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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,074 1,251 1,696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.17% 5.51% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 6.17% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 614 909
10th Percentile £135 £122 £128
25th Percentile £172 £155 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £220 £213
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £450 £450 £394
90th Percentile £575 £580 £538
UK median daily rate £272 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +8.80% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 351 439
10th Percentile £11.00 - £10.87
25th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.27 £13.66 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% -5.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £16.50 £15.75 £18.55
90th Percentile £20.87 £20.56 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £14.81 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.06% -9.47% +11.11%

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 17,274 20,264 27,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.17% 89.18% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,225 13,898 19,225
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 1,236 1,354
10th Percentile £12.41 £10.63 £12.45
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +74.43% -4.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.90 £62.43
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 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
North of England +15 312 £300 +20.00% 662
South East +1 214 £267 +25.76% 576
East of England +1 201 £325 +62.50% 315
North West +29 168 £325 - 347
Midlands +16 143 £213 -29.17% 435
Yorkshire +4 133 £300 +20.00% 241
Scotland +15 91 £340 +36.00% 178
South West -38 85 £175 -14.46% 359
West Midlands +15 83 £313 -21.88% 241
East Midlands +4 59 £200 -6.98% 194
Wales +2 16 £220 +37.50% 66
Northern Ireland +5 12 £123 -38.75% 53
North East +12 11 £600 +321.05% 81
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 52 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.84%) 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 (0.19%) Drupal
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.093%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.093%) IIS
7 1 (0.093%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 185 (17.23%) Microsoft Office
2 131 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (7.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Actimize
3 4 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.37%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.19%) Primavera
6 1 (0.093%) iTrent
6 1 (0.093%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.093%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.093%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.093%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 210 (19.55%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (6.98%) Azure
3 31 (2.89%) Power Platform
4 30 (2.79%) AWS
5 26 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 16 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 14 (1.30%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.65%) PowerApps
9 7 (0.65%) SaaS
10 5 (0.47%) WhatsApp
11 4 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.37%) IaaS
12 3 (0.28%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (0.28%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.28%) Azure AI
12 3 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.28%) PaaS
13 2 (0.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
2 51 (4.75%) VPN
3 41 (3.82%) LAN
4 35 (3.26%) Firewall
5 29 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 26 (2.42%) DNS
6 26 (2.42%) SAN
6 26 (2.42%) Wireless
7 21 (1.96%) WAN
8 20 (1.86%) DHCP
9 14 (1.30%) Internet
10 11 (1.02%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.84%) Skype
11 9 (0.84%) VLAN
12 7 (0.65%) OSPF
12 7 (0.65%) Wireless Security
13 6 (0.56%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.37%) Broadband
14 4 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.40%) Power BI
2 6 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.37%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.19%) Big Data
6 2 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.093%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.093%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.093%) DTS
7 1 (0.093%) EDMS
7 1 (0.093%) Metadata
7 1 (0.093%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.093%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.093%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.093%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 9 (0.84%) JIRA
2 6 (0.56%) Git
3 5 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.093%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.093%) Selenium
5 1 (0.093%) TestRail
General
1 557 (51.86%) Social Skills
2 121 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (9.22%) Finance
4 91 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.24%) Retail
6 56 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 27 (2.51%) Legal
9 22 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.05%) Marketing
10 19 (1.77%) German Language
11 16 (1.49%) Law
12 14 (1.30%) Automotive
12 14 (1.30%) Hungarian Language
13 13 (1.21%) Dutch Language
14 12 (1.12%) Local Government
14 12 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.84%) Lithuanian Language
17 8 (0.74%) Banking
Job Titles
1 306 (28.49%) Analyst
2 200 (18.62%) Service Analyst
3 183 (17.04%) Service Desk Analyst
4 105 (9.78%) Support Engineer
5 91 (8.47%) IT Support
6 65 (6.05%) IT Engineer
7 64 (5.96%) Support Analyst
8 46 (4.28%) Administrator
8 46 (4.28%) Service Desk Agent
9 40 (3.72%) 1st Line Support
10 38 (3.54%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 38 (3.54%) Desktop Support
11 36 (3.35%) Desktop Engineer
12 35 (3.26%) Developer
13 33 (3.07%) Consultant
14 32 (2.98%) 2nd Line Support
14 32 (2.98%) IT Analyst
14 32 (2.98%) IT Support Engineer
15 30 (2.79%) Customer Analyst
15 30 (2.79%) Customer Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.33%) Web Services
2 9 (0.84%) Middleware
3 7 (0.65%) CSS
4 6 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) XMPP
7 1 (0.093%) .NET
7 1 (0.093%) Flash
7 1 (0.093%) Google Maps API
7 1 (0.093%) LDAP
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.093%) REST
7 1 (0.093%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.093%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.66%) Driving Licence
2 43 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 37 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 16 (1.49%) iPhone
7 14 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.21%) Digital Signage
9 12 (1.12%) iPad
10 11 (1.02%) BYOD
10 11 (1.02%) NHS
11 9 (0.84%) Clustering
12 8 (0.74%) PKI
12 8 (0.74%) Smartphone
12 8 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
13 7 (0.65%) CMDB
13 7 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.47%) Blog
15 5 (0.47%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 354 (32.96%) Windows
2 189 (17.60%) Windows 10
3 64 (5.96%) Windows 7
4 58 (5.40%) Windows Server
5 36 (3.35%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.17%) Linux
6 34 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (2.23%) Mac OS
9 21 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.49%) Windows NT
11 14 (1.30%) Android
12 9 (0.84%) Debian
12 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.56%) Solaris
15 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.37%) Unix
16 4 (0.37%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 241 (22.44%) ITIL
3 161 (14.99%) Service Delivery
4 133 (12.38%) Incident Management
5 82 (7.64%) Service Management
6 77 (7.17%) Mathematics
7 72 (6.70%) Agile
8 63 (5.87%) Time Management
9 52 (4.84%) ITSM
10 47 (4.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (4.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (4.19%) CRM
11 45 (4.19%) Decision-Making
12 44 (4.10%) Break/Fix
13 39 (3.63%) Asset Management
14 34 (3.17%) Project Management
15 30 (2.79%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (2.70%) Migration
17 28 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 28 (2.61%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (2.33%) SQL
2 19 (1.77%) Python
3 16 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.74%) Java
5 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.47%) C#
6 5 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.37%) Bash
7 4 (0.37%) C++
7 4 (0.37%) Perl
8 3 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.19%) C
9 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.19%) VB
10 1 (0.093%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.093%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.093%) Fortran
10 1 (0.093%) PHP
10 1 (0.093%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 152 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 115 (10.71%) Degree
4 69 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 65 (6.05%) A+ Certification
6 59 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.10%) MCSA
8 36 (3.35%) MCP
9 32 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.42%) CCNA
11 19 (1.77%) MCSE
12 18 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.56%) RHCE
18 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
18 5 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (13.41%) SLA
2 32 (2.98%) Disclosure Scotland
3 27 (2.51%) QA
4 9 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.093%) COBIT
7 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.093%) PMO
7 1 (0.093%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 238 (22.16%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.79%) Firmware
3 29 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.74%) vSphere
6 7 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.56%) KVM
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.28%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.093%) Docker
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.093%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 106 (9.87%) SCCM
2 38 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (2.70%) WSUS
4 16 (1.49%) Sysprep
5 7 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.56%) Nessus
7 3 (0.28%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.19%) Nagios
8 2 (0.19%) OpenView
9 1 (0.093%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.093%) Ansible
9 1 (0.093%) vMotion
9 1 (0.093%) VxRail
Vendors
1 435 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 134 (12.48%) ServiceNow
3 67 (6.24%) Citrix
4 44 (4.10%) VMware
5 43 (4.00%) HP
6 42 (3.91%) Cisco
7 28 (2.61%) Apple
8 27 (2.51%) SAP
9 22 (2.05%) Oracle
10 19 (1.77%) Dell
11 16 (1.49%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.93%) Google
14 6 (0.56%) Qualys
15 5 (0.47%) Avaya
15 5 (0.47%) Computacenter
15 5 (0.47%) Openreach
15 5 (0.47%) Remedy
15 5 (0.47%) Workday
16 4 (0.37%) NetApp