Service Designer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Service Designer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Service Designer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.29% - 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
North East median daily rate £500 - £550

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 216 162 149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 89.01% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 82 103
10th Percentile £200 £311 £266
25th Percentile £362 £387 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £550 £587 £618
90th Percentile £642 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £13.67 £17.01 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.50 £42.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.92% +144.90% +84.91%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £39.20 - £33.23
North East median hourly rate £19.06 £46.18 £32.00
% change year-on-year -58.73% +44.31% +88.24%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in Tyne and Wear

Service Designer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Designer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Designer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Service Designer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £500 - 3
Service Designer
North East

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Service Designer contract 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 contract job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Miro
2 2 (66.67%) Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Lucidchart
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Co-Creation
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Design Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media

Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
1 2 (66.67%) Lucidchart
1 2 (66.67%) Miro
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Co-Creation
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Design Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (66.67%) Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media