Service Design Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Service Design
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Design 4 2 21
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.85% 1.20% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.39% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 21
10th Percentile - £733 £550
25th Percentile - £744 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +29.17% -
75th Percentile - £794 -
90th Percentile - £798 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Service Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 144 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.50% 86.75% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 73 154
10th Percentile £313 £214 £354
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £51.63
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £90.38 £58.75 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.70 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Service Design job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Design

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Luton - 3 £550 -
Service Design
East of England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Consultant
2 3 (75.00%) IT Consultant
2 3 (75.00%) Service Design Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Remedy
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow