Rapid Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Rapid Prototyping
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £570 - £443
25th Percentile £584 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £575
75th Percentile £640 - £588
90th Percentile £651 - -
England median daily rate £550 £564 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +18.68% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Rapid 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,253 1,126 1,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.69% 80.72% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 445 888
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £367 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £613
90th Percentile £682 £648 £729
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 255 369
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +39.68% -5.67%
75th Percentile £59.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend in the East of England

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Cambridgeshire - 5 £615 - 4
Rapid Prototyping
England

Rapid Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 5 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) API Design
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (60.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) EU AI Act
2 4 (80.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Foundry