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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 270 189
Rank change year-on-year +71 -81 +31
Contract jobs citing Service Design 482 229 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 0.88% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.98% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 148 363
10th Percentile £352 £411 £394
25th Percentile £413 £491 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £629
90th Percentile £738 £716 £698
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 6
10th Percentile £37.19 £32.07 £29.01
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 £63.30
90th Percentile £97.00 £36.45 £72.90
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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +33 191 £500 -7.54% 36
North of England +20 115 £497 +4.58% 29
South West +16 62 £725 +31.82% 7
North West +15 61 £438 -7.89% 14
Midlands -26 43 £555 -3.48% 10
South East -27 42 £495 -10.00% 25
West Midlands -28 38 £555 -3.48% 9
Yorkshire -29 31 £550 - 7
North East +6 23 £454 +0.89% 8
East of England -20 8 £550 -26.67% 4
East Midlands - 5 £663 - 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 45 (9.34%) Confluence
2 12 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Appian
5 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.21%) Mule
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 46 (9.54%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (6.22%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.07%) Adobe XD
5 9 (1.87%) Sketch
6 7 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (1.04%) InVision
8 4 (0.83%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.83%) Trello
9 3 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.62%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 8 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (7.88%) Figma
2 35 (7.26%) Azure
3 21 (4.36%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.15%) AWS
5 12 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.28%) SaaS
7 10 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.07%) Miro
8 8 (1.66%) GCP
8 8 (1.66%) Google Analytics
8 8 (1.66%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (1.45%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.83%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.62%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.62%) Boomi
11 3 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.62%) GitHub
11 3 (0.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) WAN
2 3 (0.62%) LAN
2 3 (0.62%) VPN
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) Internet
3 2 (0.41%) Wireless
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) WebEx
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.53%) Power BI
2 7 (1.45%) BigQuery
2 7 (1.45%) Looker
3 3 (0.62%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.62%) 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 62 (12.86%) JIRA
2 8 (1.66%) Axure RP
3 7 (1.45%) GitLab
4 5 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.41%) Postman
5 2 (0.41%) 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
1 172 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 157 (32.57%) Public Sector
3 65 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.75%) Finance
5 35 (7.26%) Military
6 25 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.70%) Legal
9 12 (2.49%) Banking
10 11 (2.28%) Local Government
10 11 (2.28%) Retail
11 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.24%) Law
12 6 (1.24%) Marketing
12 6 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Police
14 3 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.41%) Advertising
15 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (32.99%) Designer
2 129 (26.76%) Service Designer
3 94 (19.50%) Architect
4 57 (11.83%) Lead
4 57 (11.83%) Senior
5 56 (11.62%) Analyst
5 56 (11.62%) Service Architect
6 45 (9.34%) User Researcher
7 38 (7.88%) Business Analyst
8 29 (6.02%) Service Manager
9 27 (5.60%) Senior Designer
10 22 (4.56%) Senior Service Designer
11 17 (3.53%) UX Designer
12 15 (3.11%) Lead Designer
12 15 (3.11%) Lead Service Designer
12 15 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.11%) Service Design Manager
13 14 (2.90%) Service Transition Manager
13 14 (2.90%) Transition Manager
14 13 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.66%) HTML
2 6 (1.24%) CSS
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.83%) REST
3 4 (0.83%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.83%) Spring
3 4 (0.83%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.62%) .NET
4 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.62%) Django
4 3 (0.62%) FastAPI
4 3 (0.62%) Flask
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.62%) OAuth
4 3 (0.62%) RESTful
4 3 (0.62%) Vue
5 2 (0.41%) FHIR
5 2 (0.41%) Framer.js
5 2 (0.41%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.58%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.53%) NHS
3 11 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.07%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.24%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.83%) IVR
10 3 (0.62%) CMDB
10 3 (0.62%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.62%) PMI
10 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.41%) Shadow IT
11 2 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.41%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.24%) Windows
2 4 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (45.85%) Agile
2 137 (28.42%) User Research
3 122 (25.31%) ITIL
4 97 (20.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 95 (19.71%) Service Management
6 90 (18.67%) User Experience
7 88 (18.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 77 (15.98%) Workshop Facilitation
9 71 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (14.32%) Journey Map
11 64 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (12.86%) Roadmaps
13 61 (12.66%) Acceptance Criteria
14 58 (12.03%) UX Design
15 55 (11.41%) Service Delivery
16 49 (10.17%) Decision-Making
16 49 (10.17%) Prototyping
16 49 (10.17%) Usability Testing
17 46 (9.54%) ITSM
18 45 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (1.45%) Java
2 6 (1.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.04%) Python
3 5 (1.04%) SQL
4 4 (0.83%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.41%) C#
6 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.21%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.21%) Groovy
7 1 (0.21%) R
7 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 156 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 128 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.58%) Degree
4 35 (7.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 18 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
6 17 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.41%) ISEB
12 1 (0.21%) APMG
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) CSPO
12 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (19.50%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.19%) WCAG
3 17 (3.53%) QA
4 11 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.66%) GDPR
7 7 (1.45%) SLA
8 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.41%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) FINRA
12 1 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.21%) MiFID
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
12 1 (0.21%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (1.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (6.22%) OPNET
2 10 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.45%) Terraform
4 5 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.62%) 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 (11.00%) ServiceNow
2 45 (9.34%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.47%) Remedy
4 30 (6.22%) Atlassian
5 14 (2.90%) Adobe
6 12 (2.49%) SAP
7 11 (2.28%) VMware
8 9 (1.87%) Google
8 9 (1.87%) Oracle
9 6 (1.24%) Cisco
9 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.04%) UiPath
10 5 (1.04%) Workday
11 3 (0.62%) Genesys
11 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.62%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.41%) Foundry
12 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.41%) Qualtrics
12 2 (0.41%) Red Hat