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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 257 242
Rank change year-on-year +81 -15 -71
Contract jobs citing Service Design 623 226 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 0.93% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.02% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 165 237
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.87%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £708 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
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 35,947 22,218 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.03% 91.31% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,779 14,375 20,755
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 993 2,342
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.30 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -23.32% +1.39%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +56 273 £520 -5.45% 98
North of England +14 126 £475 - 29
South East +4 88 £525 -12.50% 24
Midlands +18 74 £478 -3.19% 8
West Midlands +5 71 £475 -3.80% 6
Yorkshire -3 57 £519 -18.63% 14
North West -19 50 £475 - 13
South West -22 37 £563 +2.27% 15
North East -7 20 £420 -18.05% 2
East of England -22 6 £525 -22.22% 6
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 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 24 (3.85%) Confluence
2 11 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.96%) CMS
3 6 (0.96%) LiveCycle
4 2 (0.32%) Drupal
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.16%) Appian
5 1 (0.16%) Mule
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.96%) Sketch
5 4 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.48%) InVision
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.32%) Trello
7 2 (0.32%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (5.30%) Figma
2 32 (5.14%) Azure
3 29 (4.65%) AWS
4 15 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (2.41%) Power Platform
5 14 (2.25%) SaaS
6 12 (1.93%) Miro
7 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (0.80%) Azure AI
9 4 (0.64%) Datadog
9 4 (0.64%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.64%) GitHub
10 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.48%) GCP
10 3 (0.48%) OCI
10 3 (0.48%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.48%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.48%) PaaS
10 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.96%) Firewall
2 5 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.48%) 3GPP
3 3 (0.48%) BGP
3 3 (0.48%) NX-OS
3 3 (0.48%) OSPF
3 3 (0.48%) VLAN
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) VXLAN
3 3 (0.48%) Wireless
4 2 (0.32%) 3G
4 2 (0.32%) 4G
4 2 (0.32%) Broadband
4 2 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.32%) Network Security
4 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.32%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (0.32%) SS7
4 2 (0.32%) WAN
4 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.77%) Power BI
2 4 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (0.64%) Metadata
2 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.32%) Looker
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.16%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.16%) Power Query
4 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (5.14%) JIRA
2 8 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.80%) GitLab
4 4 (0.64%) Git
5 2 (0.32%) Appium
5 2 (0.32%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.32%) Postman
5 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) JUnit
6 1 (0.16%) Maven
6 1 (0.16%) Mockito
6 1 (0.16%) NUnit
6 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.16%) VersionOne
General
1 189 (30.34%) Public Sector
2 183 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 78 (12.52%) Finance
4 39 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (2.89%) Legal
8 17 (2.73%) Banking
8 17 (2.73%) Retail
8 17 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.09%) Local Government
10 12 (1.93%) Military
11 10 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.44%) Law
13 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.80%) Marketing
15 4 (0.64%) Police
16 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.48%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 247 (39.65%) Designer
2 192 (30.82%) Service Designer
3 78 (12.52%) Senior
4 73 (11.72%) Lead
5 72 (11.56%) Architect
6 60 (9.63%) Analyst
6 60 (9.63%) User Researcher
7 41 (6.58%) Business Analyst
8 40 (6.42%) Senior Designer
9 32 (5.14%) Lead Designer
10 31 (4.98%) Lead Service Designer
11 30 (4.82%) Senior Service Designer
12 28 (4.49%) Service Architect
13 22 (3.53%) Service Manager
14 19 (3.05%) Consultant
15 17 (2.73%) Interaction Designer
16 16 (2.57%) Senior User Researcher
17 15 (2.41%) Service Design Manager
18 14 (2.25%) Service Analyst
19 13 (2.09%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.41%) REST
2 11 (1.77%) SOAP
3 9 (1.44%) HTML
4 6 (0.96%) RESTful
5 5 (0.80%) .NET
5 5 (0.80%) CSS
5 5 (0.80%) Web Services
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.64%) Spring
6 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.64%) VML
7 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.48%) SAML
7 3 (0.48%) STL
8 2 (0.32%) Middleware
8 2 (0.32%) NestJS
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.32%) Playwright
8 2 (0.32%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 38 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.17%) NHS
4 20 (3.21%) CMDB
5 15 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.80%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.80%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.48%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.48%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.64%) Windows
2 2 (0.32%) Android
2 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) MVS
3 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (37.24%) Agile
2 180 (28.89%) User Research
3 120 (19.26%) ITIL
3 120 (19.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 104 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 100 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 97 (15.57%) User Experience
6 97 (15.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 93 (14.93%) Journey Map
8 92 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 80 (12.84%) Decision-Making
11 70 (11.24%) Service Management
12 63 (10.11%) UX Design
13 57 (9.15%) Interaction Design
14 54 (8.67%) Prototyping
15 53 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
15 53 (8.51%) ITSM
16 48 (7.70%) Usability Testing
17 46 (7.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 12 (1.93%) SQL
2 8 (1.28%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.12%) Java
3 7 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.96%) Python
5 5 (0.80%) Bash
6 4 (0.64%) C#
6 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.16%) Groovy
8 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 193 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 138 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.35%) DV Cleared
4 37 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (4.33%) Degree
6 14 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.64%) CISM
7 4 (0.64%) CISSP
7 4 (0.64%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.48%) CRISC
9 2 (0.32%) APMG
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.32%) IIBA
10 1 (0.16%) CBAP
10 1 (0.16%) GIAC
10 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (17.98%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.37%) WCAG
3 13 (2.09%) SLA
4 12 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 11 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.61%) QA
7 9 (1.44%) GDPR
7 9 (1.44%) NCSC
8 7 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.48%) COBIT
11 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.48%) NIST
12 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.32%) GRC
13 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (0.64%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) IAG
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (1.44%) Ansible
2 7 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.64%) Terraform
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.48%) vRealize
5 2 (0.32%) Avamar
5 2 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (6.26%) ServiceNow
2 34 (5.46%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.77%) Adobe
4 8 (1.28%) SAP
5 7 (1.12%) Cisco
5 7 (1.12%) Oracle
6 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.80%) VMware
7 4 (0.64%) Foundry
7 4 (0.64%) Google
7 4 (0.64%) Sparx
7 4 (0.64%) Virgin Media
7 4 (0.64%) Workday
8 3 (0.48%) F5
9 2 (0.32%) 3PAR
9 2 (0.32%) Aruba
9 2 (0.32%) Isilon
9 2 (0.32%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.32%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.32%) Palo Alto