Customer Service Contracts in Scotland

Customer Service
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 58 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 60 80 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.69% 3.61% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 4.08% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 91
10th Percentile £148 £150 £120
25th Percentile £169 £178 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £340 £250
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +36.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £410 £499 £450
90th Percentile £442 £625 £540
UK median daily rate £250 £275 £250
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 20
10th Percentile £16.94 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £12.48 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £16.34 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +34.64% +53.72% -34.58%
75th Percentile £24.62 £19.13 £15.63
90th Percentile £25.66 £19.50 £17.65
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £13.66
% change year-on-year +8.20% +9.81% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +1 25 £194 -8.11% 32
Glasgow -12 17 £325 -22.62% 41
East Lothian - 5 £170 - 5
Perthshire - 2 - - 1
Argyll and Bute - 2 - -
Dundee -1 1 £200 - 11
Stirling -1 1 - - 4
Lanarkshire - 1 £130 - 9
West Lothian - 1 £130 - 9
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £188 - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 3
Perth and Kinross - 1 - - 1
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) JBoss
3 2 (3.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) iTrent
2 1 (1.67%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.00%) Azure
3 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.33%) LAN
2 2 (3.33%) SDH
2 2 (3.33%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 1 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (1.67%) MPLS
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) WebEx
3 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) Essbase
2 1 (1.67%) Tableau
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.67%) German Language
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Analyst
2 12 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 7 (11.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Field Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
5 5 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Windows Support Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Service Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (3.33%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) J2EE
2 1 (1.67%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Device Driver
2 8 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 7 (11.67%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.67%) CMDB
5 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.33%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.33%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.67%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) EPoS
7 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.67%) PDA
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) SCADA
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.00%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (11.67%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.67%) Android
6 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (33.33%) ITIL
3 10 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 10 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 9 (15.00%) Task Automation
5 7 (11.67%) Inventory Management
5 7 (11.67%) ITSM
6 6 (10.00%) Agile
7 5 (8.33%) Logistics
7 5 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 5 (8.33%) Time Management
7 5 (8.33%) Visualisation
8 4 (6.67%) Asset Management
8 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (6.67%) Service Management
9 3 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (5.00%) Change Management
9 3 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (15.00%) A+ Certification
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CISM
5 2 (3.33%) CISSP
5 2 (3.33%) HNC
6 1 (1.67%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) CBAP
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.67%) MCP
6 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (6.67%) SLA
3 3 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.00%) Citrix
3 6 (10.00%) Dell
3 6 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.33%) IBM
5 2 (3.33%) Nokia
5 2 (3.33%) Qualys
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) Apple
6 1 (1.67%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.67%) Genesys
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.67%) Peregrine
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) VMware