Prototyping Contracts in England

Prototyping
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prototyping over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 271 220
Rank change year-on-year +14 -51 +24
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 334 481 914
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.98% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.09% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 310 645
10th Percentile £394 £375 £421
25th Percentile £500 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £643 £638
90th Percentile £825 £771 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £548 £540
% change year-on-year +0.46% +1.39% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 18
10th Percentile £41.38 £52.75 £40.94
25th Percentile £48.75 £56.25 £48.94
Median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £58.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +10.87% +27.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.13 £64.19
90th Percentile £91.80 £80.88 £81.85
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Prototyping is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in England.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in England.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London -29 142 £550 -4.35% 71
South East +67 121 £650 +14.04% 64
North of England +22 40 £550 +22.22% 39
North West +12 22 £515 +6.19% 29
Yorkshire +20 18 £600 +50.00% 5
Midlands +33 12 £550 +37.07% 42
West Midlands +16 7 £450 +11.80% 28
South West -7 6 £724 +60.88% 30
East Midlands +28 5 £550 +100.00% 14
East of England -3 4 £550 +18.28% 31
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (3.89%) Confluence
2 6 (1.80%) Apache
3 3 (0.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 8 (2.40%) Sketch
2 7 (2.10%) InVision
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.80%) Photoshop
4 5 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.90%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.30%) Blender
6 1 (0.30%) Houdini
6 1 (0.30%) InDesign
6 1 (0.30%) Marvel
6 1 (0.30%) Maya
6 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (3.59%) Oracle Applications
2 9 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.90%) Maximo
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle AGIS
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.78%) Azure
2 25 (7.49%) Figma
3 18 (5.39%) AWS
4 16 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.89%) OCI
6 12 (3.59%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.69%) Oracle CX
7 9 (2.69%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (2.40%) IaaS
9 7 (2.10%) GitHub
9 7 (2.10%) PaaS
10 6 (1.80%) Serverless
11 5 (1.50%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.20%) SaaS
13 2 (0.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.69%) SAN
2 18 (5.39%) Ethernet
3 17 (5.09%) TCP/IP
4 16 (4.79%) SNMP
4 16 (4.79%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.20%) BGP
5 4 (1.20%) DMVPN
5 4 (1.20%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.20%) OSPF
6 2 (0.60%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) IPsec
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.30%) MQTT
7 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.30%) SSH
7 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.89%) Big Data
1 13 (3.89%) Hadoop
1 13 (3.89%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (3.59%) Tableau
3 9 (2.69%) Data Lake
3 9 (2.69%) Power BI
4 6 (1.80%) Flink
4 6 (1.80%) KDB
4 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.50%) InterSystems Cache
5 5 (1.50%) Redis
6 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.90%) GIS
7 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.90%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 18 (5.39%) Git
1 18 (5.39%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (4.79%) Eclipse
2 16 (4.79%) Robot Framework
3 15 (4.49%) GoogleTest
4 14 (4.19%) JIRA
5 13 (3.89%) Bitbucket
5 13 (3.89%) MSI
6 6 (1.80%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.30%) GoCD
8 1 (0.30%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.98%) Finance
3 33 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.29%) Electronics
6 19 (5.69%) Marketing
7 12 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.10%) Games
9 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.80%) Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Back Office
12 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (22.16%) Developer
2 71 (21.26%) Architect
3 68 (20.36%) Designer
4 51 (15.27%) Infrastructure Architect
5 36 (10.78%) Senior
6 33 (9.88%) Python Developer
7 31 (9.28%) Consultant
8 22 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.39%) Interaction Designer
10 17 (5.09%) Lead
10 17 (5.09%) Service Designer
11 14 (4.19%) Data Scientist
12 12 (3.59%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.29%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.29%) UX Designer
14 10 (2.99%) Analyst
14 10 (2.99%) Senior Designer
14 10 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.40%) C++ Software Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.57%) CSS
2 51 (15.27%) HTML
3 16 (4.79%) Node.js
4 15 (4.49%) React
5 14 (4.19%) Flask
6 11 (3.29%) REST
7 7 (2.10%) HTML5
8 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.80%) JSON
9 5 (1.50%) .NET
9 5 (1.50%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.50%) SignalR
10 4 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.20%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 4 (1.20%) Unreal Engine
10 4 (1.20%) Web Services
11 3 (0.90%) XHTML
11 3 (0.90%) YAML
12 2 (0.60%) RESTful
12 2 (0.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.19%) Robotics
2 21 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.39%) Analogue Electronics
4 15 (4.49%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.69%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.10%) Augmented Reality
7 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (1.20%) Social Media
10 3 (0.90%) Animation
10 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.60%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.60%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.96%) Windows
2 36 (10.78%) Linux
3 17 (5.09%) Debian
3 17 (5.09%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (35.63%) Agile
2 57 (17.07%) Software Engineering
3 53 (15.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 47 (14.07%) User Experience
5 41 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (12.28%) User Research
6 39 (11.68%) Customer Service
7 38 (11.38%) Data Modelling
8 34 (10.18%) Interaction Design
8 34 (10.18%) UX Design
9 31 (9.28%) DevOps
10 30 (8.98%) Service Design
11 28 (8.38%) Wireframes
12 24 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (7.19%) Configuration Management
12 24 (7.19%) Rapid Prototyping
12 24 (7.19%) User Stories
13 23 (6.89%) Data Engineering
13 23 (6.89%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (21.26%) Python
2 55 (16.47%) JavaScript
3 24 (7.19%) SQL
4 21 (6.29%) C++
5 19 (5.69%) Java
5 19 (5.69%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.99%) R
6 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.40%) C#
8 2 (0.60%) Bash
8 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.30%) Jython
9 1 (0.30%) PHP
9 1 (0.30%) Rust
9 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.30%) Tcl
9 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.67%) DV Cleared
3 46 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 45 (13.47%) Degree
5 22 (6.59%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.60%) PhD
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CCNP
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
10 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.20%) SLA
3 3 (0.90%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) QA
4 2 (0.60%) NCSC
4 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.60%) WCAG
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (3.89%) Firmware
2 8 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.40%) Docker
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.89%) WMI
2 7 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 89 (26.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.59%) VMware
3 17 (5.09%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.79%) Google
5 15 (4.49%) Oracle
6 14 (4.19%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.89%) Adobe
8 7 (2.10%) SAP
9 4 (1.20%) Cisco
9 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.20%) Juniper
10 3 (0.90%) ESRI
10 3 (0.90%) IBM
10 3 (0.90%) Nintex
10 3 (0.90%) Pega
11 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.30%) CA
12 1 (0.30%) Databricks
12 1 (0.30%) Workday