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 £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 402 394
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 26 57 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.25% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 85
10th Percentile £398 £450 £421
25th Percentile £425 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +16.04% +6.00%
75th Percentile £597 £680 £625
90th Percentile £646 £763 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +14.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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
Scotland +34 11 £563 -8.72% 1
North of England +9 11 £425 -29.17% 1
Yorkshire +22 7 £425 -15.00% 1
West Midlands +31 4 £400 -20.00%
Midlands +30 4 £400 -11.11%
North West +15 4 £413 -36.54%
Service Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 26 (100.00%) Service Design
2 15 (57.69%) Prototyping
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 13 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 13 (50.00%) User Research
4 8 (30.77%) Coaching
5 7 (26.92%) User Experience
5 7 (26.92%) Interaction Design
5 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
6 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 6 (23.08%) Journey Map
6 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Co-Creation
7 5 (19.23%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (19.23%) Design Thinking
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Usability Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Ethnography
9 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
9 3 (11.54%) Sketch
9 3 (11.54%) Figma
9 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
9 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
9 3 (11.54%) Confluence
9 3 (11.54%) User Stories
9 3 (11.54%) Degree
9 3 (11.54%) JIRA
9 3 (11.54%) Adobe
9 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery

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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Sketch
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe XD
2 2 (7.69%) InVision
2 2 (7.69%) Zeplin
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Axure RP
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) CSS
1 2 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Service Design
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) Prototyping
3 13 (50.00%) User Research
3 13 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (30.77%) Coaching
5 7 (26.92%) Interaction Design
5 7 (26.92%) User Experience
6 6 (23.08%) Journey Map
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Co-Creation
7 5 (19.23%) Design Thinking
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Usability Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (15.38%) Ethnography
9 3 (11.54%) Change Management
9 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
9 3 (11.54%) User Stories
9 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Brio
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow