Service Design Job Trends in London

Service Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Service Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 368 359
Rank change year-on-year +84 -9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 93 71 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.47% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 56 36 73
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,238 £56,034 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,213 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.30% +1.71% +13.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,594 £88,750
90th Percentile £77,375 £98,750 £109,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,060 15,127 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.26% 94.13% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,749 8,618 13,368
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £116,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in London

Service Design
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Service Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Service Design

Service Design
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in London

Service Design
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +48 13 £50,000 -41.18% 1
South London +38 1 £60,000 +41.14%
West London - 1 - - 5
East London - 1 £48,238 - 1
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.08%) InVision
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) SaaS
2 21 (22.58%) Figma
3 17 (18.28%) Miro
4 6 (6.45%) AWS
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.08%) Azure
6 1 (1.08%) GitHub
6 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Big Data
2 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Axure RP
2 12 (12.90%) Balsamiq
3 4 (4.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.15%) Git
5 1 (1.08%) GitLab
General
1 34 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (24.73%) Law
3 22 (23.66%) Aviation
3 22 (23.66%) Fire and Rescue
3 22 (23.66%) Police
4 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
5 15 (16.13%) Finance
6 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Digital Health
7 5 (5.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Retail
9 3 (3.23%) Back Office
9 3 (3.23%) Banking
9 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Marketing
10 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (38.71%) Designer
2 32 (34.41%) Service Designer
3 28 (30.11%) Service Manager
4 22 (23.66%) Operations Manager
4 22 (23.66%) Service Operations Manager
5 14 (15.05%) Senior
6 9 (9.68%) Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Lead
8 5 (5.38%) UX Designer
9 4 (4.30%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) SAP Financial Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Designer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior SAP Financial Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Service Designer
9 4 (4.30%) Transformation Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) CSS
1 3 (3.23%) HTML
2 2 (2.15%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.15%) RESTful
2 2 (2.15%) Swagger
3 1 (1.08%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.88%) Product Ownership
2 22 (23.66%) Robotics
3 4 (4.30%) CMDB
4 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.15%) Blog
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.08%) FMCG
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (67.74%) Agile
2 38 (40.86%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (36.56%) Service Delivery
4 33 (35.48%) Change Management
4 33 (35.48%) User Experience
5 31 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (31.18%) ITIL
6 29 (31.18%) User Research
7 27 (29.03%) DevOps
8 26 (27.96%) AI
8 26 (27.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (26.88%) Resource Allocation
9 25 (26.88%) Service Management
9 25 (26.88%) Software Engineering
10 24 (25.81%) Business Continuity
10 24 (25.81%) Observability
10 24 (25.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 23 (24.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 22 (23.66%) Customer Engagement
12 22 (23.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) SQL
2 2 (2.15%) Go
2 2 (2.15%) Java
2 2 (2.15%) Python
3 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 25 (26.88%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.11%) Accessibility
2 24 (25.81%) QA
3 14 (15.05%) WCAG
4 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.15%) COBIT
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Grafana
2 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Adobe
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle
2 4 (4.30%) SAP
2 4 (4.30%) Workday
3 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.15%) BMC
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.08%) Peregrine