Service Designer
UK

The median Service Designer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 936 1104
Rank change year-on-year +109 +168 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Designer 58 50 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.048% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.053% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 27 38 85
10th Percentile £51,500 £46,250 £44,098
25th Percentile £55,188 £48,254 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +31.58%
75th Percentile £71,150 £77,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £81,775 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year +8.33% +12.97% +21.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,044 95,188 149,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,821 59,863 85,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Designer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 43 £65,000 -3.70% 8
UK excluding London +18 36 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Work from Home +75 22 £65,000 +8.33% 6
London +131 19 £57,500 -8.00% 6
North of England +37 11 £72,500 -4.61% 1
North West - 9 £72,500 -
Midlands +20 8 £61,482 +6.93%
West Midlands +34 6 £61,482 +6.93%
Scotland -51 6 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £65,000 -
South East +3 3 £77,500 +19.23%
Yorkshire +88 2 - - 1
Wales +10 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Service Designer 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 permanent job ads featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Service Design
2 40 (68.97%) User Research
3 38 (65.52%) Strategic Thinking
4 35 (60.34%) Security Cleared
4 35 (60.34%) SC Cleared
5 28 (48.28%) Workshop Facilitation
6 27 (46.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 27 (46.55%) Customer Experience
7 26 (44.83%) Accessibility
7 26 (44.83%) Agile
8 23 (39.66%) Prototyping
9 22 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (37.93%) Digital Customer Experience
10 18 (31.03%) Public Sector
11 14 (24.14%) Mentoring
12 11 (18.97%) Retail
12 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (18.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (17.24%) dbt
13 10 (17.24%) Cost Reduction
13 10 (17.24%) Design Patterns
13 10 (17.24%) User Experience
14 8 (13.79%) UX Design
15 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
16 5 (8.62%) Customer-Centricity
16 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 5 (8.62%) Journey Map
16 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
16 5 (8.62%) Figma
17 4 (6.90%) Design Thinking

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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.72%) InVision
1 1 (1.72%) Sketch
1 1 (1.72%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) dbt
2 5 (8.62%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Axure RP
General
1 18 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (18.97%) Retail
3 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Back Office
5 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Service Design
2 40 (68.97%) User Research
3 38 (65.52%) Strategic Thinking
4 28 (48.28%) Workshop Facilitation
5 27 (46.55%) Customer Experience
5 27 (46.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 26 (44.83%) Agile
7 23 (39.66%) Prototyping
8 22 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (37.93%) Digital Customer Experience
9 14 (24.14%) Mentoring
10 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (17.24%) Cost Reduction
11 10 (17.24%) Design Patterns
11 10 (17.24%) User Experience
12 8 (13.79%) UX Design
13 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (8.62%) Customer-Centricity
14 5 (8.62%) Journey Map
14 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 35 (60.34%) SC Cleared
1 35 (60.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (44.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (1.72%) Adobe
1 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow