Service Design Contract Job Trends in Reading

Service Design
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Design 8 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.97% 1.40% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.50% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile £92 £508 £496
25th Percentile £100 £575 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £641 £575
Median % change year-on-year -56.34% +11.52% +12.20%
75th Percentile £475 £699 £591
90th Percentile £625 £722 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £369 £641 £563
% change year-on-year -42.50% +13.95% +18.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.50 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £101.75 - -
90th Percentile £104.30 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 733 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.67% 93.61% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 400 639
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +3.81% -0.94%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £618
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 34
10th Percentile £30.10 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £58.00 £29.00 £53.80
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.76 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% +0.22% -5.20%
75th Percentile £98.13 £64.73 £66.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £86.97
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.25 £61.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year +1.23% +2.37% -1.17%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Reading

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Reading over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Reading

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Viva Engage
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 6 (75.00%) MODAF
1 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 6 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 6 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (62.50%) ArchiMate
2 5 (62.50%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Journey Map
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Trade-off Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) UX Design
3 1 (12.50%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media