Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Prototyping
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.43% 1.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £541 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -
75th Percentile £636 - -
90th Percentile £654 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £595 £550 -
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 118 52 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 84.29% 89.66% 84.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 92
10th Percentile £380 £516 £378
25th Percentile £456 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +9.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £675
90th Percentile £700 £745 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile - - £64.55
25th Percentile £12.43 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.71%
75th Percentile £24.74 - £73.75
90th Percentile £52.75 - £73.88
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -48.15% +80.00% -51.92%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Cheltenham

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform