Service Design Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Service Design
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Design 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.19% - 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% - 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £297 - £560
25th Percentile £345 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 - £600
75th Percentile £480 - £675
90th Percentile £490 - £720
North West median daily rate £444 £475 £625
% change year-on-year -6.58% -24.00% +13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 409 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.51% 92.12% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 244 300
10th Percentile £301 £297 £305
25th Percentile £358 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £553 £560
90th Percentile £674 £647 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.74 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.85 £29.80 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -23.32% +18.56% +44.08%
75th Percentile £40.75 £81.75 £39.50
90th Percentile £85.23 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Cheshire

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Service Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Service Design

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Knutsford - 5 £399 - 1
Warrington - 1 £438 -
Service Design
North West

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Figma
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Publishing
4 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Service Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Transition Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Change Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Business Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Change Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Usability Testing
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 3 (37.50%) User Research
4 2 (25.00%) Behavioural Change
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe