Customer Service Contracts in the South West

Customer Service
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Customer Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Service over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 43 80
Rank change year-on-year -28 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 90 185 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.84% 5.08% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 5.67% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 70
10th Percentile £133 £118 £123
25th Percentile £150 £151 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £176 £205 £250
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -18.20% +42.86%
75th Percentile £300 £338 £394
90th Percentile £538 £538 £650
England median daily rate £275 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 81 16
10th Percentile £10.42 - £11.45
25th Percentile £11.87 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £14.00 £9.80 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -57.85% +40.91%
75th Percentile £15.72 - £45.00
90th Percentile £17.25 - £45.10
England median hourly rate £15.00 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% -9.47% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Customer Service is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the South West

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bristol -40 22 £275 +14.58% 88
Dorset +22 19 £173 +6.13% 31
Wiltshire -13 17 £203 -2.99% 41
Devon -11 11 £162 +20.00% 50
Gloucestershire +1 10 £358 +2.14% 44
Somerset +8 7 £185 +12.12% 65
Cornwall - 2 £192 - 15
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.56%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Actimize
1 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Primavera
2 1 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.89%) Azure
3 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
3 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.22%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.11%) AWS
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) ShareGate
6 1 (1.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) LAN
2 5 (5.56%) Skype
3 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 4 (4.44%) VPN
3 4 (4.44%) Wireless
4 3 (3.33%) WAN
5 2 (2.22%) DNS
6 1 (1.11%) Broadband
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.11%) DHCP
6 1 (1.11%) FTP
6 1 (1.11%) HTTP
6 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.11%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.11%) IPsec
6 1 (1.11%) Network Security
6 1 (1.11%) SAN
6 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) Power BI
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.11%) Metadata
2 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 49 (54.44%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.56%) Retail
6 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.44%) Law
8 3 (3.33%) Marketing
8 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Electronics
9 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.11%) Billing
10 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Analyst
2 21 (23.33%) Service Analyst
2 21 (23.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 18 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 17 (18.89%) IT Engineer
5 14 (15.56%) Administrator
6 13 (14.44%) IT Support
7 11 (12.22%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.56%) Field Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Field Service Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Applications Support
11 3 (3.33%) Coordinator
11 3 (3.33%) Desktop Support
11 3 (3.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Support Assistant
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Assistant
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) CSS
1 1 (1.11%) HTML
1 1 (1.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.56%) Blog
3 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.33%) BYOD
5 3 (3.33%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.22%) CMDB
6 2 (2.22%) iPhone
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.11%) PKI
7 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (37.78%) Windows
2 13 (14.44%) Windows 10
3 8 (8.89%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.33%) Android
4 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.33%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.11%) Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Unix
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (17.78%) Line Management
3 15 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 15 (16.67%) ITIL
4 10 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 9 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.00%) ITSM
6 8 (8.89%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 8 (8.89%) Customer-Centricity
6 8 (8.89%) Service Delivery
7 7 (7.78%) Decision-Making
7 7 (7.78%) Service Management
8 6 (6.67%) Time Management
9 5 (5.56%) Break/Fix
9 5 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (5.56%) Process Improvement
9 5 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Management
11 3 (3.33%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) Degree
3 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) MCP
5 3 (3.33%) AAT
5 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) CCNA
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.11%) MCSE
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) SLA
2 6 (6.67%) QA
3 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Samba
3 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Server
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) SCCM
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) VMware
3 6 (6.67%) Citrix
4 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.44%) Cisco
5 4 (4.44%) SAP
6 3 (3.33%) Apple
6 3 (3.33%) Civica
7 1 (1.11%) Avaya
7 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.11%) Dell
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) Veritas