Service Design Architect Contracts

Service Design Architect
UK

The median Service Design Architect daily rate in the UK is £745 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 687 843
Rank change year-on-year +115 +156 -192
Contract jobs requiring a Service Design Architect 7 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.022% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.023% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile - £519 £513
25th Percentile - £558 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.13% +4.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile - £589 £631
90th Percentile - £615 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £560 £563
% change year-on-year - -0.44% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £59.00
25th Percentile - - £63.50
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Service Design Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design Architect in the UK

Service Design Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design Architect in the UK

Service Design Architect
Top 6 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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Work from Home +118 7 £745 +30.70%
England +113 6 £745 +27.35%
London +113 4 £745 +19.20%
UK excluding London +67 2 - -
Midlands +29 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -

Service Design Architect Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Service Design Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Service Design
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (42.86%) SIAM
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL

Service Design Architect 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:

General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Service Design
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) SIAM