Service Designer Contracts in the North of England

Service Designer
England > North of England

The median Service Designer daily rate in the North of England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 184 219
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 11 32 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.58% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 23
10th Percentile £403 £475 £383
25th Percentile £417 £493 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £461 £675 £599
90th Percentile £514 £688 £638
England median daily rate £500 £590 £552
% change year-on-year -15.25% +6.88% +16.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,455 5,556 6,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.15% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 3,917 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £284 £200
25th Percentile £381 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £592 £550
90th Percentile £672 £677 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 167 297
10th Percentile £11.03 £13.77 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.54 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -34.51% +63.45% +3.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.19 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.30 £50.31
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the North of England

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Designer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in the North of England

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in the North of England

Service Designer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +18 7 £425 -15.00% 1
North West +11 4 £413 -36.54%
Service Designer
England

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Service Design
2 8 (72.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 8 (72.73%) User Research
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Coaching
4 5 (45.45%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (45.45%) Prototyping
4 5 (45.45%) Interaction Design
5 4 (36.36%) Journey Map
5 4 (36.36%) Ethnography
6 3 (27.27%) Usability Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
7 2 (18.18%) Backlog Management
7 2 (18.18%) User Journey Map
7 2 (18.18%) Customer Journey Map
7 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 2 (18.18%) Axure RP
7 2 (18.18%) User Stories
7 2 (18.18%) Qualitative Research
7 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
7 2 (18.18%) Empathy Maps
7 2 (18.18%) Business Model Canvas
7 2 (18.18%) Ethnographic Research
7 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering

Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
1 2 (18.18%) InVision
1 2 (18.18%) Sketch
1 2 (18.18%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Service Design
2 8 (72.73%) User Research
2 8 (72.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Coaching
4 5 (45.45%) Interaction Design
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Prototyping
4 5 (45.45%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (36.36%) Ethnography
5 4 (36.36%) Journey Map
6 3 (27.27%) Usability Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 2 (18.18%) Ergonomics
7 2 (18.18%) Ethnographic Research
7 2 (18.18%) Qualitative Research
7 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Brio