Customer Service Contracts in the North East

Customer Service
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 44 25
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 +8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 15 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.40% 3.31% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 3.61% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 27
10th Percentile £136 £105 £100
25th Percentile £205 £134 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £150 £150
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £510 £214 £190
90th Percentile £594 £312 £200
England median daily rate £275 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £10.95 - -
25th Percentile £15.46 £48.50 £10.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £49.00 £11.78
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% +315.96% +30.20%
75th Percentile £20.56 £49.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £20.75 - £40.95
England median hourly rate £15.00 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.81% -8.93% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 274 388 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.35% 91.73% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 300 332
10th Percentile £228 £254 £165
25th Percentile £363 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.18% +6.11%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.13 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £17.50 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.06% +146.97% +6.45%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the North East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Tyne and Wear +23 9 £600 +328.57% 57
Durham +5 5 - - 22
Teesside - 1 £90 -
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) SMTP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Field Service Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Test Technician
2 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (6.67%) Customer Service Assistant
2 1 (6.67%) Facilities Assistant
2 1 (6.67%) Graduate
2 1 (6.67%) IT Support
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (20.00%) Service Management
2 2 (13.33%) Break/Fix
2 2 (13.33%) Coaching
2 2 (13.33%) Facilities Management
2 2 (13.33%) Operations Management
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 1 (6.67%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.67%) Change Management
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (6.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (6.67%) Terminal Services
1 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (6.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Symantec
2 1 (6.67%) VMware