Service Designer Jobs

Service Designer
UK

The median Service Designer salary in the UK is £57,965 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 871 1146
Rank change year-on-year +21 +275 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Designer 54 48 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.052% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.057% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 86
10th Percentile £53,365 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,469 £47,500 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £67,500 £61,069
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +10.53% +22.14%
75th Percentile £78,900 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,650 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,232 £66,250 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.54% +24.74% +18.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

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 12 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 12 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 +41 43 £57,965 -15.69% 15
UK excluding London -37 33 £65,232 -1.54% 7
London +96 18 £57,500 -14.81% 7
Work from Home +23 13 £57,965 +0.81% 6
North of England +17 13 £73,750 -2.32% 3
North West -14 10 £73,750 - 3
Midlands -34 5 £57,965 +0.81%
South West - 4 - - 2
Scotland - 4 - -
Yorkshire +64 3 - -
West Midlands -9 3 £57,965 +0.81%
South East -32 3 £77,500 +3.33% 2
Wales +14 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 54 (100.00%) Service Design
2 38 (70.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 33 (61.11%) Agile
4 30 (55.56%) User Research
5 28 (51.85%) Workshop Facilitation
6 26 (48.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 25 (46.30%) Accessibility
8 24 (44.44%) Customer Experience
8 24 (44.44%) SC Cleared
8 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
9 23 (42.59%) Prototyping
10 22 (40.74%) Actionable Insight
10 22 (40.74%) Digital Customer Experience
11 16 (29.63%) User Experience
12 9 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 7 (12.96%) UX Design
13 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
14 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (9.26%) Design Thinking
15 5 (9.26%) Figma
15 5 (9.26%) Customer-Centricity
15 5 (9.26%) Waterfall
15 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
15 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Culture
16 4 (7.41%) Confluence
16 4 (7.41%) JIRA
16 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
16 4 (7.41%) Coaching
17 3 (5.56%) Creative Thinking
17 3 (5.56%) Systems Thinking

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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.85%) InVision
1 1 (1.85%) Sketch
1 1 (1.85%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.26%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.56%) Finance
2 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Back Office
3 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Legal
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Service Design
2 38 (70.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 33 (61.11%) Agile
4 30 (55.56%) User Research
5 28 (51.85%) Workshop Facilitation
6 26 (48.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 24 (44.44%) Customer Experience
8 23 (42.59%) Prototyping
9 22 (40.74%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (40.74%) Digital Customer Experience
10 16 (29.63%) User Experience
11 9 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (12.96%) UX Design
13 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Culture
14 5 (9.26%) Customer-Centricity
14 5 (9.26%) Design Thinking
14 5 (9.26%) Waterfall
15 4 (7.41%) Coaching
15 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (46.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe