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 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 110 143
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 17 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.92% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.01% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 14
10th Percentile - £441 £394
25th Percentile £405 £492 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% +15.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £494 £597 £558
90th Percentile £525 £622 £653
Central London median daily rate £465 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -19.13% +15.00% -13.04%

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 1,760 1,887 3,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.97% 91.38% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,284 2,051
10th Percentile £331 £364 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £19.19 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -19.06%
75th Percentile £54.75 £85.63 £52.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -17.65%

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 31 July 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 4 (23.53%) CMS
2 3 (17.65%) Drupal
2 3 (17.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
2 1 (5.88%) InVision
2 1 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Figma
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Miro
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Mixpanel
2 2 (11.76%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (11.76%) Spotfire
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Power Query
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Designer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) User Experience
2 5 (29.41%) User Research
2 5 (29.41%) User Stories
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Rapid Prototyping
3 4 (23.53%) UX Design
3 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
3 4 (23.53%) Wireframes
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
4 3 (17.65%) Product Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) Optimizely
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Tagetik
2 1 (5.88%) UiPath