Service Design Contracts in Edinburgh

Service Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 42 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Service Design 33 71 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.07% 5.50% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.77% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 56 92
10th Percentile £219 £413 £401
25th Percentile £409 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £508 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% -1.12% +8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £588
90th Percentile £637 £614 £650
Scotland median daily rate £510 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +4.13% -6.71% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,230 1,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.04% 95.20% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 880 1,260
10th Percentile £233 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £557
90th Percentile £674 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.06%) WordPress
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
2 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (15.15%) Serverless
3 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Figma
4 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.03%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Rekognition
4 1 (3.03%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Designer
2 10 (30.30%) Analyst
3 9 (27.27%) Senior
4 8 (24.24%) Business Analyst
4 8 (24.24%) Service Designer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Designer
6 4 (12.12%) Developer
6 4 (12.12%) UX Designer
7 3 (9.09%) Automation Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Service Designer
7 3 (9.09%) User Researcher
8 2 (6.06%) Lead
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Senior User Researcher
8 2 (6.06%) Senior UX Designer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Designer
9 1 (3.03%) Support Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) COM+
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Agile
2 18 (54.55%) User Research
3 16 (48.48%) User Experience
4 10 (30.30%) Scrum
4 10 (30.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (27.27%) Coaching
5 9 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
5 9 (27.27%) Product Management
5 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 9 (27.27%) User Stories
6 8 (24.24%) Business Analysis
6 8 (24.24%) Value Proposition
7 7 (21.21%) Epics
8 6 (18.18%) Story Mapping
8 6 (18.18%) UX Research
8 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (15.15%) Co-Creation
9 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 7 (21.21%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (9.09%) WCAG
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Cadence
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian