Customer Service Contracts in Merton

Customer Service
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 12.50% 10.53% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.08% 16.67% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £220 £216 -
25th Percentile £231 £222 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £251 £238 £265
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -10.38% -
75th Percentile £394 £247 £273
90th Percentile £480 £249 -
South London median daily rate £370 £200 £250
% change year-on-year +85.13% -20.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 12 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 54.17% 63.16% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 18
10th Percentile £235 £250 £287
25th Percentile £288 £388 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £447 £606 £488
90th Percentile £500 £638 £616
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £70.24 - £39.64
25th Percentile £72.40 £40.82 -
Median hourly rate £78.40 £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year +78.83% -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile £82.00 £46.86 £51.70
90th Percentile £82.72 - £56.85
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Merton

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Merton

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Merton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Merton

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Merton

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton region over the 6 months to 1 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
Morden +4 2 £388 +72.33%
Customer Service
South London

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware