Service Design Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Service Design
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 91 77 80
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +52
Contract jobs citing Service Design 15 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.93% 0.62% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.73% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £499 £425 £520
25th Percentile £525 £503 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £575 £728 -
90th Percentile - £788 £640
England median daily rate £536 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.33% -6.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.67 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.84% - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £32.64 -
% change year-on-year +83.85% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,356 957 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.24% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 794
10th Percentile £192 £240 £239
25th Percentile £363 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 355
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
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 of England

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the East of England

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire - 9 £550 - 3
Bedfordshire -8 4 £550 -29.03%
Cambridgeshire -7 2 £275 -45.00%
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Maximo
2 4 (26.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (26.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Consultant
2 6 (40.00%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) IT Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Service Design Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITSM
2 7 (46.67%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) CAFM
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Facilities Management
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) System Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Remedy
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce