Prototyping Contracts in the North West

Prototyping
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prototyping over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 132 105
Rank change year-on-year +20 -27 +5
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 22 26 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.83% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.92% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 65
10th Percentile - £265 £428
25th Percentile £363 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -18.18% +12.24%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £638
90th Percentile £575 £658 £663
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £58.63
% change year-on-year -4.23% +10.87% +27.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Prototyping 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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,318 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.17% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +13 14 £375 -16.67% 22
Cheshire +4 3 £550 -2.22% 2
Cumbria - 3 £525 -
Merseyside +16 2 £450 -7.22% 1
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (13.64%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (13.64%) IaaS
1 3 (13.64%) PaaS
1 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
1 3 (13.64%) SaaS
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GoCD
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Designer
2 6 (27.27%) Interaction Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Pega Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Designer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Service Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Content Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
1 7 (31.82%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) JSON
2 5 (22.73%) REST
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
3 3 (13.64%) XHTML
4 2 (9.09%) Jest
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) Swagger
4 2 (9.09%) YAML
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Low-Code
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) User Research
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Interaction Design
2 7 (31.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (27.27%) Design Patterns
3 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Rapid Prototyping
4 5 (22.73%) Sprint Backlog
5 4 (18.18%) API Development
5 4 (18.18%) API Management
5 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
5 4 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (18.18%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 4 (18.18%) Information Security
5 4 (18.18%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
5 4 (18.18%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 5 (22.73%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Nintex
2 3 (13.64%) Pega
2 3 (13.64%) SAP