Service Design Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Service Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 -29
Contract jobs citing Service Design 24 41 80
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.57% 2.48% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.75% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 33 64
10th Percentile £424 £402 £415
25th Percentile £456 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £498 £526 £581
90th Percentile £535 £628 £647
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 - -
Median hourly rate £28.09 - -
75th Percentile £29.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £32.64 -
% change year-on-year +83.85% - -

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 1,336 1,489 2,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.61% 89.92% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 879 1,329
10th Percentile £248 £240 £250
25th Percentile £400 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 44 54
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +29.42% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £40.10 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Scotland

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Scotland

Service Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Service Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Service Design

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 26 December 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 +4 15 £475 +13.77% 12
Glasgow -7 6 £478 -5.44% 9
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £469 -
Service Design
UK

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (8.33%) InVision
1 2 (8.33%) Sketch
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.17%) InDesign
2 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Figma
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Dagster
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.67%) webpack
2 2 (8.33%) Axure RP
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Designer
2 6 (25.00%) Service Designer
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (12.50%) User Researcher
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Content Designer
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Content Designer
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Designer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) UX Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Service Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) React
2 4 (16.67%) CSS
2 4 (16.67%) CSS3
2 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) HTML5
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
2 4 (16.67%) Redux
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.17%) JWT
5 1 (4.17%) NumPy
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) SpaCy
5 1 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) User Experience
3 11 (45.83%) UX Design
4 7 (29.17%) Design Thinking
4 7 (29.17%) User Research
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (20.83%) Prototyping
6 5 (20.83%) Wireframes
7 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 4 (16.67%) Coaching
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) Qualitative Research
7 4 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
7 4 (16.67%) Service Management
7 4 (16.67%) SOLID
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft