Service Design Contracts in the North West

Service Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 101 93 117
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Design 19 44 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 1.60% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.85% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 26
10th Percentile £371 £325 £450
25th Percentile £419 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -1.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £623
90th Percentile £685 £672 £675
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.52 - -
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
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester 0 10 £438 -2.78% 40
Lancashire +6 6 £475 - 13
Cheshire -1 2 £475 -25.49% 19
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) BGP
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) MPLS
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) OSPF
1 2 (10.53%) VLAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Head of Design
2 4 (21.05%) Head of IT
2 4 (21.05%) Head of IT Services
2 4 (21.05%) IT Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Service Design Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Service Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Service Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Network Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Content Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Digital UX Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.53%) LangChain
2 2 (10.53%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) IT Strategy
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
3 4 (21.05%) People Management
3 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (15.79%) Business Strategy
4 3 (15.79%) Cost Reduction
4 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Management
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Scorecard
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CCIE
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) JNCIE
3 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) F5
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) TOWER Software