Prototyping Contracts in the East Midlands

Prototyping
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 51 61 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.65% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.83% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £317 - -
25th Percentile £322 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £550 £275
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +100.00% -43.59%
75th Percentile £550 - £288
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the East Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the East Midlands

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the East Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the East Midlands

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £318 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £468 - 3
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) UI Designer
2 2 (40.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Content Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Typography
3 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) User Research
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) VMware