Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Prototyping
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.50% - 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% - 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £579 - £428
25th Percentile £608 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £763 - £575
90th Percentile £808 - £583
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £635 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +15.45% +4.76% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Prototyping falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 177 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.00% 89.85% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 85 99
10th Percentile £350 £277 £210
25th Percentile £411 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £630 £560 £550
90th Percentile £700 £633 £591
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £16.78
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +175.00% -58.55%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Cambridge

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) PyTorch
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
3 2 (28.57%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) LLM
1 7 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Prompt Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Rapid Prototyping
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
4 3 (42.86%) API Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
4 3 (42.86%) Deep Learning
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) EU AI Act
2 4 (57.14%) NIST
3 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Foundry