Service Design Contracts in Glasgow

Service Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 62 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Service Design 9 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.13% 2.28% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.48% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 25
10th Percentile £325 £490 £359
25th Percentile £444 £511 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +9.52% +5.95%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £598 £663 £611
Scotland median daily rate £500 £510 £508
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.39% -3.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Glasgow

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Glasgow

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Glasgow

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (22.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) webpack
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Service Designer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Service Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior UX Designer
3 2 (22.22%) UX Designer
3 2 (22.22%) UX Service Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) React
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) CSS3
3 2 (22.22%) HTML5
3 2 (22.22%) Redux
3 2 (22.22%) Vue
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) User Experience
1 7 (77.78%) UX Design
2 6 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) User Research
3 5 (55.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (44.44%) Usability Testing
5 3 (33.33%) A/B Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) API Management
5 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Security
5 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (33.33%) Design Thinking
5 3 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (33.33%) Information Governance
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (33.33%) WCAG
3 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe