Service Design Contracts in Berkshire

Service Design
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 86 74
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Design 17 27 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.86% 1.49% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.63% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 18
10th Percentile - - £381
25th Percentile £513 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £415 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -17.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £476 £538
90th Percentile £670 £523 £580
South East median daily rate £578 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.50% -9.09% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.13
Median hourly rate - - £57.25
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.80 - £57.25
% change year-on-year - - -17.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,764 1,652 2,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.96% 91.17% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,062 1,383
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +5.53% +7.86%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.04 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.37 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Berkshire

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Berkshire

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Berkshire

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Reading +5 12 £575 +9.52%
Newbury - 1 - -
Service Design
South East

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
1 1 (5.88%) PaaS
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) MPLS
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) 5G
2 1 (5.88%) NAS
2 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Service Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Service Design Manager
4 4 (23.53%) IT Manager
4 4 (23.53%) Service Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (23.53%) Transition Manager
5 3 (17.65%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Change Manager
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL Service Design Manager
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL Service Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Service Management
2 8 (47.06%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
6 1 (5.88%) Cash Management
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.88%) High Availability
6 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) Order to Cash
6 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (5.88%) Record to Report
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CCIE
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco
1 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) SAP
1 1 (5.88%) Zscaler