Service Design Manager Contracts

Service Design Manager
UK

The median Service Design Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 698 814
Rank change year-on-year +146 +116 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Manager 26 18 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.030% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.032% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 45
10th Percentile £500 £420 £453
25th Percentile £506 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £563
90th Percentile £594 - £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +16.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Service Design Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design Manager in the UK

Service Design Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design Manager.

Daily rate trend for Service Design Manager in the UK

Service Design Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +119 25 £550 -8.33% 3
Work from Home +138 15 £550 +22.22%
London +117 13 £550 -13.73% 3
UK excluding London +61 9 £525 -2.33%
South East +24 4 £575 +43.75%
North of England +24 2 £563 -2.17%
Yorkshire +19 2 £563 -4.26%
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
Midlands - 2 £500 -
East of England - 1 £500 -

Service Design Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Service Design Manager 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 Service Design Manager in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Service Design
2 15 (57.69%) Service Management
2 15 (57.69%) ITIL
3 11 (42.31%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Project Management
4 9 (34.62%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (30.77%) Process Improvement
5 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
7 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
7 6 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (23.08%) Scrum
7 6 (23.08%) Legal
7 6 (23.08%) Six Sigma
7 6 (23.08%) Lean Six Sigma
7 6 (23.08%) Kanban
7 6 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (15.38%) ITSM
8 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
8 4 (15.38%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) JIRA
9 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
9 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (7.69%) Requirements Management

Service Design Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
1 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
1 6 (23.08%) Legal
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Service Design
2 15 (57.69%) ITIL
2 15 (57.69%) Service Management
3 11 (42.31%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Acceptance Criteria
4 9 (34.62%) Project Management
5 8 (30.77%) Process Improvement
5 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
7 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (23.08%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (23.08%) Kanban
7 6 (23.08%) Lean Six Sigma
7 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (23.08%) Scrum
7 6 (23.08%) Six Sigma
8 4 (15.38%) DevOps
8 4 (15.38%) ITSM
8 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy