Service Design Job Trends in Leeds

Service Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Service Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +24
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 24 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.82% 0.28% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 0.32% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 4
10th Percentile £41,743 £57,905 £50,925
25th Percentile £52,925 £63,463 £55,630
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,600 £63,984
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.59% +9.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,113 £74,688
90th Percentile - £90,295 £80,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £63,984
% change year-on-year -3.57% +9.40% -6.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Service Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,070 949 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.94% 87.55% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 710 546 883
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,367 £53,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.47% -5.36% +1.82%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

Service Design
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Service Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Service Design

Service Design
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in Leeds

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Military
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Designer
2 12 (50.00%) Service Designer
3 8 (33.33%) Lead
4 7 (29.17%) Lead Designer
4 7 (29.17%) Lead Service Designer
4 7 (29.17%) Senior
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Designer
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Service Designer
5 5 (20.83%) User Researcher
6 3 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
7 2 (8.33%) Administrator
8 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Change Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Engagement Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
8 1 (4.17%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) User Research
2 7 (29.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 6 (25.00%) Product Management
3 6 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (20.83%) Culture Change
4 5 (20.83%) Information Management
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) User Experience
5 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft