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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 62 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +31
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,602 2,076 2,534
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.73% 3.59% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.99% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 1,113 1,455
10th Percentile £142 £128 £130
25th Percentile £180 £163 £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 491 479 492
10th Percentile £11.13 £9.80 £11.50
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 £17.29 £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 +6.04% -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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
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 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,461 £275 +13.75% 2,572
UK excluding London +5 1,096 £275 +27.91% 2,260
London +25 450 £275 -4.35% 483
North of England +14 333 £300 +30.43% 577
Work from Home -4 327 £425 +6.25% 767
South East +3 227 £275 +28.65% 568
East of England +2 206 £325 +54.76% 304
North West +28 181 £325 +30.00% 315
Midlands +15 141 £291 +5.82% 400
Yorkshire +6 139 £291 +21.15% 190
Scotland +7 84 £340 +36.00% 137
South West -29 84 £175 -14.88% 306
West Midlands +25 82 £338 -10.00% 243
East Midlands +3 58 £200 -3.61% 157
North East +16 14 £345 +130.00% 85
Wales -2 13 £220 +37.50% 84
Northern Ireland +2 8 £190 +11.76% 22

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 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (3.62%) 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 (17.10%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 90 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 41 (2.56%) 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
1 334 (20.85%) Microsoft 365
2 159 (9.93%) Azure
3 77 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 40 (2.50%) AWS
7 39 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.69%) 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 94 (5.87%) VPN
2 68 (4.24%) LAN
3 64 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
4 58 (3.62%) Firewall
5 51 (3.18%) DNS
6 49 (3.06%) WAN
7 47 (2.93%) TCP/IP
8 38 (2.37%) Wireless
9 33 (2.06%) DHCP
10 31 (1.94%) SAN
11 22 (1.37%) Internet
11 22 (1.37%) Skype
12 16 (1.00%) 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 24 (1.50%) 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
1 836 (52.18%) Social Skills
2 210 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 187 (11.67%) Finance
4 113 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
5 85 (5.31%) Retail
6 78 (4.87%) Marketing
7 64 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 51 (3.18%) Legal
9 30 (1.87%) Law
10 29 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.37%) Banking
13 21 (1.31%) Local Government
14 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.00%) German Language
16 14 (0.87%) Automotive
16 14 (0.87%) Hungarian Language
17 13 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.81%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 390 (24.34%) Analyst
2 246 (15.36%) Service Analyst
3 227 (14.17%) Service Desk Analyst
4 176 (10.99%) Support Engineer
5 123 (7.68%) IT Support
6 118 (7.37%) IT Engineer
7 84 (5.24%) Desktop Support
8 77 (4.81%) Senior
9 70 (4.37%) Consultant
10 67 (4.18%) Support Analyst
11 63 (3.93%) Administrator
11 63 (3.93%) Desktop Engineer
12 53 (3.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 52 (3.25%) 1st Line Support
13 52 (3.25%) Developer
14 50 (3.12%) Field Engineer
14 50 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
15 49 (3.06%) Architect
15 49 (3.06%) Service Desk Agent
16 48 (3.00%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.18%) Web Services
2 15 (0.94%) CSS
2 15 (0.94%) 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 (4.43%) Management Information System
2 63 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 61 (3.81%) Driving Licence
4 35 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
6 25 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.56%) iPhone
6 25 (1.56%) Smartphone
7 22 (1.37%) iPad
8 20 (1.25%) CMDB
9 19 (1.19%) 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 (0.94%) Digital Signage
14 14 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.75%) Blackberry
16 9 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 560 (34.96%) Windows
2 278 (17.35%) Windows 10
3 108 (6.74%) Windows 7
4 100 (6.24%) Windows Server
5 56 (3.50%) Linux
6 54 (3.37%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.06%) Mac OS
8 47 (2.93%) 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%) Unix
14 15 (0.94%) Ubuntu
14 15 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (0.87%) Debian
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
1 513 (32.02%) Problem-Solving
2 360 (22.47%) ITIL
3 199 (12.42%) Service Delivery
4 157 (9.80%) Incident Management
5 127 (7.93%) Agile
6 118 (7.37%) Service Management
7 102 (6.37%) ITSM
8 95 (5.93%) Time Management
9 92 (5.74%) CRM
10 80 (4.99%) Mathematics
11 74 (4.62%) Asset Management
12 71 (4.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (4.12%) Decision-Making
14 65 (4.06%) Break/Fix
14 65 (4.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (4.00%) Project Management
16 58 (3.62%) Business Intelligence
17 52 (3.25%) Migration
18 49 (3.06%) Computer Science
18 49 (3.06%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (3.12%) Python
2 43 (2.68%) SQL
3 29 (1.81%) 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 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 204 (12.73%) Degree
3 175 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 82 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 74 (4.62%) A+ Certification
7 55 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 50 (3.12%) MCP
9 46 (2.87%) MCSA
10 40 (2.50%) CCNA
10 40 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.06%) MCSE
12 16 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.94%) 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
1 212 (13.23%) SLA
2 38 (2.37%) QA
3 32 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 21 (1.31%) 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
1 357 (22.28%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.37%) Firmware
4 19 (1.19%) 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
1 137 (8.55%) SCCM
2 66 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (2.00%) 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%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.31%) Ansible
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
1 619 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 200 (12.48%) ServiceNow
3 90 (5.62%) Citrix
4 75 (4.68%) Cisco
5 74 (4.62%) VMware
6 61 (3.81%) Apple
7 60 (3.75%) HP
8 47 (2.93%) SAP
9 30 (1.87%) Oracle
10 29 (1.81%) Dell
11 28 (1.75%) Google
12 26 (1.62%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.44%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.06%) Adobe
15 11 (0.69%) Avaya
16 10 (0.62%) Remedy
17 9 (0.56%) Computacenter
17 9 (0.56%) Okta
18 8 (0.50%) Veeam
19 6 (0.37%) Ivanti