Service Designer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Designer
England > Yorkshire

The median Service Designer daily rate in Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 97 111
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.19% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £460 £466
25th Percentile £513 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £540
90th Percentile - £540 £645
England median daily rate £485 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -7.62% -8.70% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,451 1,352 1,999
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 90.13% 96.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 828 1,311
10th Percentile £250 £296 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £612
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 57 37
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.90 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +7.95% +67.05%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in Yorkshire

Service Designer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Service Designer
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 Designer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Yorkshire -6 3 £525 +5.00% 4
South Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Service Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 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 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