Service Design Contracts in the South East

Service Design
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 142 131
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Design 44 77 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 1.33% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.49% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 60 82
10th Percentile - £400 £425
25th Percentile £513 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +19.57%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £618
90th Percentile £630 £813 £696
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.13
Median hourly rate £17.80 - £57.25
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.07 £57.50 £35.08
% change year-on-year -42.50% +63.93% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,162 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 89.29% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 3,578 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 221 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.26 £23.00 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.79 £63.45
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the South East

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in the South East

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in the South East

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in the South East

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire +11 22 £600 -20.00% 5
Thames Valley -32 20 £550 +19.57% 2
Berkshire -20 18 £550 +32.59% 1
Surrey +14 4 - -
Buckinghamshire 0 1 £550 +15.79% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 -
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.27%) PaaS
3 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) WAN
2 2 (4.55%) MPLS
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) 5G
3 1 (2.27%) NAS
3 1 (2.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Finance
2 1 (2.27%) Law
2 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.27%) Retail
2 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (56.82%) Architect
2 23 (52.27%) Service Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Service Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Service Design Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Service Transition Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Transition Manager
5 4 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 4 (9.09%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.82%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Change Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Data Centre Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Developer
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Manager
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Service Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.27%) PMI
2 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) ITIL
2 24 (54.55%) Service Management
3 10 (22.73%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Project Delivery
5 8 (18.18%) IT4IT
6 6 (13.64%) Business Continuity
6 6 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (13.64%) ITSM
6 6 (13.64%) Service Catalogue
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
8 4 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.82%) SIAM
10 2 (4.55%) Product Roadmap
10 2 (4.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) CCIE
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (2.27%) Blue Prism
1 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
1 1 (2.27%) Cisco
1 1 (2.27%) Citrix
1 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle
1 1 (2.27%) SAP
1 1 (2.27%) Zscaler