Customer Service Contracts in Scotland

Customer Service
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 58 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 84 131 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.87% 4.74% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 5.13% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 89 76
10th Percentile £150 £119 £129
25th Percentile £188 £146 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £250 £204
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +22.70% +16.43%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £386
90th Percentile £620 £550 £480
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £249
% change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 11
10th Percentile £11.50 - £12.31
25th Percentile £11.78 £10.63 £15.04
Median hourly rate £15.50 £12.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -23.08% +42.67%
75th Percentile £18.75 £14.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £19.50 £17.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £14.84 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +8.64% -8.93% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,556 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.51% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,817 2,256
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £46.24 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.13 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Scotland

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +25 35 £238 +35.71% 34
Glasgow -5 31 £391 -2.19% 41
Dundee +6 3 - - 3
Aberdeen +2 3 £350 +191.67% 11
Stirling - 3 £420 - 6
Fife - 2 £365 - 2
Renfrewshire -2 1 £525 -2.53% 1
South Lanarkshire -6 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 £130 - 20
Midlothian - 1 - - 16
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) CMS
2 3 (3.57%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (3.57%) Skype for Business
2 3 (3.57%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.57%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.33%) Azure
2 7 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.19%) AWS
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) SAN
2 8 (9.52%) DNS
3 6 (7.14%) DHCP
4 5 (5.95%) Firewall
4 5 (5.95%) VPN
5 3 (3.57%) HTTP
5 3 (3.57%) NAS
5 3 (3.57%) Skype
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.38%) SNMP
6 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.19%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 40 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Finance
4 9 (10.71%) Legal
5 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.38%) Billing
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Analyst
2 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Support Analyst
3 11 (13.10%) Support Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Field Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Field Service Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) IT Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (9.52%) IT Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (7.14%) Administrator
7 6 (7.14%) Help Desk Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) IT Support
8 5 (5.95%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Category Manager
8 5 (5.95%) Desktop Support
8 5 (5.95%) Help Desk Administrator
9 4 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) J2EE
1 3 (3.57%) Middleware
2 2 (2.38%) CSS
2 2 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.14%) iPhone
4 5 (5.95%) Clustering
5 3 (3.57%) CMDB
5 3 (3.57%) iPad
6 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.19%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.19%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (34.52%) Windows
2 13 (15.48%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Android
4 5 (5.95%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.76%) Solaris
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.38%) ITIL
2 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (16.67%) Break/Fix
5 12 (14.29%) Agile
6 7 (8.33%) Change Management
6 7 (8.33%) Service Management
6 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (7.14%) Asset Management
7 6 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (7.14%) ITSM
7 6 (7.14%) Service Delivery
8 5 (5.95%) Compliance Management
8 5 (5.95%) Network Management
8 5 (5.95%) Supply Chain Management
8 5 (5.95%) User Experience
9 4 (4.76%) Data Modelling
9 4 (4.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (4.76%) ETL
9 4 (4.76%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.38%) Java
1 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) A+ Certification
4 10 (11.90%) MCSE
4 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (10.71%) Degree
6 7 (8.33%) CCNA
6 7 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (4.76%) MCP
7 4 (4.76%) RHCE
8 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 5 (5.95%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) SCCM
2 5 (5.95%) WSUS
3 3 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.38%) Nagios
4 2 (2.38%) OpenView
5 1 (1.19%) Ansible
5 1 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Cisco
2 11 (13.10%) Citrix
3 7 (8.33%) Dell
3 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.95%) Apple
4 5 (5.95%) HP
4 5 (5.95%) Oracle
5 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.57%) Avaya
6 3 (3.57%) IBM
7 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.19%) AlienVault
8 1 (1.19%) McAfee
8 1 (1.19%) Okta
8 1 (1.19%) Samsung
8 1 (1.19%) SAP
8 1 (1.19%) Symantec
8 1 (1.19%) Veritas