Logistics Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Logistics
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Logistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Logistics 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.99% - 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% - 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £29.00 £31.21
% change year-on-year -23.88% -7.08% +218.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Logistics 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 197 140 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.19% 87.50% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 79
10th Percentile £245 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £188 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -27.78% -
75th Percentile £517 £538 £594
90th Percentile £638 £597 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 13
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.31
25th Percentile £14.31 - £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +54.70% +4.20%
75th Percentile £26.96 £52.31 £18.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £23.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Logistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Logistics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Logistics job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Logistics
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Logistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Logistics

Logistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Logistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Logistics

Logistics
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 Logistics within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 Down - 4 £150 - 1
County Antrim - 3 - - 5
Logistics
UK

Logistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Executive
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (14.29%) Line Management
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP