Service Design Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Service Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 64 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Design 17 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.35% 0.62% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 0.72% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £375 £464 £397
25th Percentile £453 £484 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -5.49% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £609 £597
90th Percentile £538 £641 £663
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £569
% change year-on-year -6.98% -5.49% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 557 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.95% 86.22% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 347 577
10th Percentile £302 £308 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £574 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 6
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.74
Median hourly rate £19.63 £32.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +54.71% -2.29%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.63 £97.18 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Leeds

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (11.76%) Miro
1 2 (11.76%) Serverless
2 1 (5.88%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (5.88%) Lucidchart
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) Power Query
1 1 (5.88%) QlikView
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) JMeter
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 13 (76.47%) Public Sector
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Service Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.88%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Manual Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Service Transition Manager
5 1 (5.88%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Django
1 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
1 2 (11.76%) FHIR
1 2 (11.76%) Flask
1 2 (11.76%) Vue
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) NHS
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
2 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Journey Map
5 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Journey Map
5 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) R
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) ISEB
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) HL7
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Brio
1 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk
1 1 (5.88%) Virgin Media