Customer Service Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,088 1,290 1,714
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.37% 5.58% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 6.24% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 642 921
10th Percentile £136 £122 £123
25th Percentile £172 £155 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £215 £215
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% - +19.44%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £400
90th Percentile £575 £580 £538
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 361 443
10th Percentile £11.00 - £11.17
25th Percentile £12.36 £9.80 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.49 £13.66 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -5.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £16.50 £16.23 £18.35
90th Percentile £20.75 £21.19 £22.25
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Service in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK excluding London

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +14 331 £300 +20.00% 661
South East +1 225 £253 +17.49% 657
East of England +2 204 £325 +54.76% 344
North West +23 177 £325 +30.00% 341
Yorkshire +7 142 £291 +26.41% 238
Midlands +11 139 £291 +23.83% 460
Scotland +11 87 £340 +36.00% 137
West Midlands +19 82 £338 -3.57% 263
South West -31 81 £176 -15.69% 335
East Midlands +3 56 £200 -3.61% 197
Wales +2 14 £220 +37.50% 77
North East +13 13 £345 +142.11% 91
Northern Ireland -1 7 £165 -17.50% 31
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 55 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.83%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.37%) IBM Notes
5 3 (0.28%) CMS
5 3 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.18%) Drupal
6 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.092%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.092%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) Moodle
7 1 (0.092%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.092%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 192 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (6.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.092%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) Actimize
2 5 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.37%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.18%) Primavera
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.092%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.092%) iTrent
6 1 (0.092%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.092%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.092%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 219 (20.13%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (6.89%) Azure
3 32 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 28 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
4 28 (2.57%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.30%) AWS
6 19 (1.75%) OneDrive
7 17 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 8 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 7 (0.64%) SaaS
10 6 (0.55%) IaaS
11 5 (0.46%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.28%) PaaS
14 2 (0.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.18%) GCP
14 2 (0.18%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.18%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
2 52 (4.78%) VPN
3 47 (4.32%) LAN
4 38 (3.49%) Firewall
5 31 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 29 (2.67%) SAN
7 26 (2.39%) DNS
8 24 (2.21%) WAN
9 22 (2.02%) DHCP
9 22 (2.02%) Wireless
10 15 (1.38%) Internet
11 11 (1.01%) Ethernet
11 11 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
12 9 (0.83%) Skype
13 7 (0.64%) OSPF
13 7 (0.64%) Wireless Security
14 6 (0.55%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.46%) VLAN
16 4 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.38%) Power BI
2 6 (0.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.28%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.18%) Big Data
5 2 (0.18%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.092%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.092%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.092%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.092%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.092%) DTS
6 1 (0.092%) EDMS
6 1 (0.092%) Metadata
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.092%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.092%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 6 (0.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.37%) Git
2 4 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.092%) Selenium
4 1 (0.092%) TestRail
General
1 583 (53.58%) Social Skills
2 123 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (8.36%) Finance
4 86 (7.90%) Public Sector
5 66 (6.07%) Organisational Skills
6 65 (5.97%) Retail
7 45 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.39%) Legal
9 22 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.02%) Marketing
10 18 (1.65%) Law
11 14 (1.29%) German Language
11 14 (1.29%) Hungarian Language
11 14 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.19%) Automotive
12 13 (1.19%) Dutch Language
13 11 (1.01%) Local Government
14 9 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.83%) Electronics
15 8 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 306 (28.13%) Analyst
2 205 (18.84%) Service Analyst
3 188 (17.28%) Service Desk Analyst
4 107 (9.83%) Support Engineer
5 96 (8.82%) IT Support
6 74 (6.80%) IT Engineer
7 58 (5.33%) Support Analyst
8 50 (4.60%) Service Desk Agent
9 48 (4.41%) Administrator
10 39 (3.58%) 1st Line Support
11 38 (3.49%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
11 38 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
11 38 (3.49%) Desktop Support
12 35 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
13 34 (3.13%) Developer
14 33 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
14 33 (3.03%) Consultant
14 33 (3.03%) Field Engineer
14 33 (3.03%) Senior
15 32 (2.94%) Customer Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.30%) Web Services
2 9 (0.83%) Middleware
3 7 (0.64%) CSS
4 6 (0.55%) HTML
5 3 (0.28%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.28%) J2EE
5 3 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.28%) Node.js
5 3 (0.28%) React
5 3 (0.28%) Spring
5 3 (0.28%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.18%) LDAP
6 2 (0.18%) XMPP
7 1 (0.092%) .NET
7 1 (0.092%) Flash
7 1 (0.092%) Google Maps API
7 1 (0.092%) jQuery
7 1 (0.092%) REST
7 1 (0.092%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.092%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.96%) Driving Licence
2 47 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 37 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 16 (1.47%) iPhone
7 14 (1.29%) NHS
8 13 (1.19%) Digital Signage
9 12 (1.10%) iPad
9 12 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 10 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (0.83%) BYOD
11 9 (0.83%) Clustering
12 8 (0.74%) CMDB
12 8 (0.74%) PKI
12 8 (0.74%) Smartphone
13 6 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.46%) Blog
14 5 (0.46%) CCTV
15 4 (0.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 381 (35.02%) Windows
2 200 (18.38%) Windows 10
3 68 (6.25%) Windows 7
4 66 (6.07%) Windows Server
5 40 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 36 (3.31%) Linux
6 36 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 24 (2.21%) Mac OS
10 19 (1.75%) Windows NT
11 18 (1.65%) Android
12 11 (1.01%) Debian
12 11 (1.01%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.55%) Unix
13 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.46%) Solaris
15 4 (0.37%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (34.47%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (23.44%) ITIL
3 151 (13.88%) Service Delivery
4 127 (11.67%) Incident Management
5 93 (8.55%) Service Management
6 77 (7.08%) Agile
7 70 (6.43%) Mathematics
8 67 (6.16%) Time Management
9 57 (5.24%) ITSM
10 49 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (4.41%) Asset Management
11 48 (4.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (4.23%) CRM
13 44 (4.04%) Break/Fix
14 43 (3.95%) Decision-Making
15 33 (3.03%) Project Management
16 31 (2.85%) Customer Requirements
17 30 (2.76%) Business Intelligence
17 30 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 30 (2.76%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (2.21%) SQL
2 20 (1.84%) Python
3 16 (1.47%) PowerShell
4 7 (0.64%) Java
5 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.46%) C#
6 5 (0.46%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.37%) Bash
7 4 (0.37%) Perl
8 3 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.18%) C
9 2 (0.18%) C++
9 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.18%) VB
10 1 (0.092%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.092%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.092%) PHP
10 1 (0.092%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 222 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 148 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 120 (11.03%) Degree
4 72 (6.62%) DV Cleared
4 72 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 65 (5.97%) A+ Certification
6 44 (4.04%) MCSA
7 40 (3.68%) MCP
8 33 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (2.57%) CCNA
10 19 (1.75%) MCSE
11 18 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (14.43%) SLA
2 32 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 30 (2.76%) QA
4 10 (0.92%) GDPR
4 10 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.092%) COBIT
8 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.092%) PMO
8 1 (0.092%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 247 (22.70%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.13%) Firmware
3 32 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.55%) vSphere
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
6 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.28%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.092%) Docker
9 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.092%) Samba
9 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.092%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 115 (10.57%) SCCM
2 46 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (2.76%) WSUS
4 19 (1.75%) Sysprep
5 8 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.28%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.18%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.18%) Nagios
9 2 (0.18%) Nessus
9 2 (0.18%) OpenView
9 2 (0.18%) VxRail
10 1 (0.092%) Ansible
10 1 (0.092%) IBM BigFix
10 1 (0.092%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.092%) vMotion
Vendors
1 440 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 142 (13.05%) ServiceNow
3 69 (6.34%) Citrix
4 51 (4.69%) HP
5 49 (4.50%) VMware
6 39 (3.58%) Cisco
7 31 (2.85%) Apple
8 26 (2.39%) SAP
9 23 (2.11%) Oracle
10 20 (1.84%) Dell
11 18 (1.65%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.83%) Google
14 7 (0.64%) Remedy
15 6 (0.55%) Computacenter
16 5 (0.46%) Lotus
16 5 (0.46%) McAfee
16 5 (0.46%) Openreach
16 5 (0.46%) Workday
17 4 (0.37%) NetApp