Service Design Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Service Design
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 13 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Service Design 2 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.96% 8.22% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 9.92% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% -
75th Percentile - £494 £438
90th Percentile - £498 -
North West median daily rate £424 £488 £625
% change year-on-year -13.13% -22.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £71.45 £34.26 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.55% - -
North West median hourly rate £65.73 £34.26 -
% change year-on-year +91.84% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 121 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.25% 82.88% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 124
10th Percentile £165 £282 £383
25th Percentile £350 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £516 £623
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% -17.07% +19.71%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £716
90th Percentile £679 £607 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 18 49
10th Percentile £25.15 £25.80 £21.72
25th Percentile £41.94 £32.89 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.39%
75th Percentile £61.57 £54.69 £48.43
90th Percentile £74.26 £66.28 £59.52
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £30.20 £38.00
% change year-on-year +32.45% -20.53% +39.45%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Service Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Service Design

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Blackpool - 1 £350 -
Service Design
North West

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Digital
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow