Rapid Prototyping Contracts

Rapid Prototyping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rapid Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 652 653
Rank change year-on-year +99 +1 -77
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 29 60 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.100% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 127
10th Percentile £398 £414 £413
25th Percentile £509 £429 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% - +18.92%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £613
90th Percentile £630 £645 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £544
% change year-on-year - +5.70% +20.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £61.35
25th Percentile - - £63.38
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.11% +75.64%
75th Percentile - - £75.38
90th Percentile - - £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +53.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Rapid 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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +96 27 £596 +8.41% 33
Work from Home +124 16 £600 +30.43% 7
London +82 12 £593 +7.73% 23
UK excluding London +46 12 £575 - 11
North of England +43 10 £563 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +29 5 £600 -20.00%
North West +19 5 £550 - 1
South West +18 1 £700 +64.71% 2
South East +10 1 - - 3

Rapid 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 3 (10.34%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) InVision
1 2 (6.90%) Sketch
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Functions
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.90%) Figma
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) RTP
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) InterSystems Cache
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.24%) Redis
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Designer
3 5 (17.24%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Interaction Designer
5 3 (10.34%) Pega Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.90%) Product Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) CSS
2 8 (27.59%) HTML
3 5 (17.24%) JSON
3 5 (17.24%) Node.js
3 5 (17.24%) REST
3 5 (17.24%) SignalR
4 4 (13.79%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.34%) XHTML
6 2 (6.90%) Swagger
6 2 (6.90%) YAML
7 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.45%) Flask
7 1 (3.45%) Pandas
7 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Low-Code
1 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Animation
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 18 (62.07%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Interaction Design
4 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
4 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (20.69%) Data Science
5 6 (20.69%) Service Design
6 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (17.24%) Microservices
6 5 (17.24%) OO
6 5 (17.24%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Sprint Backlog
6 5 (17.24%) User Experience
6 5 (17.24%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.69%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Jython
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
3 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) IBM
2 3 (10.34%) Nintex
2 3 (10.34%) Pega
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian