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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 12 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.45% 10.73% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 13.87% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £134 £95 -
25th Percentile £134 £112 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 £154 £200
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% -23.25% -34.43%
75th Percentile £153 £167 -
90th Percentile £293 £181 -
UK median daily rate £235 £275 £250
% change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile - £12.25 £15.79
25th Percentile - £14.48 £16.23
Median hourly rate £15.50 £22.56 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.29% +31.05% +56.86%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £17.95
90th Percentile - - £18.24
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £14.84 £13.66
% change year-on-year +7.82% +8.64% -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 172 137 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.47% 77.40% 75.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 69
10th Percentile £179 £167 £164
25th Percentile £318 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £519 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +29.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £560 £622 £488
90th Percentile £610 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 5
10th Percentile £14.56 - -
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.10 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +51.69% +11.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £16.50
90th Percentile £26.34 £31.88 £17.66
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.14% +34.62%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Service in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 June 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 -10 12 £135 -12.23% 184
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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) ATM
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) Field Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) EPoS Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) EPoS Field Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
5 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) EPoS
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Coaching
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL
2 1 (8.33%) ITSM
2 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (8.33%) Service Management
2 1 (8.33%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Capita
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Sun