Service Design Manager Contracts in London

Service Design Manager
England > London

The median Service Design Manager daily rate in London is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 383 488
Rank change year-on-year +32 +105 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Manager 2 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.067% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.072% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 9
10th Percentile £541 £506 £420
25th Percentile £566 £525 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -12.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £716 £584 £650
90th Percentile £744 £638 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,753 16,611 25,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.26% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 12,008 18,613
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 338 287
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £64.67 £76.10
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Service Design Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Service Design Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design Manager in London

Service Design Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Service Design Manager in London

Service Design Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design Manager in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design Manager in London

Service Design Manager Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Service Design Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Service Design Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Police
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow

Service Design Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow