Customer Service Contracts in Northern Ireland

Customer Service
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 8 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.03% 5.44% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 7.21% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £134 £149 £146
25th Percentile £135 £163 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £141 £190 £170
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +11.76% -44.26%
75th Percentile £149 £203 £185
90th Percentile £152 £207 £194
UK median daily rate £250 £275 £250
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - £13.37
25th Percentile - - £15.00
Median hourly rate - £12.25 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.44% +40.85%
75th Percentile - - £17.39
90th Percentile - - £18.99
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £13.66
% change year-on-year +8.20% +9.81% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 111 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.19% 75.51% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 55 80
10th Percentile £153 £211 £160
25th Percentile £291 £353 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £406
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.15% -6.61%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £504
90th Percentile £625 £665 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Customer Service
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Service in Northern Ireland

Customer Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Service in Northern Ireland

Customer Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Service in Northern Ireland

Customer Service
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
County Antrim -8 8 £141 -25.60% 14
Customer Service
UK

Customer Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) ATM
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Field Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) IT Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) EPoS Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) EPoS Field Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) IT Support
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) EPoS
2 2 (25.00%) BYOD
3 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Computacenter
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Sun