Service Design Contracts in Scotland

Service Design
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 66 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 -25 +16
Contract jobs citing Service Design 57 112 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.58% 3.92% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 4.23% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 91 155
10th Percentile £364 £405 £397
25th Percentile £450 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -3.24% +6.87%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £580
90th Percentile £646 £623 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
Edinburgh +8 32 £460 -9.45% 2
Glasgow -9 20 £575 +9.52% 2
South Lanarkshire -4 1 - -
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 9 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) WordPress
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.75%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (22.81%) Serverless
3 11 (19.30%) Amazon S3
3 11 (19.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (7.02%) Rekognition
5 4 (7.02%) Textract
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.51%) Azure
7 1 (1.75%) Figma
7 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.75%) Big Data
4 1 (1.75%) DB2
4 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.75%) HBase
4 1 (1.75%) Looker
4 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) JIRA
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.26%) webpack
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 30 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Electronics
5 4 (7.02%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
5 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Designer
2 11 (19.30%) Service Designer
3 10 (17.54%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 9 (15.79%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 6 (10.53%) Product Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Designer
7 4 (7.02%) Automation Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
7 4 (7.02%) UX Designer
8 3 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Service Designer
8 3 (5.26%) User Researcher
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Senior UX Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) AWS CDK
2 9 (15.79%) HTML
3 7 (12.28%) CSS
3 7 (12.28%) React
4 3 (5.26%) CSS3
4 3 (5.26%) HTML5
4 3 (5.26%) Node.js
4 3 (5.26%) Redux
4 3 (5.26%) RESTful
5 2 (3.51%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.75%) COM+
6 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.75%) Kafka
6 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) Agile
2 24 (42.11%) User Research
3 23 (40.35%) Product Management
3 23 (40.35%) User Experience
4 17 (29.82%) Coaching
4 17 (29.82%) Roadmaps
5 15 (26.32%) User Stories
6 14 (24.56%) Epics
6 14 (24.56%) Scrum
7 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (15.79%) Business Analysis
9 9 (15.79%) DevOps
9 9 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
9 9 (15.79%) Kanban
10 8 (14.04%) Backlog Management
10 8 (14.04%) Prototyping
10 8 (14.04%) UX Design
11 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) TypeScript
2 8 (14.04%) Python
3 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.53%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) Accessibility
2 8 (14.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (7.02%) WCAG
4 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Grafana
2 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Cadence
2 4 (7.02%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) F5
3 2 (3.51%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Splunk