Service Design Contracts in London

Service Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Service Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 188 172
Rank change year-on-year -51 -16 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Design 114 218 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 1.22% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.38% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 165 322
10th Percentile £385 £396 £450
25th Percentile £463 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -6.87% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £743
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.52 £33.07 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.67% -42.50% +63.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +2 14 £535 -0.47% 7
East London +16 2 £495 -17.50%
Service Design
England

Service Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Sketch
2 3 (2.63%) Acrobat
2 3 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.88%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.16%) Figma
2 9 (7.89%) Azure
3 3 (2.63%) AWS
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.75%) IaaS
4 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.88%) GCP
5 1 (0.88%) GitHub
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.88%) Miro
5 1 (0.88%) PaaS
5 1 (0.88%) SaaS
5 1 (0.88%) Slack
5 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) 3G
1 2 (1.75%) 4G
1 2 (1.75%) 5G
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) LTE
1 2 (1.75%) VLAN
1 2 (1.75%) VSAN
1 2 (1.75%) VXLAN
1 2 (1.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Power BI
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Axure RP
2 3 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 36 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 20 (17.54%) Finance
3 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Local Government
6 6 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Retail
7 5 (4.39%) Legal
8 3 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Law
8 3 (2.63%) Police
8 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (46.49%) Designer
2 40 (35.09%) Service Designer
3 16 (14.04%) Architect
4 14 (12.28%) Senior
5 10 (8.77%) Senior Designer
5 10 (8.77%) Senior Service Designer
6 8 (7.02%) Service Architect
6 8 (7.02%) Service Manager
7 7 (6.14%) Analyst
7 7 (6.14%) UX Designer
8 6 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Lead
9 5 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Interaction Designer
9 5 (4.39%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) Lead Designer
10 4 (3.51%) Lead Service Designer
10 4 (3.51%) User Researcher
11 3 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) DCOM
1 3 (2.63%) HTML
1 3 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.88%) ATL
3 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.75%) Blog
3 2 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.75%) IoT
3 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.88%) FMCG
4 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) NHS
4 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) SCORM
4 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) Agile
2 27 (23.68%) ITIL
3 25 (21.93%) User Research
4 24 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (21.05%) User Experience
5 20 (17.54%) UX Design
6 18 (15.79%) Service Management
7 16 (14.04%) Interaction Design
7 16 (14.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 15 (13.16%) Prototyping
9 13 (11.40%) Roadmaps
10 12 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.65%) ITSM
11 11 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (7.89%) Journey Map
12 9 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 9 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (7.02%) Change Management
13 8 (7.02%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.02%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 6 (5.26%) SLA
4 5 (4.39%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
1 2 (1.75%) vSphere
2 1 (0.88%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) Adobe
3 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) SAP
5 2 (1.75%) Ericsson
5 2 (1.75%) Mavenir
5 2 (1.75%) Nokia
5 2 (1.75%) QAD
5 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Apple
6 1 (0.88%) BMC
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud