Service Design Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Service Design
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 44 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Design 41 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 6.87% 2.54% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 2.99% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 2 4
10th Percentile £437 £879 £506
25th Percentile £713 £884 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £913 £579
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +57.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £738 £934 £672
90th Percentile - £936 £700
South West median daily rate £725 £600 £617
% change year-on-year +20.83% -2.68% +2.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 495 402 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.91% 85.17% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 272 501
10th Percentile £400 £340 £313
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 14
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £36.40 £16.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +27.80% -28.32%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £67.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £74.75
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Service Design

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Wiltshire

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Corsham +21 38 £725 - 5
Swindon 0 2 - - 2
Salisbury - 1 £553 -
Service Design
South West

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 30 (73.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (73.17%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (73.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.44%) AWS
1 1 (2.44%) Azure
1 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 30 (73.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) Mocha
General
1 32 (78.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (75.61%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (75.61%) Military
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Architect
2 30 (73.17%) Service Architect
3 4 (9.76%) User Researcher
4 1 (2.44%) Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Business Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Consultant
4 1 (2.44%) Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Head of Design
4 1 (2.44%) IT Manager
4 1 (2.44%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Lead
4 1 (2.44%) Management Consultant
4 1 (2.44%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Research Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Service Designer
4 1 (2.44%) Service Management Consultant
4 1 (2.44%) Service Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.44%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Express.js
1 1 (2.44%) Jest
1 1 (2.44%) JWT
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) ModSecurity
1 1 (2.44%) NestJS
1 1 (2.44%) Node.js
1 1 (2.44%) OAuth
1 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.44%) REST
1 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (73.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) CMDB
2 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) Agile
1 32 (78.05%) ITIL
1 32 (78.05%) Service Management
2 31 (75.61%) Acceptance Criteria
2 31 (75.61%) Knowledge Transfer
3 30 (73.17%) Analytical Thinking
3 30 (73.17%) Business Continuity
3 30 (73.17%) Critical Thinking
3 30 (73.17%) Security Patching
3 30 (73.17%) TOGAF
4 6 (14.63%) User Research
5 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
5 4 (9.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.88%) DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) ITSM
6 2 (4.88%) Qualitative Research
6 2 (4.88%) Quantitative Research
6 2 (4.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.88%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (95.12%) SC Cleared
3 30 (73.17%) Degree
3 30 (73.17%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.44%) APMP
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (73.17%) OPNET
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (78.05%) Remedy
1 32 (78.05%) ServiceNow
2 30 (73.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.44%) BMC
3 1 (2.44%) Foundry
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.44%) Talend