Service Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 373 390
Rank change year-on-year +59 +17 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 25 26 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 40
10th Percentile £295 £398 £445
25th Percentile £414 £425 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £614
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.39% +15.80%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £680
90th Percentile £660 £646 £766
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £590
% change year-on-year +3.00% -15.25% +7.27%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the UK excluding London

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in the UK excluding London

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in the UK excluding London

Service Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Designer in the UK excluding London

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 Service Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +13 11 £531 -5.56% 2
North of England +17 5 £488 +14.71% 10
South West - 4 £600 -
North West +13 3 £475 +15.15% 5
Wales - 3 £306 - 2
Midlands +16 1 £625 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +12 1 £625 +56.25% 1
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £850 - 1
North East - 1 £500 - 4
Service Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Service Designer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Service Design
2 13 (52.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (44.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) Prototyping
6 7 (28.00%) User Research
7 6 (24.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (24.00%) Change Management
7 6 (24.00%) User Experience
8 5 (20.00%) Design Thinking
8 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (16.00%) Journey Map
9 4 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (16.00%) UX Design
10 3 (12.00%) Usability Testing
10 3 (12.00%) Test Management
10 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (12.00%) Coaching
10 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (12.00%) Defect Management
10 3 (12.00%) ITSM
10 3 (12.00%) Service Management
10 3 (12.00%) Oracle
10 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (12.00%) Degree
10 3 (12.00%) Finance
10 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
10 3 (12.00%) Wireframes
10 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (8.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Figma
2 2 (8.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Welsh Language
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Service Design
2 13 (52.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (28.00%) Prototyping
5 7 (28.00%) User Research
6 6 (24.00%) Change Management
6 6 (24.00%) User Experience
6 6 (24.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (20.00%) Design Thinking
8 4 (16.00%) Journey Map
8 4 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (16.00%) UX Design
9 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.00%) ITSM
9 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (12.00%) Service Management
9 3 (12.00%) Test Management
9 3 (12.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.00%) VMware