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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 111 147
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +15
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 18 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.87% 0.96% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.05% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile - £506 £402
25th Percentile £405 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £560
90th Percentile £525 £626 £647
London median daily rate £500 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 - -
75th Percentile £52.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +8.57%

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 1,935 2,105 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.84% 91.76% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,431 2,169
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £472 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 17
10th Percentile £19.14 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49.22 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.29 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.33% -12.50% +10.34%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -9 17 £465 -19.13% 33
West End of London +1 1 - - 7
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 4 (22.22%) CMS
2 3 (16.67%) Drupal
2 3 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
2 1 (5.56%) InVision
2 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Figma
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Miro
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Google App Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Mixpanel
2 2 (11.11%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (11.11%) Spotfire
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Power Query
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Android
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) User Experience
2 5 (27.78%) User Research
2 5 (27.78%) User Stories
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 4 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
3 4 (22.22%) UX Design
3 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Wireframes
4 3 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 3 (16.67%) Product Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Optimizely
1 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Tagetik
2 1 (5.56%) UiPath