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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 62 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,586 2,050 2,542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.72% 3.60% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.02% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 1,095 1,466
10th Percentile £143 £130 £130
25th Percentile £181 £163 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £475
90th Percentile £599 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £215 £211
% change year-on-year +27.91% +1.98% +17.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 475 486
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.25
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 £16.85 £19.50
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £24.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +6.15% -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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 1,441 £275 +10.00% 2,846
UK excluding London +5 1,089 £275 +27.91% 2,460
London +23 441 £275 -8.33% 584
North of England +14 328 £300 +20.00% 649
Work from Home -4 319 £420 +5.00% 874
South East +3 223 £241 +12.14% 621
East of England +3 209 £325 +54.76% 322
North West +29 179 £325 +30.00% 333
Midlands +16 139 £291 +5.82% 443
Yorkshire +3 137 £300 +25.00% 233
Scotland +15 88 £340 +36.00% 142
West Midlands +28 82 £338 -10.00% 253
South West -36 81 £176 -17.18% 329
East Midlands 0 56 £200 -3.61% 190
Wales +3 14 £220 +37.50% 75
North East +15 13 £345 +142.11% 93
Northern Ireland -1 7 £165 -2.94% 31

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 99 (6.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.26%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.76%) CMS
5 10 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.063%) Moodle
Applications
1 268 (16.90%) Microsoft Office
2 155 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 92 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.32%) Actimize
4 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.25%) Workfront
6 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.19%) SAP MRS
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 320 (20.18%) Microsoft 365
2 152 (9.58%) Azure
3 77 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 74 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (2.90%) AWS
6 40 (2.52%) Power Automate
7 37 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.64%) OneDrive
9 22 (1.39%) SaaS
10 17 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (1.07%) PowerApps
11 13 (0.82%) IaaS
12 12 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.76%) Google Workspace
12 12 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 8 (0.50%) GCP
13 8 (0.50%) Slack
14 7 (0.44%) PaaS
15 5 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (0.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.05%) VPN
2 64 (4.04%) LAN
3 63 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
4 57 (3.59%) Firewall
5 48 (3.03%) DNS
6 47 (2.96%) WAN
7 43 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 40 (2.52%) Wireless
9 31 (1.95%) DHCP
10 29 (1.83%) SAN
11 25 (1.58%) Internet
12 21 (1.32%) Skype
13 16 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.76%) Ethernet
15 12 (0.76%) Network Security
16 10 (0.63%) HTTP
16 10 (0.63%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.57%) OSPF
18 8 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.27%) Power BI
2 18 (1.13%) Big Data
3 13 (0.82%) Tableau
4 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 12 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.38%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.13%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.13%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.063%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.063%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.063%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (1.45%) JIRA
2 9 (0.57%) Git
3 8 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.19%) Maven
6 1 (0.063%) GitLab
6 1 (0.063%) Selenium
6 1 (0.063%) TestRail
6 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio
General
1 822 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 206 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 191 (12.04%) Finance
4 112 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.36%) Retail
6 80 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (4.73%) Marketing
8 66 (4.16%) Telecoms
9 48 (3.03%) Legal
10 30 (1.89%) Law
11 28 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.51%) Banking
14 20 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.13%) Local Government
16 16 (1.01%) German Language
17 15 (0.95%) Hungarian Language
18 14 (0.88%) Automotive
18 14 (0.88%) Dutch Language
19 13 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 390 (24.59%) Analyst
2 243 (15.32%) Service Analyst
3 224 (14.12%) Service Desk Analyst
4 169 (10.66%) Support Engineer
5 121 (7.63%) IT Support
6 112 (7.06%) IT Engineer
7 83 (5.23%) Desktop Support
8 75 (4.73%) Senior
9 71 (4.48%) Consultant
10 69 (4.35%) Support Analyst
11 62 (3.91%) Administrator
12 60 (3.78%) Desktop Engineer
13 52 (3.28%) Developer
14 51 (3.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 49 (3.09%) Service Desk Agent
16 48 (3.03%) 1st Line Support
16 48 (3.03%) Field Engineer
17 47 (2.96%) 2nd Line Support
17 47 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
18 45 (2.84%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.14%) Web Services
2 18 (1.13%) CSS
3 15 (0.95%) Middleware
4 13 (0.82%) HTML
5 10 (0.63%) .NET
6 9 (0.57%) XMPP
7 8 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.50%) React
8 7 (0.44%) J2EE
9 6 (0.38%) LDAP
9 6 (0.38%) Spring
10 5 (0.32%) Node.js
10 5 (0.32%) REST
11 4 (0.25%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.25%) jQuery
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 3 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 62 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 59 (3.72%) Driving Licence
4 35 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
6 25 (1.58%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.58%) Smartphone
7 24 (1.51%) iPhone
8 21 (1.32%) iPad
9 20 (1.26%) CMDB
10 18 (1.13%) NHS
11 17 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.07%) Social Media
12 16 (1.01%) BYOD
13 15 (0.95%) Digital Signage
14 14 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (0.69%) Blackberry
16 9 (0.57%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 544 (34.30%) Windows
2 273 (17.21%) Windows 10
3 105 (6.62%) Windows 7
4 97 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 53 (3.34%) Apple iOS
6 52 (3.28%) Linux
7 50 (3.15%) Mac OS
8 44 (2.77%) Android
9 36 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 32 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (1.20%) Windows NT
13 15 (0.95%) Unix
14 14 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (0.82%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.69%) Debian
16 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.63%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 5 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
2 352 (22.19%) ITIL
3 202 (12.74%) Service Delivery
4 161 (10.15%) Incident Management
5 123 (7.76%) Agile
6 118 (7.44%) Service Management
7 103 (6.49%) ITSM
8 95 (5.99%) CRM
9 91 (5.74%) Time Management
10 85 (5.36%) Mathematics
11 74 (4.67%) Asset Management
12 67 (4.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (4.16%) Decision-Making
13 66 (4.16%) Project Management
14 64 (4.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (3.97%) Break/Fix
16 60 (3.78%) Business Intelligence
17 53 (3.34%) Migration
18 51 (3.22%) Customer Experience
19 48 (3.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (3.03%) Python
2 44 (2.77%) SQL
3 28 (1.77%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.01%) C#
6 15 (0.95%) Java
7 13 (0.82%) Bash
8 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.63%) R
10 7 (0.44%) C++
10 7 (0.44%) Perl
11 4 (0.25%) C
11 4 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.19%) ABAP
12 3 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.13%) VB
13 2 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 269 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 199 (12.55%) Degree
3 174 (10.97%) SC Cleared
4 90 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (4.73%) A+ Certification
6 74 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (3.09%) MCP
9 47 (2.96%) MCSA
10 42 (2.65%) CCNA
11 39 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.20%) MCSE
13 14 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.57%) CCNP
15 9 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (0.50%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (13.11%) SLA
2 37 (2.33%) QA
3 32 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 21 (1.32%) GDPR
5 19 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.38%) PMO
9 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) WCAG
12 2 (0.13%) COBIT
12 2 (0.13%) P3O
13 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.063%) NCSC
13 1 (0.063%) NIST
13 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.063%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 348 (21.94%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (2.27%) Firmware
4 18 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.69%) vSphere
6 10 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.44%) Docker
9 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.32%) KVM
10 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.25%) Samba
12 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.063%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 134 (8.45%) SCCM
2 61 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (2.08%) WSUS
4 19 (1.20%) Sysprep
5 17 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.69%) Kubernetes
8 7 (0.44%) Terraform
9 6 (0.38%) AirWatch
9 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.32%) Ansible
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) Nessus
12 2 (0.13%) OpenView
12 2 (0.13%) VxRail
13 1 (0.063%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 616 (38.84%) Microsoft
2 200 (12.61%) ServiceNow
3 89 (5.61%) Citrix
4 76 (4.79%) Cisco
5 70 (4.41%) VMware
6 58 (3.66%) Apple
7 56 (3.53%) HP
8 46 (2.90%) SAP
9 30 (1.89%) Dell
9 30 (1.89%) Oracle
10 29 (1.83%) Google
11 26 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.51%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.01%) Adobe
14 10 (0.63%) Avaya
14 10 (0.63%) Okta
15 9 (0.57%) Computacenter
15 9 (0.57%) Veeam
16 8 (0.50%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.50%) Remedy