Customer Service Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Customer Service
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Customer Service skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 27 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 7 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.30% 4.33% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 4.94% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £271 £200 £196
25th Percentile £437 £227 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £272 £335
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -18.81% -9.15%
75th Percentile £500 £294 £488
90th Percentile - £306 £489
East Midlands median daily rate £162 £210 £155
% change year-on-year -23.06% +35.48% -32.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.69
25th Percentile - £23.10 £14.95
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £16.01
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% +45.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £17.69
90th Percentile - - £18.33
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.34 £15.10 £15.01
% change year-on-year +8.18% +0.60% +27.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 243 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.39% 87.73% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 180 146
10th Percentile £278 £324 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -13.18% +5.27%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £548
90th Percentile £533 £607 £606
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile - - £12.10
25th Percentile - £23.10 £15.82
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -43.74% +24.39%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -12.23% -6.52% +29.36%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Northamptonshire

Customer Service
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Customer Service
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Service in Northamptonshire

Customer Service
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Northampton -14 6 £490 +68.38% 8
Customer Service
East Midlands

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support Technician
1 2 (28.57%) IT Technician
1 2 (28.57%) Support Technician
2 1 (14.29%) ATM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Data Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) EPoS
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Product Vision
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Server+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft