Customer Service Contracts in the North East

Customer Service
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 14 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.91% 5.39% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 6.31% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £147 £112
25th Percentile £105 £149 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £110 £158 £143
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +10.53% -1.72%
75th Percentile £115 £166 £188
90th Percentile - £168 £213
England median daily rate £250 £275 £238
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile - £15.75 £16.55
25th Percentile £11.60 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £19.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £18.74 £20.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £20.63 - £20.15
England median hourly rate £15.84 £15.29 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.60% +1.93% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 206 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.30% 85.48% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 107 171
10th Percentile £225 £270 £319
25th Percentile £419 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £600
90th Percentile £638 £727 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 10
10th Percentile - £14.95 £16.93
25th Percentile £11.60 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.15 £42.23 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +62.40% +57.58%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £46.76 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the North East

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Tyne and Wear -3 10 £110 -30.16% 30
Northumberland - 4 - - 7
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
1 1 (7.14%) WebEx
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Support Officer
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Service Representative
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service Advisor
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) HR Advisor
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Trainee
3 1 (7.14%) Trainee Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (7.14%) Benchmarking
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Data Entry
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Bomgar
3 1 (7.14%) Google