Service Design Contracts in Manchester

Service Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 69 69 93
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Design 10 27 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 1.78% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.04% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 14
10th Percentile £323 - £450
25th Percentile £400 £325 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -18.18% +8.64%
75th Percentile £650 £564 £614
90th Percentile £700 £601 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -10.38% -1.40% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Head of Design
1 4 (40.00%) Head of IT
1 4 (40.00%) Head of IT Services
1 4 (40.00%) IT Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Service Design Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital UX Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Transition Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LangChain
1 2 (20.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (40.00%) People Management
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) LLM
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Line Management
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility