Service Design Contracts in the City of London

Service Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 110 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 -23
Contract jobs citing Service Design 12 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.78% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.86% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 29
10th Percentile £405 £422 £489
25th Percentile £465 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £581 £630 £700
90th Percentile £633 £638 -
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.73% -6.38% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the City of London

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) 3G
1 1 (8.33%) 4G
1 1 (8.33%) 5G
1 1 (8.33%) LTE
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) VSAN
1 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Designer
1 7 (58.33%) Service Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Head of IT
3 1 (8.33%) Head of IT Operations
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Operations
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Service Operations
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Level Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (16.67%) Case Management
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) CRM
2 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (16.67%) ITSM
2 2 (16.67%) Journey Map
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (16.67%) User Experience
2 2 (16.67%) UX Design
2 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
3 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (8.33%) SIAM
3 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (8.33%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) BMC
2 1 (8.33%) Ericsson
2 1 (8.33%) Mavenir
2 1 (8.33%) Nokia
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) VMware