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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 117 181
Rank change year-on-year +28 +64 +42
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 453 585 648
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.56% 2.19% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.40% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 383 438
10th Percentile £147 £146 £150
25th Percentile £185 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £300 £275
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £503 £525 £540
90th Percentile £614 £629 £650
England median daily rate £275 £250 £240
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 41 51
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £17.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.93 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.02 £25.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £28.50 £35.00 £32.55
90th Percentile £41.25 £54.00 £51.75
England median hourly rate £15.00 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% -9.47% +6.59%

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 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
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% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
Central London +9 71 £250 +5.26% 73
West London +29 21 £325 -17.46% 52
South London +17 16 £200 -20.00% 29
East London -16 7 £165 -13.16% 46
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 46 (10.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.43%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (1.55%) Confluence
7 6 (1.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (1.10%) CMS
9 3 (0.66%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 78 (17.22%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.88%) Workfront
3 3 (0.66%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.66%) SAP MRS
3 3 (0.66%) SAP PS
3 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) Shopify
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
1 107 (23.62%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (16.34%) Azure
3 40 (8.83%) Dynamics 365
3 40 (8.83%) Power Platform
4 21 (4.64%) Power Automate
5 16 (3.53%) SaaS
6 13 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.65%) AWS
8 10 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.99%) Google Workspace
9 9 (1.99%) WhatsApp
10 8 (1.77%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.55%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.55%) Slack
12 6 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 3 (0.66%) BigCommerce
14 3 (0.66%) GCP
14 3 (0.66%) OCI
14 3 (0.66%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.27%) VPN
2 21 (4.64%) WAN
3 20 (4.42%) DNS
4 18 (3.97%) Wireless
5 17 (3.75%) LAN
6 16 (3.53%) Firewall
7 12 (2.65%) Skype
8 10 (2.21%) Internet
8 10 (2.21%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (1.77%) DHCP
10 8 (1.77%) Network Security
11 6 (1.32%) FTP
11 6 (1.32%) VoIP
12 5 (1.10%) HTTP
13 4 (0.88%) DWDM
13 4 (0.88%) IP Telephony
13 4 (0.88%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.88%) WebEx
14 3 (0.66%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.75%) Power BI
2 13 (2.87%) Big Data
3 12 (2.65%) Data Lake
4 10 (2.21%) Tableau
5 9 (1.99%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.66%) MySQL
7 3 (0.66%) OLAP
7 3 (0.66%) OLTP
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) QlikView
9 1 (0.22%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (3.53%) JIRA
2 3 (0.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.66%) Maven
3 1 (0.22%) Git
3 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 216 (47.68%) Social Skills
2 97 (21.41%) Finance
3 81 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.26%) Marketing
5 25 (5.52%) Legal
5 25 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.19%) Retail
7 16 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.87%) Banking
10 12 (2.65%) Law
10 12 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.21%) Local Government
12 8 (1.77%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (1.32%) Advertising
14 5 (1.10%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.88%) Electronics
15 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (17.44%) Analyst
2 67 (14.79%) Support Engineer
3 47 (10.38%) Desktop Support
4 40 (8.83%) IT Engineer
5 34 (7.51%) Senior
5 34 (7.51%) Service Analyst
6 32 (7.06%) Service Desk Analyst
7 31 (6.84%) IT Support
8 29 (6.40%) Consultant
9 25 (5.52%) Architect
9 25 (5.52%) Desktop Engineer
10 23 (5.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 17 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
11 17 (3.75%) Administrator
12 15 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
13 14 (3.09%) Field Engineer
14 13 (2.87%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (2.87%) Network Engineer
14 13 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.99%) .NET
2 7 (1.55%) CSS
2 7 (1.55%) Web Services
2 7 (1.55%) XMPP
3 6 (1.32%) Middleware
4 5 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.88%) HTML
5 4 (0.88%) J2EE
5 4 (0.88%) REST
5 4 (0.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.66%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.66%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.66%) LDAP
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.66%) Sass
6 3 (0.66%) Spring
6 3 (0.66%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.66%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (4.86%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.53%) Smartphone
5 15 (3.31%) Social Media
6 14 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.65%) CMDB
7 12 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.21%) iPad
8 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.99%) Blackberry
10 7 (1.55%) BYOD
10 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.55%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.55%) iPhone
11 5 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 158 (34.88%) Windows
2 74 (16.34%) Windows 10
3 38 (8.39%) Windows 7
4 29 (6.40%) Android
4 29 (6.40%) Windows Server
5 27 (5.96%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.31%) Apple iOS
7 14 (3.09%) Linux
8 11 (2.43%) Mac OS X
9 9 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.77%) Unix
11 6 (1.32%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.88%) VMS
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (20.75%) ITIL
3 43 (9.49%) CRM
4 42 (9.27%) ITSM
5 41 (9.05%) Service Delivery
6 39 (8.61%) Agile
7 30 (6.62%) Incident Management
8 26 (5.74%) Asset Management
9 25 (5.52%) DevOps
9 25 (5.52%) Project Management
10 23 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (5.08%) Computer Science
10 23 (5.08%) Migration
10 23 (5.08%) Service Management
11 21 (4.64%) Break/Fix
11 21 (4.64%) Customer Experience
11 21 (4.64%) Data Analysis
11 21 (4.64%) Mentoring
11 21 (4.64%) Roadmaps
12 20 (4.42%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.08%) Python
2 15 (3.31%) SQL
3 14 (3.09%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.21%) C#
5 9 (1.99%) R
6 8 (1.77%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.55%) Java
8 5 (1.10%) Bash
9 4 (0.88%) ABAP
9 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.44%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (16.78%) Degree
2 44 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.21%) A+ Certification
7 10 (2.21%) CCNA
8 7 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.32%) MCP
10 5 (1.10%) CCIE
11 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.88%) CCSK
11 4 (0.88%) CISSP
11 4 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.44%) MCITP
13 2 (0.44%) PMP
13 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.04%) SLA
2 10 (2.21%) GDPR
3 9 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.32%) QA
7 5 (1.10%) PMO
8 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 4 (0.88%) NIST
9 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.44%) GRC
10 2 (0.44%) P3O
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) GxP
11 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.10%) vSphere
5 3 (0.66%) Docker
5 3 (0.66%) Samba
5 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.44%) Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (3.75%) SCCM
2 15 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.88%) Terraform
5 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.44%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 164 (36.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.70%) ServiceNow
3 32 (7.06%) Cisco
4 26 (5.74%) Apple
5 19 (4.19%) Citrix
5 19 (4.19%) SAP
6 18 (3.97%) Google
6 18 (3.97%) VMware
7 14 (3.09%) Adobe
8 11 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.55%) Avaya
9 7 (1.55%) Dell
9 7 (1.55%) Okta
10 6 (1.32%) Ivanti
10 6 (1.32%) Oracle
10 6 (1.32%) TOWER Software
11 5 (1.10%) Arista
11 5 (1.10%) Juniper
12 4 (0.88%) Becrypt
12 4 (0.88%) HP