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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 94 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 19 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.62% 0.24% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £41,075 £57,905 £59,896
25th Percentile £43,308 £63,463 £62,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £74,600 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% +1.15% +63.89%
75th Percentile £65,480 £85,113 £85,313
90th Percentile £70,500 £90,295 £85,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £70,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -21.10% -5.08% -6.35%

All Process and 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 1,011 1,033 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.26% 83.44% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 688 605 954
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.42% -4.35% +4.55%

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 6 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Designer
2 8 (42.11%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Service Designer
3 6 (31.58%) User Researcher
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Designer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Service Designer
5 3 (15.79%) Interaction Designer
5 3 (15.79%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Administrator
6 2 (10.53%) Senior User Researcher
7 1 (5.26%) Change Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Engagement Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Service Designer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Change Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Engagement Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) User Research
2 8 (42.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (31.58%) Interaction Design
4 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 6 (31.58%) Product Management
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Culture Change
5 5 (26.32%) Information Management
5 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Information Security
6 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft