Customer Service Contracts in the East of England

Customer Service
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 204 243 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.83% 12.25% 14.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.75% 13.93% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 85 126
10th Percentile £140 £126 £105
25th Percentile £183 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £210 £238
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -11.58% +58.33%
75th Percentile £365 £345 £438
90th Percentile £582 £475 £475
England median daily rate £275 £248 £250
% change year-on-year +10.89% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 140 224
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £20.56
England median hourly rate £14.84 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.28% -9.47% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,600 1,745 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.93% 88.00% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,013 1,299
10th Percentile £204 £205 £193
25th Percentile £325 £325 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 332 378
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.94 £44.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the East of England

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cambridgeshire +1 153 £504 +165.00% 77
Hertfordshire -13 25 £330 - 90
Essex +5 9 £193 +20.31% 72
Bedfordshire -4 8 £325 +54.76% 34
Norfolk +1 5 - - 18
Suffolk +15 3 £210 +37.70% 51
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 66 (32.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (26.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.96%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.49%) iTrent
2 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.45%) Azure
3 2 (0.98%) AWS
4 1 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (0.49%) GCP
4 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.10%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) DHCP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) LAN
3 1 (0.49%) NAS
3 1 (0.49%) PBX
3 1 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.49%) SAN
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) VLAN
3 1 (0.49%) VoIP
3 1 (0.49%) WAN
3 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.49%) EDMS
1 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 116 (56.86%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.69%) Retail
3 14 (6.86%) Hungarian Language
4 13 (6.37%) Dutch Language
5 11 (5.39%) German Language
6 7 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Lithuanian Language
6 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.96%) Automotive
7 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.47%) Billing
8 3 (1.47%) Finance
8 3 (1.47%) Local Government
9 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Military
9 2 (0.98%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (52.45%) Analyst
2 94 (46.08%) Service Analyst
3 81 (39.71%) Service Desk Analyst
4 30 (14.71%) Customer Analyst
4 30 (14.71%) Customer Service Analyst
5 21 (10.29%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 18 (8.82%) Technical Analyst
7 17 (8.33%) Call Centre Analyst
8 14 (6.86%) Administrator
9 13 (6.37%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.90%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.90%) Technical Support Analyst
11 8 (3.92%) Technical Services Analyst
12 7 (3.43%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.94%) Customer Service Administrator
13 6 (2.94%) Senior
14 5 (2.45%) Consultant
14 5 (2.45%) IT Support
15 4 (1.96%) Applications Support
15 4 (1.96%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.96%) Middleware
2 1 (0.49%) CSS
2 1 (0.49%) HTML
2 1 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (0.49%) REST
2 1 (0.49%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (1.96%) NHS
3 3 (1.47%) iPad
3 3 (1.47%) iPhone
3 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.96%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.47%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.47%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (47.55%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (46.08%) Incident Management
3 79 (38.73%) ITIL
4 67 (32.84%) Service Delivery
5 66 (32.35%) Mathematics
6 17 (8.33%) Problem Management
7 9 (4.41%) ITSM
7 9 (4.41%) Service Management
8 8 (3.92%) Line Management
9 7 (3.43%) Time Management
10 6 (2.94%) Computer Science
10 6 (2.94%) CRM
10 6 (2.94%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (2.45%) Knowledge Management
12 4 (1.96%) Customer Engagement
12 4 (1.96%) Inventory Management
12 4 (1.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 3 (1.47%) Antivirus Management
13 3 (1.47%) Mentoring
13 3 (1.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.47%) SQL
2 2 (0.98%) C
2 2 (0.98%) VB
3 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 46 (22.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (21.57%) A+ Certification
2 44 (21.57%) MCSA
3 36 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 34 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 29 (14.22%) MCP
6 17 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (6.86%) Degree
8 12 (5.88%) CCNA
9 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.96%) CCNP
11 3 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.98%) CCENT
13 1 (0.49%) CCIE
13 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.49%) MCSE
13 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (0.49%) COBIT
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) GDPR
2 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 33 (16.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.41%) SCCM
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (38.73%) Microsoft
2 51 (25.00%) Citrix
3 42 (20.59%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.39%) Cisco
5 8 (3.92%) SAP
6 3 (1.47%) McAfee
6 3 (1.47%) NetApp
7 2 (0.98%) Sun
8 1 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.49%) Kronos
8 1 (0.49%) NEC
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle
8 1 (0.49%) Remedy
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Sparx