Service Design Contracts in the North of England

Service Design
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 127 131 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -45
Contract jobs citing Service Design 55 85 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.18% 1.49% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.65% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 56 80
10th Percentile £325 £450 £413
25th Percentile £400 £470 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +11.28%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £573
90th Percentile £624 £688 £626
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.56% +2.27% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,994 5,153 6,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.63% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,563 4,582
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.34%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 203 264
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.97 £13.35
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +53.09% +4.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.03 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.90
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the North of England

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the North of England

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the North of England

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the North of England

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
North West +15 31 £525 -1.87% 13
Yorkshire +9 24 £525 -4.55% 9
North East +6 2 - - 7
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.64%) Figma
3 2 (3.64%) IaaS
3 2 (3.64%) PaaS
3 2 (3.64%) SaaS
4 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Converged Networks
1 2 (3.64%) ISDN
1 2 (3.64%) LAN
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
1 2 (3.64%) Skype
1 2 (3.64%) VoIP
1 2 (3.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Big Data
General
1 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Retail
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.64%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Billing
6 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Architect
2 14 (25.45%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (21.82%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) Designer
4 10 (18.18%) User Researcher
5 8 (14.55%) Service Designer
6 7 (12.73%) Lead
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Designer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Service Designer
8 4 (7.27%) SAP Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Service Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Applications Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Cutover Manager
9 3 (5.45%) SAP Cutover Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Senior User Researcher
9 3 (5.45%) Service Transition Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Supply Chain Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Transition Manager
10 2 (3.64%) Senior UI/UX Designer
10 2 (3.64%) UI/UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
1 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.82%) Blog
2 1 (1.82%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) Agile
2 16 (29.09%) User Experience
2 16 (29.09%) User Research
3 15 (27.27%) Migration
3 15 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 14 (25.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 13 (23.64%) Architectural Design
5 13 (23.64%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (23.64%) Architecture Governance
5 13 (23.64%) Computer Science
5 13 (23.64%) Data Management
5 13 (23.64%) DevOps
5 13 (23.64%) Mentoring
6 10 (18.18%) Quantitative Research
7 9 (16.36%) Ethnography
7 9 (16.36%) Qualitative Research
7 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.36%) UX Design
8 8 (14.55%) Data Science
9 7 (12.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.82%) Python
1 1 (1.82%) R
1 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.64%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) SAP
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Cadence
4 2 (3.64%) Sophos
5 1 (1.82%) Ariba
5 1 (1.82%) Brio
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow