Service Design Job Trends in the South East

Service Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 236 297 234
Rank change year-on-year +61 -63 +20
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 33 11 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.12% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.13% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 23
10th Percentile £51,375 £47,875 £40,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +32.55% -17.92%
75th Percentile £73,125 £87,188 £60,125
90th Percentile £76,125 £90,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,460 8,247 6,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.64% 87.42% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,046 4,148 4,687
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in the South East

Service Design
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Service Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Service Design in the South East

Service Design
Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley +22 18 £62,000 +55.00% 1
Buckinghamshire - 10 £62,000 -
Hampshire +43 9 £60,000 -28.36% 2
Berkshire +10 8 £72,500 +81.25% 1
Surrey +5 3 £87,500 +66.67% 1
Kent -6 3 £54,000 -31.65%
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Figma
2 4 (12.12%) Miro
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Axure RP
1 3 (9.09%) Balsamiq
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Public Sector
2 12 (36.36%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 8 (24.24%) Law
5 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Marketing
7 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (6.06%) Electronics
8 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (3.03%) Banking
9 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (3.03%) Legal
9 1 (3.03%) Local Government
9 1 (3.03%) Police
9 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Designer
2 8 (24.24%) Service Designer
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (18.18%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Service Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Service Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business Sales Executive
6 2 (6.06%) Digital Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.06%) New Business Sales Executive
6 2 (6.06%) Sales Executive
6 2 (6.06%) Service Design Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Service Transition Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Sales Executive
6 2 (6.06%) Transition Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
1 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Agile
1 12 (36.36%) ITIL
2 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (30.30%) Technology Strategy
4 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (27.27%) User Experience
5 8 (24.24%) Community of Practice
5 8 (24.24%) User Research
6 7 (21.21%) ITSM
6 7 (21.21%) Service Management
6 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (18.18%) Prototyping
8 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
8 5 (15.15%) Usability Testing
8 5 (15.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (12.12%) Analytics
9 4 (12.12%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (12.12%) Kanban
9 4 (12.12%) Scrum
9 4 (12.12%) SIAM
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.12%) WCAG
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Adobe
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) VMware
2 2 (6.06%) BMC
2 2 (6.06%) HubSpot
2 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.03%) OneLogin
3 1 (3.03%) PeopleSoft