Customer Service Contracts in Suffolk

Customer Service
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 13 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 10.81% 4.92% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.04% 6.12% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £181 £181 £342
25th Percentile £196 £190 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £210 £642
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -67.29% +217.04%
75th Percentile £235 £223 £700
90th Percentile £244 £227 -
East of England median daily rate £245 £325 £210
% change year-on-year -24.62% +54.76% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.93% +3.45% +6.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 49 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 77.03% 80.33% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 108
10th Percentile £200 £105 £400
25th Percentile £208 £199 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £465 £650
Median % change year-on-year -46.24% -28.46% +33.68%
75th Percentile £459 £569 £700
90th Percentile £600 £650 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £53.33 £11.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £64.05 £12.69 £13.78
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.32% +88.71% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £53.69 £17.33
90th Percentile - £68.34 £19.27
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Suffolk

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Suffolk

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Suffolk

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk 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
Leiston -2 6 £220 +25.71%
Ipswich - 1 £170 - 28
Customer Service
East of England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Desktop Support
2 5 (62.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) iPad
1 7 (87.50%) iPhone
1 7 (87.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Antivirus Management
1 7 (87.50%) Inventory Management
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (87.50%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Line Management
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) McAfee
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ZyXEL