Customer Service Contracts in Essex

Customer Service
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 24 25 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 10 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.44% 4.56% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 5.50% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £100 £105 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £110 £125 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -68.75% +171.65%
75th Percentile £300 £178 £431
90th Percentile £503 £356 £443
East of England median daily rate £325 £210 £244
% change year-on-year +54.76% -13.85% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - £14.61
25th Percentile £14.17 - £17.63
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £18.55
75th Percentile £20.25 - £18.85
90th Percentile - - £24.39
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
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 200 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 81.33% 82.99% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 127 220
10th Percentile £250 £185 £205
25th Percentile £350 £262 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +16.47%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £576
90th Percentile £600 £621 £631
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 33
10th Percentile £10.42 £21.78 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.96 £24.62 £18.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% +59.38% +22.94%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.63 £44.53
90th Percentile - £67.55 £68.99
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 Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Chelmsford +2 3 - - 4
Basildon - 3 £100 - 4
Colchester -3 1 £300 - 9
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Call Centre Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Employee Productivity
3 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) BPMN
4 1 (10.00%) Budget Responsibility
4 1 (10.00%) Business Case
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) IT4IT
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) SFIA
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (30.00%) CCNA
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) MCSA
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) COBIT
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Sparx