Customer Service Contracts in Merseyside

Customer Service
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 27 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.17% 9.30% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.93% 11.98% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 3
10th Percentile £133 - -
25th Percentile £140 £143 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £150 £167
Median % change year-on-year - -10.18% -4.57%
75th Percentile £223 £178 £221
90th Percentile £275 £208 £253
North West median daily rate £205 £325 £250
% change year-on-year -36.92% +30.00% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 5
10th Percentile £11.80 £11.06 £16.21
25th Percentile £12.12 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.65 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.97% -8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £13.17 £16.88 £18.75
90th Percentile £13.49 £18.68 -
North West median hourly rate £13.60 £11.38 £16.85
% change year-on-year +19.56% -32.49% -3.71%

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 129 167 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 77.25% 77.67% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 88 195
10th Percentile £143 £144 £300
25th Percentile £203 £238 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -20.00% +15.27%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £545
90th Percentile £653 £608 £635
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 25 7
10th Percentile £13.07 - £16.22
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +5.71% +45.83%
75th Percentile £18.08 £34.32 £23.03
90th Percentile £24.23 £37.18 £28.38
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £24.19 £35.03
% change year-on-year +32.29% -30.94% +52.12%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Merseyside over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

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 19 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
Liverpool +4 23 £145 -3.33% 34
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Bootle - 1 £250 - 3
Customer Service
North West

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) LAN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Internet
2 3 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (11.11%) Wireless
3 2 (7.41%) BGP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (7.41%) IOS XR
3 2 (7.41%) MPLS
3 2 (7.41%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) ATM
4 1 (3.70%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Billing
4 2 (7.41%) Military
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Service Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Coordinator
5 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support
5 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Support
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Desktop Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) ICT Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) IVR
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) EPoS
4 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows 10
3 4 (14.81%) Android
4 3 (11.11%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) ITIL
2 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
4 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) BCP
5 3 (11.11%) CRM
5 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (11.11%) Information Security
5 3 (11.11%) Time Management
5 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (3.70%) Email Filtering
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (3.70%) ITSM
6 1 (3.70%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (3.70%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) CCNA
1 2 (7.41%) CCNP
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) ZABBIX
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (44.44%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.81%) Bomgar
3 4 (14.81%) iManage
4 3 (11.11%) Apple
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) Nokia
5 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) Google