Customer Service Contracts in Central London

Customer Service
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Customer Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Service over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 60 75
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 +46
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 41 72 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.05% 2.95% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.26% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 86
10th Percentile £200 £140 £133
25th Percentile £240 £176 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 £246 £238
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +3.68% +5.76%
75th Percentile £516 £559 £378
90th Percentile £621 £644 £592
London median daily rate £324 £263 £300
% change year-on-year +23.33% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £18.41 £17.17 £15.13
25th Percentile £18.88 £18.93 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.97 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +31.42% -22.45%
75th Percentile £22.38 £40.00 £21.64
90th Percentile £23.20 - £23.60
London median hourly rate £17.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -20.00% +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Customer Service falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,860 2,208 3,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.60% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,571 2,388
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Central London

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Central London

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Central London

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Central London

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
City of London -27 31 £388 +3.33% 48
West End of London +3 6 £110 -14.23% 5
City of Westminster 0 1 £425 - 2
Customer Service
London

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (17.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.88%) CMS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) OneDrive
3 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.32%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.44%) AWS
7 1 (2.44%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Slack
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (7.32%) DHCP
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) LAN
3 2 (4.88%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.44%) BGP
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.44%) Firewall
4 1 (2.44%) HSRP
4 1 (2.44%) IPsec
4 1 (2.44%) IPv6
4 1 (2.44%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.44%) OSPF
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless Security
4 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) Looker
3 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 20 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Legal
4 3 (7.32%) Marketing
5 2 (4.88%) Billing
5 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Analyst
2 5 (12.20%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support
3 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Service Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Coordinator
4 3 (7.32%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Desktop Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.44%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Smartphone
2 2 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.44%) BYOD
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.44%) iPad
3 1 (2.44%) iPhone
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Windows
2 9 (21.95%) Mac OS
3 6 (14.63%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.76%) Android
4 4 (9.76%) Apple iOS
5 3 (7.32%) Linux
6 2 (4.88%) Unix
7 1 (2.44%) VMS
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (24.39%) ITIL
2 10 (24.39%) Project Management
3 9 (21.95%) ITSM
4 7 (17.07%) Service Management
5 6 (14.63%) CRM
5 6 (14.63%) Incident Management
5 6 (14.63%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
7 4 (9.76%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.76%) Customer Experience
7 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
7 4 (9.76%) Time Management
8 3 (7.32%) Agile
8 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (7.32%) Data Management
8 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (7.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 1 (2.44%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (14.63%) SCCM
3 4 (9.76%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.88%) AirWatch
4 2 (4.88%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (4.88%) Terraform
5 1 (2.44%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.44%) Netcool
5 1 (2.44%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.76%) Apple
3 4 (9.76%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) Remedy
5 2 (4.88%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) iManage
5 2 (4.88%) Intapp
5 2 (4.88%) Symantec
6 1 (2.44%) Citrix
6 1 (2.44%) Dell
6 1 (2.44%) EMC
6 1 (2.44%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.44%) Juniper
6 1 (2.44%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.44%) Okta
6 1 (2.44%) Riverbed
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds