Customer Service Contracts in London

Customer Service
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 122 179
Rank change year-on-year +33 +57 +37
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 459 598 654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 2.21% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.42% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 398 445
10th Percentile £143 £149 £150
25th Percentile £185 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £300 £275
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £510 £523 £538
90th Percentile £608 £627 £650
England median daily rate £275 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 37 53
10th Percentile £15.33 £18.50 £16.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.01 £25.00 £22.65
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +10.40% +13.23%
75th Percentile £30.13 £34.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £41.25 £54.00 £49.49
England median hourly rate £15.00 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% -9.47% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +9 72 £250 +5.26% 59
West London +20 19 £400 +3.23% 68
South London +19 16 £200 -20.00% 31
East London -14 7 £165 -13.16% 38
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 45 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.40%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (1.53%) Confluence
7 6 (1.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (1.31%) CMS
8 3 (0.65%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 82 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (6.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.87%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.87%) Shopify
2 4 (0.87%) Workfront
3 3 (0.65%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.65%) SAP MRS
3 3 (0.65%) SAP PS
3 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.44%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 112 (24.40%) Microsoft 365
2 70 (15.25%) Azure
3 41 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 38 (8.28%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (4.79%) Power Automate
6 14 (3.05%) SaaS
7 13 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.40%) AWS
9 10 (2.18%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.96%) Google Workspace
10 9 (1.96%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.96%) WhatsApp
11 8 (1.74%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.53%) Slack
13 6 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 4 (0.87%) BigCommerce
16 3 (0.65%) GitHub
16 3 (0.65%) OCI
16 3 (0.65%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 45 (9.80%) VPN
2 25 (5.45%) Wireless
3 22 (4.79%) WAN
4 19 (4.14%) DNS
5 18 (3.92%) LAN
6 16 (3.49%) Firewall
7 12 (2.61%) Skype
8 10 (2.18%) Internet
8 10 (2.18%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (1.74%) DHCP
10 8 (1.74%) Network Security
11 6 (1.31%) FTP
11 6 (1.31%) VoIP
12 5 (1.09%) HTTP
13 4 (0.87%) DWDM
13 4 (0.87%) IP Telephony
13 4 (0.87%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.87%) WebEx
14 3 (0.65%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.70%) Power BI
2 12 (2.61%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.40%) Big Data
4 10 (2.18%) Tableau
5 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.65%) MySQL
8 2 (0.44%) OLAP
8 2 (0.44%) OLTP
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) QlikView
9 1 (0.22%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (3.49%) JIRA
2 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.65%) Maven
3 1 (0.22%) Git
3 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 215 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.79%) Finance
3 88 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.33%) Marketing
5 26 (5.66%) Legal
6 24 (5.23%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.14%) Retail
8 18 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.83%) Law
11 12 (2.61%) Banking
11 12 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.40%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.96%) Local Government
14 8 (1.74%) Mandarin Language
15 5 (1.09%) Advertising
15 5 (1.09%) Electronics
15 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (17.21%) Analyst
2 69 (15.03%) Support Engineer
3 48 (10.46%) Desktop Support
4 46 (10.02%) IT Engineer
5 35 (7.63%) IT Support
6 34 (7.41%) Service Analyst
7 33 (7.19%) Senior
8 32 (6.97%) Service Desk Analyst
9 29 (6.32%) Consultant
10 24 (5.23%) Architect
11 23 (5.01%) Desktop Engineer
12 22 (4.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 21 (4.58%) 2nd Line Support
14 18 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) Administrator
16 16 (3.49%) Field Engineer
17 15 (3.27%) Field Service Engineer
18 14 (3.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 14 (3.05%) Support Analyst
19 13 (2.83%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.96%) .NET
2 7 (1.53%) XMPP
3 6 (1.31%) CSS
3 6 (1.31%) Web Services
4 5 (1.09%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.09%) Middleware
5 4 (0.87%) HTML
5 4 (0.87%) J2EE
5 4 (0.87%) REST
5 4 (0.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.65%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.65%) jQuery
6 3 (0.65%) LDAP
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 3 (0.65%) Sass
6 3 (0.65%) Spring
6 3 (0.65%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.65%) VML
6 3 (0.65%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (4.79%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.49%) Social Media
5 15 (3.27%) Smartphone
6 14 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.83%) iPad
8 12 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.61%) CMDB
9 10 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.96%) Blackberry
10 9 (1.96%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.53%) BYOD
12 7 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.53%) iPhone
13 5 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.09%) Home Automation
13 5 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 159 (34.64%) Windows
2 75 (16.34%) Windows 10
3 41 (8.93%) Windows 7
4 34 (7.41%) Android
5 30 (6.54%) Mac OS
6 29 (6.32%) Windows Server
7 17 (3.70%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.05%) Linux
9 11 (2.40%) Mac OS X
10 9 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.74%) Unix
12 6 (1.31%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.87%) VMS
14 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (20.70%) ITIL
3 43 (9.37%) CRM
4 41 (8.93%) ITSM
5 39 (8.50%) Agile
6 37 (8.06%) Service Delivery
7 30 (6.54%) Incident Management
8 28 (6.10%) Service Management
9 25 (5.45%) Asset Management
9 25 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (5.45%) DevOps
10 24 (5.23%) Project Management
11 23 (5.01%) Break/Fix
11 23 (5.01%) Computer Science
12 22 (4.79%) Data Analysis
12 22 (4.79%) Mentoring
12 22 (4.79%) Migration
13 21 (4.58%) Customer Experience
14 20 (4.36%) Prototyping
14 20 (4.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.79%) Python
2 16 (3.49%) SQL
3 14 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.18%) C#
5 9 (1.96%) R
6 8 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.09%) Bash
7 5 (1.09%) Java
8 4 (0.87%) ABAP
8 4 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (16.56%) Degree
2 46 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.18%) A+ Certification
7 10 (2.18%) CCNA
8 8 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.31%) MCP
10 5 (1.09%) CCIE
11 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.87%) CCSK
11 4 (0.87%) CISSP
11 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.44%) MCITP
13 2 (0.44%) PMP
13 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.55%) SLA
2 9 (1.96%) GDPR
3 8 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.31%) QA
6 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.09%) PMO
7 4 (0.87%) NCSC
7 4 (0.87%) NIST
8 3 (0.65%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.44%) P3O
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) GxP
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (22.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.09%) vSphere
5 3 (0.65%) Docker
5 3 (0.65%) Samba
6 2 (0.44%) Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (4.14%) SCCM
2 15 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.87%) Terraform
5 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.44%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 161 (35.08%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.89%) ServiceNow
3 32 (6.97%) Cisco
4 26 (5.66%) Apple
5 19 (4.14%) Citrix
5 19 (4.14%) Google
5 19 (4.14%) SAP
6 18 (3.92%) VMware
7 15 (3.27%) Adobe
8 13 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.53%) Avaya
9 7 (1.53%) Okta
10 6 (1.31%) Dell
10 6 (1.31%) Ivanti
10 6 (1.31%) TOWER Software
11 5 (1.09%) Arista
11 5 (1.09%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.09%) Juniper
11 5 (1.09%) Oracle
12 4 (0.87%) Marketo