Service Design Contracts in Manchester

Service Design
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 87 106
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 -29
Contract jobs citing Service Design 23 25 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.59% 1.37% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.50% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 26
10th Percentile - £450 £413
25th Percentile £325 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +8.64% +1.76%
75th Percentile £553 £619 £567
90th Percentile £590 £665 £644
North West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +2.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,665 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.43% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,215 1,796
10th Percentile £325 £315 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 60
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +107.22% +10.91%
75th Percentile £60.63 £48.75 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £23.38
% change year-on-year -33.89% +53.99% +26.91%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
General
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (26.09%) User Researcher
4 5 (21.74%) Designer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Designer
6 3 (13.04%) Applications Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Service Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (8.70%) Lead
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Service Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior UI Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior UI/UX Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior UX Designer
7 2 (8.70%) UI Designer
7 2 (8.70%) UI/UX Designer
7 2 (8.70%) UX Designer
8 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Migration
3 9 (39.13%) User Experience
4 8 (34.78%) Architectural Design
4 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (34.78%) Architecture Governance
4 8 (34.78%) Computer Science
4 8 (34.78%) Data Management
4 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) Project Delivery
4 8 (34.78%) Qualitative Research
4 8 (34.78%) Quantitative Research
4 8 (34.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (34.78%) UX Design
5 7 (30.43%) User Research
6 6 (26.09%) Data Science
6 6 (26.09%) Ethnography
6 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
6 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 6 (26.09%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.70%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Sophos
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft