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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 253 270
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 -49
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 193 327 466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.90% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.04% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 198 297
10th Percentile £313 £395 £375
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £663 £825 £776
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 16
10th Percentile £25.25 £41.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £26.50 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% - +9.17%
75th Percentile £60.13 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £62.30 £92.00 £79.90
UK median hourly rate £53.69 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -0.80% +6.61%

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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +37 120 £513 -6.82% 321
South East -44 20 £600 -9.43% 161
Midlands +16 19 £350 -33.96% 51
West Midlands +5 14 £325 -37.20% 23
North of England -14 11 £400 -27.27% 78
East of England +30 8 £468 -15.00% 65
North West +1 8 £488 -5.34% 44
East Midlands +10 5 £468 -15.00% 27
South West +40 4 £575 -20.58% 50
Yorkshire +2 3 £400 -33.33% 28
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 (6.74%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) CMS
3 3 (1.55%) nginx
3 3 (1.55%) WordPress
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (8.81%) Sketch
2 10 (5.18%) Adobe XD
3 8 (4.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (4.15%) InVision
4 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.07%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.55%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.55%) Trello
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (1.04%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (1.04%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
7 2 (1.04%) UserZoom
7 2 (1.04%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.23%) Figma
2 24 (12.44%) AWS
3 18 (9.33%) Azure
4 11 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.63%) GCP
6 6 (3.11%) GitHub
6 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.11%) Serverless
7 4 (2.07%) SaaS
8 3 (1.55%) DigitalOcean
8 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.55%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.55%) Heroku
8 3 (1.55%) Slack
9 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.04%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.04%) Miro
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) SNMP
1 6 (3.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.59%) HTTP
3 4 (2.07%) DNS
3 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.07%) Wireless
4 3 (1.55%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.55%) SSL
5 2 (1.04%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.04%) SAN
5 2 (1.04%) WebEx
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) Intranet
6 1 (0.52%) IPsec
6 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.52%) LAN
6 1 (0.52%) Multicast
6 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.11%) Power BI
2 5 (2.59%) Qlik Sense
2 5 (2.59%) Spotfire
3 4 (2.07%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.07%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (1.55%) Big Data
4 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.55%) Tableau
5 2 (1.04%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.04%) Mixpanel
5 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) Metadata
6 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Axure RP
2 13 (6.74%) JIRA
3 10 (5.18%) Git
4 8 (4.15%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.11%) GoogleTest
5 6 (3.11%) Robot Framework
6 5 (2.59%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.04%) GitLab
8 2 (1.04%) Grunt
8 2 (1.04%) webpack
9 1 (0.52%) ESLint
9 1 (0.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) MSI
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 52 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.21%) Finance
3 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.33%) Banking
5 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.18%) Marketing
7 9 (4.66%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.66%) Retail
8 8 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Aviation
10 3 (1.55%) Legal
10 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
11 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (38.86%) Designer
2 43 (22.28%) Senior
3 32 (16.58%) UX Designer
4 28 (14.51%) Developer
5 23 (11.92%) Architect
6 20 (10.36%) Product Designer
7 18 (9.33%) Senior Designer
8 12 (6.22%) UI Designer
9 11 (5.70%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.18%) Analyst
10 10 (5.18%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.18%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Interaction Designer
11 8 (4.15%) Senior Product Designer
11 8 (4.15%) UI/UX Designer
12 7 (3.63%) Lead
12 7 (3.63%) Senior UX Designer
13 6 (3.11%) Digital Designer
13 6 (3.11%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.11%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.95%) CSS
2 24 (12.44%) HTML
3 6 (3.11%) Node.js
3 6 (3.11%) React
3 6 (3.11%) REST
4 5 (2.59%) Web Services
5 4 (2.07%) Android SDK
5 4 (2.07%) HTML5
5 4 (2.07%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.55%) Alpine.js
6 3 (1.55%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.55%) LangChain
6 3 (1.55%) Laravel
6 3 (1.55%) SOAP
6 3 (1.55%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (1.04%) ADO
7 2 (1.04%) Ajax
7 2 (1.04%) CSS3
7 2 (1.04%) VML
7 2 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.44%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.63%) Animation
4 7 (3.63%) Motion Graphics
5 6 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.59%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.59%) Photography
6 5 (2.59%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.07%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.55%) CMDB
8 3 (1.55%) FPGA
8 3 (1.55%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.55%) PCIe
8 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Android
2 10 (5.18%) Linux
3 7 (3.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.04%) Debian
4 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.04%) Windows
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.97%) Agile
2 78 (40.41%) User Experience
3 69 (35.75%) UX Design
4 44 (22.80%) User Research
5 34 (17.62%) Interaction Design
5 34 (17.62%) Rapid Prototyping
5 34 (17.62%) Wireframes
6 30 (15.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 25 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (12.44%) Analytics
9 21 (10.88%) Service Design
10 20 (10.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (10.36%) DevOps
10 20 (10.36%) Project Management
10 20 (10.36%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (9.33%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.81%) Data Science
12 17 (8.81%) Usability Testing
12 17 (8.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.54%) Python
2 25 (12.95%) SQL
3 23 (11.92%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.66%) Java
5 8 (4.15%) C++
6 5 (2.59%) PHP
7 4 (2.07%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) Jython
8 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.55%) R
8 3 (1.55%) SystemVerilog
8 3 (1.55%) Tcl
9 2 (1.04%) Bash
9 2 (1.04%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.22%) Degree
4 8 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.59%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.52%) NIST
3 1 (0.52%) PERC
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Firmware
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.52%) RACF
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.11%) Terraform
2 3 (1.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) SCCM
3 2 (1.04%) WSUS
4 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.52%) Packer
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (14.51%) Adobe
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.74%) Google
4 9 (4.66%) SAP
5 7 (3.63%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.63%) Databricks
6 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.07%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (2.07%) Oracle
8 3 (1.55%) Intel
8 3 (1.55%) Sage
8 3 (1.55%) Workday
8 3 (1.55%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.04%) Genesys
9 2 (1.04%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.04%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.04%) VMware