Customer Service Contracts in Essex

Customer Service
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 9 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 11.39% 4.98% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 6.11% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £196 £100 -
25th Percentile £219 £101 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £241 £193 £110
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +75.00% -72.50%
75th Percentile £248 £297 £195
90th Percentile - £469 £398
East of England median daily rate £245 £325 £210
% change year-on-year -24.62% +54.76% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.17 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - -
75th Percentile £21.00 £20.25 -
90th Percentile £22.65 - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.93% +3.45% +6.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 94.94% 81.45% 83.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 96 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Essex

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tilbury - 3 - - 1
Braintree - 1 £188 - 4
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (44.44%) OneDrive
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
1 3 (33.33%) VoIP
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
1 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) General Ledger
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) First Line Help Desk Support
1 3 (33.33%) Help Desk Assistant
1 3 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
1 3 (33.33%) Support Assistant
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) FreeBSD
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Case Management
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) AppManager
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Ivanti
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Apple