Service Design Contract Job Trends in England

Service Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 276 188
Rank change year-on-year +93 -88 +26
Contract jobs citing Service Design 552 226 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 0.90% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.99% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 149 353
10th Percentile £359 £406 £400
25th Percentile £415 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -6.84% -0.51% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.80
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.52 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +90.36% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £95.63 - £34.53
90th Percentile £102.68 - £72.90
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £31.52 £33.07
% change year-on-year +90.36% -4.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in England

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in England over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in England

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Service Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Design in England over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Design in England

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 8 March 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
London +49 217 £500 -9.09% 100
North of England +26 122 £500 +5.26% 40
South West +26 68 £725 +31.82% 16
South East -23 58 £525 -8.70% 57
Midlands -23 57 £525 -8.70% 8
North West +1 55 £475 - 15
West Midlands -18 51 £497 -13.59% 6
Yorkshire -23 40 £524 - 13
North East +14 27 £454 -4.47% 12
East of England -23 8 £550 -19.71% 16
East Midlands - 6 £581 - 2
Service Design
UK

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 45 (8.15%) Confluence
2 14 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.18%) Drupal
5 1 (0.18%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.18%) Mule
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 45 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.99%) Sketch
5 10 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.63%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.91%) InVision
7 5 (0.91%) Trello
8 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.54%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 7 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.07%) Figma
2 34 (6.16%) Azure
3 22 (3.99%) AWS
4 21 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 14 (2.54%) SaaS
6 11 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.45%) GCP
7 8 (1.45%) Miro
8 7 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.27%) Google Analytics
8 7 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
8 7 (1.27%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.72%) IaaS
9 4 (0.72%) OpenShift
9 4 (0.72%) PaaS
9 4 (0.72%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) WAN
2 3 (0.54%) VPN
3 2 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.36%) Internet
3 2 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.18%) TETRA
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) WebEx
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.08%) Power BI
2 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
2 6 (1.09%) Looker
3 3 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.54%) Tableau
4 1 (0.18%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.18%) Metadata
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (10.33%) JIRA
2 8 (1.45%) Axure RP
2 8 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.09%) GitLab
4 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.36%) Postman
4 2 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.18%) JMeter
5 1 (0.18%) JUnit
5 1 (0.18%) Mocha
5 1 (0.18%) Mockito
5 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 185 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 184 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 64 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.33%) Finance
5 35 (6.34%) Military
6 29 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.36%) Legal
8 13 (2.36%) Local Government
9 12 (2.17%) Banking
10 10 (1.81%) Retail
11 9 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.27%) Marketing
13 6 (1.09%) Law
14 5 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Police
15 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (34.42%) Designer
2 151 (27.36%) Service Designer
3 101 (18.30%) Architect
4 64 (11.59%) Senior
5 63 (11.41%) Lead
6 62 (11.23%) Analyst
7 59 (10.69%) Service Architect
8 50 (9.06%) User Researcher
9 44 (7.97%) Business Analyst
10 30 (5.43%) Service Manager
11 28 (5.07%) Senior Designer
12 23 (4.17%) Lead Designer
12 23 (4.17%) Lead Service Designer
13 22 (3.99%) Senior Service Designer
14 17 (3.08%) UX Designer
15 16 (2.90%) Consultant
16 15 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.72%) Service Design Manager
16 15 (2.72%) Service Transition Manager
16 15 (2.72%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.45%) HTML
1 8 (1.45%) REST
2 6 (1.09%) CSS
2 6 (1.09%) SOAP
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.72%) Spring
3 4 (0.72%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.54%) .NET
4 3 (0.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.54%) Django
4 3 (0.54%) FastAPI
4 3 (0.54%) Flask
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.54%) OAuth
4 3 (0.54%) RESTful
4 3 (0.54%) Vue
5 2 (0.36%) FHIR
5 2 (0.36%) Framer.js
5 2 (0.36%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.33%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.99%) NHS
3 13 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.99%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.72%) IVR
9 4 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.54%) CMDB
10 3 (0.54%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.54%) PMI
10 3 (0.54%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.36%) Shadow IT
11 2 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.36%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.09%) Windows
2 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.18%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (44.93%) Agile
2 158 (28.62%) User Research
3 140 (25.36%) ITIL
4 113 (20.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 105 (19.02%) Service Management
6 93 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 92 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 91 (16.49%) User Experience
9 80 (14.49%) Roadmaps
10 79 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 76 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (13.77%) Journey Map
12 67 (12.14%) Service Delivery
13 64 (11.59%) Acceptance Criteria
14 62 (11.23%) UX Design
15 56 (10.14%) Decision-Making
16 55 (9.96%) Prototyping
17 53 (9.60%) Usability Testing
18 48 (8.70%) ITSM
19 47 (8.51%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.45%) Python
2 7 (1.27%) Java
2 7 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.09%) SQL
4 3 (0.54%) Bash
4 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.36%) C#
5 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.18%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.18%) Groovy
6 1 (0.18%) R
6 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (35.69%) Security Cleared
2 161 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.69%) Degree
4 37 (6.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 26 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.44%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.54%) CISM
11 3 (0.54%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) CRISC
13 1 (0.18%) APMG
13 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.18%) IIBA
13 1 (0.18%) ISEB
13 1 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (19.02%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.35%) WCAG
3 15 (2.72%) QA
4 13 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 10 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.45%) GDPR
7 8 (1.45%) SLA
8 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.09%) NCSC
9 5 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.72%) COBIT
11 3 (0.54%) GRC
11 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.36%) NIST
12 2 (0.36%) PMO
13 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.18%) FINRA
13 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (1.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (5.43%) OPNET
2 10 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.27%) Terraform
4 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.72%) Ansible
6 3 (0.54%) vRealize
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (9.78%) ServiceNow
2 43 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.52%) Remedy
4 30 (5.43%) Atlassian
5 14 (2.54%) Adobe
6 11 (1.99%) VMware
7 10 (1.81%) Oracle
7 10 (1.81%) SAP
8 8 (1.45%) Google
9 6 (1.09%) Cisco
9 6 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.72%) Workday
11 3 (0.54%) Foundry
11 3 (0.54%) Genesys
11 3 (0.54%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.54%) UiPath
11 3 (0.54%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.36%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.36%) Red Hat