Customer Service Contracts in Cheshire

Customer Service
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 37 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 28 18 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.15% 3.54% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 3.90% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £111 £200 £183
25th Percentile £163 £211 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £215 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -42.67% +102.70%
75th Percentile £300 £219 £397
90th Percentile £460 £305 £493
North West median daily rate £325 £288 £216
% change year-on-year +13.04% +32.95% +13.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £12.05 £11.44 £13.23
25th Percentile - £12.78 £14.01
Median hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.02% +2.07%
75th Percentile £17.72 £16.25 £17.03
90th Percentile £17.75 £17.00 £18.06
North West median hourly rate £11.22 £16.85 £17.50
% change year-on-year -33.40% -3.71% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 461 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.27% 90.75% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 297 268
10th Percentile £311 £295 £204
25th Percentile £392 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +15.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £543
90th Percentile £638 £675 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.98 £9.99
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.44 £13.38
Median hourly rate £36.50 £29.26 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% +34.34% +2.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Cheshire

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Cheshire

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Cheshire

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Cheshire

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Northwich - 10 - - 3
Warrington +4 4 £220 - 21
Macclesfield -5 4 £397 - 7
Winsford - 2 - - 1
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 3
Customer Service
North West

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (14.29%) IBM Notes
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
2 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
General
1 20 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Customer Service Advisor
3 3 (10.71%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Coordinator
4 2 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Agent
4 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Director
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Supply Chain Director
5 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Time Management
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Migration
4 2 (7.14%) Asset Management
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
4 2 (7.14%) Inventory Management
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Project Management
4 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Service Management
4 2 (7.14%) Software Deployment
5 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.57%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (3.57%) Data Entry
5 1 (3.57%) Decision-Making
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Twin
5 1 (3.57%) Line Management
5 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
5 1 (3.57%) Storytelling
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) SCCM
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.86%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Lotus
5 3 (10.71%) Veeam
6 2 (7.14%) Apple
7 1 (3.57%) Google