Customer Service Contracts in Kent

Customer Service
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 16 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 7.80% 4.27% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.40% 5.88% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 15
10th Percentile £140 £103 £111
25th Percentile £153 £106 £126
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £118 £150
Median % change year-on-year +40.43% -21.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £481 £181 £200
90th Percentile £675 £228 £363
South East median daily rate £275 £215 £252
% change year-on-year +27.91% -14.51% -16.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.25 - -
Median hourly rate £11.50 - -
75th Percentile £12.05 - -
90th Percentile £12.22 - -
South East median hourly rate £15.40 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -16.76% +23.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 153 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 62.93% 72.51% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 117 219
10th Percentile £205 £122 £188
25th Percentile £287 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £355 £433
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -17.92% +20.14%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £588
90th Percentile £658 £658 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £11.36 £42.32 £19.07
25th Percentile £14.34 £47.60 £23.50
Median hourly rate £29.75 £57.12 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.91% +73.08% -16.37%
75th Percentile £50.89 £64.50 £33.86
90th Percentile £62.96 £72.97 £44.59
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Kent

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Kent over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Kent

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Kent

Customer Service
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 Customer Service within the Kent region over the 6 months to 23 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
Folkestone -2 2 £105 -0.94% 1
West Malling - 2 - -
Maidstone +2 1 £165 -17.50% 8
Dartford -1 1 £160 - 15
Sevenoaks - 1 £275 - 3
Sittingbourne - 1 £140 - 1
Stansted - 1 £675 - 5
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - - 8
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (6.25%) Skype
2 1 (6.25%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Spatial Data
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Customer Experience Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Support Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Blackberry
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
1 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) CRM
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Postgraduate
2 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Ivanti
3 1 (6.25%) Polycom