Customer Service Contracts in Staffordshire

Customer Service
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.97% 2.86% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 3.41% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £170 -
25th Percentile - £231 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £338 £160
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +110.94% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £459 -
90th Percentile - £529 £343
West Midlands median daily rate £231 £338 £325
% change year-on-year -31.70% +3.85% +31.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.78 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.16 £13.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +27.07% +3.85% -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 88 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 88.06% 83.81% 82.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 91
10th Percentile £140 £213 £163
25th Percentile £150 £325 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £575
90th Percentile £553 £538 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £12.40 £13.87 -
25th Percentile £13.78 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.62 £40.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -55.95% +78.49% +17.64%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £23.82 £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Staffordshire

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Staffordshire

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Staffordshire

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Stoke-on-Trent +3 2 - - 10
Stafford - 1 - - 6
Lichfield - 1 £150 - 2
Customer Service
West Midlands

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (25.00%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) QuarkXPress
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Mac Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Quark