Service Design Job Trends in the North East

Service Design
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Service Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 81 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 -27 +33
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 5 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.49% 0.72% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.82% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £47,003 £54,430 £42,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,774 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £58,065 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.63% -3.23% -31.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,574 £66,150
90th Percentile £69,000 £62,049 £68,340
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 834 850 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.97% 87.27% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 546 394 404
10th Percentile £25,592 £30,825 £28,075
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,591 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,745 £85,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in the North East

Service Design
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Service Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Service Design

Service Design
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the North East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the North East

Service Design
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Tyne and Wear +12 5 £63,076 - 10
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (20.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Impala
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Service Designer
1 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior User Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Coaching
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (40.00%) User Research
1 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica