Rapid Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Rapid Prototyping
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.45% - 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £570 - £428
25th Percentile £584 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £525
75th Percentile £640 - £575
90th Percentile £651 - £583
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £615 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Rapid 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 188 180 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.16% 90.45% 86.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 86 107
10th Percentile £350 £268 £220
25th Percentile £413 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -4.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £508 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +4.64% +2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.45 £16.78
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.32 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +175.00% -61.90%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Rapid 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 5 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) API Design
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (60.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) EU AI Act
2 4 (80.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Foundry