Customer Service Contracts

Customer Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 50 60 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +29
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,632 2,142 2,586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 3.58% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.98% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,160 1,473
10th Percentile £140 £130 £130
25th Percentile £180 £165 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £512 £500 £475
90th Percentile £599 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £218 £205
% change year-on-year +26.44% +6.10% +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 480 519
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.13
25th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.66 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -8.93% +6.04%
75th Percentile £18.35 £17.92 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £24.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +16 1,492 £275 +10.00% 2,701
UK excluding London +4 1,110 £275 +26.44% 2,421
London +33 459 £263 -12.50% 499
North of England +14 347 £300 +30.43% 607
Work from Home -4 327 £425 +6.25% 733
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
Scotland +4 80 £340 +36.00% 159
West Midlands +30 77 £338 +3.85% 270
East Midlands +1 55 £218 -27.50% 167
North East +21 15 £345 +130.00% 95
Wales -4 13 £220 +33.33% 89
Northern Ireland +4 8 £190 +11.76% 30
Isle of Man - 1 £475 - 2

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 107 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 13 (0.80%) CMS
5 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.43%) Confluence
8 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.25%) IBM Notes
8 4 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.18%) Drupal
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 291 (17.83%) Microsoft Office
2 148 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (5.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.31%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.25%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.25%) Shopify
5 4 (0.25%) Workfront
6 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.18%) SAP MRS
7 2 (0.12%) Actimize
7 2 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.12%) Primavera
7 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 343 (21.02%) Microsoft 365
2 156 (9.56%) Azure
3 82 (5.02%) Power Platform
4 64 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 39 (2.39%) Entra ID
7 37 (2.27%) AWS
8 31 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 22 (1.35%) SaaS
10 20 (1.23%) PowerApps
11 17 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (0.86%) WhatsApp
13 13 (0.80%) IaaS
14 11 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.67%) Google Workspace
15 7 (0.43%) Slack
16 6 (0.37%) PaaS
17 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 5 (0.31%) OCI
17 5 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.70%) VPN
2 72 (4.41%) LAN
3 62 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
4 58 (3.55%) Firewall
5 50 (3.06%) WAN
6 49 (3.00%) TCP/IP
7 48 (2.94%) DNS
8 45 (2.76%) Wireless
9 32 (1.96%) SAN
10 31 (1.90%) DHCP
11 23 (1.41%) Skype
12 22 (1.35%) Internet
13 14 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (0.86%) Network Security
14 13 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
15 12 (0.74%) Ethernet
16 10 (0.61%) HTTP
16 10 (0.61%) OSPF
16 10 (0.61%) Unified Communications
17 8 (0.49%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.27%) Power BI
2 16 (0.98%) Big Data
3 13 (0.80%) Data Lake
3 13 (0.80%) Tableau
4 12 (0.74%) Hadoop
5 8 (0.49%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.18%) MySQL
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.12%) Metadata
10 2 (0.12%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.12%) OLAP
10 2 (0.12%) OLTP
10 2 (0.12%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (1.59%) JIRA
2 11 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.61%) Git
4 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.18%) GitLab
5 3 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.061%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.061%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.061%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.061%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.061%) TestRail
7 1 (0.061%) Valgrind
General
1 860 (52.70%) Social Skills
2 231 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
3 196 (12.01%) Finance
4 112 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
6 84 (5.15%) Retail
7 79 (4.84%) Marketing
8 65 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 54 (3.31%) Legal
10 33 (2.02%) Law
11 32 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.29%) Banking
14 19 (1.16%) Local Government
15 17 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.92%) Dutch Language
16 15 (0.92%) German Language
16 15 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.86%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 402 (24.63%) Analyst
2 247 (15.13%) Service Analyst
3 229 (14.03%) Service Desk Analyst
4 184 (11.27%) Support Engineer
5 136 (8.33%) IT Support
6 132 (8.09%) IT Engineer
7 85 (5.21%) Desktop Support
8 75 (4.60%) Senior
9 72 (4.41%) Support Analyst
10 69 (4.23%) Consultant
11 66 (4.04%) Administrator
12 61 (3.74%) Desktop Engineer
13 60 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
14 55 (3.37%) 2nd Line Support
14 55 (3.37%) Service Desk Agent
15 54 (3.31%) Field Engineer
16 53 (3.25%) 1st Line Support
16 53 (3.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 52 (3.19%) Developer
18 49 (3.00%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.08%) Web Services
2 14 (0.86%) CSS
2 14 (0.86%) Middleware
3 10 (0.61%) .NET
3 10 (0.61%) HTML
4 9 (0.55%) XMPP
5 7 (0.43%) J2EE
5 7 (0.43%) REST
6 6 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.37%) LDAP
7 5 (0.31%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.25%) jQuery
8 4 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.18%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.18%) JSON
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.18%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.18%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.53%) Management Information System
2 69 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 66 (4.04%) Driving Licence
4 35 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
6 27 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.59%) iPad
8 23 (1.41%) iPhone
8 23 (1.41%) Smartphone
9 20 (1.23%) CMDB
9 20 (1.23%) Social Media
10 19 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.10%) NHS
12 17 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 16 (0.98%) BYOD
14 15 (0.92%) Digital Signage
15 14 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (0.80%) Blackberry
17 12 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 567 (34.74%) Windows
2 279 (17.10%) Windows 10
3 115 (7.05%) Windows 7
4 97 (5.94%) Windows Server
5 61 (3.74%) Linux
6 56 (3.43%) Apple iOS
7 55 (3.37%) Android
8 52 (3.19%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 35 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.29%) Windows NT
13 18 (1.10%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.10%) Unix
14 16 (0.98%) Debian
15 15 (0.92%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.67%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (22.86%) ITIL
3 187 (11.46%) Service Delivery
4 147 (9.01%) Incident Management
5 130 (7.97%) Service Management
6 128 (7.84%) Agile
7 100 (6.13%) ITSM
7 100 (6.13%) Time Management
8 93 (5.70%) CRM
9 76 (4.66%) Asset Management
10 73 (4.47%) Mathematics
11 68 (4.17%) Break/Fix
11 68 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (3.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (3.92%) Decision-Making
14 62 (3.80%) Business Intelligence
15 61 (3.74%) Project Management
16 55 (3.37%) Customer Requirements
17 50 (3.06%) Customer Experience
18 49 (3.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (3.37%) Python
2 46 (2.82%) SQL
3 30 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.04%) C#
6 13 (0.80%) Java
7 12 (0.74%) Bash
8 10 (0.61%) C++
8 10 (0.61%) R
9 9 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.43%) Perl
11 6 (0.37%) C
11 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.31%) ABAP
13 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.18%) PHP
15 2 (0.12%) VB
15 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 277 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 215 (13.17%) Degree
3 171 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 83 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (4.29%) A+ Certification
7 52 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (3.19%) MCP
8 46 (2.82%) MCSA
9 39 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.33%) CCNA
11 19 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.92%) MCSE
14 14 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.43%) CCIE
16 7 (0.43%) CCNP
16 7 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (13.54%) SLA
2 40 (2.45%) QA
3 33 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 19 (1.16%) GDPR
5 17 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 5 (0.31%) PMO
10 4 (0.25%) NCSC
10 4 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) COBIT
11 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.12%) P3O
12 1 (0.061%) GRC
12 1 (0.061%) GxP
12 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.061%) WCAG
System Software
1 346 (21.20%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.51%) Firmware
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.74%) vSphere
6 9 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.43%) Docker
8 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.25%) Samba
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.12%) KVM
12 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.061%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 136 (8.33%) SCCM
2 70 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (1.72%) WSUS
4 21 (1.29%) Sysprep
5 19 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.67%) Kubernetes
7 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.43%) Terraform
10 6 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.31%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.31%) Ansible
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Grafana
12 2 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
12 2 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.12%) Nagios
12 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 612 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 196 (12.01%) ServiceNow
3 91 (5.58%) Citrix
4 76 (4.66%) VMware
5 73 (4.47%) Cisco
6 60 (3.68%) Apple
6 60 (3.68%) HP
7 50 (3.06%) SAP
8 29 (1.78%) Google
8 29 (1.78%) Oracle
9 27 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.47%) Dell
11 18 (1.10%) Adobe
12 12 (0.74%) Avaya
13 11 (0.67%) Computacenter
13 11 (0.67%) Remedy
14 9 (0.55%) Okta
15 7 (0.43%) McAfee
15 7 (0.43%) Veeam