Service Design Contracts in Hampshire

Service Design
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 56 73 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Service Design 13 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 1.37% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.63% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile - £596 £628
25th Percentile £500 - £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -20.00% +26.96%
75th Percentile £625 - £816
90th Percentile £628 £608 £836
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Hampshire

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Hampshire

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in Hampshire

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Havant +3 5 £600 -
Winchester - 4 £500 - 2
Hook - 2 £510 -
Farnborough - 1 £638 - 1
Service Design
South East

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (23.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Cloudflare
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) MPLS
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) HTTP
2 3 (23.08%) HTTPS
2 3 (23.08%) SSL
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Director
3 1 (7.69%) Presales Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Director
3 1 (7.69%) Services Director
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
2 5 (38.46%) Architecture Roadmap
2 5 (38.46%) Network Design
3 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
4 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
4 3 (23.08%) Business Process Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) ITSM
4 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
4 3 (23.08%) Software Distribution
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (7.69%) Presales
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCIE
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) Citrix
1 4 (30.77%) F5
1 4 (30.77%) Fortinet
1 4 (30.77%) Zscaler
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft