Service Design Contracts in the City of London

Service Design
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Service Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Design over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 136 112
Rank change year-on-year +22 -24 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Design 15 36 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.99% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.07% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 75
10th Percentile £460 £500 £455
25th Percentile £494 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile £603 £700 £650
90th Percentile £638 - £695
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Service Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Local Government
5 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Designer
2 3 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Research Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Design Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Transition Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Transition Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Project Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
4 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Blog
1 1 (6.67%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) User Research
3 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (13.33%) Business Case
4 2 (13.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) ERP
4 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C#
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISEB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP