Prototyping Contracts in England

Prototyping
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 291 254 270
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -50
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 202 339 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.91% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.05% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 208 320
10th Percentile £331 £394 £375
25th Percentile £410 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £644
90th Percentile £700 £825 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £41.25 £52.75
25th Percentile £36.38 £47.19 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £62.00 £71.25 £68.13
90th Percentile £63.25 £81.00 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -7.69% +7.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +10 119 £515 -6.36% 244
South East -39 29 £644 -0.96% 90
Midlands +27 17 £463 -15.91% 17
North of England -8 13 £400 -25.58% 44
West Midlands +19 12 £381 -15.28% 6
East of England +35 8 £468 - 57
North West +3 8 £369 -23.52% 25
South West +46 6 £575 -20.58% 36
East Midlands +10 5 £468 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -6 4 £400 -33.33% 10
North East - 1 £400 - 9
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 12 (5.94%) Confluence
2 7 (3.47%) CMS
3 4 (1.98%) nginx
4 3 (1.49%) IIS
4 3 (1.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (9.41%) Sketch
2 13 (6.44%) Adobe XD
3 9 (4.46%) InVision
4 8 (3.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.49%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.49%) Trello
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.99%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.99%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.99%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.99%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.99%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.99%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.50%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.99%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.68%) Figma
2 32 (15.84%) AWS
3 23 (11.39%) Azure
4 12 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.96%) GCP
6 7 (3.47%) Serverless
7 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.48%) GitHub
8 5 (2.48%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.49%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (1.49%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.49%) Heroku
9 3 (1.49%) Slack
10 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.99%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.99%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) SNMP
1 7 (3.47%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (2.97%) HTTP
3 4 (1.98%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.98%) SSL
4 3 (1.49%) DNS
4 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.49%) Wireless
5 2 (0.99%) BGP
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.99%) DMVPN
5 2 (0.99%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.99%) OSPF
5 2 (0.99%) SAN
5 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.99%) WebEx
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) Intranet
6 1 (0.50%) IPsec
6 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.47%) Oracle Database
2 7 (3.47%) Oracle Database 11g
3 6 (2.97%) Power BI
4 5 (2.48%) Qlik Sense
4 5 (2.48%) Spotfire
5 3 (1.49%) Big Data
5 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.49%) Tableau
6 2 (0.99%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.99%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.50%) Metadata
7 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (7.92%) Axure RP
2 12 (5.94%) JIRA
3 11 (5.45%) Git
4 10 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.47%) GoogleTest
5 7 (3.47%) Robot Framework
6 6 (2.97%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.98%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.99%) GitLab
9 2 (0.99%) Grunt
9 2 (0.99%) webpack
10 1 (0.50%) ESLint
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) MSI
10 1 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 55 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.31%) Finance
3 24 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.42%) Banking
6 8 (3.96%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.96%) Marketing
6 8 (3.96%) Retail
7 6 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Aviation
9 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
12 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (37.62%) Designer
2 42 (20.79%) Senior
3 34 (16.83%) UX Designer
4 29 (14.36%) Developer
5 26 (12.87%) Architect
6 19 (9.41%) Product Designer
7 18 (8.91%) Senior Designer
8 12 (5.94%) Data Scientist
8 12 (5.94%) Interaction Designer
9 10 (4.95%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.95%) UI Designer
10 9 (4.46%) Analyst
11 8 (3.96%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.96%) Senior Product Designer
11 8 (3.96%) UI/UX Designer
12 7 (3.47%) Digital Designer
12 7 (3.47%) Lead
12 7 (3.47%) Senior UX Designer
12 7 (3.47%) Service Designer
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.86%) CSS
1 28 (13.86%) HTML
2 6 (2.97%) Hugging Face
2 6 (2.97%) Node.js
2 6 (2.97%) React
2 6 (2.97%) REST
3 5 (2.48%) HTML5
3 5 (2.48%) Web Services
4 4 (1.98%) LangChain
5 3 (1.49%) Alpine.js
5 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.49%) Bootstrap
5 3 (1.49%) Laravel
5 3 (1.49%) RxJS
5 3 (1.49%) SOAP
5 3 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.99%) Jest
6 2 (0.99%) Sass
6 2 (0.99%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (0.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.90%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.95%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.47%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.47%) Animation
4 7 (3.47%) Motion Graphics
4 7 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.97%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.48%) Photography
6 5 (2.48%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) FPGA
7 4 (1.98%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.98%) PCIe
7 4 (1.98%) Verilog
7 4 (1.98%) VHDL
8 3 (1.49%) CMDB
8 3 (1.49%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Linux
2 8 (3.96%) Android
3 6 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.99%) Debian
5 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.99%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (43.07%) Agile
2 79 (39.11%) User Experience
3 66 (32.67%) UX Design
4 50 (24.75%) User Research
5 40 (19.80%) Interaction Design
6 34 (16.83%) Rapid Prototyping
7 33 (16.34%) Wireframes
8 32 (15.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 26 (12.87%) DevOps
10 25 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.88%) Analytics
11 24 (11.88%) Service Design
12 22 (10.89%) Software Engineering
13 20 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (9.90%) User Stories
14 19 (9.41%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (9.41%) Data Science
14 19 (9.41%) Project Management
15 18 (8.91%) Usability Testing
15 18 (8.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.84%) Python
2 29 (14.36%) SQL
3 25 (12.38%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.46%) C++
5 8 (3.96%) Java
6 7 (3.47%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.48%) PHP
7 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.98%) SystemVerilog
8 4 (1.98%) Tcl
9 3 (1.49%) C#
9 3 (1.49%) Jython
9 3 (1.49%) R
10 2 (0.99%) Bash
10 2 (0.99%) Go
10 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.44%) Degree
4 12 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.98%) CCNP
5 4 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) MCSE
5 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.48%) NIST
2 5 (2.48%) WCAG
3 4 (1.98%) NCSC
3 4 (1.98%) QA
4 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) PERC
System Software
1 9 (4.46%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) RACF
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.97%) Terraform
2 4 (1.98%) Ansible
3 3 (1.49%) SCCM
3 3 (1.49%) WSUS
4 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.50%) Packer
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (14.85%) Adobe
2 16 (7.92%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.93%) Google
4 9 (4.46%) SAP
5 7 (3.47%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.47%) Databricks
5 7 (3.47%) Oracle
6 6 (2.97%) VMware
7 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.98%) Intel
8 4 (1.98%) Xilinx
9 3 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.49%) Sage
9 3 (1.49%) Workday
10 2 (0.99%) Cisco
10 2 (0.99%) Juniper
10 2 (0.99%) McAfee
10 2 (0.99%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow