Service Designer Contracts in England

Service Designer
UK > England

The median Service Designer daily rate in England is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 467 472
Rank change year-on-year +36 +5 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 54 75 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.20% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 57 129
10th Percentile £321 £394 £450
25th Percentile £462 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £574 £675
90th Percentile £695 £650 £728
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +3.00% -16.67% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +24 40 £510 +2.00% 17
North of England +13 5 £488 +14.71% 11
South West - 4 £600 - 1
North West +16 3 £475 +15.15% 5
Midlands +19 1 £625 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +11 1 £625 +56.25% 1
Yorkshire +2 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 3
South East - 1 £850 - 2
Service Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 54 (100.00%) Service Design
2 17 (31.48%) Public Sector
3 13 (24.07%) Security Cleared
4 11 (20.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
5 10 (18.52%) Agile
6 9 (16.67%) User Research
7 8 (14.81%) Journey Map
7 8 (14.81%) User Experience
8 7 (12.96%) UX Design
8 7 (12.96%) Prototyping
9 6 (11.11%) Figma
9 6 (11.11%) Finance
10 5 (9.26%) ITSM
10 5 (9.26%) Service Management
10 5 (9.26%) Banking
10 5 (9.26%) ITIL
10 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
10 5 (9.26%) Interaction Design
10 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
10 5 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
11 4 (7.41%) Systems Thinking
11 4 (7.41%) Design Thinking
11 4 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.41%) Defect Management
11 4 (7.41%) Oracle
11 4 (7.41%) Change Management
11 4 (7.41%) Test Management

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:

Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Sketch
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.85%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.85%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) Figma
2 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
3 1 (1.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) 3G
1 1 (1.85%) 4G
1 1 (1.85%) 5G
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.85%) LTE
1 1 (1.85%) VLAN
1 1 (1.85%) VSAN
1 1 (1.85%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 17 (31.48%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Local Government
4 3 (5.56%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.70%) Police
5 2 (3.70%) Publishing
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (1.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Blog
3 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Service Design
2 11 (20.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 10 (18.52%) Agile
4 9 (16.67%) User Research
5 8 (14.81%) Journey Map
5 8 (14.81%) User Experience
6 7 (12.96%) Prototyping
6 7 (12.96%) UX Design
7 5 (9.26%) Interaction Design
7 5 (9.26%) ITIL
7 5 (9.26%) ITSM
7 5 (9.26%) Service Management
7 5 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (7.41%) Change Management
8 4 (7.41%) Defect Management
8 4 (7.41%) Design Thinking
8 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.41%) Systems Thinking
8 4 (7.41%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) VMFS
2 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.85%) Mavenir
4 1 (1.85%) Nokia
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Tenable
4 1 (1.85%) Virgin Media