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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing Customer Service 18 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.06% 3.37% 11.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 4.48% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £94 - £197
25th Percentile £103 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £200 £305
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -34.43% -6.15%
75th Percentile £167 - £330
90th Percentile £184 - £357
UK median daily rate £275 £250 £250
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.79 £10.16
25th Percentile £14.48 £16.23 £10.22
Median hourly rate £22.56 £17.22 £10.98
Median % change year-on-year +31.05% +56.86% +23.18%
75th Percentile £24.18 £17.95 £12.75
90th Percentile - £18.24 £18.94
UK median hourly rate £14.84 £13.66 £15.00
% change year-on-year +8.64% -8.93% +11.11%

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 138 134 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.09% 75.28% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 67 95
10th Percentile £168 £163 £155
25th Percentile £316 £338 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £488 £500
90th Percentile £675 £638 £560
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 15
10th Percentile - £13.58 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 - £10.26
Median hourly rate £21.10 £13.91 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.69% +11.28% -10.71%
75th Percentile £24.18 £15.85 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £17.47 -
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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
County Antrim +11 18 £140 -30.00% 30
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Skype
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (11.11%) Marketing
6 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (5.56%) Billing
7 1 (5.56%) Electronics
7 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Deployment Assistant
1 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
1 3 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Service Desk Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Customer Executive
2 2 (11.11%) Customer Service Executive
2 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Support
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 4 (22.22%) Smartphone
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.11%) iPhone
3 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (5.56%) BYOD
4 1 (5.56%) iPad
4 1 (5.56%) PDA
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
3 3 (16.67%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Break/Fix
2 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Coaching
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.56%) Logistics
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Dell
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Apple
3 3 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Intel
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow