Service Design Contracts in London

Service Design
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 156 184
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Design 222 425 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.65% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.81% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 339 453
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £601 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £32.41
25th Percentile - £56.25 £32.60
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year - +63.93% -35.05%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £37.53
90th Percentile - - £42.01
England median hourly rate £33.07 £57.50 £35.08
% change year-on-year -42.50% +63.93% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Design in London

Service Design
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +27 20 £538 -6.52% 11
South London +8 10 £376 -28.38% 1
West London -20 1 £588 +6.82% 1
East London - 1 £600 -
Service Design
England

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (1.80%) govService
1 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.35%) Sketch
2 2 (0.90%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.90%) InVision
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.90%) Zeplin
3 1 (0.45%) SPSS
3 1 (0.45%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.36%) Azure
2 18 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.66%) AWS
4 11 (4.95%) Figma
5 6 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.70%) SaaS
6 5 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.25%) Azure API Management
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Batch
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Functions
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Storage
6 5 (2.25%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.25%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.25%) Route 53
6 5 (2.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.25%) Network Security
2 3 (1.35%) Intranet
3 2 (0.90%) BGP
3 2 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.25%) Big Data
2 5 (2.25%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.25%) OLTP
3 3 (1.35%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Git
2 5 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.25%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (1.80%) JIRA
4 3 (1.35%) Maven
5 2 (0.90%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (26.13%) Public Sector
2 41 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.32%) Finance
4 21 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.60%) Banking
6 8 (3.60%) Legal
7 7 (3.15%) Local Government
7 7 (3.15%) Police
8 6 (2.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (28.38%) Designer
2 50 (22.52%) Service Designer
3 31 (13.96%) Architect
4 27 (12.16%) Service Manager
5 20 (9.01%) Service Transition Manager
5 20 (9.01%) Transition Manager
6 19 (8.56%) Analyst
6 19 (8.56%) Service Design Manager
7 15 (6.76%) Lead
8 13 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (4.95%) Business Analyst
10 11 (4.95%) Senior
11 8 (3.60%) Consultant
11 8 (3.60%) Head of Customer Experience
11 8 (3.60%) Head of Digital
12 7 (3.15%) Lean Specialist
12 7 (3.15%) Product Architect
13 6 (2.70%) Project Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.70%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.60%) .NET
1 8 (3.60%) Web Services
2 5 (2.25%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.25%) JSON
2 5 (2.25%) XML
3 4 (1.80%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.80%) CSS
4 3 (1.35%) J2EE
4 3 (1.35%) jQuery
4 3 (1.35%) REST
4 3 (1.35%) Sass
4 3 (1.35%) Spring
4 3 (1.35%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.35%) VML
5 2 (0.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.90%) HTML
5 2 (0.90%) LDAP
6 1 (0.45%) ADO
6 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.95%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.70%) CMDB
2 6 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.90%) Replication
7 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.45%) Blog
7 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.45%) NHS
7 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.25%) Linux
2 4 (1.80%) Windows
3 3 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (38.29%) Agile
2 51 (22.97%) ITIL
3 47 (21.17%) Service Management
4 39 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (17.12%) User Research
6 37 (16.67%) DevOps
7 36 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (14.41%) Customer Experience
9 31 (13.96%) Project Delivery
10 27 (12.16%) Workshop Facilitation
11 26 (11.71%) User Experience
12 25 (11.26%) Migration
13 22 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 20 (9.01%) Project Management
15 19 (8.56%) Prototyping
15 19 (8.56%) Roadmaps
16 18 (8.11%) Change Management
16 18 (8.11%) Scrum
17 17 (7.66%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.31%) Java
2 7 (3.15%) C#
2 7 (3.15%) Python
3 5 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.35%) SQL
6 2 (0.90%) Bash
6 2 (0.90%) Go
6 2 (0.90%) Scala
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.76%) Degree
4 7 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (3.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 7 (3.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.25%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.90%) IIBA
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.15%) SLA
2 7 (3.15%) WCAG
3 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) PowerDNS
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.50%) Terraform
2 5 (2.25%) Grafana
2 5 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.41%) SAP
3 6 (2.70%) Adobe
3 6 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.80%) Google
4 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.35%) Dell
5 3 (1.35%) Intel
5 3 (1.35%) Oracle
5 3 (1.35%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.90%) F5
6 2 (0.90%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.45%) ESRI
7 1 (0.45%) Genesys
7 1 (0.45%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.45%) Remedy
7 1 (0.45%) TOWER Software