Customer Service Contracts in Merseyside

Customer Service
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 32 19
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 18 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.45% 4.59% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 5.32% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile - - £138
25th Percentile £143 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 £167 £175
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% -4.57% -40.17%
75th Percentile £184 £221 £195
90th Percentile £212 £253 £511
North West median daily rate £325 £300 £205
% change year-on-year +8.33% +46.34% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile £10.57 £16.20 £14.65
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% +32.60%
75th Percentile £16.50 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £18.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £11.25 £16.85 £17.50
% change year-on-year -33.23% -3.71% +20.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 263 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 76.06% 86.23% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 194 204
10th Percentile £144 £300 £187
25th Percentile £238 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £439
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +12.82% +17.00%
75th Percentile £494 £544 £538
90th Percentile £608 £636 £644
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 18
10th Percentile - £16.22 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £9.92
Median hourly rate £20.11 £17.50 £11.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.91% +50.51% -7.05%
75th Percentile £34.80 £25.16 £15.00
90th Percentile £37.18 £28.65 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% +55.56% +32.35%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Merseyside

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Liverpool +16 18 £148 -11.68% 21
Customer Service
North West

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
General
1 10 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Analyst
2 10 (55.56%) Service Analyst
2 10 (55.56%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) Break/Fix
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Coaching
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.56%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) MCP
3 1 (5.56%) MCSE
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Bomgar
3 2 (11.11%) iManage
4 1 (5.56%) Sophos
4 1 (5.56%) VMware