Customer Service Contracts in Kent

Customer Service
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Customer Service 5 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 4.07% 9.39% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 14.41% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 5
10th Percentile - £97 £102
25th Percentile £189 £135 £106
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £193 £160 £123
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £196 £177 £200
90th Percentile - £196 £358
South East median daily rate £225 £235 £213
% change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 118 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.11% 65.19% 72.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 127
10th Percentile £197 £153 £200
25th Percentile £256 £203 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -2.56%
75th Percentile £509 £545 £540
90th Percentile £623 £698 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 8
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.00 £54.22
Median hourly rate £18.38 £24.00 £62.12
Median % change year-on-year -23.42% -61.37% -
75th Percentile £20.66 £54.18 £79.05
90th Percentile £21.12 £62.96 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +96.08%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Kent

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Customer Service
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Folkestone -2 1 - -
Maidstone -5 1 £193 - 12
Customer Service
South East

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Portuguese Language
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft