Service Design Contracts in Scotland

Service Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 86 73 64
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 -26
Contract jobs citing Service Design 30 57 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 2.57% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.90% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 91
10th Percentile £402 £364 £405
25th Percentile £416 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £508
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.39% -3.24%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £573
90th Percentile £600 £646 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Scotland

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Scotland

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Scotland

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in Scotland

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -9 18 £475 +3.32% 4
Glasgow -8 9 £505 -12.13% 2
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £500 - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £463 -
Service Design
UK

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.67%) Sketch
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (13.33%) SaaS
2 3 (10.00%) Figma
3 2 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) webpack
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 19 (63.33%) Public Sector
2 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Designer
1 11 (36.67%) Service Designer
2 9 (30.00%) Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Business Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Designer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (6.67%) User Researcher
6 2 (6.67%) UX Designer
6 2 (6.67%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Developer
7 1 (3.33%) SCCM Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) React
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) CSS3
3 2 (6.67%) HTML5
3 2 (6.67%) Redux
3 2 (6.67%) Vue
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) CMDB
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) User Research
2 11 (36.67%) User Experience
3 10 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (26.67%) UX Design
6 7 (23.33%) Business Analysis
6 7 (23.33%) Prototyping
7 6 (20.00%) Analytics
7 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (20.00%) Usability Testing
7 6 (20.00%) Wireframes
7 6 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 5 (16.67%) Design Thinking
8 5 (16.67%) Microservices
9 4 (13.33%) Coaching
9 4 (13.33%) Data Security
9 4 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (13.33%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.00%) Python
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (10.00%) WCAG
4 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.33%) PMO
5 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow