Customer Service Contracts in Berkshire

Customer Service
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Customer Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Service over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 38 65
Rank change year-on-year -34 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 23 93 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.96% 4.69% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 5.28% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 84 25
10th Percentile £116 £164 £158
25th Percentile £130 £205 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £215 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -57.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £350 £575 £580
90th Percentile - - £725
South East median daily rate £250 £275 £215
% change year-on-year -9.09% +27.91% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £18.95
25th Percentile - - £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.91 £13.68 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.54% -31.60% +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - £27.70
South East median hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -13.51% +23.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Customer Service falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Berkshire

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Berkshire

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Berkshire

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Berkshire

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Reading -19 12 £275 +27.91% 56
Bracknell +17 2 £115 -68.28% 11
Maidenhead +6 2 - - 22
Windsor - 1 £650 - 2
Customer Service
South East

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Billing
2 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Dutch Language
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) German Language
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
1 5 (21.74%) Designer
1 5 (21.74%) Solutions Designer
2 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Customer Service Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Customer Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) JSON
1 5 (21.74%) REST
1 5 (21.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Frameworx
1 5 (21.74%) TM Forum
2 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Service Delivery
2 6 (26.09%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Business Strategy
3 5 (21.74%) CRM
3 5 (21.74%) Customer Experience
3 5 (21.74%) Microservices
3 5 (21.74%) Process Improvement
3 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (21.74%) UML
4 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (13.04%) Data Mapping
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.70%) ITSM
6 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.70%) Ticket Management
7 1 (4.35%) Presales
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) MCSA
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) CCDA
2 1 (4.35%) CCDP
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) CCNP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) ServiceNow
2 6 (26.09%) Salesforce
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.04%) SAP
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) Dell
6 1 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (4.35%) IBM