Service Design Contracts in Central London

Service Design
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 118 132
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Service Design 14 17 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.70% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.77% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 34
10th Percentile £419 £422 £465
25th Percentile £466 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £616 £630 £697
90th Percentile £742 £638 £700
London median daily rate £542 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +3.15% -6.67% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Central London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Central London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Central London

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in Central London

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +2 12 £520 -5.45% 6
West End of London - 2 £825 - 8
City of Westminster - 1 £825 - 5
Service Design
London

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) 3G
1 1 (7.14%) 4G
1 1 (7.14%) 5G
1 1 (7.14%) LTE
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
1 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Retail
3 2 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Designer
1 7 (50.00%) Service Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Service Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Governance Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Network Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Service Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Project Governance Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Level Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL
1 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
1 3 (21.43%) Service Management
1 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Case Management
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) CRM
2 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 2 (14.29%) ITSM
2 2 (14.29%) Journey Map
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (14.29%) User Experience
2 2 (14.29%) UX Design
2 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
3 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (7.14%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (7.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) BMC
3 1 (7.14%) Ericsson
3 1 (7.14%) Mavenir
3 1 (7.14%) Nokia
3 1 (7.14%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) VMware