Service Design Jobs in the North West

Service Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Service Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Service Design over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 182 206
Rank change year-on-year -83 +24 +17
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 13 85 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.96% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.23% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6 55 25
10th Percentile £34,250 £38,750 £40,397
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £43,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £57,965 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -24.52% -3.79% +13.44%
75th Percentile £52,813 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £69,543 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,914
% change year-on-year - -7.57% +8.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,815 6,936 5,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 78.62% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 4,460 3,421
10th Percentile £26,008 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,996
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £51,244 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -6.83% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Design in the North West.

Salary trend for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the North West over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the North West

Service Design
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Manchester -9 12 £37,500 -36.22% 16
Cheshire - 1 £52,500 - 2
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Service Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Service Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Service Transition Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.69%) JWT
1 1 (7.69%) LangChain
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) User Experience
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 4 (30.77%) User Research
4 4 (30.77%) UX Design
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
5 3 (23.08%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) ITSM
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft