Service Design Contracts in Yorkshire

Service Design
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 87 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Design 5 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% 1.54% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.78% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 28
10th Percentile £595 £418 £437
25th Percentile £606 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £669 £541 £600
90th Percentile £680 £556 £765
England median daily rate £545 £539 £563
% change year-on-year +1.21% -4.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Yorkshire

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Yorkshire

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in Yorkshire

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -2 4 £675 +25.58% 41
South Yorkshire +5 1 £600 +41.18% 20
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Research
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow