Prototyping Contracts in Central London

Prototyping
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 117 138
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 19 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.65% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.72% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 19
10th Percentile £445 £488 £423
25th Percentile £461 £572 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £609 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +18.78% -14.58%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £594
90th Percentile - £638 £645
London median daily rate £515 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -6.36% -1.12% +1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Central London

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in Central London

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Central London

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in Central London

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +11 19 £493 -19.10% 10
Prototyping
London

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Figma
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Mixpanel
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (10.53%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Data Scientist
1 4 (21.05%) Designer
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Angular Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.26%) React Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Hugging Face
1 4 (21.05%) LangChain
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) HTML5
2 3 (15.79%) RxJS
3 2 (10.53%) ADO
4 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Rapid Prototyping
3 6 (31.58%) User Experience
4 5 (26.32%) User Research
5 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (21.05%) Data Science
5 4 (21.05%) Generative AI
5 4 (21.05%) LLM
5 4 (21.05%) Prompt Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (21.05%) UX Design
5 4 (21.05%) Wireframes
5 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) OO
6 3 (15.79%) OOP
6 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Optimizely