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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 118 179
Rank change year-on-year +24 +61 +46
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 447 575 645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.53% 2.19% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.41% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 379 438
10th Percentile £146 £145 £150
25th Percentile £185 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £288 £281
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -29.69%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £548
90th Percentile £623 £626 £654
England median daily rate £275 £245 £240
% change year-on-year +12.47% +1.88% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 38 49
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £17.33
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.93 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.02 £25.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £30.13 £36.76 £32.60
90th Percentile £41.50 £56.93 £52.90
England median hourly rate £14.84 £13.58 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.28% -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 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
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 £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +11 72 £253 +6.32% 58
West London +27 21 £250 -35.48% 54
South London +15 17 £200 -20.00% 27
East London -13 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 47 (10.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.46%) Skype for Business
4 9 (2.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (1.12%) CMS
8 5 (1.12%) Confluence
9 3 (0.67%) 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 76 (17.00%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (6.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.89%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.89%) Workfront
3 3 (0.67%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.67%) SAP MRS
3 3 (0.67%) SAP PS
3 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 2 (0.45%) 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
1 106 (23.71%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (17.23%) Azure
3 42 (9.40%) Dynamics 365
4 40 (8.95%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.92%) Power Automate
6 13 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.91%) SaaS
7 10 (2.24%) AWS
7 10 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.01%) Google Workspace
8 9 (2.01%) WhatsApp
9 8 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.57%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.57%) Slack
11 5 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) BigCommerce
12 3 (0.67%) GCP
12 3 (0.67%) OCI
12 3 (0.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.40%) VPN
2 22 (4.92%) WAN
3 21 (4.70%) DNS
4 17 (3.80%) LAN
5 16 (3.58%) Firewall
5 16 (3.58%) Wireless
6 12 (2.68%) Skype
7 10 (2.24%) Internet
7 10 (2.24%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (1.79%) DHCP
9 8 (1.79%) Network Security
10 6 (1.34%) FTP
10 6 (1.34%) VoIP
11 5 (1.12%) HTTP
12 4 (0.89%) DWDM
12 4 (0.89%) IP Telephony
12 4 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.89%) WebEx
13 3 (0.67%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.80%) Power BI
2 13 (2.91%) Big Data
3 12 (2.68%) Data Lake
4 10 (2.24%) Tableau
5 9 (2.01%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.67%) MySQL
7 3 (0.67%) OLAP
7 3 (0.67%) OLTP
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) QlikView
9 1 (0.22%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (3.13%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.67%) Maven
3 1 (0.22%) Git
3 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 213 (47.65%) Social Skills
2 94 (21.03%) Finance
3 77 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.96%) Marketing
5 25 (5.59%) Legal
5 25 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.25%) Retail
7 15 (3.36%) Banking
7 15 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.68%) Law
9 12 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.24%) Local Government
11 9 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (1.57%) Advertising
14 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (17.45%) Analyst
2 64 (14.32%) Support Engineer
3 46 (10.29%) Desktop Support
4 37 (8.28%) IT Engineer
5 35 (7.83%) Senior
5 35 (7.83%) Service Analyst
6 33 (7.38%) Service Desk Analyst
7 30 (6.71%) Consultant
8 27 (6.04%) IT Support
9 25 (5.59%) Architect
9 25 (5.59%) Desktop Engineer
10 23 (5.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 17 (3.80%) Administrator
12 16 (3.58%) 2nd Line Support
13 14 (3.13%) Field Engineer
14 13 (2.91%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (2.91%) Network Engineer
14 13 (2.91%) Service Manager
14 13 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.01%) .NET
2 7 (1.57%) CSS
2 7 (1.57%) Web Services
2 7 (1.57%) XMPP
3 6 (1.34%) Middleware
4 5 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.89%) HTML
5 4 (0.89%) J2EE
5 4 (0.89%) REST
5 4 (0.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.67%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.67%) jQuery
6 3 (0.67%) LDAP
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.67%) Sass
6 3 (0.67%) Spring
6 3 (0.67%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.67%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (4.70%) Video Conferencing
3 20 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.80%) Smartphone
5 14 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.13%) Social Media
6 12 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.68%) CMDB
7 11 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.01%) Blackberry
10 8 (1.79%) iPad
11 7 (1.57%) BYOD
11 7 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.57%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.57%) iPhone
12 5 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 156 (34.90%) Windows
2 72 (16.11%) Windows 10
3 37 (8.28%) Windows 7
4 29 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 26 (5.82%) Mac OS
6 25 (5.59%) Android
7 13 (2.91%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.68%) Linux
9 11 (2.46%) Mac OS X
10 9 (2.01%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.34%) Unix
11 6 (1.34%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.89%) VMS
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (20.58%) ITIL
3 43 (9.62%) ITSM
4 41 (9.17%) CRM
5 40 (8.95%) Service Delivery
6 39 (8.72%) Agile
7 32 (7.16%) Incident Management
8 26 (5.82%) Project Management
9 25 (5.59%) Asset Management
9 25 (5.59%) DevOps
10 24 (5.37%) Migration
11 23 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (5.15%) Computer Science
12 22 (4.92%) Service Management
13 21 (4.70%) Break/Fix
13 21 (4.70%) Customer Experience
13 21 (4.70%) Mentoring
13 21 (4.70%) Roadmaps
14 20 (4.47%) Data Analysis
14 20 (4.47%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.70%) Python
2 15 (3.36%) SQL
3 14 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.24%) C#
5 9 (2.01%) R
6 8 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.57%) Java
8 5 (1.12%) Bash
9 4 (0.89%) ABAP
9 4 (0.89%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.45%) C++
11 2 (0.45%) 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 72 (16.11%) Degree
2 44 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.46%) CCNA
8 10 (2.24%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.34%) MCP
11 5 (1.12%) CCIE
12 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.89%) CCSK
12 4 (0.89%) CISSP
12 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.45%) MCITP
14 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.45%) PMP
14 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.41%) SLA
2 11 (2.46%) GDPR
3 9 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.34%) QA
6 5 (1.12%) PMO
7 4 (0.89%) NCSC
7 4 (0.89%) NIST
8 3 (0.67%) GRC
8 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.45%) P3O
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) GxP
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (23.04%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.12%) vSphere
5 3 (0.67%) Docker
5 3 (0.67%) Samba
6 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (3.58%) SCCM
2 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.89%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.89%) Terraform
6 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.45%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 168 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 54 (12.08%) ServiceNow
3 33 (7.38%) Cisco
4 25 (5.59%) Apple
5 19 (4.25%) SAP
5 19 (4.25%) VMware
6 18 (4.03%) Citrix
6 18 (4.03%) Google
7 14 (3.13%) Adobe
8 11 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.01%) Dell
10 7 (1.57%) Okta
11 6 (1.34%) Avaya
11 6 (1.34%) Oracle
11 6 (1.34%) TOWER Software
12 5 (1.12%) Arista
12 5 (1.12%) HP
12 5 (1.12%) Ivanti
12 5 (1.12%) Juniper
12 5 (1.12%) Veeam