Service Design Contracts in London

Service Design
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Service Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 174 185
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Design 217 412 638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.52% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.67% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 322 459
10th Percentile £400 £450 £422
25th Percentile £450 £484 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £630
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.56% +2.27% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £32.29
25th Percentile - £56.25 £32.52
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year - +63.93% -35.05%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £37.33
90th Percentile - - £39.77
England median hourly rate £33.07 £57.50 £35.08
% change year-on-year -42.50% +63.93% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Service Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +10 15 £550 -8.33% 9
South London +18 10 £376 -28.38%
West London -26 1 £588 +6.82% 1
East London - 1 £600 -
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 4 (1.84%) govService
2 3 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.38%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Sketch
2 4 (1.84%) InVision
3 3 (1.38%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.38%) Zeplin
4 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) SPSS
5 1 (0.46%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.60%) Azure
2 18 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.83%) AWS
4 13 (5.99%) Figma
5 6 (2.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.76%) SaaS
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Functions
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (2.30%) Azure Storage
6 5 (2.30%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.30%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.30%) Route 53
6 5 (2.30%) Serverless
6 5 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) Network Security
2 3 (1.38%) Intranet
3 2 (0.92%) BGP
3 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) Internet
4 1 (0.46%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.46%) RTP
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.30%) Big Data
2 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.30%) OLTP
3 3 (1.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.46%) GIS
4 1 (0.46%) Power BI
4 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Git
2 5 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.30%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (1.84%) JIRA
4 3 (1.38%) Axure RP
4 3 (1.38%) Maven
5 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.46%) Postman
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (28.11%) Public Sector
2 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.82%) Finance
4 20 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.29%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.15%) Banking
7 8 (3.69%) Marketing
8 7 (3.23%) Legal
8 7 (3.23%) Police
9 6 (2.76%) Local Government
10 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Games
11 2 (0.92%) Law
11 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (30.41%) Designer
2 52 (23.96%) Service Designer
3 32 (14.75%) Architect
4 21 (9.68%) Service Manager
5 18 (8.29%) Analyst
6 16 (7.37%) Lead
7 14 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
8 13 (5.99%) Service Transition Manager
8 13 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.99%) Transition Manager
9 12 (5.53%) Service Design Manager
10 11 (5.07%) Senior
11 10 (4.61%) Business Analyst
12 9 (4.15%) Consultant
13 8 (3.69%) Head of Customer Experience
13 8 (3.69%) Head of Digital
14 7 (3.23%) Lean Specialist
14 7 (3.23%) Product Architect
15 6 (2.76%) Project Delivery Manager
15 6 (2.76%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.69%) .NET
1 8 (3.69%) Web Services
2 5 (2.30%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.30%) CSS
2 5 (2.30%) JSON
2 5 (2.30%) XML
3 4 (1.84%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.38%) HTML
4 3 (1.38%) J2EE
4 3 (1.38%) jQuery
4 3 (1.38%) REST
4 3 (1.38%) Sass
4 3 (1.38%) Spring
4 3 (1.38%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.38%) VML
5 2 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.92%) LDAP
6 1 (0.46%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
1 6 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.30%) CMDB
2 5 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.92%) Blog
5 2 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.46%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.46%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.46%) NHS
6 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.30%) Linux
2 4 (1.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.63%) Agile
2 44 (20.28%) ITIL
3 42 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (19.35%) User Research
4 39 (17.97%) Service Management
5 37 (17.05%) DevOps
6 35 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (15.21%) Customer Experience
8 29 (13.36%) Project Delivery
9 28 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
10 27 (12.44%) User Experience
11 25 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.52%) Migration
12 21 (9.68%) Prototyping
13 19 (8.76%) Acceptance Criteria
13 19 (8.76%) Roadmaps
13 19 (8.76%) Scrum
13 19 (8.76%) UX Design
14 18 (8.29%) Change Management
14 18 (8.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.45%) Java
2 7 (3.23%) C#
2 7 (3.23%) Python
3 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.38%) SQL
6 2 (0.92%) Bash
6 2 (0.92%) Go
6 2 (0.92%) Scala
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.83%) Degree
4 8 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 7 (3.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (2.30%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.92%) IIBA
10 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) ISEB
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.99%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.69%) WCAG
3 7 (3.23%) SLA
4 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) PowerDNS
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.61%) Terraform
2 5 (2.30%) Grafana
2 5 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.30%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 16 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.15%) SAP
3 7 (3.23%) Adobe
3 7 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.84%) Google
6 3 (1.38%) Dell
6 3 (1.38%) Intel
6 3 (1.38%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.92%) F5
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle
7 2 (0.92%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.46%) ESRI
8 1 (0.46%) Genesys
8 1 (0.46%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.46%) Remedy
8 1 (0.46%) TOWER Software