Service Designer Contracts in London

Service Designer
England > London

The median Service Designer daily rate in London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 337 366
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 40 54 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 93
10th Percentile £304 £394 £465
25th Percentile £459 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -13.79% +0.87%
75th Percentile £588 £574 £675
90th Percentile £646 £650 £700
England median daily rate £518 £500 £580
% change year-on-year +3.50% -13.79% +5.45%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £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 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in London

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in London

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in London

Service Designer
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 Designer 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 +8 7 £480 +4.35% 2
Service Designer
England

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Service Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Service Design
2 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (22.50%) User Research
5 8 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 8 (20.00%) User Experience
5 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) UX Design
6 7 (17.50%) Journey Map
7 6 (15.00%) Prototyping
8 5 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (12.50%) Interaction Design
8 5 (12.50%) Figma
8 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
8 5 (12.50%) Banking
9 4 (10.00%) Finance
9 4 (10.00%) ITIL
9 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
10 3 (7.50%) Client Onboarding
10 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
10 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
10 3 (7.50%) Sketch
10 3 (7.50%) User Journey Map
10 3 (7.50%) Wealth Management
10 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
10 3 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (7.50%) CRM
10 3 (7.50%) Microsoft

Service Designer 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:

Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Sketch
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.50%) Fusion 360
2 1 (2.50%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Figma
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) 3G
1 1 (2.50%) 4G
1 1 (2.50%) 5G
1 1 (2.50%) LTE
1 1 (2.50%) VLAN
1 1 (2.50%) VSAN
1 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Axure RP
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Banking
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
4 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) HTML
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Blog
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Service Design
2 9 (22.50%) User Research
3 8 (20.00%) Agile
3 8 (20.00%) User Experience
3 8 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (17.50%) Journey Map
4 7 (17.50%) UX Design
5 6 (15.00%) Prototyping
6 5 (12.50%) Interaction Design
6 5 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (10.00%) ITIL
7 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
8 3 (7.50%) Client Onboarding
8 3 (7.50%) CRM
8 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
8 3 (7.50%) User Journey Map
8 3 (7.50%) Wealth Management
9 2 (5.00%) IT Strategy
9 2 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) VMFS
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Adobe
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.50%) Mavenir
3 1 (2.50%) Nokia
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) VMware