Service Design Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Service Design Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Service Design Architect daily rate in Manchester is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.088% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,038 1,109 1,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.98% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 639 1,089
10th Percentile £300 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £588
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 43 62
10th Percentile £16.41 £15.92 £14.81
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £30.07 £46.25 £48.47
90th Percentile £53.30 £65.00 £66.13
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.33% -14.29% +74.43%

Service Design Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Design Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Service Design Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

Service Design Architect Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, Service Design Architect contract job roles required 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 Manchester region featuring Service Design Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Genesys
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath
1 1 (100.00%) WFM

Service Design Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IVR
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 1 (100.00%) WFM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Genesys
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath