Customer Service Contracts

Customer Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 61 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +30
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,643 2,150 2,591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 3.58% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 3.98% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,161 1,471
10th Percentile £140 £130 £130
25th Percentile £180 £165 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £243
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £474
90th Percentile £598 £600 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £220 £205
% change year-on-year +25.00% +7.32% +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 481 526
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.14
25th Percentile £12.94 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.66 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -8.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £18.45 £18.43 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £24.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +17 1,503 £275 +10.00% 2,779
UK excluding London +3 1,111 £275 +25.00% 2,446
London +33 469 £269 -10.42% 557
North of England +15 349 £300 +20.00% 595
Work from Home -9 330 £425 +6.25% 778
South East +4 235 £255 +9.68% 629
East of England +1 203 £325 +57.58% 302
North West +32 189 £325 +30.00% 342
Yorkshire +9 146 £291 +16.30% 176
Midlands +7 132 £291 -10.46% 427
South West -28 90 £176 -13.94% 356
Scotland 0 80 £363 +45.00% 149
West Midlands +26 78 £325 - 262
East Midlands 0 53 £218 -27.50% 165
North East +20 15 £345 +130.00% 90
Wales -2 13 £220 +33.33% 88
Northern Ireland +4 8 £190 +11.76% 34
Isle of Man - 1 £475 - 3

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 107 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.34%) Skype for Business
4 13 (0.79%) CMS
5 12 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.43%) Confluence
8 4 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 4 (0.24%) IBM Notes
8 4 (0.24%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
9 3 (0.18%) Drupal
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 294 (17.89%) Microsoft Office
2 146 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.30%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.24%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.24%) Shopify
5 4 (0.24%) Workfront
6 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.18%) SAP MRS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 342 (20.82%) Microsoft 365
2 155 (9.43%) Azure
3 82 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 64 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (2.62%) Power Automate
6 39 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 37 (2.25%) AWS
8 31 (1.89%) OneDrive
9 22 (1.34%) SaaS
10 20 (1.22%) PowerApps
11 16 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.79%) IaaS
13 11 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.67%) Google Workspace
13 11 (0.67%) WhatsApp
14 7 (0.43%) Slack
15 6 (0.37%) PaaS
16 5 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 5 (0.30%) OCI
16 5 (0.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.78%) VPN
2 72 (4.38%) LAN
3 59 (3.59%) Firewall
3 59 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
4 51 (3.10%) WAN
5 49 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 48 (2.92%) DNS
7 46 (2.80%) Wireless
8 32 (1.95%) SAN
9 31 (1.89%) DHCP
10 23 (1.40%) Internet
10 23 (1.40%) Skype
11 15 (0.91%) Network Security
12 14 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
14 12 (0.73%) Ethernet
15 10 (0.61%) HTTP
15 10 (0.61%) OSPF
15 10 (0.61%) Unified Communications
16 8 (0.49%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.25%) Power BI
2 19 (1.16%) Big Data
3 16 (0.97%) Tableau
4 15 (0.91%) Hadoop
5 13 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.49%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.18%) MySQL
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.12%) Metadata
11 2 (0.12%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.12%) OLAP
11 2 (0.12%) OLTP
11 2 (0.12%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (1.58%) JIRA
2 11 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.61%) Git
4 4 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.18%) GitLab
5 3 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.061%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.061%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.061%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.061%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.061%) TestRail
7 1 (0.061%) Valgrind
General
1 872 (53.07%) Social Skills
2 235 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (12.17%) Finance
4 113 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.78%) Organisational Skills
6 82 (4.99%) Retail
7 79 (4.81%) Marketing
8 65 (3.96%) Telecoms
9 54 (3.29%) Legal
10 35 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (2.01%) Law
12 29 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.28%) Banking
14 19 (1.16%) Local Government
15 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.97%) Dutch Language
16 16 (0.97%) German Language
17 15 (0.91%) Hungarian Language
17 15 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 402 (24.47%) Analyst
2 245 (14.91%) Service Analyst
3 228 (13.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 184 (11.20%) Support Engineer
5 135 (8.22%) IT Support
6 131 (7.97%) IT Engineer
7 88 (5.36%) Desktop Support
8 74 (4.50%) Senior
9 73 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 69 (4.20%) Consultant
11 66 (4.02%) Administrator
12 62 (3.77%) Desktop Engineer
13 59 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
14 56 (3.41%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (3.41%) Service Desk Agent
15 54 (3.29%) 1st Line Support
15 54 (3.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 54 (3.29%) Field Engineer
16 52 (3.16%) Developer
17 49 (2.98%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.07%) Web Services
2 14 (0.85%) CSS
2 14 (0.85%) Middleware
3 10 (0.61%) .NET
3 10 (0.61%) HTML
4 9 (0.55%) XMPP
5 7 (0.43%) J2EE
5 7 (0.43%) REST
6 6 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.37%) LDAP
7 5 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.24%) jQuery
8 4 (0.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.18%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.18%) Sass
9 3 (0.18%) Spring
9 3 (0.18%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.18%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.50%) Management Information System
2 70 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 65 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 36 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
6 27 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.58%) iPad
8 23 (1.40%) iPhone
8 23 (1.40%) Smartphone
9 22 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.22%) CMDB
10 20 (1.22%) Social Media
11 19 (1.16%) NHS
12 18 (1.10%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.03%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.97%) BYOD
15 15 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.91%) Digital Signage
16 13 (0.79%) Blackberry
16 13 (0.79%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 571 (34.75%) Windows
2 281 (17.10%) Windows 10
3 117 (7.12%) Windows 7
4 97 (5.90%) Windows Server
5 59 (3.59%) Linux
6 56 (3.41%) Apple iOS
7 55 (3.35%) Android
8 52 (3.16%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 35 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.28%) Windows NT
13 18 (1.10%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.10%) Unix
14 16 (0.97%) Debian
15 15 (0.91%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.67%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (22.70%) ITIL
3 187 (11.38%) Service Delivery
4 145 (8.83%) Incident Management
5 131 (7.97%) Service Management
6 130 (7.91%) Agile
7 102 (6.21%) ITSM
8 100 (6.09%) Time Management
9 93 (5.66%) CRM
10 76 (4.63%) Asset Management
11 75 (4.56%) Mathematics
12 71 (4.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (4.14%) Break/Fix
14 66 (4.02%) Business Intelligence
15 65 (3.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (3.83%) Decision-Making
16 63 (3.83%) Project Management
17 56 (3.41%) Customer Requirements
18 54 (3.29%) Computer Science
19 50 (3.04%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 57 (3.47%) Python
2 48 (2.92%) SQL
3 29 (1.77%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.46%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.03%) C#
6 13 (0.79%) Java
6 13 (0.79%) R
7 12 (0.73%) Bash
8 10 (0.61%) C++
9 9 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.43%) Perl
11 6 (0.37%) C
11 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.30%) ABAP
13 4 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.18%) PHP
15 2 (0.12%) VB
15 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 277 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 222 (13.51%) Degree
3 170 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 81 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (4.14%) A+ Certification
7 54 (3.29%) MCP
8 52 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.62%) MCSA
10 38 (2.31%) CCNA
11 19 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.91%) MCSE
14 14 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.43%) CCIE
16 7 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (13.57%) SLA
2 41 (2.50%) QA
3 33 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 19 (1.16%) GDPR
5 17 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 5 (0.30%) PMO
10 4 (0.24%) NCSC
10 4 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) COBIT
11 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.12%) P3O
12 1 (0.061%) GxP
12 1 (0.061%) IFRS
12 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.061%) WCAG
System Software
1 347 (21.12%) Active Directory
2 49 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.50%) Firmware
4 21 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.73%) vSphere
6 9 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.37%) Docker
10 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.24%) Samba
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.061%) KVM
14 1 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.061%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 135 (8.22%) SCCM
2 70 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (1.64%) WSUS
4 21 (1.28%) Sysprep
5 19 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.61%) Kubernetes
6 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.37%) Terraform
9 5 (0.30%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.30%) Ansible
9 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.12%) Grafana
10 2 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
10 2 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) OpenView
10 2 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 611 (37.19%) Microsoft
2 197 (11.99%) ServiceNow
3 88 (5.36%) Citrix
4 77 (4.69%) VMware
5 74 (4.50%) Cisco
6 60 (3.65%) Apple
6 60 (3.65%) HP
7 50 (3.04%) SAP
8 30 (1.83%) Oracle
9 29 (1.77%) Google
10 27 (1.64%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.58%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.46%) Dell
13 18 (1.10%) Adobe
14 12 (0.73%) Avaya
14 12 (0.73%) Computacenter
15 11 (0.67%) Remedy
16 9 (0.55%) Okta
17 7 (0.43%) Ivanti
17 7 (0.43%) McAfee