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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 254 173
Rank change year-on-year -9 -81 +25
Contract jobs citing Service Design 256 349 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.93% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.09% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 232 536
10th Percentile £400 £400 £448
25th Percentile £459 £463 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £700 £736 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.34 £17.80 £56.25
Median hourly rate £52.67 £30.37 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.44% -47.19% +94.92%
75th Percentile £54.01 £34.53 £58.75
90th Percentile - £38.37 -
UK median hourly rate £52.67 £30.37 £57.50
% change year-on-year +73.44% -47.19% +2.68%

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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -29 123 £550 +4.76% 427
North of England +17 44 £506 -5.81% 141
North West +17 33 £484 -10.05% 76
South West +34 32 £544 +3.57% 79
South East +34 31 £575 -4.17% 99
East of England +25 9 £550 -26.67% 39
Yorkshire +2 8 £563 +4.65% 53
Midlands +1 6 £494 -29.46% 91
West Midlands -3 6 £494 -41.91% 71
North East +3 4 £525 - 12
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 9 (3.52%) Confluence
2 7 (2.73%) IIS
3 6 (2.34%) Apache
3 6 (2.34%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.95%) Sketch
5 3 (1.17%) Acrobat
5 3 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Maximo
2 6 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (7.81%) Azure
2 17 (6.64%) SaaS
3 14 (5.47%) AWS
3 14 (5.47%) Figma
4 10 (3.91%) PaaS
5 6 (2.34%) GCP
5 6 (2.34%) Miro
6 4 (1.56%) Cloudflare
6 4 (1.56%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.78%) IaaS
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.39%) GitHub
9 1 (0.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.52%) Firewall
1 9 (3.52%) MPLS
1 9 (3.52%) PBX
1 9 (3.52%) VoIP
1 9 (3.52%) VPN
2 6 (2.34%) Network Security
2 6 (2.34%) WAN
3 4 (1.56%) BGP
3 4 (1.56%) OSPF
3 4 (1.56%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.78%) WebEx
5 1 (0.39%) 4G
5 1 (0.39%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.39%) NGFW
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.34%) DB2
3 2 (0.78%) Power BI
4 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.91%) JIRA
2 6 (2.34%) Axure RP
General
1 69 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.39%) Public Sector
3 46 (17.97%) Finance
4 21 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (7.42%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.25%) Legal
8 12 (4.69%) Banking
9 8 (3.13%) Local Government
9 8 (3.13%) Retail
10 7 (2.73%) Publishing
11 5 (1.95%) Military
12 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Back Office
13 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Police
14 2 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 76 (29.69%) Designer
2 57 (22.27%) Service Designer
3 32 (12.50%) Architect
4 24 (9.38%) Consultant
5 23 (8.98%) Lead
5 23 (8.98%) Senior
5 23 (8.98%) Service Manager
6 19 (7.42%) Analyst
7 15 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.69%) Senior Designer
8 12 (4.69%) Senior Service Designer
8 12 (4.69%) Service Architect
9 10 (3.91%) Maximo Consultant
9 10 (3.91%) Service Design Consultant
10 8 (3.13%) Interaction Designer
10 8 (3.13%) Service Design Manager
10 8 (3.13%) Service Transition Manager
10 8 (3.13%) Transition Manager
11 7 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (2.73%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) SOAP
1 6 (2.34%) Web Services
1 6 (2.34%) XML
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.78%) DCOM
3 2 (0.78%) HTML
4 1 (0.39%) .NET
4 1 (0.39%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.39%) ATL
4 1 (0.39%) CSS
4 1 (0.39%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.39%) JSON
4 1 (0.39%) LDAP
4 1 (0.39%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) OAuth
4 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.39%) React
4 1 (0.39%) RESTful
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.77%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.13%) Blackberry
3 8 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.17%) CMDB
6 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.17%) NHS
7 2 (0.78%) Blog
7 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.78%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.78%) SCORM
7 2 (0.78%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.13%) Windows
2 7 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.34%) ITIL
2 65 (25.39%) Agile
3 51 (19.92%) Service Management
4 46 (17.97%) Roadmaps
5 42 (16.41%) ITSM
6 41 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (15.23%) User Research
8 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (12.50%) User Experience
10 28 (10.94%) Service Delivery
10 28 (10.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 27 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (8.20%) Migration
14 20 (7.81%) Customer Requirements
14 20 (7.81%) Decision-Making
14 20 (7.81%) DevOps
14 20 (7.81%) UX Design
15 19 (7.42%) Interaction Design
16 18 (7.03%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.69%) Python
2 7 (2.73%) JavaScript
2 7 (2.73%) SQL
3 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.55%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (6.25%) Degree
6 13 (5.08%) CCNP
7 12 (4.69%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (3.13%) CCIE
8 8 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.56%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.69%) QA
3 8 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 6 (2.34%) GxP
4 6 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.17%) VMFS
4 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.56%) Ansible
2 2 (0.78%) Terraform
3 1 (0.39%) SCCM
3 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.59%) Cisco
3 17 (6.64%) F5
4 13 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.69%) Juniper
6 11 (4.30%) Nokia
6 11 (4.30%) VMware
7 10 (3.91%) Ericsson
7 10 (3.91%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.91%) SAP
8 8 (3.13%) Avaya
8 8 (3.13%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.13%) Ribbon
9 6 (2.34%) IBM
10 5 (1.95%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.56%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.56%) Citrix
12 3 (1.17%) Adobe
12 3 (1.17%) Oracle
13 2 (0.78%) Salesforce