Customer Service Contract Job Trends in England

Customer Service
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 68 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,420 989 1,106
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.07% 3.61% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.98% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 449 532
10th Percentile £143 £130 £150
25th Percentile £171 £163 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £227 £235 £263
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -10.48% +12.97%
75th Percentile £456 £425 £500
90th Percentile £570 £570 £600
UK median daily rate £225 £235 £263
% change year-on-year -4.26% -10.48% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 269 255
10th Percentile £13.29 £13.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.74 £14.38 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.92 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -1.42% +6.01%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.21 £17.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £30.00 £22.00
UK median hourly rate £16.11 £16.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year +0.69% -1.42% +8.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in England

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in England

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
London -18 375 £325 +4.84% 984
North of England -9 319 £200 -4.76% 521
South East -15 255 £208 -1.54% 554
North West +7 198 £200 +29.03% 285
Midlands -5 183 £225 +4.65% 402
East of England -2 164 £200 -12.09% 235
South West -23 119 £225 -4.26% 204
West Midlands -20 108 £225 -4.26% 235
Yorkshire -35 76 £284 +8.19% 169
East Midlands -1 75 £200 +23.78% 168
North East -15 45 £363 +122.17% 78
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 150 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.49%) Confluence
4 3 (0.21%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 1 (0.070%) Apache
5 1 (0.070%) CICS
5 1 (0.070%) JBoss
5 1 (0.070%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.070%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 143 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.070%) Maple
8 1 (0.070%) Maya
8 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 76 (5.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.42%) Shopify
5 5 (0.35%) ContrOCC
6 3 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
6 3 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.070%) Maximo
8 1 (0.070%) Monis
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.070%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.070%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.070%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 415 (29.23%) Microsoft 365
2 187 (13.17%) Azure
3 113 (7.96%) Entra ID
4 96 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
5 91 (6.41%) OneDrive
6 78 (5.49%) Power Platform
7 39 (2.75%) Power Automate
8 30 (2.11%) AWS
8 30 (2.11%) PowerApps
9 27 (1.90%) SaaS
10 25 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (1.48%) Google Workspace
12 18 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 14 (0.99%) Serverless
14 12 (0.85%) GCP
15 11 (0.77%) Azure Functions
15 11 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
17 9 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.63%) VPN
2 61 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 54 (3.80%) DNS
5 42 (2.96%) DHCP
6 29 (2.04%) LAN
7 24 (1.69%) Firewall
8 21 (1.48%) SAN
9 20 (1.41%) WAN
10 14 (0.99%) Wireless
11 11 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.77%) NetScaler
12 8 (0.56%) VoIP
12 8 (0.56%) WebEx
13 7 (0.49%) MPLS
13 7 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (0.28%) BGP
14 4 (0.28%) HTTP
14 4 (0.28%) Network Security
14 4 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (1.90%) Power BI
2 8 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.35%) Big Data
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (0.35%) Power Query
4 5 (0.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.21%) MySQL
6 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.21%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.14%) EDMS
7 2 (0.14%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.070%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.070%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.070%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 32 (2.25%) JIRA
2 5 (0.35%) Git
3 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.14%) Firebug
4 2 (0.14%) MSI
4 2 (0.14%) MSTest
4 2 (0.14%) NUnit
4 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.070%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.070%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.070%) Selenium
5 1 (0.070%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 824 (58.03%) Social Skills
2 224 (15.77%) Finance
3 179 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (12.32%) Organisational Skills
5 105 (7.39%) Legal
6 103 (7.25%) Retail
7 83 (5.85%) Public Sector
8 54 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 50 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 46 (3.24%) Marketing
11 39 (2.75%) Spanish Language
12 36 (2.54%) French Language
13 32 (2.25%) Back Office
14 31 (2.18%) Banking
15 30 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (2.11%) Local Government
16 19 (1.34%) Italian Language
17 17 (1.20%) Dutch Language
18 14 (0.99%) Billing
18 14 (0.99%) Games
Job Titles
1 288 (20.28%) IT Support
2 200 (14.08%) Analyst
3 192 (13.52%) Support Engineer
4 152 (10.70%) IT Engineer
5 127 (8.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 74 (5.21%) Administrator
7 73 (5.14%) 1st Line Support
8 71 (5.00%) Service Analyst
9 68 (4.79%) IT Analyst
9 68 (4.79%) Support Analyst
10 65 (4.58%) Developer
11 64 (4.51%) Service Desk Analyst
12 50 (3.52%) Support Technician
13 45 (3.17%) Customer Service Advisor
14 44 (3.10%) 2nd Line Support
14 44 (3.10%) Consultant
14 44 (3.10%) Desktop Support
15 41 (2.89%) IT Support Analyst
16 40 (2.82%) Coordinator
17 39 (2.75%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.68%) REST
2 25 (1.76%) .NET
3 18 (1.27%) SOAP
4 12 (0.85%) CSS
4 12 (0.85%) HTML
5 8 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.56%) Middleware
6 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (0.42%) JSON
7 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (0.42%) React
8 5 (0.35%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.35%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (0.35%) Bootstrap
8 5 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (0.35%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.35%) OAuth
9 4 (0.28%) XML
10 3 (0.21%) Kafka
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.27%) Onboarding
2 84 (5.92%) Virtual Team
3 72 (5.07%) Web Conferencing
4 70 (4.93%) Podcast
5 62 (4.37%) Driving Licence
6 47 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 33 (2.32%) Video Conferencing
8 32 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.69%) Smartphone
12 23 (1.62%) CMDB
13 20 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.13%) NHS
16 14 (0.99%) Product Ownership
17 13 (0.92%) EPoS
18 12 (0.85%) iPhone
18 12 (0.85%) IVR
19 10 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 474 (33.38%) Windows
2 173 (12.18%) Windows 10
3 72 (5.07%) Mac OS
4 61 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 59 (4.15%) Android
6 32 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.99%) Linux
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.14%) VMS
12 1 (0.070%) CentOS
12 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
2 236 (16.62%) ITIL
3 194 (13.66%) ITSM
4 162 (11.41%) Service Management
5 140 (9.86%) CRM
6 136 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 125 (8.80%) Customer Experience
8 118 (8.31%) Service Delivery
9 107 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 84 (5.92%) User Experience
11 83 (5.85%) Agile
11 83 (5.85%) AI
12 74 (5.21%) Process Improvement
13 70 (4.93%) Asset Management
14 67 (4.72%) Data Protection
15 59 (4.15%) Incident Management
16 58 (4.08%) Time Management
17 57 (4.01%) Logistics
18 56 (3.94%) Collaborative Working
19 54 (3.80%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (2.82%) JavaScript
2 37 (2.61%) SQL
3 29 (2.04%) C#
4 27 (1.90%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.06%) TypeScript
6 13 (0.92%) Python
7 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.21%) ABAP
8 3 (0.21%) Bash
8 3 (0.21%) Java
9 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.14%) R
9 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.14%) VBScript
10 1 (0.070%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.070%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.070%) C
10 1 (0.070%) COBOL
10 1 (0.070%) Perl
10 1 (0.070%) Rust
Qualifications
1 172 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 123 (8.66%) Degree
2 123 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 92 (6.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 70 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 56 (3.94%) A+ Certification
6 38 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
7 33 (2.32%) DBS Check
8 32 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.97%) MCSE
10 27 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.69%) CCNA
12 23 (1.62%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 13 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 4 (0.28%) Azure Certification
17 4 (0.28%) CIPD
17 4 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (7.54%) SLA
2 30 (2.11%) GDPR
3 25 (1.76%) QA
4 21 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.42%) GRC
9 4 (0.28%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.14%) GMP
11 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.070%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.070%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.070%) PMO
12 1 (0.070%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 267 (18.80%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.42%) XenApp
6 6 (0.42%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.070%) Docker
9 1 (0.070%) Firmware
9 1 (0.070%) NDS
9 1 (0.070%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.070%) RACF
9 1 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 126 (8.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (3.80%) SCCM
3 25 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.35%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.28%) SCOM
7 3 (0.21%) Ansible
7 3 (0.21%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.21%) WSUS
8 1 (0.070%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.070%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.070%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.070%) Podman
8 1 (0.070%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 591 (41.62%) Microsoft
2 207 (14.58%) ServiceNow
3 49 (3.45%) Apple
3 49 (3.45%) SAP
4 44 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 36 (2.54%) Cisco
6 32 (2.25%) Google
6 32 (2.25%) VMware
7 26 (1.83%) Dell
8 25 (1.76%) HP
9 21 (1.48%) Citrix
10 20 (1.41%) Oracle
11 17 (1.20%) Remedy
12 14 (0.99%) iManage
13 13 (0.92%) Bomgar
13 13 (0.92%) Meraki
14 9 (0.63%) Genesys
14 9 (0.63%) Juniper
15 8 (0.56%) Avaya
16 7 (0.49%) Mitel