Service Design Contracts in England

Service Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Service Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 217 187
Rank change year-on-year -64 -30 -14
Contract jobs citing Service Design 214 401 710
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 1.08% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.25% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 272 540
10th Percentile £398 £400 £415
25th Percentile £463 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £539 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £659
90th Percentile £719 £706 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.80 £56.25
Median hourly rate £31.52 £33.07 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -42.50% +63.93%
75th Percentile - £34.53 £58.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 -
UK median hourly rate £31.52 £33.07 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.67% -42.50% +63.93%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in England

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in England.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in England

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in England

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 -51 114 £542 +3.15% 63
South West +56 29 £563 +8.17% 7
North of England -24 26 £488 -7.14% 29
South East +27 25 £500 -13.04% 17
North West -8 19 £475 -10.38% 14
Midlands +9 8 £575 -16.36% 13
West Midlands +3 8 £575 -32.35% 10
Yorkshire -13 5 £638 +30.77% 12
East of England +22 4 £800 +6.67% 2
North East 0 2 £513 - 3
Service Design
UK

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.87%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Sketch
2 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.40%) Acrobat
3 3 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.47%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.88%) Azure
2 17 (7.94%) Figma
3 12 (5.61%) AWS
4 11 (5.14%) SaaS
5 10 (4.67%) PaaS
6 4 (1.87%) Cloudflare
6 4 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.40%) GCP
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.93%) IaaS
8 2 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.47%) Miro
9 1 (0.47%) Slack
9 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.21%) PBX
1 9 (4.21%) VoIP
2 7 (3.27%) Firewall
2 7 (3.27%) MPLS
2 7 (3.27%) VPN
3 5 (2.34%) WAN
4 4 (1.87%) Network Security
4 4 (1.87%) VLAN
5 3 (1.40%) 4G
5 3 (1.40%) 5G
5 3 (1.40%) HTTP
5 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.93%) 3G
6 2 (0.93%) BGP
6 2 (0.93%) LTE
6 2 (0.93%) OSPF
6 2 (0.93%) VSAN
6 2 (0.93%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.47%) Power BI
1 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Axure RP
2 5 (2.34%) JIRA
General
1 56 (26.17%) Public Sector
2 39 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.76%) Finance
4 18 (8.41%) Telecoms
5 13 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (5.14%) Legal
7 10 (4.67%) Banking
8 9 (4.21%) Local Government
9 8 (3.74%) Retail
10 4 (1.87%) Law
10 4 (1.87%) Military
11 3 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Police
11 3 (1.40%) Publishing
11 3 (1.40%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (34.11%) Designer
2 54 (25.23%) Service Designer
3 31 (14.49%) Architect
4 21 (9.81%) Service Manager
5 17 (7.94%) Senior
6 16 (7.48%) Lead
7 12 (5.61%) Analyst
7 12 (5.61%) Senior Designer
7 12 (5.61%) Senior Service Designer
7 12 (5.61%) Service Architect
8 10 (4.67%) Consultant
9 9 (4.21%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.21%) UX Designer
10 8 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.74%) Service Design Manager
11 7 (3.27%) Lead Designer
11 7 (3.27%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Service Design Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.80%) HTML
2 5 (2.34%) CSS
2 5 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.40%) DCOM
3 3 (1.40%) React
4 2 (0.93%) CSS3
4 2 (0.93%) HTML5
4 2 (0.93%) Jest
4 2 (0.93%) LangChain
4 2 (0.93%) Middleware
4 2 (0.93%) Redux
4 2 (0.93%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.47%) ATL
5 1 (0.47%) LDAP
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth
5 1 (0.47%) OpenTracing
5 1 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.74%) Blackberry
2 8 (3.74%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.87%) CMDB
5 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.93%) Blog
7 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.93%) IoT
7 2 (0.93%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.93%) NHS
7 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) SCORM
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
2 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.57%) ITIL
2 46 (21.50%) Agile
3 41 (19.16%) Roadmaps
4 38 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (15.42%) User Experience
6 30 (14.02%) Service Management
6 30 (14.02%) User Research
7 26 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 24 (11.21%) Prototyping
8 24 (11.21%) UX Design
9 23 (10.75%) ITSM
10 20 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (8.88%) Interaction Design
11 19 (8.88%) Service Delivery
12 18 (8.41%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (8.41%) Migration
12 18 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (7.01%) Change Management
13 15 (7.01%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.80%) Python
2 4 (1.87%) SQL
3 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.93%) Java
4 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.01%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.14%) CCNP
6 8 (3.74%) Degree
6 8 (3.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.80%) CCIE
9 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.93%) MBA
12 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.14%) QA
3 8 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 6 (2.80%) SLA
5 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) PERC
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.93%) Docker
4 2 (0.93%) vSphere
5 1 (0.47%) VMFS
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.87%) Ansible
2 3 (1.40%) SCCM
2 3 (1.40%) WSUS
3 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.88%) Cisco
3 15 (7.01%) F5
4 14 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.61%) Juniper
5 12 (5.61%) VMware
6 11 (5.14%) Ericsson
6 11 (5.14%) Nokia
7 10 (4.67%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.74%) Avaya
8 8 (3.74%) Ribbon
9 6 (2.80%) Adobe
9 6 (2.80%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.34%) Oracle
10 5 (2.34%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.87%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.87%) Citrix
12 3 (1.40%) BMC
12 3 (1.40%) Remedy
12 3 (1.40%) SAP