Service Design Contracts in Reading

Service Design
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Service Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 88 85
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing Service Design 11 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.93% 0.097% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.11% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £539 - £340
25th Percentile £559 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £525
90th Percentile £712 - £615
Berkshire median daily rate £551 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +32.65% -17.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Service Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,061 934 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.99% 90.42% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 631 820
10th Percentile £213 £369 £256
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Reading

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Reading

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Reading

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (9.09%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
1 1 (9.09%) PaaS
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) MPLS
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Service Manager
2 4 (36.36%) IT Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Service Design Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Service Transition Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Transition Manager
3 3 (27.27%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Change Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
2 6 (54.55%) Service Management
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Cash Management
6 1 (9.09%) Change Management
6 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) ERP
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Network Design
6 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (9.09%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CCIE
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) Zscaler