Service Designer Jobs

Service Designer
UK

The median Service Designer salary in the UK is £64,732 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 896 1149
Rank change year-on-year +41 +253 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Designer 50 50 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.053% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.058% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 12 35 84
10th Percentile £53,404 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,829 £47,586 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,732 £62,500 £61,069
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +2.34% +22.14%
75th Percentile £79,600 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,375 £82,300 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year +26.09% +8.26% +18.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Designer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Designer in the UK

Service Designer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +71 39 £64,732 -4.10% 15
UK excluding London -25 31 £72,500 +26.09% 5
London +108 16 £57,500 -14.81% 8
North of England +38 12 £75,000 -0.66% 3
Work from Home +37 11 £57,965 -1.76% 7
North West -3 10 £75,000 - 3
Midlands -9 5 £57,965 +0.81% 1
Scotland - 4 - -
West Midlands -10 3 £57,965 +0.81% 1
South East -17 3 £77,500 +19.23% 1
South West - 3 - -
Yorkshire +58 2 - -
Wales +6 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Service Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Service Design
2 35 (70.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 29 (58.00%) Agile
3 29 (58.00%) User Research
4 28 (56.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 26 (52.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 25 (50.00%) Accessibility
7 24 (48.00%) Customer Experience
7 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
7 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
8 23 (46.00%) Prototyping
9 22 (44.00%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (44.00%) Digital Customer Experience
10 13 (26.00%) User Experience
11 7 (14.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 6 (12.00%) UX Design
12 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
13 5 (10.00%) Figma
13 5 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
13 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (10.00%) Design Thinking
14 4 (8.00%) Coaching
14 4 (8.00%) JIRA
14 4 (8.00%) Confluence
14 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
15 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
15 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
15 3 (6.00%) Journey Map
15 3 (6.00%) Workflow

Service Designer Skill Set
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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.00%) InVision
1 1 (2.00%) Sketch
1 1 (2.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Axure RP
General
1 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Back Office
4 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Service Design
2 35 (70.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 29 (58.00%) Agile
3 29 (58.00%) User Research
4 28 (56.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 26 (52.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 24 (48.00%) Customer Experience
7 23 (46.00%) Prototyping
8 22 (44.00%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (44.00%) Digital Customer Experience
9 13 (26.00%) User Experience
10 7 (14.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (12.00%) UX Design
12 5 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
12 5 (10.00%) Design Thinking
12 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (8.00%) Coaching
13 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
14 3 (6.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (2.00%) Adobe
1 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow