Service Design Jobs

Service Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 438 366
Rank change year-on-year -135 -72 +11
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 197 365 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.61% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 104 268 593
10th Percentile £42,215 £39,748 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,563 £49,236 £46,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +1.69% -4.30%
75th Percentile £75,125 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,498 £53,500
% change year-on-year +11.66% -3.74% +0.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,309 59,780 102,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.34% 89.55% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,978 43,902 64,334
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 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
England -85 176 £62,500 +8.70% 38
UK excluding London -132 110 £57,500 +11.66% 23
Work from Home -35 79 £57,465 -8.06% 31
London +21 77 £74,425 +6.21% 20
North of England -16 51 £55,000 +4.76% 7
North West -42 28 £55,000 - 2
Midlands -9 27 £62,500 +9.65% 1
West Midlands -20 22 £62,500 -3.05% 1
Yorkshire +22 16 £54,600 +6.02% 3
South West +2 10 £42,512 -10.50% 5
South East -42 9 £83,750 +65.35% 7
North East -7 7 £58,065 +22.24% 2
Scotland +5 5 £59,430 -8.57% 3
East Midlands +2 5 £56,700 +15.71%
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +24 3 £59,430 -8.57%
Wales +19 3 £42,512 -32.51%

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.11%) Confluence
1 14 (7.11%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.52%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.05%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.02%) 3ds Max
4 2 (1.02%) AutoCAD
4 2 (1.02%) Trello
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.51%) InDesign
5 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (7.11%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.15%) Azure
2 14 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.09%) AWS
4 7 (3.55%) dbt
5 6 (3.05%) GCP
6 5 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.03%) Figma
8 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.52%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.52%) SaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.02%) IaaS
9 2 (1.02%) PaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.68%) Broadband
2 14 (7.11%) 3GPP
3 11 (5.58%) BGP
3 11 (5.58%) MPLS
4 9 (4.57%) OSPF
5 4 (2.03%) Firewall
5 4 (2.03%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.52%) DHCP
6 3 (1.52%) DNS
6 3 (1.52%) NAS
6 3 (1.52%) SAN
6 3 (1.52%) SMS
6 3 (1.52%) VSAN
7 2 (1.02%) DMZ
7 2 (1.02%) LAN
7 2 (1.02%) VPN
7 2 (1.02%) WAN
7 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.02%) Wireless
7 2 (1.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.54%) Power BI
3 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.52%) Big Data
4 3 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
5 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.02%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.02%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 61 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.81%) Finance
3 31 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.69%) Telecoms
5 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (9.64%) Local Government
8 16 (8.12%) Police
8 16 (8.12%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (7.11%) Billing
10 11 (5.58%) Banking
11 10 (5.08%) Marketing
12 6 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.54%) Law
14 3 (1.52%) Legal
15 2 (1.02%) Electronics
15 2 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
15 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 47 (23.86%) Designer
2 37 (18.78%) Senior
3 33 (16.75%) Service Designer
4 26 (13.20%) Lead
5 22 (11.17%) Senior Designer
5 22 (11.17%) Service Manager
6 15 (7.61%) Architect
7 14 (7.11%) Support Specialist
7 14 (7.11%) Technical Specialist
7 14 (7.11%) Technical Support
7 14 (7.11%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (5.58%) IT Manager
8 11 (5.58%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) Senior Service Designer
9 10 (5.08%) Consultant
9 10 (5.08%) Content Designer
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Content Designer
9 10 (5.08%) Service Design Manager
9 10 (5.08%) Service Transition Manager
9 10 (5.08%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.05%) CSS
1 6 (3.05%) HTML
2 3 (1.52%) .NET
2 3 (1.52%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.52%) Entity Framework
2 3 (1.52%) Middleware
2 3 (1.52%) XML
2 3 (1.52%) XSLT
3 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.51%) HTML5
3 1 (0.51%) Kafka
3 1 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.11%) Management Information System
1 14 (7.11%) Wiki
2 13 (6.60%) NHS
3 9 (4.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.05%) Blog
5 6 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.54%) CMDB
6 5 (2.54%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.03%) Smart Energy
7 4 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.11%) Unix
2 6 (3.05%) Linux
3 5 (2.54%) Windows
4 2 (1.02%) Android
4 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.02%) CentOS
4 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.12%) Agile
2 59 (29.95%) ITIL
3 48 (24.37%) User Research
4 46 (23.35%) Service Delivery
5 36 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (17.26%) Service Management
7 32 (16.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 31 (15.74%) User Experience
9 29 (14.72%) Prototyping
10 27 (13.71%) Project Delivery
10 27 (13.71%) Workshop Facilitation
11 23 (11.68%) Problem Management
11 23 (11.68%) Project Management
12 22 (11.17%) ITSM
13 21 (10.66%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.15%) Business Case
14 20 (10.15%) Design Thinking
14 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (10.15%) Roadmaps
15 19 (9.64%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.66%) SQL
2 14 (7.11%) Shell Script
3 4 (2.03%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.52%) C#
4 3 (1.52%) C++
4 3 (1.52%) VB
5 2 (1.02%) Bash
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.51%) Python
6 1 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.51%) Scala
6 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (23.86%) Degree
2 24 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.63%) DBS Check
5 14 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.55%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.05%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.02%) IIBA
11 2 (1.02%) MBA
11 2 (1.02%) MCP
11 2 (1.02%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.51%) CCSP
12 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.69%) Accessibility
2 16 (8.12%) QA
3 9 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (2.54%) GDPR
6 5 (2.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.03%) PMO
8 2 (1.02%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.02%) NCSC
8 2 (1.02%) SLA
9 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.52%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (7.11%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
2 3 (1.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) Nessus
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 28 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle
3 18 (9.14%) NEC
4 16 (8.12%) ServiceNow
5 14 (7.11%) Amdocs
6 12 (6.09%) Cisco
7 9 (4.57%) Juniper
8 6 (3.05%) SAP
8 6 (3.05%) VMware
9 5 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.52%) Adobe
10 3 (1.52%) Facebook
10 3 (1.52%) Google
10 3 (1.52%) YouTube
11 2 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.51%) Dell
12 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.51%) Mercator
12 1 (0.51%) Nexthink