Service Design Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 110 137
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 +16
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 20 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.23% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £41,075 £56,860 £59,896
25th Percentile £43,308 £60,850 £62,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £70,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% -5.08% -6.35%
75th Percentile £65,480 £83,125 £85,313
90th Percentile £70,500 £89,500 £85,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £52,500 £51,498
% change year-on-year +5.21% +1.95% +14.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,438 1,392 1,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.11% 82.27% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 865 740 1,418
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.10% - -1.87%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Service Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Service Design

Service Design
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Service Design in West Yorkshire

Service Design
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Leeds +16 19 £55,233 -25.96% 5
Halifax - 1 - -
Service Design
Yorkshire

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Designer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Service Designer
3 6 (30.00%) User Researcher
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Designer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Service Designer
5 3 (15.00%) Interaction Designer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Administrator
6 2 (10.00%) Senior User Researcher
7 1 (5.00%) Change Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Engagement Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Service Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Change Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) User Research
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (30.00%) Interaction Design
3 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Product Management
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Culture Change
4 5 (25.00%) Information Management
4 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft