Prototyping Contracts

Prototyping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 269 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 -60 +7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 371 561 1,235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.98% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.09% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 369 855
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £486 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £625
90th Percentile £825 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +17.89% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 16
10th Percentile £22.82 £51.25 £40.31
25th Percentile £42.19 £55.94 £48.31
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £58.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +6.61% +28.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.81 £62.56
90th Percentile £91.40 £79.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.92% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +22 328 £560 +1.82% 322
UK excluding London +44 214 £560 +17.89% 238
London -23 134 £550 -4.76% 107
South East +56 117 £663 +16.23% 71
Work from Home -10 89 £550 +4.76% 103
North of England +29 40 £550 +22.22% 52
Scotland +12 24 £463 +2.78% 19
North West +15 22 £515 -0.96% 37
Midlands +25 18 £530 +32.50% 42
Yorkshire +22 18 £600 +50.00% 8
West Midlands +24 13 £518 +29.38% 27
South West -13 6 £724 +60.88% 29
East Midlands +21 5 £550 +100.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £563 -
East of England 0 4 £550 +18.28% 31

Prototyping
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 17 (4.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.81%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 26 (7.01%) Sketch
2 10 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.70%) InVision
3 9 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.35%) CANalyzer
5 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.35%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) InDesign
7 1 (0.27%) Marvel
7 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.62%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.81%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.21%) Azure
2 46 (12.40%) Figma
3 18 (4.85%) AWS
3 18 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.50%) Power Automate
5 10 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.16%) GitHub
7 8 (2.16%) IaaS
7 8 (2.16%) PaaS
7 8 (2.16%) SaaS
8 7 (1.89%) OCI
9 6 (1.62%) Serverless
10 5 (1.35%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.35%) Oracle CX
10 5 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.93%) Ethernet
2 16 (4.31%) SAN
3 15 (4.04%) SNMP
3 15 (4.04%) Software-Defined Radio
4 14 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.08%) BGP
5 4 (1.08%) DMVPN
5 4 (1.08%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.08%) FlexRay
5 4 (1.08%) OSPF
6 3 (0.81%) Internet
7 2 (0.54%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) HTTP
8 1 (0.27%) IPsec
8 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSH
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.77%) Big Data
2 13 (3.50%) Hadoop
3 12 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.23%) Tableau
4 10 (2.70%) Power BI
5 9 (2.43%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.62%) Flink
7 6 (1.62%) KDB
8 5 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.35%) Redis
9 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.81%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.81%) GIS
10 3 (0.81%) Spatial Data
10 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.27%) KNIME
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (4.85%) Git
1 18 (4.85%) JIRA
1 18 (4.85%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (4.04%) Eclipse
2 15 (4.04%) Robot Framework
3 14 (3.77%) GoogleTest
3 14 (3.77%) MSI
4 12 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.89%) Axure RP
6 5 (1.35%) CANoe
7 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.27%) GoCD
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 96 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.86%) Finance
3 42 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.74%) Electronics
6 22 (5.93%) Marketing
7 19 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.23%) Banking
9 11 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.70%) Games
11 8 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.16%) Automotive
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.54%) Back Office
13 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (25.88%) Designer
2 72 (19.41%) Architect
3 71 (19.14%) Developer
4 52 (14.02%) Infrastructure Architect
5 43 (11.59%) Senior
6 30 (8.09%) Consultant
6 30 (8.09%) Python Developer
7 25 (6.74%) Interaction Designer
7 25 (6.74%) UX Designer
8 23 (6.20%) Service Designer
9 20 (5.39%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.85%) Analyst
11 14 (3.77%) Data Scientist
12 13 (3.50%) Lead
12 13 (3.50%) Senior Designer
13 12 (3.23%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.96%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.70%) Software Developer
16 8 (2.16%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.56%) CSS
1 54 (14.56%) HTML
2 25 (6.74%) React
3 16 (4.31%) Node.js
4 14 (3.77%) Flask
5 11 (2.96%) REST
6 9 (2.43%) HTML5
7 7 (1.89%) .NET
8 6 (1.62%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.62%) JSON
9 5 (1.35%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.35%) SignalR
10 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.08%) Web Services
11 3 (0.81%) RESTful
11 3 (0.81%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 3 (0.81%) Unreal Engine
11 3 (0.81%) XHTML
11 3 (0.81%) YAML
12 2 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.47%) Robotics
3 18 (4.85%) Analogue Electronics
4 15 (4.04%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.62%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.62%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.35%) Infotainment
10 5 (1.35%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (0.81%) Animation
11 3 (0.81%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.81%) Photography
11 3 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.44%) Windows
2 33 (8.89%) Linux
3 14 (3.77%) Debian
3 14 (3.77%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.23%) Android
5 11 (2.96%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.89%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.62%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.54%) Unix
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (36.39%) Agile
2 72 (19.41%) User Experience
3 68 (18.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 54 (14.56%) Software Engineering
5 51 (13.75%) UX Design
6 49 (13.21%) User Research
7 47 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (11.86%) Interaction Design
9 39 (10.51%) Wireframes
10 38 (10.24%) User Stories
11 37 (9.97%) Service Design
12 36 (9.70%) Customer Service
12 36 (9.70%) Data Modelling
13 35 (9.43%) DevOps
14 28 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
15 27 (7.28%) Rapid Prototyping
15 27 (7.28%) Visualisation
16 23 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
17 22 (5.93%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 81 (21.83%) Python
2 55 (14.82%) JavaScript
3 25 (6.74%) SQL
4 20 (5.39%) C++
4 20 (5.39%) Java
4 20 (5.39%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.70%) C#
5 10 (2.70%) R
5 10 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.35%) VBA
7 2 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.27%) Jython
8 1 (0.27%) PHP
8 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.27%) Rust
8 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.27%) Tcl
8 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (29.38%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.67%) Degree
4 46 (12.40%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CCNP
10 1 (0.27%) CISA
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CRISC
10 1 (0.27%) MCSE
10 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.08%) QA
2 4 (1.08%) WCAG
3 3 (0.81%) GDPR
3 3 (0.81%) SLA
4 2 (0.54%) NCSC
4 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (3.23%) Firmware
2 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.16%) Docker
3 4 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (3.77%) WMI
2 8 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.08%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.08%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.08%) Terraform
4 1 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Argo
4 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.27%) Istio
4 1 (0.27%) Nessus
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 88 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.12%) Adobe
2 19 (5.12%) VMware
3 15 (4.04%) Google
4 14 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.50%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.43%) Oracle
7 7 (1.89%) SAP
8 4 (1.08%) Cisco
8 4 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.08%) Juniper
9 3 (0.81%) ESRI
9 3 (0.81%) IBM
9 3 (0.81%) Nintex
9 3 (0.81%) Pega
9 3 (0.81%) Twitter
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.27%) CA
11 1 (0.27%) Databricks