Service Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Service Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 109 100
Rank change year-on-year -27 -9 +51
Contract jobs citing Service Design 26 17 35
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.82% 0.74% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.86% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 28
10th Percentile £424 £533 £385
25th Percentile £439 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% +9.30% -4.02%
75th Percentile £688 £634 £591
90th Percentile £800 £655 £688
England median daily rate £536 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -0.33% -6.43% -

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 2,729 1,983 2,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.31% 86.29% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 1,248 1,515
10th Percentile £250 £250 £255
25th Percentile £377 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 71 95
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.10
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.87
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.91 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.85 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Service Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the Midlands

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Service Design

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 20 December 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 -24 22 £455 -22.55% 7
East Midlands - 4 £800 - 1
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Figma
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Miro
2 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Legal
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Local Government
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Designer
2 10 (38.46%) Service Designer
3 7 (26.92%) Architect
4 6 (23.08%) Service Manager
5 5 (19.23%) Service Design Manager
5 5 (19.23%) Service Transition Manager
5 5 (19.23%) Transition Manager
6 4 (15.38%) Interaction Designer
6 4 (15.38%) Service Architect
7 3 (11.54%) Lead
8 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Chief Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Chief Enterprise Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (3.85%) Head of Design
9 1 (3.85%) Head of IT
9 1 (3.85%) Head of Service Management
9 1 (3.85%) SAP Manager
9 1 (3.85%) SAP Transition Manager
9 1 (3.85%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
1 10 (38.46%) ITIL
2 7 (26.92%) Service Management
2 7 (26.92%) User Experience
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (19.23%) User Research
5 4 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) Logistics
5 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Use Case
5 4 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (11.54%) ArchiMate
6 3 (11.54%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (11.54%) BPMN
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (11.54%) TOGAF
6 3 (11.54%) UML
6 3 (11.54%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO 9001
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) OneLogin
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (3.85%) SAP