Service Design Contracts in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Service Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 56 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Design 4 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 2.10% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 2.40% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 24
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile £663 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £688 £555 £606
90th Percentile - £563 £785
Yorkshire median daily rate £638 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +30.77% -11.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Service Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds -11 4 £675 +25.58% 18
Service Design
Yorkshire

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow