Service Design Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Service Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Service Design 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% - 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £570 - £461
25th Percentile £656 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £637
England median daily rate £536 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.33% -6.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 518 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.99% 87.06% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 436
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £436 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 46
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the East Midlands

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Design

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Derbyshire - 3 £800 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Chief Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Chief Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (75.00%) BPMN
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) UML
2 3 (75.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001