Service Design Consultant Contract Job Trends

Service Design Consultant
UK

The median Service Design Consultant daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 555 630
Rank change year-on-year +4 +75 +199
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Consultant 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.005% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.006% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £498 - £595
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

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 30,142 34,441 45,147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.84% 92.92% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,024 20,756 30,859
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 1,385 1,538
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +66.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £40.33 £43.83
% change year-on-year -38.95% -7.99% +94.78%

Service Design Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Design Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Service Design Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Service Design Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Design Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Design Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Service Design Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design Consultant over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design Consultant in the UK

Service Design Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Design Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Design Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Service Design Consultant
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 20 October 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 +12 10 £650 +18.18% 1
UK excluding London - 9 £650 - 1
South East - 8 £650 -
London +17 1 £500 -9.09%
East of England - 1 £550 - 1

Service Design Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, 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 featuring Service Design Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Service Design
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (80.00%) Presales
4 4 (40.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) Critical Success Factor
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (30.00%) Product Management
5 3 (30.00%) Traceability Matrix
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 1 (10.00%) ITSM
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (10.00%) Remedy
7 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
7 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) User Research
7 1 (10.00%) Windows
7 1 (10.00%) Windows 10

Service Design Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Service Design
2 8 (80.00%) Presales
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Critical Success Factor
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Product Management
4 3 (30.00%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (10.00%) ITSM
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) User Research
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow