Customer Service Contracts in Reading

Customer Service
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 26 61
Rank change year-on-year -22 +35 -23
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 12 78 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 6.54% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 7.26% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 69 21
10th Percentile £118 - £150
25th Percentile £151 £205 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £215 £570
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -62.28% +37.35%
75th Percentile £338 £575 £750
90th Percentile £350 - £784
Berkshire median daily rate £300 £215 £538
% change year-on-year +39.53% -60.00% +34.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £13.68 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% +90.00%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.91 £13.68 £20.00
% change year-on-year +45.54% -31.60% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Reading

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Billing
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Dutch Language
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Designer
1 4 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Data Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Frameworx
1 4 (33.33%) TM Forum
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) UML
4 3 (25.00%) Data Mapping
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
6 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (8.33%) Presales
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CCDA
1 1 (8.33%) CCDP
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) MCSA
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) SAP