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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 252 246
Rank change year-on-year +72 -6 -81
Contract jobs citing Service Design 640 249 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.00% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.09% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 182 238
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.86% -2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £636
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £40.99 - -
25th Percentile £60.33 £51.34 £17.80
Median hourly rate £95.50 £52.67 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +81.32% +59.29% -42.50%
75th Percentile £103.25 £54.01 £34.53
90th Percentile £106.25 - £72.90
UK median hourly rate £95.50 £52.67 £33.07
% change year-on-year +81.32% +59.29% -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 36,902 22,811 32,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 91.37% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,326 14,743 20,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,306 1,092 2,399
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.47
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +52 283 £520 -5.45% 55
North of England -2 119 £475 -6.17% 21
South East +5 96 £525 -2.33% 25
Midlands +11 72 £475 -3.80% 7
West Midlands +6 70 £475 -3.80% 6
Yorkshire -3 59 £500 -11.11% 8
North West -30 41 £475 -1.76% 8
South West -25 40 £575 +5.75% 7
North East -22 20 £420 -20.00% 5
East of England -24 6 £500 -9.09% 5
East Midlands - 2 £516 - 1
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 25 (3.91%) Confluence
2 13 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.09%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) LiveCycle
5 2 (0.31%) Drupal
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Appian
6 1 (0.16%) Mule
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.78%) Sketch
6 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.31%) InVision
8 2 (0.31%) Trello
9 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 38 (5.94%) Azure
2 34 (5.31%) AWS
3 29 (4.53%) Figma
4 18 (2.81%) SaaS
5 16 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.19%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.88%) Miro
8 7 (1.09%) GitHub
8 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (0.94%) Datadog
10 5 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.78%) Azure AI
10 5 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (0.78%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.63%) OCI
11 4 (0.63%) Serverless
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.47%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (0.78%) Firewall
2 3 (0.47%) 2G
2 3 (0.47%) 3G
2 3 (0.47%) 3GPP
2 3 (0.47%) 4G
2 3 (0.47%) BGP
2 3 (0.47%) Diameter Protocol
2 3 (0.47%) Network Security
2 3 (0.47%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.47%) OSPF
2 3 (0.47%) SIGTRAN
2 3 (0.47%) SS7
2 3 (0.47%) VLAN
2 3 (0.47%) VPN
2 3 (0.47%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.31%) TETRA
3 2 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.56%) Power BI
2 5 (0.78%) Metadata
3 4 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (0.63%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.16%) Looker
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.16%) Power Query
5 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (4.22%) JIRA
2 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.78%) Git
4 4 (0.63%) GitLab
5 3 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.31%) Appium
6 2 (0.31%) Postman
6 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.16%) JUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Maven
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%) VersionOne
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 188 (29.38%) Public Sector
2 178 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 83 (12.97%) Finance
4 41 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (3.13%) Banking
6 20 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.81%) Retail
8 17 (2.66%) Legal
9 14 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.19%) Military
10 13 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.72%) Local Government
12 8 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.25%) Law
13 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.63%) Automotive
14 4 (0.63%) Police
15 3 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 256 (40.00%) Designer
2 198 (30.94%) Service Designer
3 79 (12.34%) Lead
4 72 (11.25%) Architect
5 70 (10.94%) Senior
6 64 (10.00%) User Researcher
7 58 (9.06%) Analyst
8 39 (6.09%) Business Analyst
9 36 (5.63%) Senior Designer
10 32 (5.00%) Lead Designer
11 31 (4.84%) Lead Service Designer
12 26 (4.06%) Service Manager
13 25 (3.91%) Senior Service Designer
14 23 (3.59%) Service Architect
15 20 (3.13%) Consultant
16 17 (2.66%) Service Design Manager
16 17 (2.66%) Service Transition Manager
16 17 (2.66%) Transition Manager
17 16 (2.50%) Content Designer
17 16 (2.50%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.19%) REST
2 12 (1.88%) SOAP
3 8 (1.25%) HTML
3 8 (1.25%) RESTful
4 6 (0.94%) Web Services
5 5 (0.78%) .NET
5 5 (0.78%) CSS
5 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.63%) STL
6 4 (0.63%) VML
7 3 (0.47%) Node.js
7 3 (0.47%) Spring
7 3 (0.47%) Swagger
8 2 (0.31%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.31%) NestJS
8 2 (0.31%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.31%) Playwright
8 2 (0.31%) React
8 2 (0.31%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.34%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.75%) NHS
4 22 (3.44%) CMDB
5 13 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.94%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.78%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.47%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.47%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.63%) Windows
2 2 (0.31%) Android
2 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) MVS
3 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (37.50%) Agile
2 175 (27.34%) User Research
3 124 (19.38%) ITIL
4 121 (18.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 111 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 97 (15.16%) Workshop Facilitation
7 96 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 93 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (14.53%) User Experience
9 91 (14.22%) Journey Map
10 85 (13.28%) Roadmaps
11 84 (13.13%) Decision-Making
12 69 (10.78%) Service Management
13 59 (9.22%) UX Design
14 58 (9.06%) Interaction Design
15 54 (8.44%) Collaborative Working
15 54 (8.44%) ITSM
16 49 (7.66%) Prototyping
17 47 (7.34%) Qualitative Research
18 46 (7.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.19%) SQL
2 9 (1.41%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.09%) Java
3 7 (1.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.09%) Python
4 6 (0.94%) Bash
5 4 (0.63%) C#
5 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.31%) Bicep
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.16%) Go
8 1 (0.16%) Groovy
8 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.16%) Scala
8 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 202 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 150 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.28%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.91%) Degree
6 12 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.47%) CISM
8 3 (0.47%) CISSP
8 3 (0.47%) CRISC
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.31%) IIBA
10 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CBAP
10 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.34%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.28%) WCAG
3 13 (2.03%) SLA
4 12 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (1.88%) NCSC
4 12 (1.88%) QA
5 11 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.09%) GDPR
6 7 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.78%) PMO
8 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.47%) COBIT
9 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.47%) NIST
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) FINRA
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (0.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) IAG
3 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (1.88%) Ansible
2 9 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.25%) Terraform
4 3 (0.47%) vRealize
5 2 (0.31%) Avamar
5 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (0.31%) Grafana
5 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (7.50%) ServiceNow
2 34 (5.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.41%) Adobe
4 7 (1.09%) Oracle
4 7 (1.09%) SAP
5 6 (0.94%) Cisco
6 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.78%) VMware
7 4 (0.63%) Foundry
7 4 (0.63%) Nexthink
7 4 (0.63%) Sparx
7 4 (0.63%) Virgin Media
7 4 (0.63%) Workday
8 3 (0.47%) F5
8 3 (0.47%) Google
8 3 (0.47%) IBM
9 2 (0.31%) Brocade
9 2 (0.31%) EMC
9 2 (0.31%) NetApp
9 2 (0.31%) Veeam