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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 374 425
Rank change year-on-year +134 +51 -65
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 187 46 160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.32% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 119 33 88
10th Percentile £44,972 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,478 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £62,200
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,777 £73,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.04% -9.54%

All Process & 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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 18 June 2026.

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 (1.60%) Confluence
1 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.07%) Camunda
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.32%) Adobe Analytics
1 38 (20.32%) Azure
2 36 (19.25%) AWS
3 29 (15.51%) GCP
4 15 (8.02%) SaaS
5 14 (7.49%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.88%) Google Analytics
7 6 (3.21%) PaaS
7 6 (3.21%) Serverless
8 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.60%) Miro
11 2 (1.07%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.07%) Slack
12 1 (0.53%) Asana
12 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.49%) Power BI
2 5 (2.67%) Metadata
2 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.07%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.53%) Balsamiq
General
1 68 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 50 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 45 (24.06%) Law
4 43 (22.99%) Finance
5 42 (22.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (21.39%) Games
7 22 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (10.70%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.35%) Retail
10 9 (4.81%) Financial Institution
10 9 (4.81%) Legal
11 8 (4.28%) Banking
12 7 (3.74%) Back Office
13 5 (2.67%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.60%) Social Science
15 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (23.53%) Lead
2 40 (21.39%) Senior
3 32 (17.11%) Designer
4 26 (13.90%) Architect
4 26 (13.90%) Delivery Manager
5 25 (13.37%) Service Manager
6 24 (12.83%) Service Designer
7 22 (11.76%) Senior Manager
8 20 (10.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 20 (10.70%) Analyst
8 20 (10.70%) IT Manager
8 20 (10.70%) IT Services Manager
9 18 (9.63%) Lead Designer
10 17 (9.09%) Digital Designer
10 17 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (7.49%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 13 (6.95%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
12 13 (6.95%) Service Design Manager
13 11 (5.88%) Lead Service Designer
14 10 (5.35%) Digital Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.81%) OpenAPI
1 9 (4.81%) RESTful
1 9 (4.81%) Swagger
2 5 (2.67%) Kafka
2 5 (2.67%) REST
2 5 (2.67%) Spring
3 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.07%) GeoJSON
4 2 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.07%) XBRL
4 2 (1.07%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.53%) NumPy
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.53%) Pandas
5 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.32%) Social Media
2 31 (16.58%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.67%) Blog
4 5 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (62.03%) Agile
2 70 (37.43%) User Research
3 62 (33.16%) Roadmaps
4 59 (31.55%) Analytics
5 52 (27.81%) Mentoring
6 51 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
7 50 (26.74%) AI
8 49 (26.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 47 (25.13%) Customer Experience
10 46 (24.60%) Journey Map
11 45 (24.06%) Workshop Facilitation
12 39 (20.86%) Empathy Maps
12 39 (20.86%) Storytelling
13 38 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (20.32%) DesignOps
13 38 (20.32%) Digital Customer Experience
13 38 (20.32%) Stakeholder Map
13 38 (20.32%) Systems Thinking
14 34 (18.18%) Community of Practice
15 33 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.49%) SQL
2 7 (3.74%) Java
3 3 (1.60%) Python
4 2 (1.07%) Bicep
4 2 (1.07%) Go
5 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 35 (18.72%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.60%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CCNA
6 1 (0.53%) CCNP
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) ISEB
6 1 (0.53%) LPIC
6 1 (0.53%) MCSE
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.53%) VCAP
6 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (25.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.67%) GDPR
3 4 (2.14%) QA
4 2 (1.07%) NCSC
4 2 (1.07%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 40 (21.39%) Adobe
2 20 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.42%) Google
4 6 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.14%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.07%) BMC
6 2 (1.07%) Databricks
6 2 (1.07%) Progress
6 2 (1.07%) VMware
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco
7 1 (0.53%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.53%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle