Customer Service Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Customer Service
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Customer Service skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 53 53 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.46% 6.83% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 8.17% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 28
10th Percentile £118 £157 -
25th Percentile £131 £183 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £162 £210 £155
Median % change year-on-year -23.06% +35.48% -32.61%
75th Percentile £390 £264 £233
90th Percentile £494 £322 £488
England median daily rate £235 £259 £228
% change year-on-year -9.18% +13.74% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 10
10th Percentile - £12.72 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £12.94 £13.37
Median hourly rate £16.34 £15.10 £15.01
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +0.60% +27.20%
75th Percentile £21.25 £17.00 £18.00
90th Percentile £25.11 £18.04 £21.50
England median hourly rate £16.07 £16.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year -0.97% +4.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 707 649 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.11% 83.63% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 397 544
10th Percentile £224 £263 £213
25th Percentile £348 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £628 £622 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £12.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% -6.52% +29.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.27% +51.44%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the East Midlands

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the East Midlands

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Nottinghamshire +2 25 £177 -25.57% 23
Leicestershire +5 16 £132 -36.99% 35
Northamptonshire -15 7 £480 +76.47% 21
Lincolnshire -4 2 - - 14
Derbyshire -10 2 - - 27
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.89%) InDesign
4 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.55%) Azure
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.66%) SaaS
3 2 (3.77%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) ATM
1 3 (5.66%) SAN
2 2 (3.77%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) VLAN
3 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Retail
3 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Law
5 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Analyst
2 9 (16.98%) IT Support
3 8 (15.09%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (13.21%) Help Desk Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) IT Technician
5 4 (7.55%) Service Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) ATM Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.66%) Customer Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Field Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) IT Support Technician
6 3 (5.66%) Support Technician
7 2 (3.77%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) HTML
2 1 (1.89%) CSS
2 1 (1.89%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.89%) Blog
5 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.89%) EPoS
5 1 (1.89%) iPhone
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Social Media
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.77%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (15.09%) Service Delivery
3 7 (13.21%) Agile
4 5 (9.43%) Break/Fix
4 5 (9.43%) ITIL
4 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
5 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
5 4 (7.55%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (5.66%) Active Listening
6 3 (5.66%) Analytics
6 3 (5.66%) Conversational UI
6 3 (5.66%) CRM
6 3 (5.66%) ITSM
6 3 (5.66%) Project Management
6 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.66%) Statistics
6 3 (5.66%) Workflow
7 2 (3.77%) Contract Management
7 2 (3.77%) Customer Experience
7 2 (3.77%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) CCNA
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.66%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (3.77%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.77%) MCSE
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) CCENT
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.89%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Dell
3 3 (5.66%) Genesys
4 2 (3.77%) Apple
4 2 (3.77%) Avaya
4 2 (3.77%) HP
4 2 (3.77%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.89%) Facebook
5 1 (1.89%) Instagram
5 1 (1.89%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Twitter
5 1 (1.89%) YouTube