Service Design Contracts in Berkshire

Service Design
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Service Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 106 89
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing Service Design 6 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.91% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.02% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 15
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £424 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £415
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +32.59% -17.00%
75th Percentile £616 £597 £476
90th Percentile £689 £661 £523
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Wokingham - 2 £383 -
Reading +20 1 £725 +26.09% 9
Bracknell - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) NGFW
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Service Transition Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Journey Map
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Post-Merger Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) Zscaler