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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 267 233
Rank change year-on-year +91 -34 -52
Contract jobs citing Service Design 628 214 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 0.87% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.96% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 158 260
10th Percentile £369 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.29% -3.56%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £704 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 11
10th Percentile £50.66 - -
25th Percentile £78.83 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £95.25 £31.52 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +202.19% -4.67% -42.50%
75th Percentile £103.94 - £34.53
90th Percentile £106.68 - £72.90
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £31.52 £33.07
% change year-on-year +201.40% -4.67% -42.50%

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 34,470 22,336 31,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,971 14,617 20,828
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 942 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +62 251 £522 -5.18% 70
North of England +20 120 £485 -0.51% 26
South East +9 92 £525 +5.00% 33
South West +9 72 £725 +28.89% 22
Midlands -5 67 £492 -10.55% 21
West Midlands -3 64 £484 -12.09% 10
North West -10 51 £463 -2.63% 4
Yorkshire -9 48 £536 -15.88% 15
North East +3 22 £423 -17.56% 7
East of England -29 5 £400 -50.00% 21
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 11
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 54 (8.60%) Confluence
2 11 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.96%) LiveCycle
4 3 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Appian
5 2 (0.32%) Drupal
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Mule
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (5.25%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.27%) Sketch
5 7 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.96%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.96%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.80%) InVision
8 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.64%) Trello
9 3 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.32%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 37 (5.89%) Azure
2 34 (5.41%) Figma
3 33 (5.25%) AWS
4 21 (3.34%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.55%) SaaS
6 8 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.11%) Miro
8 6 (0.96%) GCP
9 5 (0.80%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.80%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (0.80%) IaaS
9 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.80%) PaaS
9 5 (0.80%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (0.64%) Serverless
11 3 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.48%) Datadog
11 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (0.64%) Firewall
1 4 (0.64%) VPN
2 3 (0.48%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.32%) 2G
3 2 (0.32%) 3G
3 2 (0.32%) 4G
3 2 (0.32%) 5G
3 2 (0.32%) BGP
3 2 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.32%) NX-OS
3 2 (0.32%) OSPF
3 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.32%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (0.32%) SS7
3 2 (0.32%) TETRA
3 2 (0.32%) VLAN
3 2 (0.32%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.03%) Power BI
2 5 (0.80%) BigQuery
2 5 (0.80%) Looker
3 4 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.64%) Tableau
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.16%) Metadata
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (10.19%) JIRA
2 8 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.80%) GitLab
4 4 (0.64%) Axure RP
5 3 (0.48%) Git
6 2 (0.32%) Appium
6 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.32%) Postman
6 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) JUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Maven
7 1 (0.16%) Mocha
7 1 (0.16%) Mockito
7 1 (0.16%) NUnit
7 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.16%) VersionOne
General
1 206 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 186 (29.62%) Public Sector
3 76 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (12.10%) Finance
4 41 (6.53%) Military
5 27 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.03%) Legal
8 15 (2.39%) Banking
8 15 (2.39%) Local Government
9 13 (2.07%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.91%) Retail
11 10 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.11%) Law
13 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.80%) Marketing
14 3 (0.48%) Back Office
14 3 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 240 (38.22%) Designer
2 190 (30.25%) Service Designer
3 101 (16.08%) Architect
4 80 (12.74%) Senior
5 69 (10.99%) Analyst
6 66 (10.51%) Lead
7 58 (9.24%) Service Architect
8 57 (9.08%) User Researcher
9 46 (7.32%) Business Analyst
10 39 (6.21%) Senior Designer
11 33 (5.25%) Lead Designer
11 33 (5.25%) Senior Service Designer
12 32 (5.10%) Lead Service Designer
13 17 (2.71%) Interaction Designer
13 17 (2.71%) Service Manager
14 16 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.23%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.07%) Consultant
16 13 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.07%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.55%) REST
2 12 (1.91%) HTML
3 11 (1.75%) SOAP
4 7 (1.11%) CSS
4 7 (1.11%) RESTful
5 5 (0.80%) .NET
5 5 (0.80%) Spring
5 5 (0.80%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.80%) Web Services
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (0.48%) Django
7 3 (0.48%) FastAPI
7 3 (0.48%) Flask
7 3 (0.48%) Middleware
7 3 (0.48%) NestJS
7 3 (0.48%) Node.js
7 3 (0.48%) OAuth
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.48%) STL
7 3 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.34%) NHS
4 15 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.23%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.07%) CMDB
7 11 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.80%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.64%) IVR
11 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.48%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.48%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.48%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) MVS
2 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (42.99%) Agile
2 183 (29.14%) User Research
3 142 (22.61%) ITIL
4 117 (18.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 99 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 97 (15.45%) User Experience
7 96 (15.29%) Service Management
8 93 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (14.65%) Roadmaps
10 90 (14.33%) Journey Map
11 89 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (14.17%) Workshop Facilitation
12 79 (12.58%) Decision-Making
13 63 (10.03%) UX Design
14 57 (9.08%) Acceptance Criteria
15 56 (8.92%) Interaction Design
15 56 (8.92%) Prototyping
15 56 (8.92%) Service Delivery
16 55 (8.76%) Collaborative Working
17 54 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.07%) SQL
2 9 (1.43%) JavaScript
3 8 (1.27%) Java
3 8 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.27%) Python
4 4 (0.64%) Bash
4 4 (0.64%) C#
4 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.16%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.16%) Groovy
6 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.16%) R
6 1 (0.16%) Scala
6 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 219 (34.87%) Security Cleared
2 171 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.55%) Degree
4 50 (7.96%) DV Cleared
5 39 (6.21%) TOGAF Certification
6 32 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.64%) CISM
10 4 (0.64%) CISSP
10 4 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CRISC
12 2 (0.32%) APMG
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.32%) IIBA
13 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (18.31%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.18%) WCAG
3 14 (2.23%) QA
4 13 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 12 (1.91%) SLA
6 11 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.59%) NCSC
8 8 (1.27%) GDPR
9 7 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.80%) PMO
11 4 (0.64%) COBIT
11 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.48%) NIST
13 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.32%) GRC
14 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.16%) FINRA
14 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 6 (0.96%) Docker
2 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.48%) IAG
4 2 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (4.78%) OPNET
2 10 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.27%) Ansible
4 6 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.96%) Terraform
5 3 (0.48%) vRealize
6 2 (0.32%) Avamar
6 2 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (10.35%) ServiceNow
2 34 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.78%) Atlassian
3 30 (4.78%) Remedy
4 13 (2.07%) VMware
5 12 (1.91%) Adobe
6 10 (1.59%) Cisco
7 8 (1.27%) Oracle
7 8 (1.27%) SAP
8 6 (0.96%) Google
8 6 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.64%) Foundry
9 4 (0.64%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.64%) Workday
9 4 (0.64%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.48%) Genesys
10 3 (0.48%) UiPath
10 3 (0.48%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.32%) EMC
11 2 (0.32%) NetApp