Service Management Contracts in Kent

Service Management
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Service Management 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.38% 1.45% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.01% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £487 - £136
25th Percentile £524 £121 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £123 £156
Median % change year-on-year +387.76% -21.60% +12.61%
75th Percentile £669 £162 £176
90th Percentile £706 £185 £376
South East median daily rate £600 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +23.71% -7.62% +11.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Service Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 149 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 59.45% 71.98% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 111 225
10th Percentile £205 £200 £189
25th Percentile £285 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £355 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -25.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £649
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile £11.80 £42.78 £19.07
25th Percentile - £49.51 £23.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £56.47 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +71.12% -16.49%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.25 £33.86
90th Percentile £62.96 £71.72 £44.59
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Kent

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Kent.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Kent

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Kent over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Kent

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Kent

Service Management
Contract 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 Service Management within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Maidstone +1 1 - - 3
Service Management
South East

Service Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Manager
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Transition Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Transition Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow