Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Prototyping
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 11 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.85% - 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% - 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £346 - £428
25th Percentile £480 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £710 - £575
90th Percentile £793 - £583
East of England median daily rate £548 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +32.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 279 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.97% 86.38% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 132
10th Percentile £224 £306 £202
25th Percentile £355 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £614 £562 £571
90th Percentile £676 £644 £650
East of England median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 66 177
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.61 £21.46 £16.50
90th Percentile £43.69 £28.93 £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £20.88 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.42% +40.78% -3.14%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Cambridgeshire

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Cambridge - 9 £615 - 17
Peterborough - 1 - - 2
Prototyping
East of England

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) MQTT
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) UWB
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
1 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) PCB Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) PyTorch
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (27.27%) Life Science
3 2 (18.18%) Robotics
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) AI
1 7 (63.64%) LLM
1 7 (63.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 5 (45.45%) Prompt Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Rapid Prototyping
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) API Design
5 3 (27.27%) API Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
5 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
6 2 (18.18%) API Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) MCP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) EU AI Act
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Foundry