Service Design Contracts in the South East

Service Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 134 161 144
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 -13
Contract jobs citing Service Design 25 44 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.79% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.93% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 61
10th Percentile £393 - £400
25th Percentile £491 £513 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £630 £813
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £17.80 -
England median hourly rate £31.52 £33.07 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.67% -42.50% +63.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 2025.

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 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
Hampshire +17 13 £510 -15.00% 30
Thames Valley +30 7 £606 +10.23% 48
Berkshire +19 6 £488 -11.40% 18
East Sussex - 2 £650 - 9
Kent - 2 £425 - 20
Oxfordshire +5 1 £850 +100.00% 10
West Sussex - 1 £318 - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Cloudflare
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) MPLS
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
1 5 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (12.00%) SSL
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.00%) NGFW
4 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Service Design Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Transition Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery Director
5 1 (4.00%) Services Director
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (24.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 5 (20.00%) Network Design
3 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 4 (16.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.00%) B2B
5 3 (12.00%) Business Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) ITSM
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Software Distribution
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) CCIE
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) WSUS
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco
1 5 (20.00%) Zscaler
2 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (16.00%) Citrix
2 4 (16.00%) F5
2 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) VMware