Customer Service Contracts

Customer Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 62 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +35
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,605 2,075 2,522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.73% 3.58% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.98% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,109 1,450
10th Percentile £143 £128 £130
25th Percentile £180 £165 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £475
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £215 £210
% change year-on-year +27.91% +2.38% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 480 493
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.38
25th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.84 £13.66 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -8.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £18.00 £17.50 £20.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £25.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.49 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +6.09% -5.79% +7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in the UK

Customer Service
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +15 1,464 £275 +12.47% 2,569
UK excluding London +4 1,102 £275 +27.91% 2,259
London +24 447 £269 -6.52% 483
North of England +13 335 £300 +20.00% 578
Work from Home -1 326 £425 +6.25% 734
South East +2 228 £275 +27.91% 566
East of England +3 210 £325 +54.76% 304
North West +30 181 £325 +30.00% 320
Yorkshire +8 141 £300 +20.00% 189
Midlands +16 140 £310 +12.73% 401
Scotland +5 84 £340 +36.00% 136
South West -31 84 £175 -14.88% 302
West Midlands +28 82 £338 -6.90% 247
East Midlands +3 57 £200 - 154
North East +13 14 £345 +130.00% 81
Wales +2 13 £220 +37.50% 85
Northern Ireland +1 8 £190 +11.76% 24

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 105 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.31%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.75%) CMS
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (0.31%) Confluence
9 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 4 (0.25%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 274 (17.07%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 41 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.31%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.25%) Workfront
6 3 (0.19%) Actimize
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MRS
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 332 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 159 (9.91%) Azure
3 77 (4.80%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (2.55%) Power Automate
6 39 (2.43%) AWS
7 38 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.68%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.31%) SaaS
10 18 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 17 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (0.87%) IaaS
12 14 (0.87%) WhatsApp
13 11 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.69%) Google Workspace
14 7 (0.44%) PaaS
14 7 (0.44%) Slack
15 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
15 5 (0.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.73%) VPN
2 68 (4.24%) LAN
3 64 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
4 57 (3.55%) Firewall
5 51 (3.18%) DNS
6 49 (3.05%) WAN
7 48 (2.99%) TCP/IP
8 37 (2.31%) Wireless
9 33 (2.06%) DHCP
10 32 (1.99%) SAN
11 22 (1.37%) Internet
11 22 (1.37%) Skype
12 14 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
13 13 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.81%) Network Security
14 12 (0.75%) Ethernet
15 10 (0.62%) HTTP
15 10 (0.62%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.56%) OSPF
17 8 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.18%) Power BI
2 18 (1.12%) Big Data
3 13 (0.81%) Tableau
4 12 (0.75%) Data Lake
4 12 (0.75%) Hadoop
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.19%) MySQL
9 3 (0.19%) OLAP
9 3 (0.19%) OLTP
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.12%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.12%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.062%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.062%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (1.43%) JIRA
2 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.50%) Git
4 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.19%) Maven
6 2 (0.12%) TestRail
6 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.062%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.062%) GitLab
7 1 (0.062%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.062%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.062%) Selenium
7 1 (0.062%) Valgrind
General
1 842 (52.46%) Social Skills
2 210 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 187 (11.65%) Finance
4 112 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (5.30%) Retail
7 78 (4.86%) Marketing
8 64 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 51 (3.18%) Legal
10 30 (1.87%) Law
11 29 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.37%) Banking
14 21 (1.31%) Local Government
15 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.06%) German Language
16 15 (0.93%) Hungarian Language
17 14 (0.87%) Automotive
17 14 (0.87%) Dutch Language
18 13 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 392 (24.42%) Analyst
2 246 (15.33%) Service Analyst
3 227 (14.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 176 (10.97%) Support Engineer
5 123 (7.66%) IT Support
6 117 (7.29%) IT Engineer
7 84 (5.23%) Desktop Support
8 76 (4.74%) Senior
9 70 (4.36%) Consultant
10 69 (4.30%) Support Analyst
11 63 (3.93%) Administrator
11 63 (3.93%) Desktop Engineer
12 54 (3.36%) 1st Line Support
13 53 (3.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 53 (3.30%) Developer
14 50 (3.12%) Field Engineer
14 50 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
15 49 (3.05%) Architect
15 49 (3.05%) Service Desk Agent
16 48 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.18%) Web Services
2 15 (0.93%) CSS
2 15 (0.93%) Middleware
3 10 (0.62%) .NET
3 10 (0.62%) HTML
4 9 (0.56%) XMPP
5 7 (0.44%) J2EE
6 6 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.37%) LDAP
6 6 (0.37%) React
6 6 (0.37%) REST
6 6 (0.37%) Spring
7 5 (0.31%) Node.js
8 4 (0.25%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.25%) jQuery
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 63 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 61 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 36 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
6 25 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.56%) iPhone
6 25 (1.56%) Smartphone
7 21 (1.31%) iPad
8 20 (1.25%) CMDB
9 19 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.12%) NHS
10 18 (1.12%) Social Media
11 17 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 16 (1.00%) BYOD
13 15 (0.93%) Digital Signage
14 14 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.75%) Blackberry
16 10 (0.62%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 559 (34.83%) Windows
2 277 (17.26%) Windows 10
3 108 (6.73%) Windows 7
4 98 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 57 (3.55%) Linux
6 54 (3.36%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.05%) Mac OS
8 46 (2.87%) Android
9 38 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 34 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (1.25%) Windows NT
13 16 (1.00%) Ubuntu
13 16 (1.00%) Unix
14 15 (0.93%) Debian
14 15 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (0.87%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (32.02%) Problem-Solving
2 362 (22.55%) ITIL
3 200 (12.46%) Service Delivery
4 157 (9.78%) Incident Management
5 127 (7.91%) Agile
6 119 (7.41%) Service Management
7 101 (6.29%) ITSM
8 96 (5.98%) Time Management
9 93 (5.79%) CRM
10 81 (5.05%) Mathematics
11 75 (4.67%) Asset Management
12 71 (4.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (4.11%) Decision-Making
14 65 (4.05%) Break/Fix
15 64 (3.99%) Project Management
16 58 (3.61%) Business Intelligence
17 52 (3.24%) Migration
18 49 (3.05%) Computer Science
18 49 (3.05%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 51 (3.18%) Python
2 43 (2.68%) SQL
3 28 (1.74%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.06%) C#
6 16 (1.00%) Java
7 12 (0.75%) Bash
8 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.62%) R
9 9 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.50%) C++
11 7 (0.44%) Perl
12 4 (0.25%) ABAP
12 4 (0.25%) C
13 3 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.19%) PHP
14 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.12%) VB
14 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 277 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 205 (12.77%) Degree
3 175 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 83 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 74 (4.61%) A+ Certification
7 55 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (3.24%) MCP
9 46 (2.87%) MCSA
10 40 (2.49%) CCNA
10 40 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.06%) MCSE
12 16 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.50%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.50%) CCNP
16 8 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (13.27%) SLA
2 38 (2.37%) QA
3 32 (1.99%) Disclosure Scotland
4 22 (1.37%) GDPR
5 18 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 5 (0.31%) PMO
10 4 (0.25%) NCSC
10 4 (0.25%) NIST
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.12%) COBIT
12 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.12%) P3O
13 1 (0.062%) GxP
13 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.062%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.062%) WCAG
System Software
1 354 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.37%) Firmware
4 19 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.69%) vSphere
6 9 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.44%) Docker
8 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.25%) KVM
9 4 (0.25%) Samba
10 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.062%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 135 (8.41%) SCCM
2 66 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (1.93%) WSUS
4 20 (1.25%) Sysprep
5 16 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.69%) Kubernetes
8 8 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.44%) Terraform
10 6 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.31%) Ansible
12 4 (0.25%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
13 2 (0.12%) Nagios
13 2 (0.12%) OpenView
13 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.12%) VxRail
14 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 620 (38.63%) Microsoft
2 200 (12.46%) ServiceNow
3 91 (5.67%) Citrix
4 75 (4.67%) Cisco
5 74 (4.61%) VMware
6 60 (3.74%) Apple
6 60 (3.74%) HP
7 47 (2.93%) SAP
8 30 (1.87%) Oracle
9 29 (1.81%) Dell
10 28 (1.74%) Google
11 27 (1.68%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.06%) Adobe
14 11 (0.69%) Avaya
15 10 (0.62%) Remedy
16 9 (0.56%) Computacenter
16 9 (0.56%) Okta
17 8 (0.50%) Veeam
18 6 (0.37%) Ivanti