Senior Service Designer Contracts

Senior Service Designer
UK

The median Senior Service Designer daily rate in the UK is £628 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 689 778
Rank change year-on-year +103 +89 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Service Designer 12 23 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.039% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.041% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 55
10th Percentile £385 £535 £503
25th Percentile £513 £564 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £621 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -0.60% +18.76%
75th Percentile £665 £676 £678
90th Percentile £690 £688 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -6.07% +2.92% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Senior Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Service Designer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Service Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Service Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +47 10 £580 -6.07% 2
England +125 9 £550 -8.33% 2
North of England +33 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Work from Home +120 4 £681 +4.77% 3
Scotland +34 3 £660 +1.54% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 1
London +90 2 £673 +7.60% 1
North West +28 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £375 -
Midlands - 2 £375 -

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Service Designer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Service Design
2 9 (75.00%) Prototyping
3 6 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (41.67%) Interaction Design
4 5 (41.67%) User Research
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (25.00%) Co-Creation
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (16.67%) Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (16.67%) Business Model Canvas
6 2 (16.67%) Degree
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) Ethnography
6 2 (16.67%) Ethnographic Research
6 2 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
6 2 (16.67%) Persona Development
6 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
6 2 (16.67%) HTML
6 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Research

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Google Docs
1 1 (8.33%) Google Sheets
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) Miro
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Service Design
2 9 (75.00%) Prototyping
3 6 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Interaction Design
4 5 (41.67%) User Research
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) Co-Creation
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (16.67%) Business Model Canvas
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) Ethnographic Research
6 2 (16.67%) Ethnography
6 2 (16.67%) Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
6 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Research
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Brio
1 1 (8.33%) Google