Service Design Jobs

Service Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Service Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 429 406 302
Rank change year-on-year -23 -104 +160
Permanent jobs citing Service Design 594 708 2,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.76% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.79% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 257 382 815
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £64,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +7.08% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £117,020 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,375 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Design.

Salary trend for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Design over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Design in the UK

Service Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Design within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -2 452 £55,375 -7.71% 55
England -33 452 £58,800 -6.67% 102
Work from Home -51 205 £57,965 -3.39% 48
London +32 123 £73,250 +8.52% 36
North of England +55 122 £57,965 +10.41% 28
Scotland +6 98 £58,800 -51.02% 1
South West -37 75 £55,000 -10.20% 9
North West +35 72 £62,500 +11.11% 23
South East -61 58 £50,000 -6.98% 5
Midlands -58 42 £57,732 -14.47% 10
Yorkshire +61 32 £57,965 -2.18% 4
East of England -2 31 £43,750 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -27 27 £57,965 -14.13% 6
North East -8 18 £57,965 +21.59% 1
Wales -5 15 £47,000 -21.67%
East Midlands -30 15 £35,000 -51.72% 4
Northern Ireland +26 11 £58,800 - 1

Service Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.52%) Confluence
3 8 (1.35%) CMS
4 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Jetty
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (4.55%) UserZoom
2 26 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.68%) Sketch
6 9 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (1.01%) Trello
9 5 (0.84%) InVision
10 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.34%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) ResourceLink
2 3 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Data Workbench
Cloud Services
1 78 (13.13%) Azure
2 73 (12.29%) Figma
3 59 (9.93%) SurveyMonkey
4 52 (8.75%) AWS
5 51 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.22%) SaaS
7 19 (3.20%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.53%) PaaS
9 14 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.36%) dbt
9 14 (2.36%) IaaS
10 12 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.68%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.35%) Serverless
13 7 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.84%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.88%) WAN
2 22 (3.70%) MPLS
3 16 (2.69%) LAN
3 16 (2.69%) SD-WAN
4 14 (2.36%) Firewall
5 13 (2.19%) BGP
5 13 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (2.02%) VoIP
7 10 (1.68%) Unified Communications
7 10 (1.68%) VPN
7 10 (1.68%) WLAN
8 9 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (1.52%) DMZ
8 9 (1.52%) Network Security
8 9 (1.52%) VLAN
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (1.18%) Wireless
10 6 (1.01%) SAN
11 5 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.19%) Big Data
2 12 (2.02%) Power BI
3 8 (1.35%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.18%) Tableau
5 6 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.01%) Star Schema
6 4 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (0.67%) MySQL
6 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) DB2
8 1 (0.17%) OLTP
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (6.23%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.20%) JIRA
3 6 (1.01%) Git
4 5 (0.84%) GitLab
5 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.51%) git-flow
7 1 (0.17%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 200 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 145 (24.41%) Finance
3 110 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 109 (18.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (15.82%) Law
6 92 (15.49%) Marketing
7 47 (7.91%) Legal
8 39 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
9 32 (5.39%) Social Science
10 29 (4.88%) Banking
11 26 (4.38%) Retail
12 21 (3.54%) Investment Banking
13 20 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.35%) French Language
14 8 (1.35%) German Language
14 8 (1.35%) Police
15 7 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 111 (18.69%) Architect
2 104 (17.51%) Designer
3 95 (15.99%) Lead
4 84 (14.14%) Senior
5 53 (8.92%) Service Designer
6 41 (6.90%) User Experience Researcher
7 38 (6.40%) Analyst
8 36 (6.06%) Service Architect
8 36 (6.06%) Service Manager
9 33 (5.56%) Consultant
10 32 (5.39%) ITSM Architect
11 27 (4.55%) Interaction Designer
12 24 (4.04%) Senior Designer
12 24 (4.04%) Systems Architect
13 23 (3.87%) IT Manager
14 21 (3.54%) UX Designer
15 20 (3.37%) Senior Interaction Designer
16 19 (3.20%) Senior Consultant
16 19 (3.20%) Technical Architect
17 18 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.87%) HTML
2 12 (2.02%) Web Services
3 11 (1.85%) CSS
4 10 (1.68%) Middleware
4 10 (1.68%) React
5 7 (1.18%) RESTful
6 6 (1.01%) EDI
6 6 (1.01%) IDoc
6 6 (1.01%) Node.js
7 5 (0.84%) .NET
7 5 (0.84%) JSON
7 5 (0.84%) XML
8 4 (0.67%) Spring
8 4 (0.67%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.67%) XSLT
9 3 (0.51%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.51%) ADO
9 3 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.51%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.10%) Management Information System
2 37 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.55%) Market Risk
5 21 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.36%) NHS
7 14 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.68%) IoT
10 8 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.84%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.84%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.67%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.58%) Windows
2 32 (5.39%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (1.35%) Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (35.19%) Agile
2 194 (32.66%) User Experience
3 187 (31.48%) Actionable Insight
4 160 (26.94%) ITIL
5 148 (24.92%) User Research
6 142 (23.91%) Project Management
7 120 (20.20%) Service Delivery
8 115 (19.36%) Roadmaps
9 98 (16.50%) Product Management
10 94 (15.82%) Service Management
11 93 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (15.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 89 (14.98%) Mentoring
14 85 (14.31%) Interaction Design
14 85 (14.31%) UX Research
15 84 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 83 (13.97%) Prototyping
17 78 (13.13%) Analytics
18 77 (12.96%) DevOps
19 76 (12.79%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.57%) R
2 31 (5.22%) SQL
3 12 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 11 (1.85%) PowerShell
4 11 (1.85%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.68%) Python
6 5 (0.84%) C#
6 5 (0.84%) Java
7 4 (0.67%) C++
7 4 (0.67%) Scala
7 4 (0.67%) VB
8 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.34%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 195 (32.83%) Degree
2 160 (26.94%) Security Cleared
3 102 (17.17%) SC Cleared
4 59 (9.93%) Master's Degree
5 43 (7.24%) PhD
6 26 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.19%) MCSE
9 10 (1.68%) CCNA
10 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.52%) MBA
11 8 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (1.18%) CCNP
12 7 (1.18%) IIBA
13 5 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.67%) CCDP
14 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (12.46%) Accessibility
2 30 (5.05%) WCAG
3 28 (4.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (1.68%) QA
5 8 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.18%) NCSC
6 7 (1.18%) SLA
7 4 (0.67%) PMO
8 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.19%) Docker
2 13 (2.19%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (2.69%) Terraform
2 11 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.68%) Ansible
4 5 (0.84%) Nessus
5 3 (0.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 2 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.93%) Qualtrics
3 19 (3.20%) Cisco
4 17 (2.86%) VMware
5 16 (2.69%) Meraki
6 12 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.68%) Citrix
8 9 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 9 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.35%) Computacenter
9 8 (1.35%) SAP
10 7 (1.18%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.01%) Adobe
11 6 (1.01%) OpenText
11 6 (1.01%) Oracle
12 5 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
12 5 (0.84%) iManage
12 5 (0.84%) NetApp
13 4 (0.67%) Google