Service Designer Contracts

Service Designer
UK

The median Service Designer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 511 476
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 94 209 430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.37% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 148 306
10th Percentile £395 £450 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.12%
75th Percentile £582 £675 £638
90th Percentile £650 £712 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £615 £531
% change year-on-year -10.57% +15.76% +6.25%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Service Designer in the UK

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 Service Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +19 71 £500 -15.25% 10
London +23 50 £500 -15.25% 8
Work from Home +71 36 £550 -4.35% 9
UK excluding London +34 26 £550 -10.57% 2
Scotland +32 11 £563 -8.72% 1
North of England +13 11 £425 -29.17% 1
Yorkshire +19 7 £425 -15.00% 1
West Midlands +33 4 £400 -20.00%
Midlands +25 4 £400 -11.11%
North West +7 4 £413 -36.54%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Service Designer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) Service Design
2 33 (35.11%) User Research
2 33 (35.11%) Agile
3 31 (32.98%) Public Sector
3 31 (32.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 28 (29.79%) Prototyping
5 24 (25.53%) Workshop Facilitation
6 22 (23.40%) Design Thinking
6 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
7 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
8 20 (21.28%) Usability Testing
8 20 (21.28%) Journey Map
9 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (18.09%) Accessibility
11 15 (15.96%) User Experience
12 14 (14.89%) Coaching
12 14 (14.89%) User Stories
12 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
13 12 (12.77%) Figma
13 12 (12.77%) Customer-Centricity
14 11 (11.70%) Interaction Design
14 11 (11.70%) Change Management
14 11 (11.70%) ITIL
15 10 (10.64%) Service Management
15 10 (10.64%) Service Delivery
16 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis
16 9 (9.57%) WCAG
16 9 (9.57%) Customer Journey Map
16 9 (9.57%) Strategic Thinking
16 9 (9.57%) Co-Creation

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Sketch
2 5 (5.32%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.32%) InVision
2 5 (5.32%) Zeplin
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.06%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.77%) Figma
2 4 (4.26%) Miro
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.06%) Google Docs
3 1 (1.06%) Google Sheets
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.06%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Axure RP
2 4 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 31 (32.98%) Public Sector
2 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Finance
4 2 (2.13%) Banking
4 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.13%) Law
4 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.06%) Legal
5 1 (1.06%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) HTML
2 2 (2.13%) CSS
2 2 (2.13%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.13%) NHS
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Windows
1 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Service Design
2 33 (35.11%) Agile
2 33 (35.11%) User Research
3 31 (32.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 28 (29.79%) Prototyping
5 24 (25.53%) Workshop Facilitation
6 22 (23.40%) Design Thinking
7 20 (21.28%) Journey Map
7 20 (21.28%) Usability Testing
8 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (15.96%) User Experience
10 14 (14.89%) Coaching
10 14 (14.89%) User Stories
11 12 (12.77%) Customer-Centricity
12 11 (11.70%) Change Management
12 11 (11.70%) Interaction Design
12 11 (11.70%) ITIL
13 10 (10.64%) Service Delivery
13 10 (10.64%) Service Management
14 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Degree
4 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.57%) WCAG
3 3 (3.19%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Adobe
2 2 (2.13%) SAP
2 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.06%) Brio
3 1 (1.06%) Google
3 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow