Service Design Contracts in the Midlands

Service Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 103 112 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Service Design 8 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.76% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.93% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 21
10th Percentile £444 £400 £350
25th Percentile £484 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +37.50% -7.66%
75th Percentile £594 £1,025 £550
90th Percentile £615 £1,120 £655
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £71.93 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the Midlands

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the Midlands

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the Midlands

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the Midlands

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +3 8 £575 -32.35% 10
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
General
1 3 (37.50%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
1 3 (37.50%) Service Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transition Manager
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 3 (37.50%) User Research
3 2 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Transition Management
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) BMC
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware