Service Design Contracts in the Thames Valley

Service Design
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 99 101
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Service Design 20 52 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.74% 1.77% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.93% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 40 31
10th Percentile £506 - £381
25th Percentile £513 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £505
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.91% +18.82%
75th Percentile £591 £553 £558
90th Percentile £644 £641 £619
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.13
Median hourly rate - - £57.25
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.80 - £57.25
% change year-on-year - - -17.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,342 2,689 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.13% 91.56% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,867 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £366 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.48 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the Thames Valley

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the Thames Valley

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the Thames Valley

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the Thames Valley

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire -19 18 £550 +32.59% 1
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £550 +15.79% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 -
Service Design
South East

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.00%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (5.00%) PaaS
1 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) MPLS
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) 5G
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Law
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Service Design Manager
4 4 (20.00%) IT Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Service Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Transition Manager
5 3 (15.00%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Change Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Service Design Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Service Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) PMI
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Service Management
2 9 (45.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
6 1 (5.00%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.00%) Change Management
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security
6 1 (5.00%) Migration
6 1 (5.00%) Network Design
6 1 (5.00%) Supplier Management
6 1 (5.00%) TOGAF
6 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCIE
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco
1 1 (5.00%) Citrix
1 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) SAP
1 1 (5.00%) Zscaler