Service Design Consultant Contract Job Trends in Southend-on-Sea

Service Design Consultant
Essex > Southend-on-Sea

The median Service Design Consultant daily rate in Southend-on-Sea is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southend-on-Sea 7.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Southend-on-Sea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southend-on-Sea. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Southend-on-Sea with a recognized job title 14 3 7
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £243 - £131
25th Percentile £381 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £200 £163
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% +22.85% -45.73%
75th Percentile £656 - £238
90th Percentile £668 - £335
Essex median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile - - £16.38
25th Percentile £16.60 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £17.64 £200.00 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year -91.18% +1011.73% -54.96%
75th Percentile £18.67 - £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.60
Essex median hourly rate £17.73 £37.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -52.73% -36.97% +17.67%

Service Design Consultant Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, Service Design Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Southend-on-Sea region featuring Service Design Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation

Service Design Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC