Service Design Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Service Design
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Design 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £287 - -
25th Percentile £310 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £434 - £600

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 111 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.79% 98.23% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 95 90
10th Percentile £313 £350 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £381 £545
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -30.09% +10.10%
75th Percentile £492 £496 £586
90th Percentile £617 £600 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.65% -5.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £29.80 £25.14
% change year-on-year -23.32% +18.56% +44.08%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Knutsford over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Knutsford

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Change Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Change Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Behavioural Change
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow