Service Design Job Trends in the South West

Service Design
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Service Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 188 189
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +39
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 8 6 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.14% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.16% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 26
10th Percentile £49,519 - £34,854
25th Percentile £60,475 £42,200 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £42,512 £43,624
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -2.55% -18.46%
75th Percentile £76,649 £51,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £82,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% -0.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,633 3,713 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.94% 83.64% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 1,936 2,965
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +0.81% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,375 £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 West

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in the South West

Service Design
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Service Design
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design in the South West over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the South West

Service Design
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Wiltshire - 4 £74,683 - 4
Bristol +17 2 - - 2
Gloucestershire +26 1 £42,215 -57.79%
Devon -3 1 £63,950 +50.43%
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) EDMS
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Head of Design
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (12.50%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Animation
1 1 (12.50%) Blog
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Budget Management
2 3 (37.50%) Business Case
2 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
2 3 (37.50%) Culture Change
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
2 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Document Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft