Customer Service Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Customer Service
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 58 153 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.09% 30.66% 30.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.77% 37.50% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 32
10th Percentile - £190 £143
25th Percentile £463 £266 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £504 £190
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +165.00% -41.54%
75th Percentile £472 £582 £309
90th Percentile £473 £582 £500
East of England median daily rate £245 £325 £210
% change year-on-year -24.62% +54.76% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 146 133
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.29 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £16.85 £16.30 £17.72
90th Percentile £18.85 £21.37 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.93% +3.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 408 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.73% 81.76% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 148 264
10th Percentile £250 £200 £201
25th Percentile £403 £350 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £553 £563 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 191 150
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.32 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.42 £20.56
90th Percentile £32.23 £48.00 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.66 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.35% +81.82% +41.94%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Cambridgeshire

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Cambridgeshire

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Cambridgeshire

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Peterborough -1 47 - - 16
Huntingdon -3 1 - - 1
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 47 (81.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (81.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (39.66%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) German Language
3 5 (8.62%) Retail
4 4 (6.90%) Hungarian Language
5 3 (5.17%) Spanish Language
6 2 (3.45%) Lithuanian Language
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (60.34%) Analyst
1 35 (60.34%) Service Analyst
2 25 (43.10%) Service Desk Analyst
3 18 (31.03%) Technical Analyst
3 18 (31.03%) Technical Services Analyst
4 10 (17.24%) Customer Analyst
4 10 (17.24%) Customer Service Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Call Centre Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Clustering
1 4 (6.90%) Replication
2 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
1 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (91.38%) Incident Management
2 51 (87.93%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (82.76%) Service Delivery
4 47 (81.03%) Mathematics
5 27 (46.55%) ITIL
6 4 (6.90%) Capacity Management
6 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (6.90%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (6.90%) Proactive Management
6 4 (6.90%) Problem Management
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (1.72%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (39.66%) A+ Certification
1 23 (39.66%) MCSA
1 23 (39.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
3 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) DBS Check
System Software
1 22 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (6.90%) Podman
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (81.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (39.66%) Citrix
2 23 (39.66%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.90%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat