Hybrid/Remote Service Design Job Trends

Service Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Service Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 372 316
Rank change year-on-year +83 -56 +15
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 84 99 184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.50% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.55% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 64 61 165
10th Percentile £42,877 £42,200 £39,748
25th Percentile £48,238 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,756 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,720 £73,750 £87,000
UK median annual salary £55,117 £59,430 £62,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% -4.15% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,820 17,850 20,123
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.98% 89.77% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,725 10,738 16,290
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Service Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Service Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Service Design
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Service Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Service Design

Service Design
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Service Design over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Service Design salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Service Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (22.62%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) Figma
2 22 (26.19%) Miro
3 10 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (11.90%) SaaS
4 7 (8.33%) AWS
5 6 (7.14%) GCP
6 4 (4.76%) Azure
6 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.19%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.19%) Big Data
3 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Impala
3 1 (1.19%) Looker
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Axure RP
1 12 (14.29%) Balsamiq
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
General
1 30 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 23 (27.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.43%) Law
5 15 (17.86%) Finance
6 7 (8.33%) Digital Health
6 7 (8.33%) Retail
7 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Legal
7 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Back Office
8 3 (3.57%) Banking
9 2 (2.38%) Military
10 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 33 (39.29%) Designer
2 28 (33.33%) Service Designer
3 12 (14.29%) Lead
4 9 (10.71%) Analyst
4 9 (10.71%) Senior
5 6 (7.14%) Consultant
6 5 (5.95%) IT Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) SAP Financial Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Oracle Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Senior SAP Financial Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Service Design Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Service Transition Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Transition Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) User Researcher
7 4 (4.76%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.38%) CSS
2 2 (2.38%) HTML
2 2 (2.38%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.38%) RESTful
2 2 (2.38%) Swagger
3 1 (1.19%) JSON
3 1 (1.19%) MACH
3 1 (1.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) CMDB
3 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.38%) Blog
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
1 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Agile
2 30 (35.71%) User Experience
3 28 (33.33%) User Research
4 25 (29.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 23 (27.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (23.81%) Analytics
6 20 (23.81%) Community of Practice
7 18 (21.43%) Usability Testing
8 17 (20.24%) Prototyping
8 17 (20.24%) UX Design
9 15 (17.86%) Business Strategy
9 15 (17.86%) Coaching
9 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (17.86%) Journey Map
9 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (17.86%) Technology Strategy
10 14 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 14 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 14 (16.67%) Service Delivery
10 14 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (2.38%) Java
2 2 (2.38%) Python
3 1 (1.19%) Go
3 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.19%) R
3 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) Degree
1 29 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 14 (16.67%) WCAG
3 7 (8.33%) QA
4 6 (7.14%) COBIT
5 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Adobe
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (4.76%) Workday
5 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.19%) Google
6 1 (1.19%) HP
6 1 (1.19%) Informatica