Customer Service Contracts with Work from Home Options

Customer Service
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 99 143
Rank change year-on-year -4 +44 +12
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 327 615 837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.14% 2.37% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.64% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 382 539
10th Percentile £150 £149 £145
25th Percentile £240 £200 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +28.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £626 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 83
10th Percentile £12.64 £12.50 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £14.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.43% +17.48%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.16 £23.38
90th Percentile £20.06 £44.50 £28.30
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.81% -8.93% +6.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Customer Service
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Customer Service trend for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service.

Customer Service daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Customer Service daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Service.

Customer Service hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Customer Service hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.92%) IBM HTTP Server
3 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (0.92%) WebSphere Portal
4 2 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.31%) Moodle
5 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (14.98%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.22%) SAP SD
2 4 (1.22%) Workfront
3 2 (0.61%) JDE OneWorld
3 2 (0.61%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.61%) Primavera
3 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Shopify
3 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.61%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.31%) Actimize
4 1 (0.31%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.60%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (13.76%) Azure
3 16 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.36%) AWS
6 10 (3.06%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.06%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.75%) SaaS
8 8 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.45%) IaaS
9 5 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.92%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.92%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.61%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.61%) PaaS
11 2 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.34%) SAN
2 23 (7.03%) Firewall
3 22 (6.73%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.59%) VPN
5 11 (3.36%) Internet
6 9 (2.75%) LAN
7 8 (2.45%) DNS
8 7 (2.14%) WAN
8 7 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.83%) DHCP
10 4 (1.22%) HTTP
10 4 (1.22%) MPLS
10 4 (1.22%) Network Security
11 3 (0.92%) ADSL
11 3 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.92%) NAS
11 3 (0.92%) PSTN
11 3 (0.92%) Wireless
12 2 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.67%) Power BI
2 7 (2.14%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.53%) Big Data
3 5 (1.53%) Tableau
4 4 (1.22%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) Metadata
6 2 (0.61%) MySQL
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.31%) MS Access
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.31%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (1.53%) JIRA
2 4 (1.22%) Git
3 3 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.31%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.31%) TestRail
5 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (47.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (11.93%) Finance
4 32 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.73%) Marketing
6 20 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.36%) Legal
8 11 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.14%) Banking
11 6 (1.83%) Law
12 5 (1.53%) Billing
12 5 (1.53%) Electronics
12 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Local Government
13 4 (1.22%) Retail
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (25.08%) Analyst
2 42 (12.84%) Service Analyst
3 41 (12.54%) Service Desk Analyst
4 35 (10.70%) Senior
5 33 (10.09%) Developer
6 30 (9.17%) Consultant
7 22 (6.73%) Support Engineer
8 16 (4.89%) 1st Line Support
8 16 (4.89%) Python Developer
9 15 (4.59%) IT Support
10 14 (4.28%) Architect
10 14 (4.28%) Support Analyst
11 13 (3.98%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (3.67%) Functional Consultant
13 11 (3.36%) Coordinator
14 10 (3.06%) Business Analyst
14 10 (3.06%) IT Engineer
14 10 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.75%) 1st Line Engineer
15 9 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.65%) Web Services
2 7 (2.14%) Middleware
3 5 (1.53%) .NET
3 5 (1.53%) J2EE
4 4 (1.22%) CSS
4 4 (1.22%) REST
5 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.61%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.61%) Jest
6 2 (0.61%) jQuery
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.61%) Sass
6 2 (0.61%) Spring
6 2 (0.61%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (0.61%) VML
6 2 (0.61%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.75%) Management Information System
1 9 (2.75%) Onboarding
2 7 (2.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
3 4 (1.22%) Housing Association
3 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.22%) Social Media
3 4 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (0.92%) iPhone
4 3 (0.92%) Life Science
4 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.61%) BYOD
5 2 (0.61%) CMDB
5 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 96 (29.36%) Windows
2 26 (7.95%) Linux
3 25 (7.65%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.20%) Ubuntu
5 16 (4.89%) Debian
6 15 (4.59%) Windows 7
7 11 (3.36%) Windows Server
8 10 (3.06%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.83%) Unix
10 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.22%) Android
11 4 (1.22%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.31%) HPUX
14 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.31%) VMS
14 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.32%) ITIL
2 69 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (17.13%) Agile
4 47 (14.37%) Service Management
5 37 (11.31%) Service Delivery
6 32 (9.79%) CRM
7 30 (9.17%) ITSM
8 24 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (7.34%) Prototyping
9 23 (7.03%) Configuration Management
10 22 (6.73%) Migration
10 22 (6.73%) Time Management
11 21 (6.42%) Asset Management
11 21 (6.42%) Data Modelling
11 21 (6.42%) IT Asset Management
11 21 (6.42%) Operations Management
11 21 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (6.12%) Project Management
13 18 (5.50%) Roadmaps
14 17 (5.20%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.95%) Python
2 17 (5.20%) SQL
3 8 (2.45%) C#
3 8 (2.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.83%) Java
6 5 (1.53%) Bash
6 5 (1.53%) Perl
7 4 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.92%) C++
8 3 (0.92%) PHP
9 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.61%) R
9 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.61%) VBScript
10 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.15%) Degree
4 18 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.92%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) CCSK
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.70%) SLA
2 13 (3.98%) QA
3 7 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.14%) GDPR
4 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.92%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.61%) COBIT
6 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.61%) P3O
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) NCSC
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (17.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.22%) Docker
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.22%) SCCM
2 4 (1.22%) WSUS
3 3 (0.92%) Ansible
3 3 (0.92%) Terraform
3 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 126 (38.53%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.29%) ServiceNow
3 30 (9.17%) VMware
4 20 (6.12%) Red Hat
5 17 (5.20%) SAP
6 16 (4.89%) Cisco
7 10 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.75%) Oracle
9 8 (2.45%) Adobe
10 7 (2.14%) Google
11 6 (1.83%) Computacenter
12 5 (1.53%) Ariba
12 5 (1.53%) Citrix
12 5 (1.53%) HP
13 4 (1.22%) Apple
14 3 (0.92%) BT
14 3 (0.92%) Dell
14 3 (0.92%) IBM
14 3 (0.92%) Progress
14 3 (0.92%) Remedy