Service Design Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Service Design
Merseyside > Liverpool

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

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	35	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Service Design	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool	1.15%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.41%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£570	-	-
25^th Percentile	£577	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£606	-	-
75^th Percentile	£629	-	-
90^th Percentile	£632	-	-
Merseyside median daily rate	£590	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 citing process or methodology skills in Liverpool.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	213	155	133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool	81.61%	90.64%	71.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	115	79	61
10^th Percentile	£150	£158	£153
25^th Percentile	£329	£256	£200
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£438	£425	£400
Median % change year-on-year	+3.06%	+6.25%	-11.11%
75^th Percentile	£553	£527	£500
90^th Percentile	£638	£653	£600
Merseyside median daily rate	£438	£400	£423
% change year-on-year	+9.50%	-5.33%	-6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted	15	15	6
10^th Percentile	£22.41	-	£18.75
25^th Percentile	£31.74	£12.21	£21.31
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£15.18	£22.88
Median % change year-on-year	+189.59%	-33.64%	+14.38%
75^th Percentile	-	£34.16	£32.88
90^th Percentile	-	£51.02	£38.00
Merseyside median hourly rate	£43.23	£15.18	£22.44
% change year-on-year	+184.78%	-32.35%	+18.09%

Service Design Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Service Design Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Service Design Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Service Design also mentioned 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 Liverpool region citing Service Design.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ITIL	66.7%	2
2	Backlog Prioritisation	33.3%	1
2	Continuous Improvement	33.3%	1
2	Infrastructure Engineering	33.3%	1
2	Kubernetes	33.3%	1
2	Observability	33.3%	1
2	People Management	33.3%	1
2	Security Cleared	33.3%	1
2	Service Catalogue	33.3%	1
2	Service Management	33.3%	1
2	ServiceNow	33.3%	1
2	SIAM	33.3%	1
2	Stakeholder Engagement	33.3%	1
2	Target Operating Model	33.3%	1
2	User Experience	33.3%	1
2	User Research	33.3%	1
2	UX Design	33.3%	1

Service Design Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ITIL	66.7%	2
2	Backlog Prioritisation	33.3%	1
2	Continuous Improvement	33.3%	1
2	Infrastructure Engineering	33.3%	1
2	Observability	33.3%	1
2	People Management	33.3%	1
2	Service Catalogue	33.3%	1
2	Service Management	33.3%	1
2	SIAM	33.3%	1
2	Stakeholder Engagement	33.3%	1
2	Target Operating Model	33.3%	1
2	User Experience	33.3%	1
2	User Research	33.3%	1
2	UX Design	33.3%	1