Service Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Design
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 214 166 137
Rank change year-on-year -48 -29 +3
Contract jobs citing Service Design 193 361 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.54% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.72% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 274 438
10th Percentile £365 £400 £405
25th Percentile £456 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +1.63% +12.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £591
90th Percentile £750 £725 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £17.80 - £23.88
Median hourly rate £33.07 - £41.13
75th Percentile £34.53 - £58.44
90th Percentile £72.90 - £60.37
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £57.50 £40.04
% change year-on-year -42.50% +43.62% -15.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the UK excluding London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the UK excluding London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the UK excluding London

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the UK excluding London

Service Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Design in the UK excluding London

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +4 55 £525 -4.55% 26
Scotland -10 48 £480 -5.51% 9
South East -12 42 £580 +18.97% 9
North West +15 31 £525 -1.87% 13
Yorkshire +9 24 £525 -4.55% 8
Midlands +20 21 £688 +44.74% 15
West Midlands +14 19 £850 +78.95% 12
South West -9 19 £520 -20.00% 9
East of England +11 12 £750 +11.61% 6
East Midlands +21 2 £500 -6.54% 3
Wales +9 2 £569 +13.75% 4
North East +6 2 - - 6
Service Design
UK

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) WordPress
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.55%) Sketch
4 2 (1.04%) InVision
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.40%) Azure
2 15 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.18%) AWS
4 7 (3.63%) Amazon S3
4 7 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (3.63%) Serverless
5 4 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.07%) Figma
5 4 (2.07%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.07%) Rekognition
5 4 (2.07%) SaaS
5 4 (2.07%) Textract
6 3 (1.55%) PaaS
7 2 (1.04%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.04%) IaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.59%) VPN
1 5 (2.59%) WAN
2 2 (1.04%) Converged Networks
2 2 (1.04%) ISDN
2 2 (1.04%) LAN
2 2 (1.04%) MPLS
2 2 (1.04%) Network Security
2 2 (1.04%) Skype
2 2 (1.04%) VoIP
3 1 (0.52%) 5G
3 1 (0.52%) NAS
3 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.55%) Big Data
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) DB2
4 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.52%) HBase
4 1 (0.52%) Looker
4 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.70%) JIRA
2 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.55%) webpack
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 47 (24.35%) Public Sector
2 34 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.51%) Finance
4 9 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.11%) Retail
7 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.59%) Law
7 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.07%) Electronics
8 4 (2.07%) Marketing
8 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.55%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (24.87%) Architect
2 31 (16.06%) Senior
3 29 (15.03%) Designer
4 23 (11.92%) Service Architect
5 22 (11.40%) Service Manager
6 20 (10.36%) Service Designer
7 19 (9.84%) Lead
8 17 (8.81%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (7.25%) User Researcher
10 13 (6.74%) Senior Designer
10 13 (6.74%) Service Transition Manager
10 13 (6.74%) Transition Manager
11 11 (5.70%) Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Analyst
13 9 (4.66%) Business Analyst
13 9 (4.66%) Service Design Manager
14 7 (3.63%) IT Manager
14 7 (3.63%) Senior Service Designer
15 6 (3.11%) IT Services Manager
15 6 (3.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.63%) AWS CDK
1 7 (3.63%) HTML
2 5 (2.59%) CSS
3 3 (1.55%) CSS3
3 3 (1.55%) HTML5
3 3 (1.55%) Node.js
3 3 (1.55%) React
3 3 (1.55%) Redux
3 3 (1.55%) RESTful
4 2 (1.04%) Web Services
5 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.52%) COM+
5 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.52%) Kafka
5 1 (0.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.04%) CMDB
3 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.52%) Blog
4 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.52%) NHS
4 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.52%) PMI
4 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.67%) Agile
2 45 (23.32%) ITIL
2 45 (23.32%) User Experience
3 41 (21.24%) Service Management
4 40 (20.73%) User Research
5 35 (18.13%) Roadmaps
6 32 (16.58%) Project Delivery
7 24 (12.44%) Project Management
8 22 (11.40%) Change Management
8 22 (11.40%) DevOps
8 22 (11.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 20 (10.36%) Coaching
9 20 (10.36%) Mentoring
10 19 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.84%) UX Design
11 18 (9.33%) Architectural Design
11 18 (9.33%) Migration
11 18 (9.33%) Product Management
12 16 (8.29%) Impact Assessments
12 16 (8.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.18%) Python
1 10 (5.18%) TypeScript
2 6 (3.11%) Java
3 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.52%) Bash
5 1 (0.52%) Groovy
5 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.52%) R
5 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.58%) Degree
3 17 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) CCIE
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.04%) ISEB
7 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) IIBA
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.88%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 7 (3.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (3.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (2.59%) WCAG
6 2 (1.04%) COBIT
6 2 (1.04%) GRC
6 2 (1.04%) PMO
6 2 (1.04%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) QA
7 1 (0.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.52%) HDFS
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.63%) Grafana
2 5 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (7.25%) SAP
2 10 (5.18%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.66%) Cadence
4 6 (3.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.55%) Adobe
5 3 (1.55%) Google
5 3 (1.55%) Oracle
6 2 (1.04%) Ariba
6 2 (1.04%) BT
6 2 (1.04%) Sophos
7 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.52%) BMC
7 1 (0.52%) Brio
7 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco
7 1 (0.52%) Citrix
7 1 (0.52%) Databricks
7 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk
7 1 (0.52%) Zscaler