Service Design Contracts in Edinburgh

Service Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Service Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 47 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Service Design 29 61 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.33% 5.16% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.49% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 106
10th Percentile £218 £408 £405
25th Percentile £407 £420 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £526
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -8.93% +5.25%
75th Percentile £514 £539 £575
90th Percentile £589 £580 £625
Scotland median daily rate £487 £508 £526
% change year-on-year -4.13% -3.47% +5.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Service Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Service Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Design in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Edinburgh

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.90%) CMS
1 2 (6.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
1 3 (10.34%) AWS
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (10.34%) Serverless
2 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
2 2 (6.90%) Textract
3 1 (3.45%) Figma
3 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.45%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Looker
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 20 (68.97%) Public Sector
2 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Publishing
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
1 10 (34.48%) Designer
2 9 (31.03%) Business Analyst
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Service Designer
5 4 (13.79%) UX Designer
6 3 (10.34%) Automation Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Designer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior User Researcher
7 2 (6.90%) Senior UX Designer
7 2 (6.90%) User Researcher
8 1 (3.45%) Content Designer
8 1 (3.45%) Coordinator
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Designer
8 1 (3.45%) Lead UX Designer
8 1 (3.45%) Product Owner
8 1 (3.45%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) SpaCy
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 17 (58.62%) User Experience
2 17 (58.62%) User Research
3 12 (41.38%) Coaching
4 11 (37.93%) Scrum
5 10 (34.48%) User Stories
6 9 (31.03%) Business Analysis
6 9 (31.03%) Impact Assessments
6 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
7 8 (27.59%) Epics
7 8 (27.59%) Value Proposition
8 7 (24.14%) Product Management
8 7 (24.14%) Story Mapping
8 7 (24.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (24.14%) UX Research
9 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Identification
10 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
10 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.24%) UX Design
10 5 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Python
1 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) Accessibility
2 6 (20.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (10.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Cadence
2 2 (6.90%) Google