Service Design Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 65 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Design 20 4 21
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.21% 0.53% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 0.62% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 10
10th Percentile £383 £464 £397
25th Percentile £455 £484 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -5.49% +8.33%
75th Percentile £505 £609 £597
90th Percentile £536 £641 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £515
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.37% -1.90%

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 780 648 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.38% 86.28% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 399 710
10th Percentile £285 £310 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.38 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.14 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £39.44 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £84.52 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Service Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 December 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 +4 17 £500 -6.98% 7
Halifax - 3 £513 -
Service Design
Yorkshire

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (10.00%) Miro
1 2 (10.00%) Serverless
2 1 (5.00%) Figma
2 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.00%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Power Query
1 1 (5.00%) QlikView
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Health
6 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Designer
2 4 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (10.00%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Django
1 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (10.00%) FHIR
1 2 (10.00%) Flask
1 2 (10.00%) Vue
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) NHS
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 5 (25.00%) User Research
3 5 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (15.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) R
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) ISEB
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) HL7
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Brio
1 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk
1 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media