Customer Service Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Customer Service
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 9 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.13% 5.20% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 5.92% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £147 £108
25th Percentile £105 £149 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £110 £158 £126
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +24.75% -15.83%
75th Percentile £115 £166 £138
90th Percentile - £168 £143
North East median daily rate £110 £158 £151
% change year-on-year -30.16% +4.13% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £13.56 £17.95 £17.30
25th Percentile £14.56 £18.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +2.63% +68.89%
75th Percentile £20.46 £20.75 £20.06
90th Percentile £20.63 - £20.18
North East median hourly rate £14.00 £19.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.23% +5.41% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 152 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.57% 87.86% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 85 124
10th Percentile £200 £319 £350
25th Percentile £402 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £573 £550 £645
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £465 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -8.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 6
10th Percentile £11.60 £18.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £13.47 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.15 £23.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% +16.46% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.46 £70.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £23.76 - £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.15 £38.27 £26.00
% change year-on-year -55.19% +47.19% +57.58%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Tyne and Wear

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Tyne and Wear

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Tyne and Wear

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 9 £110 -30.16% 31
Customer Service
North East

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) WebEx
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Service Representative
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) HR Advisor
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Trainee
2 1 (11.11%) Trainee Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Data Entry
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Bomgar
3 1 (11.11%) Google