1 to 25 of 42 Contract Service Design Jobs in the UK excluding London

Service Design & Transition Analyst - FTC A leading financial services corporation is hiring a Service Design & Transition Analyst to join my clients IT Service Operations team on a 6-month FTC to be based in either Chatham or Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis paying between £51,000 to £57,000. In this role, you’ll ensure … changing services are designed and transitioned into live operation with rigour, resilience, and alignment to best practice. Ideally the chosen candidate will have several years experience within a dedicated Service Design position with exposure to Azure Virtual Desktop to join a maturing Service Design practice. What you’ll do: Manage end-to-end Service Design & Transition activities across projects. Work with Project Managers and IT teams to deliver robust support models and service readiness. Contribute to Go/No-Go decisions, ensuring operational resilience and acceptance criteria are met. Support continual improvement of Service Design standards and processes. Collaborate across IT, vendors, and business units to ensure seamless service integration. More ❯

Service Design & Transition Analyst - FTC A leading financial services corporation is hiring a Service Design & Transition Analyst to join my clients IT Service Operations team on a 6-month FTC to be based in either Chatham or Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis paying between £51,000 to £57,000. In this role, you’ll ensure … changing services are designed and transitioned into live operation with rigour, resilience, and alignment to best practice. Ideally the chosen candidate will have several years experience within a dedicated Service Design position with exposure to Azure Virtual Desktop to join a maturing Service Design practice. What you’ll do: Manage end-to-end Service Design & Transition activities across projects. Work with Project Managers and IT teams to deliver robust support models and service readiness. Contribute to Go/No-Go decisions, ensuring operational resilience and acceptance criteria are met. Support continual improvement of Service Design standards and processes. Collaborate across IT, vendors, and business units to ensure seamless service integration. More ❯

Job Title: SAP - Service Design and Transition Manager Duration: 6 Months Location: Telford Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite Rate: 450 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Role Overview: The SAP IT Service Design and Transition Manager is responsible for ensuring new and modified IT services are designed, validated, and transitioned into the live environment in a … structured, efficient, and risk-mitigated manner. This role requires a strong blend of service design, change management, and stakeholder engagement, and works closely with project teams, technical architects, and Service Operations. Skills: ServiceNow Microsoft Excel ITIL Microsoft Office Core Responsibilities: Coordinate the design of new or changed services, ensuring they meet functional and non-functional requirements. … Ensure all service design packages (SDPs) are complete, accurate, and approved. Validate that services are designed for operability, supportability, scalability, and compliance. Plan and manage service transition activities across the full lifecycle, ensuring minimal disruption to existing services. Ensure new services or changes are seamlessly transitioned into Live operations, meeting performance and availability standards. Ensure service More ❯

Job Title: SAP - Service Design and Transition Manager Duration: 6 Months Location: Telford Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite Rate: £450 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Role Overview: The SAP IT Service Design and Transition Manager is responsible for ensuring new and modified IT services are designed, validated, and transitioned into the live environment in a … structured, efficient, and risk-mitigated manner. This role requires a strong blend of service design, change management, and stakeholder engagement, and works closely with project teams, technical architects, and Service Operations. Skills: ServiceNow Microsoft Excel ITIL Microsoft Office Core Responsibilities: Coordinate the design of new or changed services, ensuring they meet functional and non-functional requirements. … Ensure all service design packages (SDPs) are complete, accurate, and approved. Validate that services are designed for operability, supportability, scalability, and compliance. Plan and manage service transition activities across the full lifecycle, ensuring minimal disruption to existing services. Ensure new services or changes are seamlessly transitioned into Live operations, meeting performance and availability standards. Ensure service More ❯

Service Designer, SC Cleared We are seeking a highly experienced Service Designer with a strong track record of delivering end-to-end, user-centred services in the public sector. This role requires a deep understanding of Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and principles, and the ability to lead complex design initiatives that align with policy intent … needs, and organisational objectives. Rate - £600.00 per day inside ir35 Location - Remote working with occasional travel on client site Duration - 6 Months Clearance - SC Cleared Key Skills Lead the design of end-to-end services that effectively deliver on user needs and policy objectives Ensure accessibility, usability, and inclusivity across all touchpoints and service journeys Map and analyse … complex service ecosystems to identify pain points, opportunities, and interdependencies Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, including policy, operations, delivery, product, system design, and other user-centred design disciplines Engage in open and transparent design practices, sharing insights and collaborating with internal teams and wider stakeholders (subject to information security protocols) Produce detailed mappings of current ('as More ❯

Service Design & Transition (SD&T) Manager Contract Type: Inside IR35 Start Date: 3rd November Clearance: SC Clearance (must already hold) Location: 2 days per week on-site in Telford (Central Government project) We are seeking a Service Design & Transition (SD&T) Manager to play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of major Central Government … projects . This role is central to ensuring that new services are designed, transitioned, and implemented effectively, with a strong focus on service assurance and operational readiness. As part of the SD&T function, you will ensure that service components are delivered to the highest standard, guiding project teams throughout the delivery lifecycle - from initial development through to … live service. You will proactively identify service risks, mitigate impacts on service provision, and confirm operational readiness is achieved before go-live. You will also contribute to the wider SD&T community by sharing best practice, patterns, and standards, while supporting and coaching colleagues. Key Responsibilities: Develop support models and diagrams for components delivered by project teams. Ensure More ❯

Service Design & Transition Manager Initial 6 month contract (likely to extend) Portsmouth 1-2 days a week onsite c£530 a day (inside IR35) We're on the look out for a Service Design & Transformation Manager to work on an ongoing and constantly evolving Cyber Security Programme of work. The Programme is in place to ensure … will involve either transformation or change to existing contracted IT Services or supporting the introduction of new Services and it is vital that any change are introduced smoothly into service, on-time, and in the most cost-efficient manner avoiding any disruption to production services. The Service Transformation Lead will own the migration of any new or changing … service smoothly into a fully supported, live operation and will work with the Cyber Programme team to: Deliver end-to-end Service Designs for the Programme Ensure that Service Designs are agreed at the design stage of the Programme/Projects Ensure those Service Designs are embedded into the overarching HLD's and DLD's More ❯

Role Title: Service Design & Transition Manager Duration: 6 month contract Location: Telford, Hybrid 2/3 days onsite Rate: up to 493.76 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose/summary You will be involved in all aspects of Service Design & Transition across Client teams involved with the Project Delivery process. The role aim is … to assure delivery of first class service components. SD&T processes provide support to the project delivery workstreams from start of project development lifecycle through to live running. You will be responsible for carrying out assurance activities and client SD&T tasks and activities needed to ensure a successful and complete implementation. You will help the project delivery teams … to proactively identify potential service risks and work with them to mitigate ongoing effects on Service provision. You will contribute to the SD&T Community receiving and giving education to other client SD&T staff in Operational Best Practice, Patterns and Standards Specifically, the role objectives will be: Development of Support Model and Diagrams for components being delivered More ❯

Role Title: Service Design & Transition Manager Duration: 6 month contract Location: Telford, Hybrid 2/3 days onsite Rate: up to £493.76 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose/summary You will be involved in all aspects of Service Design & Transition across Client teams involved with the Project Delivery process. The role aim is … to assure delivery of first class service components. SD&T processes provide support to the project delivery workstreams from start of project development lifecycle through to live running. You will be responsible for carrying out assurance activities and client SD&T tasks and activities needed to ensure a successful and complete implementation. You will help the project delivery teams … to proactively identify potential service risks and work with them to mitigate ongoing effects on Service provision. You will contribute to the SD&T Community receiving and giving education to other client SD&T staff in Operational Best Practice, Patterns and Standards Specifically, the role objectives will be: Development of Support Model and Diagrams for components being delivered More ❯

Service Designer (Public Sector) £620 per day, inside IR35 5 Months Mostly Remote - travel for research SC Cleared We're looking for an experienced Service Designer with a strong background in the Public Sector and expertise in Government Digital Services (GDS) standards. You'll play a key role in shaping user-centred, accessible, and impactful services that deliver … real value to citizens and organisations. What you'll do: Lead the design of end-to-end services that balance user needs with policy intent. Create user-centred, accessible service journeys, ensuring usability across digital and non-digital touchpoints. Map and analyse complex ecosystems, uncovering pain points, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement. Work closely with multidisciplinary teams including … policy, operations, product, delivery, system design, and UCD specialists. Design collaboratively and transparently, sharing knowledge across the team and wider community (while respecting security constraints). Produce evidence-based 'as-is' maps of systems and processes, both online and offline. Develop service blueprints, journey maps, and visual artefacts that clearly communicate design concepts. Facilitate workshops and More ❯

DIGITAL JOURNEY MANAGER (CX, Service Design, Product) £390.00 pd Inside IR35 12 months 3 days on-site London, Zone 1 Key Responsibilities Customer Journey Ownership Lead the design, delivery, and optimisation of the end-to-end customer journeys (e.g., on-boarding, purchase, adoption, support...). Define vision and KPIs for digital journeys, ensuring alignment business and customer. … as the voice of the customer - insights, data, and feedback to lead improvements across digital touch-points. Digital Strategy & Execution Translate strategy into actionable road-maps, collab with product, design, engineering, and marketing. Drive personalisation and segmentation strategies to create differentiated experiences for different customers. Ensure all digital journeys are compliant, accessible, and aligned with the brand promise. Performance … experiences. Report on performance metrics to leadership, highlighting successes and areas for improvement. And more... Get in touch to get the full description - - and apply. DIGITAL JOURNEY MANAGER (CX, Service Design, Product) £390.00 pd Inside IR35 12 months 3 days on-site London, Zone 1 *Rates depend on experience and client requirements More ❯

World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit an IM International Service Lead subcontractor on an initial 12 month contract. Your base site can either be from the companies Bristol, Stevenage or Bolton office. This role will be a hybrid position – 2 days per week onsite and 3 days remote. The role will be supporting the Companies Poland … site and so will require travel to Poland once a month. This role would suit a candidate from an Information Management International Service Lead, IT Service Desk Manager or IT Service Delivery background. Hourly Rate: £60ph (Umbrella). Contract Duration: 12 Months initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter. IM International Service Lead Job Description … Act as the UK Service Lead for workplace & infrastructure services primarily for the Polish organisation to ensure supporting the provision of an effective working environment. Responsibilities: To support the IM Overseas Service Manager to manage all planned and emerging service management activities within an International Footprint. To support the Poland IM Team to achieve effective, agile IT More ❯

We've just had sign off from an arm within the UK Government who in recent engagements have been taking a service design led approach to help unpack problems and opportunities, which has led to the development and launch of new digital products and services. Following that recent success, they are now looking to hire a Service … architects, visual designers and developers. The team have a track record delivering Government digital standards. They have won a number of awards for the development of a new digital service for the public domain. Reasons this role could interest Opportunity to join an established team and help develop their service design practice and culture. Implementation. Not only … these on day 1. You will be fully involved with senior stakeholders and civil servants and you will be trusted with as much responsibility as you ask for. New service development. The role is focused on helping solve problems, and then working with to conceive new solutions. What you will need A Service Designer here must be able More ❯

Role Title: Service Transition Manager Location: Knutsford, Hybrid, 2-3 day onsite Duration: Until 29 April 2026 Rate: £500 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Only Role Description: As an experienced Service Transition Manager responsible for the service design and transition process that supports Product/Application Transition from Programme delivery into BAU Service Support/… planning, support requirements definition, configuration and change management, performance and risk evaluation, test management, release, deployment, early life support and release review. Facilitate the transition of all aspects of service change deriving from a programme of projects, from the stage where a project is owned fully by a project team, through transition, to service management, where business-as … usual support services are delivered by the support groups. Work closely with the projects teams, service owner and service delivery manager, the first line and second line support managers and SME teams, change management and the infrastructure teams. Responsible for gathering and articulate service requirements Review validate project deliverables, ensuring they meet the minimum quality standards for More ❯

Our client, a trusted partner to the UK Ministry of Defence, serves as the UK Service Lead for workplace and infrastructure services, ensuring a high-quality working environment for its Polish organisation. Key Responsibilities: Support the IM Overseas Service Manager in overseeing planned and emerging service management activities across the international footprint. Collaborate with the Poland IM … Team to ensure agile and effective IT service delivery. Partner with Poland and UK IM Service teams to identify and resolve IT requirements efficiently. Collaborate with IM UK Project teams to define business and IT requirements, contribute to service design, and support the implementation of new services for our clients Poland mission. Provide service assurance … team to define, source, and deliver hardware/software to support IM Polands development activities. Build strong, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to enable productive two-way communication. Drive service improvements that enhance agility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, while consistently meeting performance indicators and supporting successful delivery of Service Improvement Plans. What do you need?: Establish and maintain More ❯

controls are managed. The role focuses on designing and developing user-centred services that reduce friction and manual effort, while promoting cultural change across the organisation. You'll lead service development efforts, create journey maps and blueprints, and embed design thinking into engineering workflows to deliver meaningful, iterative solutions. Key Responsibilities Use Figma and other tools to create … intuitive wireframes, prototypes, and mock-ups that reflect user-centred design principles. Facilitate design thinking workshops and translate complex business requirements into elegant, user-friendly service solutions. Conduct user research, usability testing, and feedback analysis to inform service development. Present service concepts and progress confidently to stakeholders at all levels. Stay current with service design and development trends, introducing innovative solutions that enhance user experience and business outcomes. Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure user needs are prioritised throughout the development process. Essential Criteria Proven experience as a Service Designer/Developer, with a track record of driving business outcomes through innovative service solutions. Strong expertise in journey mapping and service More ❯

/d - Inside IR35 Duration : 2 year contract (6 month work packages) Security Clearance : Active SC or eligible to obtain About the Role We're looking for a skilled Service Designer to help shape public services that are user-focused, inclusive, and effective. Working at SFIA Level 4 , you'll be a part of design activities within multidisciplinary … teams, using evidence and empathy to improve service experiences. SC clearance sponsorship is available, a good opportunity to step into the security-cleared Public Sector world. Key Responsibilities Design and improve end-to-end service journeys using user research and design tools. Create service blueprints, journey maps, and prototypes. Facilitate workshops and engage stakeholders across … departments. Ensure services meet accessibility and GDS standards. Work independently within a defined framework, contributing to agile delivery. Skills and Experience Experience in service design, ideally in the public sector. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Proficiency with tools like jira, gitlab, or similar. Understanding of user-centred design and agile methodologies. Desirable Familiarity with GDS standards More ❯

Business Analyst on behalf of Luton Borough Council. Main purpose of position: As a Business Analyst you'll work alongside our product team (including user researchers, content designers, a service designer and project and product managers) to manage the business analysis processes for new digital products, including processes mapping, defining user and business needs and business requirements for Luton … low code platform. You'll work closely with teams and senior stakeholders across the organisation to understand needs, designing and running workshops, interviews and other analysis activities, supporting the design of new services and processes that ensure users can complete their goals and that our digital services support the delivery of Luton 2040. This will include working with service … of the Council to understand their business processes and document their needs and requirements, using workshops, one to one meetings and a variety of other engagement formats. Engage with service areas across the organisation to help them understand agile ways of working as well as the business analyst's skill set, and to help them articulate the possibilities in More ❯

user experiences across our clients digital services. You'll conduct user research, develop wireframes and prototypes, test usability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn insights into impactful design solutions. Key Responsibilities Design user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Maintain design artefacts such as personas, storyboards, and service blueprints. Plan and conduct user research, usability … testing, and interviews. Champion accessibility and inclusive design, adhering to standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and QA teams to align on goals and functionality. Contribute to the evolution of the design system for consistent user experiences. Facilitate co-design workshops and share usability findings with stakeholders. Stay up to date with … industry trends, tools, and techniques. Mentor colleagues on user-centred design practices and support knowledge-sharing initiatives. What We re Looking For Proven/strong overall experience in UX, interaction design, and usability. Proven ability to create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Hands-on experience with tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD. Experience conducting More ❯

user experiences across our clients digital services. You'll conduct user research, develop wireframes and prototypes, test usability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn insights into impactful design solutions. Key Responsibilities Design user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Maintain design artefacts such as personas, storyboards, and service blueprints. Plan and conduct user research, usability … testing, and interviews. Champion accessibility and inclusive design, adhering to standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and QA teams to align on goals and functionality. Contribute to the evolution of the design system for consistent user experiences. Facilitate co-design workshops and share usability findings with stakeholders. Stay up to date with … industry trends, tools, and techniques. Mentor colleagues on user-centred design practices and support knowledge-sharing initiatives. What We’re Looking For Proven/strong overall experience in UX, interaction design, and usability. Proven ability to create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Hands-on experience with tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD. Experience conducting More ❯

user experiences across our clients digital services. You'll conduct user research, develop wireframes and prototypes, test usability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn insights into impactful design solutions. Key Responsibilities Design user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Maintain design artefacts such as personas, storyboards, and service blueprints. Plan and conduct user research, usability … testing, and interviews. Champion accessibility and inclusive design, adhering to standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and QA teams to align on goals and functionality. Contribute to the evolution of the design system for consistent user experiences. Facilitate co-design workshops and share usability findings with stakeholders. Stay up to date with … industry trends, tools, and techniques. Mentor colleagues on user-centred design practices and support knowledge-sharing initiatives. What We're Looking For Proven/strong overall experience in UX, interaction design, and usability. Proven ability to create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Hands-on experience with tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD. Experience conducting More ❯

Role Description: Required Skills: A User Story (4) B User Query (4) Generate new and useful user insights and translate them into features and actions that will allow service/product managers to iteratively improve their service for users. Plan, design and conduct in-house research to test new service ideas and concept development (including user … requirements gathering, early stage concept and prototype testing, guerrilla research and usability testing sessions, and other approaches to ensure the user need is fully understood in the service design). Lead the formal usability testing process for a digital service - from developing user recruitment briefs through to test moderation, analysis and report writing. Work with Service … to convert concepts into high quality stimulus material. Work closely with designers, business analysts and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence product/service direction and prototype development. Work with Service/Product Managers to devise appropriate research strategies to generate focused insights and to convert concepts into high quality stimulus material. More ❯

Role Description: Required Skills: A User Story (4) * B User Query (4) Generate new and useful user insights and translate them into features and actions that will allow service/product managers to iteratively improve their service for users. Plan, design and conduct in-house research to test new service ideas and concept development (including user … requirements gathering, early stage concept and prototype testing, guerrilla research and usability testing sessions, and other approaches to ensure the user need is fully understood in the service design). Lead the formal usability testing process for a digital service - from developing user recruitment briefs through to test moderation, analysis and report writing. Work with Service … to convert concepts into high quality stimulus material. Work closely with designers, business analysts and software developers to turn user data into actionable user stories that influence product/service direction and prototype development. Work with Service/Product Managers to devise appropriate research strategies to generate focused insights and to convert concepts into high quality stimulus material. More ❯

and testing (preferably Boomi). Understanding of RBAC, audit, and compliance requirements. Excellent stakeholder communication and vendor management skills. Also to have the ability to build strong relationships across Service Design and Transition, Testing, and Platform Engineering teams Responsibilities include: As the Cloud and Environments Release Manager you will: Partner closely with the Programme Director and technical leads … environment activities. Coordinate environment refreshes, testing cycles, and patch updates aligned to programme timelines. Build a repeatable playbook for BAU release and patch management. Develop strong working relationships with: Service Design and Transition - to ensure smooth handover to BAU. Testing Teams - to coordinate regression and integration testing cycles. Platform Engineering Team (Head of Platform Engineering) - to align on … BAU stability. Seamless transition from Programme to BAU with embedded processes and documentation To apply to this role please call Joanne Stanley on 01675 468926 or email: Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting More ❯

Service Designer – Contract | AI Discovery Project | Outside IR35 SR2 are partnering with a consultancy on a high-profile government project, exploring the application of agentic AI to create more personalised digital public services.This is an early-phase discovery and proof-of-concept project, so we’re looking for a Service Designer with strong experience in shaping services at … 31st March 2026 (initial) Rate: Up to £500/day (Outside IR35) Location: Hybrid – remote with some central London travel Clearance: SC clearable required (active SC desirable) Responsibilities Lead service design through discovery and proof-of-concept phases. Design end-to-end services that integrate with emerging AI capabilities. Work closely with researchers, content designers, and technical … specialists to shape strategy and delivery approaches. Help a multi-disciplinary team explore how AI can be used responsibly and effectively in a government service context. Experience Required Strong track record as a Service Designer on discovery and proof-of-concept projects. Experience with AI-driven services (not just standalone chatbots). Public sector experience highly desirable, not More ❯