Service Design Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Service Design
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 7.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +19.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 92.86% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £500 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -8.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £649 - £572
90th Percentile £665 - £589
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.86% +1.49%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Service Design job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Service Design

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared