Service Design Contracts in the North East

Service Design
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 36 36 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Service Design 2 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.63% 0.59% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.74% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £503 - £484
25th Percentile £506 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile £519 - £616
90th Percentile £523 - £656
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the North East

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the North East

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -4 2 £513 - 14
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Virgin Media