Customer Service Contract Job Trends in London

Customer Service
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Customer Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 146 107
Rank change year-on-year -38 -39 +10
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 269 234 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.90% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.06% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 125 240
10th Percentile £157 £160 £150
25th Percentile £178 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £310 £275
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +12.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £523 £513 £500
90th Percentile £625 £633 £613
England median daily rate £213 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 42 68
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.06 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.60 £15.84 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.57 £20.02
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% -12.26% -11.53%
75th Percentile £25.77 £24.80 £34.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £33.63 £42.00
England median hourly rate £16.77 £16.00 £14.83
% change year-on-year +4.81% +7.93% +8.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,789 11,383 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.79% 92.33% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,185 7,624 11,131
10th Percentile £360 £344 £343
25th Percentile £434 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -24.29%
75th Percentile £58.94 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Customer Service job vacancy trend in London

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Customer Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in London

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Customer Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Customer Service

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Service in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 2026. 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 +2 53 £400 +14.29% 48
South London -23 6 £165 -30.60% 13
West London -34 4 £238 +3.83% 23
Customer Service
England

Customer Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.60%) Confluence
3 4 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.74%) Maya
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (8.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.49%) Shopify
3 4 (1.49%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.74%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.74%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.37%) iTrent
5 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.37%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 70 (26.02%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (17.47%) Azure
3 28 (10.41%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.72%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 8 (2.97%) Power Automate
6 8 (2.97%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.23%) AWS
7 6 (2.23%) SaaS
8 5 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (1.86%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.86%) Slack
9 4 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.49%) GCP
9 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.35%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.60%) DNS
4 6 (2.23%) VPN
5 5 (1.86%) LAN
5 5 (1.86%) WAN
6 4 (1.49%) Firewall
6 4 (1.49%) HTTP
7 3 (1.12%) VoIP
7 3 (1.12%) Wireless
8 2 (0.74%) DHCP
8 2 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.74%) FTP
8 2 (0.74%) MPLS
8 2 (0.74%) SAN
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.37%) Internet
9 1 (0.37%) Intranet
9 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.23%) Power BI
2 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.12%) Big Data
2 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.74%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (8.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) TestRail
4 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.37%) Introscope
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 90 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.47%) Finance
3 23 (8.55%) Organisational Skills
4 22 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.06%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.32%) Banking
6 17 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.09%) Retail
8 9 (3.35%) Marketing
9 6 (2.23%) Back Office
9 6 (2.23%) Billing
10 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.86%) Military
11 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.49%) Legal
11 4 (1.49%) Local Government
11 4 (1.49%) Publishing
12 3 (1.12%) Games
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (20.07%) Analyst
2 27 (10.04%) IT Support
3 23 (8.55%) Architect
4 20 (7.43%) Support Engineer
5 18 (6.69%) Support Specialist
5 18 (6.69%) Technical Support
6 17 (6.32%) Support Analyst
7 16 (5.95%) Developer
7 16 (5.95%) Technical Specialist
7 16 (5.95%) Technical Support Specialist
8 14 (5.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (5.20%) Consultant
9 13 (4.83%) ServiceNow Architect
10 12 (4.46%) Senior
11 11 (4.09%) Service Analyst
11 11 (4.09%) Service Desk Analyst
12 10 (3.72%) IT Engineer
13 9 (3.35%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.35%) Support Technician
14 8 (2.97%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.41%) REST
2 20 (7.43%) SOAP
3 10 (3.72%) CSS
3 10 (3.72%) HTML
4 9 (3.35%) .NET
5 7 (2.60%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.49%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.49%) JSON
6 4 (1.49%) React
7 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.12%) Middleware
8 2 (0.74%) EDI
8 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.74%) LAMP
8 2 (0.74%) XML
9 1 (0.37%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.37%) ADO
9 1 (0.37%) BAPI
9 1 (0.37%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.01%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.46%) CMDB
3 9 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.97%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.86%) IoT
6 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.12%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.91%) Windows
2 27 (10.04%) Mac OS
3 17 (6.32%) Windows 10
4 11 (4.09%) Android
5 10 (3.72%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.60%) Linux
7 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.12%) Unix
7 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.37%) AIX
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (19.33%) ITIL
3 39 (14.50%) CRM
4 37 (13.75%) ITSM
5 35 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (11.90%) AI
7 27 (10.04%) Analytics
8 26 (9.67%) Service Management
9 25 (9.29%) Agile
9 25 (9.29%) User Experience
10 24 (8.92%) Customer Experience
11 22 (8.18%) Mobile Device Management
12 21 (7.81%) Project Management
12 21 (7.81%) Translating Business Requirements
12 21 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (7.06%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.69%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.69%) Workflow
15 17 (6.32%) Proactive Monitoring
16 16 (5.95%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.69%) JavaScript
2 10 (3.72%) C#
3 7 (2.60%) Python
3 7 (2.60%) SQL
4 5 (1.86%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.12%) Java
6 2 (0.74%) Perl
6 2 (0.74%) PHP
7 1 (0.37%) Jython
7 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (10.78%) Degree
2 21 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) PMP
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.37%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) CAPM
9 1 (0.37%) CCNA
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.43%) SLA
2 7 (2.60%) QA
3 4 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (17.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.60%) SCCM
3 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.74%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.37%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (33.83%) Microsoft
2 62 (23.05%) ServiceNow
3 20 (7.43%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.58%) Apple
4 15 (5.58%) HP
5 14 (5.20%) SAP
6 8 (2.97%) Google
6 8 (2.97%) Remedy
7 7 (2.60%) Citrix
7 7 (2.60%) Dell
8 6 (2.23%) Cisco
8 6 (2.23%) IBM
8 6 (2.23%) Oracle
9 5 (1.86%) Okta
10 4 (1.49%) NEC
10 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 4 (1.49%) Workday
11 3 (1.12%) Amplitude
11 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.74%) Charles River