The first table below looks at the demand for Rapid Prototyping skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Rapid Prototyping over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Prototyping
Rank 504 576 553
Rank change year-on-year
+72 -23
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 25 8 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.014% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.020% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 10
Average daily rate £325 £288 £289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -0.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £278 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £298 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £288 -
% change year-on-year
+17.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Rapid Prototyping
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Rapid Prototyping Jobs Demand Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK.

Rapid Prototyping Daily Rate Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK.

Rapid Prototyping Hourly Rate Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +64 24 £325 -
London +51 17 £325 -
City of London - 12 £325 -
East of England - 5 £375 -
Hertfordshire - 5 £375 -
South West - 2 £301 -
Wiltshire - 2 £301 -
Swindon - 2 £301 -
Watford - 1 - -

Rapid Prototyping
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Rapid Prototyping also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Rapid Prototyping.

1 22 (43.14%) C#
2 20 (39.22%) HTML
3 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 17 (33.33%) CSS
4 16 (31.37%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (29.41%) Analytics
6 13 (25.49%) Scrum
7 12 (23.53%) MVC
8 11 (21.57%) WCF
9 10 (19.61%) Selenium
9 10 (19.61%) Windows Azure
9 10 (19.61%) TDD
9 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
9 10 (19.61%) MS Excel
9 10 (19.61%) PhD
9 10 (19.61%) .NET
9 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET
9 10 (19.61%) Gherkin
9 10 (19.61%) LESS
9 10 (19.61%) BDD
9 10 (19.61%) Razor View Engine
10 9 (17.65%) Front Office
11 8 (15.69%) Axure RP
12 7 (13.73%) VBA
12 7 (13.73%) OO
13 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
13 6 (11.76%) Photoshop
13 6 (11.76%) C++
13 6 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (11.76%) Spreadsheet

Rapid Prototyping
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Rapid Prototyping also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Rapid Prototyping. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (39.22%) HTML
2 17 (33.33%) CSS
3 11 (21.57%) WCF
4 10 (19.61%) .NET
4 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET
4 10 (19.61%) Gherkin
4 10 (19.61%) LESS
4 10 (19.61%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (9.804%) jQuery
6 3 (5.882%) HTML5
7 2 (3.922%) CSS3
7 2 (3.922%) WPF
7 2 (3.922%) RESTful
8 1 (1.961%) Lucene
8 1 (1.961%) Ajax
8 1 (1.961%) JSON
8 1 (1.961%) MDX
8 1 (1.961%) Zend Framework
8 1 (1.961%) SOAP
8 1 (1.961%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.61%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.961%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (1.961%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.961%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.961%) WordPress
2 1 (1.961%) Apache
2 1 (1.961%) CMS
2 1 (1.961%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 10 (19.61%) MS Excel
2 6 (11.76%) Photoshop
2 6 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (9.804%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (5.882%) OmniGraffle
4 3 (5.882%) MS Visio
4 3 (5.882%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (9.804%) Big Data
3 3 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.961%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.961%) MySQL
4 1 (1.961%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.961%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.961%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.961%) Hypertable
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Selenium
2 8 (15.69%) Axure RP
3 4 (7.843%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 2 (3.922%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.961%) Subversion
5 1 (1.961%) Mercurial
General
1 9 (17.65%) Front Office
2 4 (7.843%) Retail
3 3 (5.882%) Billing
3 3 (5.882%) Marketing
3 3 (5.882%) Finance
3 3 (5.882%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.922%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.922%) Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.961%) Games
5 1 (1.961%) Automotive
5 1 (1.961%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Designer
3 8 (15.69%) User Experience Designer
4 7 (13.73%) Excel Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Designer
6 4 (7.843%) Consultant
6 4 (7.843%) Information Architect
7 3 (5.882%) ETL Developer
7 3 (5.882%) VBA Developer
7 3 (5.882%) Excel VBA Developer
7 3 (5.882%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.922%) Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.922%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.882%) Psychology
1 3 (5.882%) Linked Data
2 2 (3.922%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.922%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.922%) Open Source
3 1 (1.961%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (1.961%) Human Factors
3 1 (1.961%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.961%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.961%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.961%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.961%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.961%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.961%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (29.41%) Analytics
3 13 (25.49%) Scrum
4 12 (23.53%) MVC
5 10 (19.61%) TDD
5 10 (19.61%) BDD
6 7 (13.73%) OO
7 5 (9.804%) Information Architecture
7 5 (9.804%) ETL
7 5 (9.804%) User Stories
8 4 (7.843%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (7.843%) E-Commerce
9 3 (5.882%) Data Management
9 3 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
9 3 (5.882%) Use Case
9 3 (5.882%) Data Modelling
9 3 (5.882%) CRM
9 3 (5.882%) Web Design
9 3 (5.882%) Data Transformation
9 3 (5.882%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) C#
2 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.73%) VBA
4 6 (11.76%) C++
5 4 (7.843%) Java
6 3 (5.882%) SQL
6 3 (5.882%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.922%) PHP
8 1 (1.961%) PHP5
8 1 (1.961%) Python
8 1 (1.961%) C
8 1 (1.961%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) PhD
2 3 (5.882%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Varnish
1 1 (1.961%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.882%) Business Objects
2 3 (5.882%) StreamBase
3 2 (3.922%) ClickTale
3 2 (3.922%) Omniture
4 1 (1.961%) Google
4 1 (1.961%) Zend
4 1 (1.961%) Facebook
4 1 (1.961%) Twitter
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Rate: £301 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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The work involves developing multiple interfaces to structures and linked data sources that will be exposed on the web... Sand Resources is an equal opportunity employer committed to...
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
East London
They are ideally looking for a post-graduate with 2 years commercial experience who can hand code JavaScript, HTML5, HTML, DHTML, CSS3 and CSS. You will also need...
iKas International
Rate: £200 - £280 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Electronics Design Engineer, Cambridgeshire, 6 Months, £35ph+ (Mixed Signal, SoC, SMPS, FPGA, Motor Control) An Electronics Design Engineer is required for a 6 month contract based in Cambridgeshire.
Real Staffing
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Electronics Design Engineer, Cambridgeshire, 6 Months, £30ph+ (Mixed Signal, SoC, SMPS, FPGA, Motor Control) An Electronics Design Engineer is required for a 6 month contract based in Cambridgeshire.
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Rate: £30 - £36 per hour
Posted: 23 May 2013