Service Designer Contracts in England

Service Designer
UK > England

The median Service Designer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 459 528
Rank change year-on-year -22 +69 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 62 184 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 133 193
10th Percentile £400 £442 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £554
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.30% +10.80%
75th Percentile £598 £688 £638
90th Percentile £648 £721 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +15.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London 0 44 £500 -16.67% 6
North of England +3 8 £550 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +9 5 £550 +10.00%
North West +4 3 - - 3
Midlands +19 2 £488 -2.50%
South West +12 2 - - 2
West Midlands +11 2 £488 -4.88%
South East +5 2 £625 -13.79% 1
Service Designer
UK

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Service Design
2 24 (38.71%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) Public Sector
4 17 (27.42%) Workshop Facilitation
4 17 (27.42%) ITIL
5 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
5 16 (25.81%) User Research
6 13 (20.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 12 (19.35%) Design Thinking
7 12 (19.35%) Journey Map
7 12 (19.35%) Prototyping
7 12 (19.35%) Service Management
7 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
7 12 (19.35%) User Experience
8 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
10 9 (14.52%) Interaction Design
11 8 (12.90%) Coaching
12 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
12 7 (11.29%) Finance
12 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (11.29%) Figma
13 6 (9.68%) Customer Journey Map
13 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (9.68%) User Stories
13 6 (9.68%) Usability Testing
14 5 (8.06%) UX Design
14 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity

Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Sketch
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.61%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) Figma
2 3 (4.84%) Miro
3 1 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.61%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 21 (33.87%) Public Sector
2 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Legal
4 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.84%) CMDB
2 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) NHS
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
1 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Service Design
2 24 (38.71%) Agile
3 17 (27.42%) ITIL
3 17 (27.42%) Workshop Facilitation
4 16 (25.81%) User Research
5 13 (20.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 12 (19.35%) Design Thinking
6 12 (19.35%) Journey Map
6 12 (19.35%) Prototyping
6 12 (19.35%) Service Management
6 12 (19.35%) User Experience
7 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.52%) Interaction Design
9 8 (12.90%) Coaching
10 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.68%) Customer Journey Map
11 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (9.68%) Usability Testing
11 6 (9.68%) User Stories
12 5 (8.06%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (8.06%) Degree
6 3 (4.84%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.45%) WCAG
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.23%) Adobe
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.23%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.61%) Brio