Prototyping Contracts in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 237 196
Rank change year-on-year +38 -41 +18
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 214 227 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.97% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.08% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 155 303
10th Percentile £400 £363 £407
25th Percentile £500 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £480 £540
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -11.11% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £624 £606
90th Percentile £825 £676 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £18.67 £55.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £57.50 £56.25 £51.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £68.13 £66.40
90th Percentile £92.07 £84.80 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +62 121 £650 +14.04% 63
North of England +29 40 £550 +22.22% 38
Scotland +5 26 £444 -7.31% 20
North West +20 22 £515 +6.19% 27
Yorkshire +21 18 £600 +50.00% 6
Midlands +26 12 £550 +37.50% 45
West Midlands +14 7 £450 +12.15% 30
South West -4 6 £724 +60.88% 26
East Midlands +26 5 £550 +100.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £563 - 1
East of England +4 4 £550 +18.28% 32
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (7.94%) Confluence
2 6 (2.80%) Apache
3 3 (1.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.07%) Sketch
2 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.80%) InVision
4 5 (2.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (1.87%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.40%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Maximo
2 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.28%) Azure
2 16 (7.48%) Figma
3 15 (7.01%) AWS
4 7 (3.27%) SaaS
5 5 (2.34%) PaaS
6 4 (1.87%) GitHub
6 4 (1.87%) IaaS
6 4 (1.87%) Serverless
7 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.40%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.47%) OCI
8 1 (0.47%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.41%) SAN
2 16 (7.48%) Ethernet
2 16 (7.48%) SNMP
2 16 (7.48%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (7.48%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.87%) BGP
3 4 (1.87%) DMVPN
3 4 (1.87%) EIGRP
3 4 (1.87%) OSPF
4 2 (0.93%) Internet
4 2 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) IPsec
5 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.67%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.80%) Flink
3 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.40%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.40%) Redis
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) JIRA
3 16 (7.48%) Eclipse
3 16 (7.48%) Rational DOORS
3 16 (7.48%) Robot Framework
4 15 (7.01%) GoogleTest
5 14 (6.54%) MSI
6 13 (6.07%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.87%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.47%) GoCD
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (11.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.88%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.48%) Electronics
4 14 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.27%) Finance
7 6 (2.80%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.40%) Banking
9 3 (1.40%) Games
9 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 2 (0.93%) Back Office
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (31.78%) Architect
2 52 (24.30%) Infrastructure Architect
3 42 (19.63%) Developer
4 41 (19.16%) Designer
5 23 (10.75%) Python Developer
6 19 (8.88%) Senior
7 17 (7.94%) Consultant
8 16 (7.48%) UX Designer
9 14 (6.54%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) Analyst
11 11 (5.14%) Service Designer
12 9 (4.21%) Senior Designer
12 9 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.74%) Interaction Designer
13 8 (3.74%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (3.27%) Business Analyst
14 7 (3.27%) C++ Software Engineer
15 6 (2.80%) Senior Service Designer
16 5 (2.34%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.95%) HTML
2 31 (14.49%) CSS
3 11 (5.14%) Flask
3 11 (5.14%) React
4 9 (4.21%) REST
5 6 (2.80%) FastAPI
5 6 (2.80%) JSON
6 5 (2.34%) Node.js
7 3 (1.40%) .NET
7 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.40%) SignalR
7 3 (1.40%) XHTML
7 3 (1.40%) YAML
8 2 (0.93%) Jest
8 2 (0.93%) Middleware
8 2 (0.93%) Swagger
8 2 (0.93%) Web Services
9 1 (0.47%) COM+
9 1 (0.47%) DirectX
9 1 (0.47%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Robotics
2 16 (7.48%) Analogue Electronics
2 16 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.40%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.40%) Photography
7 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.47%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.47%) IoT
8 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Mixed Reality
8 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (28.50%) Windows
2 36 (16.82%) Linux
3 16 (7.48%) Debian
3 16 (7.48%) Ubuntu
4 12 (5.61%) Android
5 11 (5.14%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.27%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.80%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (42.52%) Agile
2 40 (18.69%) Software Engineering
2 40 (18.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 30 (14.02%) User Experience
4 25 (11.68%) Data Modelling
5 24 (11.21%) Configuration Management
6 22 (10.28%) Data Engineering
7 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (9.35%) ITIL
7 20 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.35%) UX Design
8 19 (8.88%) User Stories
9 18 (8.41%) UML
10 17 (7.94%) Validation
11 16 (7.48%) Requirements Management
11 16 (7.48%) User Research
11 16 (7.48%) Verification and Validation
12 15 (7.01%) Design for Manufacturing
12 15 (7.01%) Interaction Design
12 15 (7.01%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.43%) Python
2 28 (13.08%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.88%) PowerShell
4 17 (7.94%) Java
5 16 (7.48%) C++
6 9 (4.21%) SQL
7 6 (2.80%) C#
8 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.47%) Bash
9 1 (0.47%) PHP
9 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 92 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.43%) DV Cleared
3 37 (17.29%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.61%) Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PhD
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.40%) GDPR
2 3 (1.40%) WCAG
3 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.93%) NCSC
3 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) PMO
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (6.07%) Firmware
2 7 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.27%) Docker
3 4 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (6.54%) WMI
2 7 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.87%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.87%) Terraform
4 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.47%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) Argo
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
5 1 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 75 (35.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.81%) VMware
3 16 (7.48%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.01%) Google
5 14 (6.54%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.80%) Adobe
7 4 (1.87%) Cisco
7 4 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.87%) Juniper
7 4 (1.87%) Oracle
7 4 (1.87%) SAP
8 3 (1.40%) IBM
8 3 (1.40%) Nintex
8 3 (1.40%) Pega
8 3 (1.40%) Twitter
9 1 (0.47%) CA
9 1 (0.47%) Workday