Service Designer Contracts in England

Service Designer
UK > England

The median Service Designer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 468 504
Rank change year-on-year -2 +36 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 73 182 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 129 215
10th Percentile £394 £450 £428
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £638
90th Percentile £650 £728 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +14.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Designer in England

Service Designer
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 Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +31 52 £500 -13.79% 6
North of England +9 11 £425 -29.17% 1
Yorkshire +22 7 £425 -15.00% 1
West Midlands +31 4 £400 -20.00%
Midlands +30 4 £400 -11.11%
North West +15 4 £413 -36.54%
Service Designer
UK

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Service Design
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 25 (34.25%) Public Sector
4 23 (31.51%) Workshop Facilitation
4 23 (31.51%) User Research
5 21 (28.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 18 (24.66%) Prototyping
7 17 (23.29%) Journey Map
8 16 (21.92%) Design Thinking
8 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
9 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
10 14 (19.18%) Usability Testing
10 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.44%) Figma
11 12 (16.44%) User Experience
11 12 (16.44%) ITIL
12 11 (15.07%) User Stories
12 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
13 9 (12.33%) WCAG
13 9 (12.33%) Service Management
13 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis
13 9 (12.33%) Customer-Centricity
13 9 (12.33%) Interaction Design
13 9 (12.33%) Accessibility
14 8 (10.96%) Coaching
15 7 (9.59%) Ethnography
15 7 (9.59%) Backlog Management
15 7 (9.59%) Acceptance Criteria
15 7 (9.59%) Sketch
15 7 (9.59%) Storytelling

Service Designer Skill Set
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 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Sketch
2 5 (6.85%) Adobe XD
2 5 (6.85%) InVision
2 5 (6.85%) Zeplin
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.37%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) Figma
2 4 (5.48%) Miro
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.37%) Google Docs
3 1 (1.37%) Google Sheets
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.37%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 25 (34.25%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Finance
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Police
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) HTML
2 2 (2.74%) CSS
2 2 (2.74%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.74%) CMDB
3 2 (2.74%) NHS
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Service Design
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 23 (31.51%) User Research
3 23 (31.51%) Workshop Facilitation
4 21 (28.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 18 (24.66%) Prototyping
6 17 (23.29%) Journey Map
7 16 (21.92%) Design Thinking
8 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (19.18%) Usability Testing
9 12 (16.44%) ITIL
9 12 (16.44%) User Experience
10 11 (15.07%) User Stories
11 9 (12.33%) Customer-Centricity
11 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis
11 9 (12.33%) Interaction Design
11 9 (12.33%) Service Management
12 8 (10.96%) Coaching
13 7 (9.59%) Acceptance Criteria
13 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.48%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.11%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) Accessibility
1 9 (12.33%) WCAG
2 3 (4.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Adobe
2 2 (2.74%) SAP
2 2 (2.74%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.37%) Brio
3 1 (1.37%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow