Service Design Contracts in the North West

Service Design
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 119 118
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 -39
Contract jobs citing Service Design 45 39 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.62% 1.21% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.33% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 37
10th Percentile £325 £455 £423
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £573
90th Percentile £672 £675 £643
England median daily rate £543 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% +3.18% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £33.07 £57.50 £35.08
% change year-on-year -42.50% +63.93% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,400 2,922 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.42% 90.97% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 2,080 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.16 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £54.00 £65.15 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Manchester +23 27 £450 -18.18% 13
Cumbria - 12 £632 - 1
Cheshire +2 3 £638 -5.56%
Lancashire - 3 - - 4
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) Converged Networks
1 12 (26.67%) ISDN
1 12 (26.67%) LAN
1 12 (26.67%) Network Security
1 12 (26.67%) Skype
1 12 (26.67%) VoIP
1 12 (26.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Big Data
General
1 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
1 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Retail
3 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Billing
4 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Architect
2 12 (26.67%) Voice Architect
3 10 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Designer
4 6 (13.33%) User Researcher
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Designer
6 4 (8.89%) Service Designer
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Applications Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Service Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior UI Designer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior UI/UX Designer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior UX Designer
8 2 (4.44%) Service Manager
8 2 (4.44%) UI Designer
8 2 (4.44%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (4.44%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
2 13 (28.89%) Project Delivery
3 12 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
4 11 (24.44%) Migration
5 9 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 9 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
5 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (20.00%) Data Management
5 9 (20.00%) DevOps
5 9 (20.00%) User Experience
5 9 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (17.78%) Qualitative Research
6 8 (17.78%) Quantitative Research
6 8 (17.78%) UX Design
7 7 (15.56%) Usability Testing
7 7 (15.56%) User Research
8 6 (13.33%) Design Persona
8 6 (13.33%) Ergonomics
8 6 (13.33%) Focus Group
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) SAP
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Cadence
4 2 (4.44%) Sophos
5 1 (2.22%) Ariba
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow