Senior Service Designer Contracts

Senior Service Designer
UK

The median Senior Service Designer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 570 695
Rank change year-on-year +69 +125 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Service Designer 19 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.028% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.030% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 18
10th Percentile £477 £385 £535
25th Percentile £525 £513 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £628 £621
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +1.01% -0.60%
75th Percentile - £665 £676
90th Percentile £707 £690 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £580 £618
% change year-on-year +7.76% -6.07% +2.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Service Designer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Service Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Service Designer in the UK

Senior Service Designer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +60 12 £575 +4.55% 4
London +46 10 £563 -16.36% 3
UK excluding London +58 5 £625 +7.76% 3
Work from Home +40 3 £660 -3.08% 5
Scotland +13 3 £650 -1.52% 1
North of England +15 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +6 1 - -
South West - 1 £600 -

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Senior Service Designer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Service Design
2 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
3 7 (36.84%) User Research
3 7 (36.84%) User Experience
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) UX Design
4 5 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (21.05%) Interaction Design
5 4 (21.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (21.05%) Journey Map
5 4 (21.05%) Design Thinking
6 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Information Governance
7 2 (10.53%) Line Management
7 2 (10.53%) Microservices
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (10.53%) Degree
7 2 (10.53%) ITIL
7 2 (10.53%) Python
7 2 (10.53%) Usability Testing
7 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
7 2 (10.53%) PRINCE
7 2 (10.53%) Data Security

Senior Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.26%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Figma
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Police
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Service Design
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) User Experience
2 7 (36.84%) User Research
3 5 (26.32%) UX Design
3 5 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (21.05%) Design Thinking
4 4 (21.05%) Interaction Design
4 4 (21.05%) Journey Map
4 4 (21.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Information Governance
6 2 (10.53%) Line Management
6 2 (10.53%) PRINCE
6 2 (10.53%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe