Service Design Contracts in Manchester

Service Design
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 82 108
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 -35
Contract jobs citing Service Design 22 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.52% 1.53% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.69% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 28
10th Percentile - £450 £413
25th Percentile £325 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +8.64% +12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £609 £573
90th Percentile £590 £660 £641
North West median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,237 1,602 2,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.55% 90.51% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 1,184 1,824
10th Percentile £325 £319 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 51 53
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.72 £11.44
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +35.14% +13.99%
75th Percentile £60.94 £39.18 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.10 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.39
% change year-on-year -9.95% +30.57% +29.12%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Design in Manchester

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Architect
2 9 (40.91%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (27.27%) User Researcher
4 4 (18.18%) Designer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Designer
5 3 (13.64%) Service Designer
6 2 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior UI Designer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior UI/UX Designer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior UX Designer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.55%) UI Designer
7 1 (4.55%) UI/UX Designer
7 1 (4.55%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Architectural Design
3 8 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
3 8 (36.36%) Architecture Governance
3 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 8 (36.36%) Data Management
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Project Delivery
3 8 (36.36%) Qualitative Research
3 8 (36.36%) Quantitative Research
3 8 (36.36%) User Experience
4 7 (31.82%) User Research
4 7 (31.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (31.82%) UX Design
5 6 (27.27%) Ergonomics
5 6 (27.27%) Guerrilla Testing
5 6 (27.27%) Human Factors
5 6 (27.27%) Market Research
5 6 (27.27%) Usability Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (9.09%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Sophos
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft