.20%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.69%) Management Information System
2 61 (4.09%) Driving Licence
3 54 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 32 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
6 22 (1.47%) iPad
7 20 (1.34%) Social Media
8 19 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.27%) Smartphone
9 17 (1.14%) CMDB
9 17 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.14%) NHS
9 17 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.01%) Digital Signage
12 14 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (0.94%) iPhone
13 13 (0.87%) Blackberry
13 13 (0.87%) BYOD
14 10 (0.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 529 (35.46%) Windows
2 267 (17.90%) Windows 10
3 110 (7.37%) Windows 7
4 91 (6.10%) Windows Server
5 54 (3.62%) Linux
6 49 (3.28%) Mac OS
7 44 (2.95%) Android
7 44 (2.95%) Apple iOS
8 36 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (1.41%) Windows NT
12 18 (1.21%) Ubuntu
13 16 (1.07%) Debian
14 15 (1.01%) Mac OS X
14 15 (1.01%) Unix
15 14 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.67%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
2 352 (23.59%) ITIL
3 183 (12.27%) Service Delivery
4 144 (9.65%) Incident Management
5 117 (7.84%) Service Management
6 109 (7.31%) Agile
7 95 (6.37%) Time Management
8 94 (6.30%) ITSM
9 84 (5.63%) CRM
10 73 (4.89%) Mathematics
11 69 (4.62%) Asset Management
12 60 (4.02%) Decision-Making
13 59 (3.95%) Business Intelligence
14 56 (3.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (3.75%) Project Management
14 56 (3.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 53 (3.55%) Customer Requirements
16 51 (3.42%) Break/Fix
17 48 (3.22%) Customer Experience
18 47 (3.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (3.69%) Python
2 40 (2.68%) SQL
3 28 (1.88%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.07%) C#
6 11 (0.74%) Java
7 10 (0.67%) C++
7 10 (0.67%) R
8 9 (0.60%) Bash
9 6 (0.40%) C
9 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.34%) ABAP
10 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 3 (0.20%) Go
12 3 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.20%) PHP
13 2 (0.13%) VB
13 2 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 262 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 195 (13.07%) Degree
3 162 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 72 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (4.09%) A+ Certification
7 49 (3.28%) MCP
8 45 (3.02%) MCSA
9 44 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (2.08%) CCNA
12 18 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.54%) MCSE
16 7 (0.47%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.47%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (14.21%) SLA
2 40 (2.68%) QA
3 27 (1.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 18 (1.21%) GDPR
5 17 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.34%) ISO 22301
9 5 (0.34%) PMO
10 4 (0.27%) NCSC
10 4 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.13%) COBIT
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.067%) GRC
12 1 (0.067%) GxP
12 1 (0.067%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.067%) WCAG
System Software
1 322 (21.58%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.75%) Firmware
4 17 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.67%) vSphere
6 9 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.27%) Docker
9 4 (0.27%) Samba
10 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.067%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 128 (8.58%) SCCM
2 66 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (1.74%) WSUS
4 21 (1.41%) Sysprep
5 16 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.54%) Kubernetes
6 8 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.34%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.27%) Terraform
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) Grafana
12 2 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
12 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.13%) VxRail
13 1 (0.067%) Nessus
13 1 (0.067%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.067%) vMotion
Vendors
1 562 (37.67%) Microsoft
2 186 (12.47%) ServiceNow
3 81 (5.43%) Citrix
4 72 (4.83%) VMware
5 60 (4.02%) Cisco
6 53 (3.55%) HP
7 49 (3.28%) Apple
8 47 (3.15%) SAP
9 29 (1.94%) Google
10 22 (1.47%) Oracle
10 22 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.14%) Adobe
12 14 (0.94%) Dell
13 11 (0.74%) Remedy
14 10 (0.67%) Computacenter
15 9 (0.60%) Avaya
16 8 (0.54%) Okta
17 7 (0.47%) Ivanti
17 7 (0.47%) Veeam