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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 422 429
Rank change year-on-year -149 +7 -138
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 140 593 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.57% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.68% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 76 261 381
10th Percentile £46,869 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,050 £58,800 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -5.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Top 15 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 30 May 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 -113 122 £60,000 +2.04% 651
UK excluding London -122 72 £55,000 - 655
London +52 58 £63,750 -14.14% 82
Work from Home -41 40 £60,000 +3.51% 170
North of England -32 33 £55,000 -5.11% 148
North West -39 23 £55,000 -12.54% 68
East of England +32 15 £47,500 +8.57% 92
South East +38 9 £60,000 +20.00% 189
Yorkshire +37 8 £52,000 -10.29% 59
Scotland +27 8 £49,091 -16.51% 31
Midlands +49 5 £70,000 +21.74% 114
West Midlands +35 5 £70,000 +20.76% 63
South West +34 3 - - 77
North East +31 2 £50,000 -13.74% 21
Wales +33 1 £68,500 +45.74% 16

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 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.86%) CMS
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.43%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.14%) Azure
1 17 (12.14%) SaaS
2 10 (7.14%) AWS
3 8 (5.71%) GCP
4 7 (5.00%) Figma
4 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.14%) Miro
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.43%) IaaS
6 2 (1.43%) PaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.71%) GitHub
7 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) DHCP
2 5 (3.57%) NAS
2 5 (3.57%) SAN
2 5 (3.57%) VSAN
3 3 (2.14%) SMS
4 2 (1.43%) Firewall
4 2 (1.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.71%) 5G
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) LAN
5 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.71%) SNMP
5 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (5.00%) Power BI
1 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.71%) Metadata
5 1 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) JIRA
1 5 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.14%) Axure RP
2 3 (2.14%) Balsamiq
2 3 (2.14%) JMeter
2 3 (2.14%) Postman
2 3 (2.14%) TestRail
3 2 (1.43%) Gatling
3 2 (1.43%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) GitLab
3 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.43%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.71%) ERwin
4 1 (0.71%) JUnit
4 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 46 (32.86%) Finance
2 43 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.57%) Electronics
5 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.43%) Law
7 8 (5.71%) Banking
7 8 (5.71%) Local Government
8 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Legal
9 4 (2.86%) Marketing
9 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Billing
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.71%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (24.29%) Designer
2 29 (20.71%) Lead
3 28 (20.00%) Service Designer
4 15 (10.71%) Architect
4 15 (10.71%) Service Manager
5 13 (9.29%) Consultant
5 13 (9.29%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (8.57%) Managed Services Architect
7 8 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Service Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Senior
9 6 (4.29%) Service Design Manager
9 6 (4.29%) Service Transition Manager
9 6 (4.29%) Transition Manager
9 6 (4.29%) User Researcher
9 6 (4.29%) UX Designer
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) Middleware
2 3 (2.14%) .NET
2 3 (2.14%) JWT
2 3 (2.14%) OAuth
3 2 (1.43%) CSS
3 2 (1.43%) HTML
3 2 (1.43%) Kafka
3 2 (1.43%) LAMP
3 2 (1.43%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (1.43%) Node.js
3 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.43%) React
3 2 (1.43%) REST
3 2 (1.43%) RESTful
3 2 (1.43%) SAML
3 2 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.57%) e-Learning
2 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.14%) NHS
4 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.43%) Windows
2 8 (5.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.57%) Agile
2 42 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (29.29%) ITIL
4 40 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 34 (24.29%) Service Management
6 33 (23.57%) User Experience
7 27 (19.29%) User Research
7 27 (19.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 25 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.43%) DevOps
10 23 (16.43%) Risk Management
10 23 (16.43%) Service Delivery
11 21 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (13.57%) UX Design
13 18 (12.86%) IT Strategy
13 18 (12.86%) ITSM
14 17 (12.14%) Decision-Making
15 16 (11.43%) Prototyping
15 16 (11.43%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.00%) SQL
2 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.86%) Python
4 3 (2.14%) Bash
4 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.43%) ABAP
5 2 (1.43%) Java
6 1 (0.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.43%) Degree
3 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.29%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.86%) CISSP
7 4 (2.86%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.43%) APMG
9 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.57%) SLA
3 4 (2.86%) WCAG
4 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 4 (2.86%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) KVM
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Terraform
2 7 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.43%) CFEngine
4 2 (1.43%) Puppet
5 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.14%) Oracle
3 7 (5.00%) VMware
4 6 (4.29%) Google
5 5 (3.57%) SAP
6 3 (2.14%) Adobe
6 3 (2.14%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.14%) Facebook
6 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.14%) Workday
6 3 (2.14%) YouTube
7 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) BMC
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.71%) Remedy
8 1 (0.71%) Sparx