Customer Service Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Customer Service
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 60 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 23.90% 8.37% 9.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.55% 11.52% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 15 7
10th Percentile £129 £137 £145
25th Percentile £130 £143 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £170 £170
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +1.80%
75th Percentile £188 £241 £419
90th Percentile £208 £250 £585
North West median daily rate £152 £210 £270
% change year-on-year -27.86% -22.22% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.01 £13.98
25th Percentile £13.70 £12.65 £16.00
Median hourly rate £15.18 £13.70 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -23.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile - £16.95 £20.00
90th Percentile - £18.89 £21.50
North West median hourly rate £19.33 £19.00 £17.36
% change year-on-year +1.74% +9.45% +3.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 165 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 90.04% 72.69% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 85 74
10th Percentile £130 £149 £222
25th Percentile £151 £188 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £413 £456
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% -9.59% -3.95%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £563
90th Percentile £643 £630 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 14
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.04 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile - £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Customer Service job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Liverpool +11 37 £155 +3.33% 12
St Helens - 1 - -
Customer Service
North West

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 11 (18.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.00%) LAN
1 12 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (1.67%) VoIP
General
1 30 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.00%) Legal
3 2 (3.33%) Banking
3 2 (3.33%) Finance
3 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.33%) Law
3 2 (3.33%) Local Government
3 2 (3.33%) Police
3 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.67%) Military
4 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (41.67%) IT Support
2 18 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 16 (26.67%) IT Technician
4 12 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (15.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.67%) Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Service Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Desktop Support
8 3 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) IT Support Technician
9 2 (3.33%) Support Officer
9 2 (3.33%) Support Technician
10 1 (1.67%) 1st Line Engineer
10 1 (1.67%) Hardware Engineer
10 1 (1.67%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 40 (66.67%) Windows
2 29 (48.33%) Windows 10
3 16 (26.67%) Android
4 12 (20.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.33%) Service Management
3 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 5 (8.33%) ITIL
5 3 (5.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (3.33%) Data Entry
6 2 (3.33%) High Availability
6 2 (3.33%) Logistics
7 1 (1.67%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (1.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.67%) Data Protection
7 1 (1.67%) Information Security
7 1 (1.67%) Inventory Management
7 1 (1.67%) ITSM
7 1 (1.67%) Process Improvement
7 1 (1.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.33%) A+ Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.67%) MCP
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 27 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.00%) Bomgar
3 3 (5.00%) iManage
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) HP