Service Design Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Service Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 52 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 -15
Contract jobs citing Service Design 15 18 49
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.56% 2.90% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.16% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 41
10th Percentile £435 £337 £413
25th Percentile £456 £402 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £418 £508
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -17.81% +0.40%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £581
90th Percentile £605 £637 £640
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 570 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.14% 91.94% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 304 495
10th Percentile £233 £229 £202
25th Percentile £407 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 10
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £62.63 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.14% +29.42% +1.58%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (13.33%) InVision
1 2 (13.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Figma
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Dagster
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Axure RP
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Designer
2 3 (20.00%) Service Designer
2 3 (20.00%) User Researcher
3 2 (13.33%) Content Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Content Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) UX Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) boto
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OpenCV
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SpaCy
3 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) User Experience
3 5 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) User Research
3 5 (33.33%) UX Design
4 4 (26.67%) Qualitative Research
4 4 (26.67%) Quantitative Research
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) AI
5 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Usability Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft