Service Designer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Service Designer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Service Designer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 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
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 66 96
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.40% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.38% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £460 £461
25th Percentile £513 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £638
90th Percentile - £540 £705
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 722 783 1,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.40% 92.44% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 494 889
10th Percentile £300 £343 £319
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 19
10th Percentile - £16.94 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £24.59 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +215.17% +29.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £39.69 £21.78
90th Percentile - £48.75 £24.36
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £21.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +2.98% +4.88% +7.89%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in West Yorkshire

Service Designer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Designer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Designer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Service Designer
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 Designer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 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 3 £525 +5.00% 2
Service Designer
Yorkshire

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Miro
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) Co-Creation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management

Service Designer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Co-Creation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance