Customer Service Contracts in Somerset

Customer Service
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 15 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 9 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 6.47% 3.45% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 4.55% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £127 -
25th Percentile £140 £137 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £185 £165
Median % change year-on-year +102.70% +12.12% -45.00%
75th Percentile £531 £293 £173
90th Percentile £691 £410 -
South West median daily rate £243 £176 £204
% change year-on-year +37.78% -13.73% -18.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.00 -
South West median hourly rate £18.25 £14.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +30.36% +42.86% -57.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 154 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 93.53% 75.86% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 140
10th Percentile £263 £159 £234
25th Percentile £413 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £664
90th Percentile £775 £613 £724
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £32.11
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £40.00 £61.09
90th Percentile - £50.65 £76.84
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Somerset

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Somerset

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Somerset

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Somerset

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset 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
Bath -5 4 £140 -60.00% 32
Street - 2 £375 - 12
Portishead - 2 - - 2
Customer Service
South West

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) BGP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (22.22%) IOS XR
1 2 (22.22%) MPLS
1 2 (22.22%) OSPF
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Police
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Time Management
4 2 (22.22%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Storyboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Traceability Matrix
5 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) ZABBIX
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Nokia
2 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds