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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 61 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +36
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 1,572 2,030 2,557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 3.60% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 4.01% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 1,072 1,482
10th Percentile £143 £130 £133
25th Percentile £183 £165 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £488
90th Percentile £588 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £272 £220 £213
% change year-on-year +23.64% +3.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 467 479
10th Percentile £11.10 £9.80 £11.17
25th Percentile £12.66 £10.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.84 £13.58 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -9.47% +11.11%
75th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £25.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.36 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +5.12% -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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
England +12 1,420 £275 +14.58% 2,923
UK excluding London +3 1,085 £272 +23.64% 2,528
London +23 432 £275 +0.92% 583
Work from Home -9 318 £416 +1.83% 849
North of England +14 316 £300 +20.00% 653
South East -1 219 £275 +29.41% 592
East of England +3 206 £325 +66.24% 329
North West +29 169 £325 -7.14% 346
Midlands +14 143 £230 -20.00% 441
Yorkshire +5 135 £300 +20.00% 232
Scotland +16 92 £340 +36.00% 178
South West -34 84 £175 -14.46% 359
West Midlands +15 82 £313 -21.88% 244
East Midlands +4 60 £200 -6.98% 197
Wales +1 15 £220 +37.50% 73
North East +13 13 £345 +142.11% 82
Northern Ireland +5 10 £140 -30.00% 53

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 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.21%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.70%) CMS
5 9 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (0.32%) Confluence
9 4 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 4 (0.25%) IBM Notes
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%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.064%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 261 (16.60%) Microsoft Office
2 159 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 98 (6.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.064%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 42 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Actimize
5 4 (0.25%) 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%) 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
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 310 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
2 154 (9.80%) Azure
3 78 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
5 52 (3.31%) AWS
6 40 (2.54%) Power Automate
7 34 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.46%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.34%) SaaS
10 17 (1.08%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.83%) Google Workspace
12 13 (0.83%) WhatsApp
13 12 (0.76%) IaaS
14 10 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.64%) GCP
15 7 (0.45%) GitHub
15 7 (0.45%) Slack
16 6 (0.38%) PaaS
17 5 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.11%) VPN
2 62 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
3 57 (3.63%) LAN
4 54 (3.44%) Firewall
5 51 (3.24%) DNS
6 44 (2.80%) WAN
7 42 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 42 (2.67%) Wireless
8 29 (1.84%) DHCP
9 27 (1.72%) SAN
10 24 (1.53%) Internet
11 20 (1.27%) Skype
12 14 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
13 12 (0.76%) Ethernet
14 11 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.70%) VLAN
15 10 (0.64%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.57%) OSPF
16 9 (0.57%) VoIP
17 8 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.29%) Power BI
2 15 (0.95%) Big Data
3 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 9 (0.57%) Hadoop
4 9 (0.57%) Tableau
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.38%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.19%) MySQL
9 3 (0.19%) OLAP
9 3 (0.19%) OLTP
10 2 (0.13%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.13%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.064%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.064%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.064%) Redash
Development Applications
1 25 (1.59%) JIRA
2 12 (0.76%) Git
3 6 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.19%) Maven
6 2 (0.13%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.064%) GitLab
7 1 (0.064%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.064%) Selenium
7 1 (0.064%) TestRail
General
1 788 (50.13%) Social Skills
2 202 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
2 202 (12.85%) Finance
3 114 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 87 (5.53%) Retail
5 73 (4.64%) Marketing
6 70 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 46 (2.93%) Legal
9 29 (1.84%) Law
10 27 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.59%) Banking
13 22 (1.40%) German Language
14 21 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.08%) Local Government
16 15 (0.95%) Automotive
16 15 (0.95%) Hungarian Language
17 14 (0.89%) Dutch Language
18 12 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 386 (24.55%) Analyst
2 236 (15.01%) Service Analyst
3 216 (13.74%) Service Desk Analyst
4 163 (10.37%) Support Engineer
5 118 (7.51%) IT Support
6 107 (6.81%) IT Engineer
7 79 (5.03%) Desktop Support
8 76 (4.83%) Support Analyst
9 72 (4.58%) Senior
10 70 (4.45%) Consultant
11 62 (3.94%) Administrator
12 59 (3.75%) Developer
13 58 (3.69%) Desktop Engineer
14 48 (3.05%) 1st Line Support
14 48 (3.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 47 (2.99%) Field Engineer
15 47 (2.99%) Service Desk Agent
16 46 (2.93%) 2nd Line Support
16 46 (2.93%) IT Analyst
17 44 (2.80%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.16%) Web Services
2 20 (1.27%) CSS
3 15 (0.95%) HTML
4 13 (0.83%) Middleware
5 10 (0.64%) .NET
5 10 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.57%) React
6 9 (0.57%) XMPP
7 7 (0.45%) J2EE
8 6 (0.38%) Spring
9 5 (0.32%) REST
9 5 (0.32%) RxJS
10 4 (0.25%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.25%) jQuery
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 3 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (0.19%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
1 63 (4.01%) Management Information System
2 56 (3.56%) Driving Licence
3 37 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
5 26 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.59%) Smartphone
7 22 (1.40%) iPad
7 22 (1.40%) iPhone
8 21 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.15%) BYOD
10 18 (1.15%) CMDB
11 17 (1.08%) Social Media
12 15 (0.95%) Digital Signage
12 15 (0.95%) Product Ownership
13 13 (0.83%) NHS
14 11 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.57%) Blackberry
15 9 (0.57%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 524 (33.33%) Windows
2 261 (16.60%) Windows 10
3 99 (6.30%) Windows 7
4 91 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.31%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.18%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.18%) Linux
7 39 (2.48%) Android
8 35 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.08%) Windows NT
12 13 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.70%) Unix
14 10 (0.64%) Debian
14 10 (0.64%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.57%) Mac OS X
15 9 (0.57%) Windows 8
16 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (32.19%) Problem-Solving
2 336 (21.37%) ITIL
3 207 (13.17%) Service Delivery
4 166 (10.56%) Incident Management
5 118 (7.51%) Agile
6 114 (7.25%) Service Management
7 99 (6.30%) ITSM
8 91 (5.79%) CRM
9 88 (5.60%) Mathematics
10 87 (5.53%) Time Management
11 69 (4.39%) Project Management
12 67 (4.26%) Asset Management
13 66 (4.20%) Decision-Making
13 66 (4.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 65 (4.13%) Break/Fix
15 58 (3.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (3.69%) Migration
16 56 (3.56%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (2.93%) Customer Experience
18 44 (2.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 47 (2.99%) SQL
2 44 (2.80%) Python
3 27 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.46%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.02%) C#
5 16 (1.02%) Java
6 12 (0.76%) Bash
7 11 (0.70%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.57%) C++
10 7 (0.45%) Perl
10 7 (0.45%) R
11 4 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.19%) ABAP
12 3 (0.19%) C
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
1 265 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 184 (11.70%) Degree
3 178 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (4.77%) A+ Certification
6 63 (4.01%) DV Cleared
7 53 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.99%) MCSA
9 44 (2.80%) MCP
10 41 (2.61%) CCNA
11 37 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.21%) MCSE
13 15 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.64%) CCNP
16 10 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
18 7 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (12.60%) SLA
2 34 (2.16%) QA
3 32 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 20 (1.27%) GDPR
5 19 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.64%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.38%) PMO
9 3 (0.19%) GRC
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.19%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) COBIT
10 2 (0.13%) P3O
11 1 (0.064%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.064%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 346 (22.01%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.10%) Firmware
4 18 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.76%) vSphere
6 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.38%) Docker
8 6 (0.38%) KVM
9 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.064%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 128 (8.14%) SCCM
2 56 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (2.16%) WSUS
4 17 (1.08%) Sysprep
5 15 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.57%) Kubernetes
8 6 (0.38%) Nessus
9 5 (0.32%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.32%) Terraform
10 4 (0.25%) Ansible
10 4 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) OpenView
12 1 (0.064%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.064%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.064%) VxRail
Vendors
1 610 (38.80%) Microsoft
2 194 (12.34%) ServiceNow
3 89 (5.66%) Citrix
4 77 (4.90%) Cisco
5 66 (4.20%) VMware
6 55 (3.50%) Apple
7 48 (3.05%) HP
8 47 (2.99%) SAP
9 32 (2.04%) Dell
10 30 (1.91%) Google
11 29 (1.84%) Oracle
12 28 (1.78%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.40%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.95%) Adobe
15 12 (0.76%) Avaya
16 9 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.57%) NEC
16 9 (0.57%) Okta
16 9 (0.57%) Veeam
17 8 (0.51%) Computacenter