Service Designer Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Service Designer
South East > Home Counties

The median Service Designer daily rate in the Home Counties is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 7.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £531 £850 £625
% change year-on-year -37.52% +36.00% -13.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Home Counties

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Home Counties. 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 the Home Counties with a recognized job title 13 6 6
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 85.71% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £649 - £488
90th Percentile £665 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Service Designer job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Home Counties region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
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

Service Designer Skill Set
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
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%) Service Design
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