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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 280 191
Rank change year-on-year +80 -89 +39
Contract jobs citing Service Design 466 216 473
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 0.82% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.92% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 135 355
10th Percentile £350 £403 £394
25th Percentile £413 £493 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £628
90th Percentile £738 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £37.19 £32.07 £28.49
25th Percentile - £32.89 £31.60
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.26 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +75.13% +3.61% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £35.63 £72.90
90th Percentile £97.00 £36.45 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £34.26 £33.07
% change year-on-year +75.13% +3.61% -

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +36 184 £500 -8.30% 73
North of England +20 108 £500 +5.26% 25
South West +21 63 £725 +23.40% 13
North West +7 54 £424 -13.13% 17
Midlands -30 41 £525 -8.70% 15
South East -23 40 £475 -13.64% 48
West Midlands -20 36 £494 -14.13% 12
Yorkshire -25 32 £550 - 5
North East +7 22 £454 +0.89% 3
East of England -16 9 £550 -26.67% 17
East Midlands - 5 £663 - 3
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 46 (9.87%) Confluence
2 13 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 46 (9.87%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (6.44%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.15%) Adobe XD
5 9 (1.93%) Sketch
6 7 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (1.07%) InVision
8 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.86%) Trello
9 3 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.64%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (7.30%) Azure
2 30 (6.44%) Figma
3 22 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.08%) AWS
5 13 (2.79%) SaaS
6 12 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.15%) Miro
8 8 (1.72%) GCP
8 8 (1.72%) Google Analytics
8 8 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (1.50%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 4 (0.86%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.64%) GitHub
11 3 (0.64%) IaaS
11 3 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) WAN
2 3 (0.64%) Internet
2 3 (0.64%) LAN
2 3 (0.64%) VPN
3 2 (0.43%) Firewall
3 2 (0.43%) Wireless
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) PBX
4 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) VoIP
4 1 (0.21%) WebEx
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.86%) Power BI
2 7 (1.50%) BigQuery
2 7 (1.50%) Looker
3 3 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.64%) Tableau
4 1 (0.21%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.21%) Metadata
4 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (13.52%) JIRA
2 8 (1.72%) Axure RP
3 7 (1.50%) GitLab
4 5 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.43%) Postman
5 2 (0.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) JUnit
6 1 (0.21%) Mocha
6 1 (0.21%) Mockito
6 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 166 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 155 (33.26%) Public Sector
3 67 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.44%) Finance
5 35 (7.51%) Military
6 24 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.79%) Banking
9 12 (2.58%) Legal
10 11 (2.36%) Local Government
11 10 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.93%) Retail
13 7 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.29%) Law
14 6 (1.29%) Marketing
15 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Police
16 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
17 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (31.76%) Designer
2 122 (26.18%) Service Designer
3 91 (19.53%) Architect
4 55 (11.80%) Analyst
5 54 (11.59%) Lead
5 54 (11.59%) Service Architect
6 50 (10.73%) Senior
7 44 (9.44%) User Researcher
8 36 (7.73%) Business Analyst
9 29 (6.22%) Service Manager
10 24 (5.15%) Senior Designer
11 22 (4.72%) Senior Service Designer
12 17 (3.65%) UX Designer
13 15 (3.22%) Service Transition Manager
13 15 (3.22%) Transition Manager
14 14 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (3.00%) Service Design Manager
15 12 (2.58%) Lead Designer
15 12 (2.58%) Lead Service Designer
15 12 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.72%) HTML
2 6 (1.29%) CSS
3 4 (0.86%) .NET
3 4 (0.86%) AngularJS
3 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.86%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.86%) Spring
3 4 (0.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.64%) Django
4 3 (0.64%) FastAPI
4 3 (0.64%) Flask
4 3 (0.64%) OAuth
4 3 (0.64%) REST
4 3 (0.64%) RESTful
4 3 (0.64%) Vue
5 2 (0.43%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.43%) FHIR
5 2 (0.43%) Framer.js
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.16%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.86%) NHS
3 12 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.86%) CMDB
10 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.86%) IVR
11 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.64%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.64%) PMI
11 3 (0.64%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.43%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.29%) Windows
2 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (45.71%) Agile
2 129 (27.68%) User Research
3 119 (25.54%) ITIL
4 96 (20.60%) Service Management
5 95 (20.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 83 (17.81%) User Experience
7 82 (17.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 77 (16.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 70 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (14.59%) Journey Map
11 64 (13.73%) Acceptance Criteria
11 64 (13.73%) Roadmaps
12 62 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (11.80%) UX Design
14 53 (11.37%) Service Delivery
15 47 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (9.87%) Decision-Making
16 46 (9.87%) ITSM
17 45 (9.66%) Usability Testing
18 44 (9.44%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.29%) Java
1 6 (1.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (1.07%) Python
2 5 (1.07%) SQL
3 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.64%) C#
4 3 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.21%) R
6 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 149 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 122 (26.18%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.94%) Degree
4 35 (7.51%) TOGAF Certification
5 17 (3.65%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (3.22%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.43%) ISEB
12 1 (0.21%) CCNP
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) CSPO
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (19.53%) Accessibility
2 24 (5.15%) WCAG
3 17 (3.65%) QA
4 11 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.72%) GDPR
7 7 (1.50%) SLA
8 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.43%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) FINRA
12 1 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.21%) HL7
12 1 (0.21%) MiFID
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (1.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (6.44%) OPNET
2 10 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.50%) Terraform
4 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.64%) vRealize
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (11.37%) ServiceNow
2 44 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.94%) Remedy
4 30 (6.44%) Atlassian
5 14 (3.00%) Adobe
6 12 (2.58%) VMware
7 11 (2.36%) SAP
8 9 (1.93%) Google
9 7 (1.50%) Cisco
9 7 (1.50%) Oracle
10 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.07%) UiPath
11 5 (1.07%) Workday
12 4 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.64%) Genesys
13 3 (0.64%) Zscaler
14 2 (0.43%) Foundry
14 2 (0.43%) Juniper
14 2 (0.43%) Qualtrics
14 2 (0.43%) Red Hat