Service Designer Contracts

Service Designer
UK

The median Service Designer daily rate in the UK is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 504 503
Rank change year-on-year +68 -1 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 83 96 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 75 149
10th Percentile £305 £396 £450
25th Percentile £459 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £675
90th Percentile £657 £650 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -9.09% -10.57% +16.04%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Designer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +44 54 £518 +3.50% 20
London +23 40 £510 +2.00% 13
Work from Home +43 29 £500 -9.09% 11
UK excluding London +53 25 £500 -9.09% 10
Scotland +9 11 £531 -5.56% 2
North of England +22 5 £488 +14.71% 4
South West - 4 £600 - 1
North West +10 3 £475 +15.15% 2
Wales - 3 £306 - 2
Midlands +21 1 £625 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £625 +56.25% 1
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1
South East - 1 £850 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Service Design
2 34 (40.96%) Public Sector
3 30 (36.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 27 (32.53%) Agile
5 26 (31.33%) User Research
6 23 (27.71%) Journey Map
7 21 (25.30%) Workshop Facilitation
8 20 (24.10%) User Experience
9 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
10 16 (19.28%) SC Cleared
11 15 (18.07%) UX Design
11 15 (18.07%) Prototyping
11 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
12 14 (16.87%) Figma
13 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (13.25%) Accessibility
15 8 (9.64%) Design Thinking
15 8 (9.64%) Adobe
16 7 (8.43%) Change Management
16 7 (8.43%) Finance
16 7 (8.43%) Usability Testing
16 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 7 (8.43%) Adobe XD
16 7 (8.43%) Strategic Thinking
16 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
16 7 (8.43%) Interaction Design
17 6 (7.23%) User Journey Map
17 6 (7.23%) Co-Creation
17 6 (7.23%) Sketch
17 6 (7.23%) Systems Thinking

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Adobe XD
2 6 (7.23%) Sketch
3 1 (1.20%) Fusion 360
3 1 (1.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) Figma
2 5 (6.02%) Miro
3 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.41%) SaaS
4 1 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) AWS
4 1 (1.20%) Azure
4 1 (1.20%) GCP
4 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) 3G
1 1 (1.20%) 4G
1 1 (1.20%) 5G
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.20%) LTE
1 1 (1.20%) VLAN
1 1 (1.20%) VSAN
1 1 (1.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 34 (40.96%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Local Government
5 3 (3.61%) Retail
5 3 (3.61%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.41%) Police
6 2 (2.41%) Publishing
6 2 (2.41%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.61%) HTML
3 2 (2.41%) CSS
3 2 (2.41%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) React
4 1 (1.20%) RESTful
4 1 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.61%) NHS
4 2 (2.41%) Blog
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Service Design
2 30 (36.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 27 (32.53%) Agile
4 26 (31.33%) User Research
5 23 (27.71%) Journey Map
6 21 (25.30%) Workshop Facilitation
7 20 (24.10%) User Experience
8 15 (18.07%) Prototyping
8 15 (18.07%) UX Design
9 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.64%) Design Thinking
11 7 (8.43%) Change Management
11 7 (8.43%) Interaction Design
11 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.43%) Strategic Thinking
11 7 (8.43%) Usability Testing
12 6 (7.23%) Co-Creation
12 6 (7.23%) Mentoring
12 6 (7.23%) Systems Thinking
12 6 (7.23%) User Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
1 2 (2.41%) Python
2 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (2.41%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) WCAG
3 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) VMFS
2 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Adobe
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) VMware
5 1 (1.20%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.20%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.20%) Nokia
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Tenable
5 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media