Prototyping Contracts in the City of London

Prototyping
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 110 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 19 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.73% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.80% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 19
10th Percentile £445 £488 £453
25th Percentile £461 £572 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £609 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +15.95% -11.39%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £594
90th Percentile - £638 £645
Central London median daily rate £493 £609 £519
% change year-on-year -19.10% +17.35% -13.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the City of London

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the City of London

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the City of London

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the City of London

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.26%) React Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
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
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Designer
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