Customer Service Contract Job Trends in Durham

Customer Service
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 3.57% 5.36% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 6.00% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £238 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £247 - -
75th Percentile £255 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £163 £158 £186
% change year-on-year +3.59% -15.44% +33.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 50 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 64.29% 89.29% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 44
10th Percentile £241 £233 £302
25th Percentile £338 £384 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +21.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £546 £589 £475
90th Percentile £640 £641 £546
North East median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £17.30 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% - -
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Durham

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Customer Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Customer Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Durham

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 Durham region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Hartlepool - 1 £247 -
Customer Service
North East

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory