Customer Service Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Customer Service
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 140 96 155
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.38% 7.61% 9.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 8.57% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 21
10th Percentile £150 £108 £150
25th Percentile £164 £160 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £238 £230
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +3.26% +17.05%
75th Percentile £395 £566 £438
90th Percentile £473 £593 £463
England median daily rate £225 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 58 126
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.25 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £14.50
Median hourly rate £14.22 £15.14 £16.02
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -5.51% +10.50%
75th Percentile £15.99 £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £19.88 £21.06 -
England median hourly rate £16.97 £15.84 £15.12
% change year-on-year +7.13% +4.76% +0.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,724 1,120 1,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.58% 88.75% 83.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 509 503
10th Percentile £193 £200 £198
25th Percentile £400 £365 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 275 468
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.76
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.40 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -12.79% +117.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in the East of England

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +3 59 £170 -51.43% 34
Hertfordshire -11 24 £263 +33.25% 40
Essex -6 23 £352 +53.04% 56
Bedfordshire +13 19 £408 -29.13% 16
Norfolk -6 8 £200 - 33
Suffolk -8 7 £225 - 12
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (9.29%) Azure
3 11 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (4.29%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.14%) AWS
7 3 (2.14%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.43%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.71%) npm
9 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.71%) Stripe
9 1 (0.71%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) VPN
2 5 (3.57%) Wireless
3 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) Broadband
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) DNS
5 1 (0.71%) LAN
5 1 (0.71%) Network Security
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.71%) VLAN
5 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.86%) Power BI
2 3 (2.14%) QlikView
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.71%) Hazelcast
3 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.71%) Redis
3 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) Git
2 1 (0.71%) MSI
2 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 71 (50.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.57%) Dutch Language
2 19 (13.57%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.43%) Marketing
6 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Retail
6 8 (5.71%) Romanian Language
7 5 (3.57%) Hungarian Language
8 4 (2.86%) Back Office
8 4 (2.86%) Games
9 3 (2.14%) French Language
9 3 (2.14%) Local Government
9 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.14%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Customer Service Advisor
2 27 (19.29%) IT Support
3 15 (10.71%) Developer
4 13 (9.29%) Administrator
5 12 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Analyst
7 9 (6.43%) Service Analyst
7 9 (6.43%) Service Desk Analyst
8 8 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 8 (5.71%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Coordinator
10 5 (3.57%) 1st Line Support
11 4 (2.86%) Break Fix Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Field Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Help Desk Administrator
11 4 (2.86%) Help Desk Adviser
11 4 (2.86%) Installations Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) .NET
2 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.43%) Kafka
2 2 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.71%) CSS
3 1 (0.71%) HTML
3 1 (0.71%) JWT
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.71%) Node.js
3 1 (0.71%) OAuth
3 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.71%) ONVIF
3 1 (0.71%) RxJS
3 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Spring
3 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.71%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.43%) EPoS
6 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.71%) Replication
7 1 (0.71%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.71%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.71%) Social Media
7 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Android
2 3 (2.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (13.57%) ITSM
3 18 (12.86%) CRM
3 18 (12.86%) Process Improvement
4 16 (11.43%) ITIL
5 12 (8.57%) Asset Management
6 11 (7.86%) Service Delivery
7 10 (7.14%) Customer Experience
7 10 (7.14%) Service Management
8 9 (6.43%) Roadmaps
8 9 (6.43%) Time Management
9 8 (5.71%) Mentoring
10 7 (5.00%) Active Listening
10 7 (5.00%) DevOps
10 7 (5.00%) Inventory Management
11 6 (4.29%) CI/CD
12 5 (3.57%) Analytics
12 5 (3.57%) Change Management
12 5 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.57%) SQL
2 4 (2.86%) C#
2 4 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.14%) Java
4 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.71%) Bash
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) Python
5 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.29%) Degree
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.57%) A+ Certification
3 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.71%) MCSA
7 1 (0.71%) MCSE
7 1 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
2 1 (0.71%) Podman
2 1 (0.71%) SCCM
2 1 (0.71%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.57%) HP
3 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (2.86%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) SAP
5 3 (2.14%) Civica
5 3 (2.14%) Freshdesk
5 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.43%) Apple
6 2 (1.43%) Dell
6 2 (1.43%) VMware
7 1 (0.71%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.71%) Capita
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.71%) Genesys
7 1 (0.71%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.71%) Juniper
7 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto