Customer Service Contracts

Customer Service
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 942 1,639 2,131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.22% 3.76% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 4.36% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 791 1,153
10th Percentile £136 £140 £130
25th Percentile £180 £180 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £275 £250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £445 £511 £500
90th Percentile £575 £599 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £235 £275 £220
% change year-on-year -14.55% +25.00% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 498 478
10th Percentile £12.23 £11.13 £9.80
25th Percentile £14.70 £12.81 £10.63
Median hourly rate £16.27 £15.00 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +9.81% -8.93%
75th Percentile £23.00 £18.35 £18.48
90th Percentile £33.56 £22.00 £22.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +11.93% +6.15% -5.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 17 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 30 April 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
England -25 812 £250 -9.09% 2,310
UK excluding London -4 660 £235 -14.55% 1,675
London -60 230 £350 +33.33% 830
Work from Home -24 191 £300 -29.41% 848
North of England -13 168 £235 -21.67% 447
South East -12 123 £250 -1.96% 415
Midlands +4 120 £231 -15.26% 289
East of England -6 104 £245 -24.62% 173
West Midlands +16 90 £233 -28.38% 151
North West -22 87 £208 -36.15% 231
Yorkshire -12 73 £260 -10.58% 173
South West +18 61 £235 +33.52% 195
Scotland -6 60 £205 -39.71% 113
East Midlands -9 30 £190 -5.00% 133
Wales +14 22 £284 +28.98% 71
North East -7 8 £110 -68.12% 51
Northern Ireland -8 8 £141 -25.60% 15

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 70 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 58 (6.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.53%) CMS
4 3 (0.32%) IBM Notes
4 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.21%) JBoss
5 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 142 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
2 122 (12.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 73 (7.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.96%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.11%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 22 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.32%) iTrent
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Magento
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.21%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.11%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 244 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (10.51%) Azure
3 53 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 52 (5.52%) Entra ID
5 34 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (3.61%) OneDrive
6 31 (3.29%) Google Workspace
7 25 (2.65%) PowerApps
8 23 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 11 (1.17%) AWS
10 8 (0.85%) GCP
11 5 (0.53%) GitHub
11 5 (0.53%) SaaS
12 4 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.42%) Figma
13 3 (0.32%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (0.32%) IaaS
13 3 (0.32%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.32%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.01%) VPN
2 64 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
3 41 (4.35%) Firewall
3 41 (4.35%) LAN
4 38 (4.03%) Remote Desktop
5 36 (3.82%) WAN
6 32 (3.40%) DNS
7 31 (3.29%) DHCP
8 26 (2.76%) VLAN
9 20 (2.12%) TCP/IP
9 20 (2.12%) Wireless
10 19 (2.02%) VoIP
11 14 (1.49%) Network Security
12 12 (1.27%) ATM
13 11 (1.17%) Internet
14 9 (0.96%) BGP
15 8 (0.85%) Intranet
15 8 (0.85%) OSPF
15 8 (0.85%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.74%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.18%) Power BI
2 9 (0.96%) Tableau
3 8 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.42%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.32%) Big Data
6 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.11%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.11%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.11%) Essbase
8 1 (0.11%) Looker
8 1 (0.11%) Metadata
8 1 (0.11%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (1.27%) JIRA
2 3 (0.32%) Git
3 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 511 (54.25%) Social Skills
2 115 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (9.45%) Finance
4 83 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 40 (4.25%) Marketing
6 39 (4.14%) Legal
7 37 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.29%) Retail
10 30 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.23%) Billing
12 20 (2.12%) Banking
13 19 (2.02%) German Language
14 16 (1.70%) Law
15 15 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.38%) Back Office
17 12 (1.27%) Local Government
18 10 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (20.81%) Analyst
2 129 (13.69%) Support Engineer
3 121 (12.85%) Service Analyst
4 109 (11.57%) Service Desk Analyst
5 86 (9.13%) Desktop Support
6 76 (8.07%) IT Support
7 64 (6.79%) Desktop Engineer
8 56 (5.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 50 (5.31%) 1st Line Support
10 47 (4.99%) IT Engineer
11 39 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support
12 35 (3.72%) Support Analyst
13 34 (3.61%) IT Analyst
14 32 (3.40%) Administrator
15 28 (2.97%) Support Officer
16 27 (2.87%) Field Engineer
17 26 (2.76%) Architect
18 25 (2.65%) Developer
18 25 (2.65%) IT Support Engineer
19 24 (2.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.06%) .NET
2 9 (0.96%) REST
3 6 (0.64%) HTML
3 6 (0.64%) RESTful
3 6 (0.64%) Web Services
4 5 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (0.53%) JSON
4 5 (0.53%) SOAP
5 4 (0.42%) Middleware
6 2 (0.21%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.21%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.21%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (0.21%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.21%) Node.js
6 2 (0.21%) Parceljs
6 2 (0.21%) React
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.11%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.11%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 40 (4.25%) Data Centre
3 40 (4.25%) iPhone
4 37 (3.93%) Smartphone
5 26 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.65%) Driving Licence
7 24 (2.55%) iPad
8 18 (1.91%) CMDB
9 14 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (1.27%) EPoS
10 12 (1.27%) NHS
11 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.06%) Device Driver
12 9 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.74%) IoT
13 7 (0.74%) Social Media
14 6 (0.64%) Fibre Optics
14 6 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 274 (29.09%) Windows
2 140 (14.86%) Windows 10
3 52 (5.52%) Mac OS
4 39 (4.14%) Apple iOS
5 36 (3.82%) Android
6 30 (3.18%) Linux
7 15 (1.59%) Windows Server
8 12 (1.27%) Unix
9 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.53%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.42%) VMS
12 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.11%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
2 241 (25.58%) ITIL
3 167 (17.73%) Service Delivery
4 132 (14.01%) Incident Management
5 106 (11.25%) Service Management
6 102 (10.83%) ITSM
7 68 (7.22%) Time Management
8 61 (6.48%) Customer Experience
9 57 (6.05%) Mathematics
10 54 (5.73%) Agile
11 51 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (5.10%) Project Management
13 47 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (4.88%) CRM
15 38 (4.03%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (3.93%) Asset Management
17 35 (3.72%) Change Management
18 34 (3.61%) User Experience
19 33 (3.50%) Break/Fix
20 32 (3.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (4.67%) SQL
2 22 (2.34%) Python
3 20 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 14 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.17%) C#
6 5 (0.53%) Bash
6 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.32%) R
8 2 (0.21%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.11%) Java
9 1 (0.11%) RPG
9 1 (0.11%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 124 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 90 (9.55%) Degree
2 90 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.01%) A+ Certification
3 66 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
5 29 (3.08%) MCSA
6 28 (2.97%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 11 (1.17%) CCNA
11 10 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (0.96%) CCNP
13 7 (0.74%) ACSP
13 7 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.74%) MCP
14 5 (0.53%) ACTC
15 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.77%) SLA
2 23 (2.44%) QA
3 19 (2.02%) GDPR
4 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) ITGC
9 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (24.73%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.96%) vSphere
5 8 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.42%) Docker
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (5.52%) SCCM
3 29 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (1.38%) AppManager
5 10 (1.06%) Terraform
6 9 (0.96%) Ansible
7 5 (0.53%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.42%) Podman
9 3 (0.32%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.32%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.21%) OPNET
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.21%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.21%) WSUS
11 1 (0.11%) Netcool
11 1 (0.11%) SCOM
11 1 (0.11%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 379 (40.23%) Microsoft
2 182 (19.32%) ServiceNow
3 60 (6.37%) Citrix
4 49 (5.20%) Cisco
5 46 (4.88%) Apple
6 41 (4.35%) VMware
7 40 (4.25%) Google
8 34 (3.61%) HP
9 27 (2.87%) Dell
10 24 (2.55%) Salesforce
11 22 (2.34%) IBM
12 19 (2.02%) SAP
13 18 (1.91%) Nexthink
14 16 (1.70%) Ivanti
15 14 (1.49%) Remedy
16 13 (1.38%) McAfee
17 12 (1.27%) Juniper
18 11 (1.17%) MobileIron
19 7 (0.74%) Oracle
20 6 (0.64%) Adobe