Customer Service Contracts with Work from Home Options

Customer Service
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 98 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 +17
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 325 599 835
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.16% 2.38% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.66% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 377 543
10th Percentile £150 £140 £145
25th Percentile £240 £200 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £538
90th Percentile £626 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 29 79
10th Percentile £12.70 £12.50 £12.16
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -16.44% +17.48%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £20.88 £44.50 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £14.84 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +8.64% -8.93% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Customer Service
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Customer Service trend for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service.

Customer Service daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Customer Service daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service.

Customer Service hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Customer Service hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.92%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.92%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (0.62%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.31%) Moodle
6 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 47 (14.46%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.23%) SAP SD
2 4 (1.23%) Workfront
3 3 (0.92%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.62%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.62%) Primavera
4 2 (0.62%) Shopify
4 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.62%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.31%) Actimize
5 1 (0.31%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (13.54%) Azure
3 18 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (3.69%) AWS
4 12 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.77%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.77%) SaaS
7 8 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.46%) IaaS
8 5 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.92%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.62%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.62%) GCP
10 2 (0.62%) PaaS
10 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.08%) Firewall
1 23 (7.08%) SAN
2 21 (6.46%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.31%) VPN
4 11 (3.38%) Internet
5 8 (2.46%) DNS
5 8 (2.46%) LAN
6 7 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.85%) DHCP
7 6 (1.85%) WAN
8 4 (1.23%) HTTP
8 4 (1.23%) MPLS
8 4 (1.23%) Network Security
9 3 (0.92%) ADSL
9 3 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.92%) NAS
9 3 (0.92%) PSTN
9 3 (0.92%) Wireless
10 2 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.77%) Power BI
2 5 (1.54%) Big Data
2 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.54%) Tableau
3 4 (1.23%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.62%) MySQL
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.31%) Jackrabbit
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.31%) QlikView
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.31%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (1.54%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) Git
3 3 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.31%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.31%) TestRail
5 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (12.00%) Finance
4 32 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.46%) Marketing
6 20 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.38%) Legal
9 10 (3.08%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.77%) Banking
11 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.85%) Law
12 6 (1.85%) Local Government
13 5 (1.54%) Electronics
13 5 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.23%) Billing
14 4 (1.23%) Retail
15 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (24.92%) Analyst
2 42 (12.92%) Service Analyst
3 41 (12.62%) Service Desk Analyst
4 35 (10.77%) Senior
5 33 (10.15%) Developer
6 31 (9.54%) Consultant
7 22 (6.77%) Support Engineer
8 17 (5.23%) 1st Line Support
9 15 (4.62%) IT Support
9 15 (4.62%) Python Developer
10 14 (4.31%) Architect
10 14 (4.31%) Support Analyst
11 13 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (3.69%) Functional Consultant
13 10 (3.08%) 1st Line Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 10 (3.08%) Coordinator
13 10 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.77%) IT Engineer
14 9 (2.77%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.69%) Web Services
2 7 (2.15%) Middleware
3 5 (1.54%) .NET
3 5 (1.54%) J2EE
4 3 (0.92%) CSS
4 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.92%) REST
4 3 (0.92%) Spring
5 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.62%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.62%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.62%) Jest
5 2 (0.62%) jQuery
5 2 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.62%) React
5 2 (0.62%) Sass
5 2 (0.62%) Spring MVC
5 2 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (0.62%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.77%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.46%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.23%) Housing Association
5 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.23%) Social Media
5 4 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (0.92%) iPhone
6 3 (0.92%) Life Science
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.62%) BYOD
7 2 (0.62%) CMDB
7 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.62%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.62%) IoT
7 2 (0.62%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 93 (28.62%) Windows
2 25 (7.69%) Linux
3 24 (7.38%) Windows 10
4 16 (4.92%) Ubuntu
5 15 (4.62%) Debian
6 13 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 11 (3.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.77%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.85%) Unix
10 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.23%) Android
11 4 (1.23%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.31%) HPUX
14 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.31%) VMS
14 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.77%) ITIL
2 69 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (16.92%) Agile
4 46 (14.15%) Service Management
5 38 (11.69%) Service Delivery
6 30 (9.23%) CRM
7 29 (8.92%) ITSM
8 23 (7.08%) Prototyping
8 23 (7.08%) Time Management
9 22 (6.77%) Configuration Management
9 22 (6.77%) Migration
10 21 (6.46%) Asset Management
10 21 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (6.46%) IT Asset Management
10 21 (6.46%) Operations Management
10 21 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (5.85%) Data Modelling
11 19 (5.85%) Project Management
12 17 (5.23%) Roadmaps
13 16 (4.92%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.69%) Python
2 13 (4.00%) SQL
3 8 (2.46%) C#
4 7 (2.15%) Java
4 7 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.54%) Bash
6 5 (1.54%) Perl
6 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.92%) C++
7 3 (0.92%) PHP
7 3 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.62%) R
8 2 (0.62%) VBScript
9 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.62%) Degree
4 17 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.92%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.31%) CCSK
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.46%) SLA
2 13 (4.00%) QA
3 9 (2.77%) GDPR
4 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.92%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.62%) COBIT
7 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) GRC
7 2 (0.62%) P3O
7 2 (0.62%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (17.85%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.23%) Docker
4 4 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.23%) SCCM
2 4 (1.23%) WSUS
3 3 (0.92%) Ansible
3 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.92%) Terraform
3 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 121 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 29 (8.92%) VMware
4 19 (5.85%) Red Hat
5 18 (5.54%) SAP
6 17 (5.23%) Cisco
7 9 (2.77%) Oracle
7 9 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.46%) Adobe
9 7 (2.15%) Google
10 5 (1.54%) Citrix
10 5 (1.54%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.54%) HP
11 4 (1.23%) Apple
11 4 (1.23%) Ariba
12 3 (0.92%) BT
12 3 (0.92%) Dell
12 3 (0.92%) IBM
12 3 (0.92%) Progress
12 3 (0.92%) Remedy