Senior Service Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Service Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 367 426
Rank change year-on-year +1 +59 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Service Designer 4 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.064% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.070% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £590 £576
25th Percentile - £600 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile - £663 £706
90th Percentile - £684 £710
UK median daily rate £505 £625 £673
% change year-on-year -19.20% -7.06% +7.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,740 17,205 21,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.04% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,419 10,528 14,329
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 1,846 1,173
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.69 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.59 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +11.69% +81.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.39% +0.96% +65.50%

Senior Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Service Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Service Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Scotland -2 3 £650 -3.20% 1
South West +33 1 - - 1
Senior Service Designer
UK

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 August 2025, Senior Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Service Designer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) WCAG
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe