Rapid Prototyping Contracts in England

Rapid Prototyping
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 505 591
Rank change year-on-year +51 +86 +76
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 34 26 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.071% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.083% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 19
10th Percentile £350 £508 £423
25th Percentile £461 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £606
90th Percentile £740 £660 £666
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £538
% change year-on-year - +11.63% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.94 - -
90th Percentile £26.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,114 31,426 43,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.34% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,436 20,611 30,630
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 £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,247 1,533
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%
75th Percentile £62.24 £60.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in England

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in England

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in England

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in England

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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 +53 25 £600 - 76
North of England +13 2 £313 -44.36% 15
North West +6 2 £313 -43.09% 12
Midlands - 2 £384 - 6
South East +42 1 £600 - 26
West Midlands - 1 £300 -
East Midlands - 1 £468 - 6
Rapid Prototyping
UK

Rapid 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) InVision
1 2 (5.88%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
1 7 (20.59%) GCP
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Figma
4 2 (5.88%) BigCommerce
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Mixpanel
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.88%) Axure RP
2 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.88%) Grunt
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) webpack
3 1 (2.94%) ESLint
General
1 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Marketing
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Designer
3 7 (20.59%) Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Data Scientist
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Product Designer
5 5 (14.71%) Python Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Designer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Product Designer
7 3 (8.82%) Credit Risk Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Market Risk Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (5.88%) UX Designer
9 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Digital UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) HTML
2 6 (17.65%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) HTML5
4 3 (8.82%) Hugging Face
4 3 (8.82%) LangChain
5 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.88%) CSS3
5 2 (5.88%) Jest
5 2 (5.88%) LESS
5 2 (5.88%) Node.js
5 2 (5.88%) RxJS
5 2 (5.88%) Sass
5 2 (5.88%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (5.88%) VML
6 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.94%) Flask
6 1 (2.94%) Jinja
6 1 (2.94%) Nunjucks
6 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.71%) Credit Risk
2 5 (14.71%) Private Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Market Risk
4 3 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.94%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Android
1 5 (14.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 16 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (20.59%) Data Science
4 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
4 7 (20.59%) User Research
5 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
5 6 (17.65%) High Availability
5 6 (17.65%) Low Latency
5 6 (17.65%) User Experience
5 6 (17.65%) UX Design
6 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (14.71%) Generative AI
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (14.71%) ITIL
6 5 (14.71%) LLM
6 5 (14.71%) Project Management
6 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
6 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) Jython
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) Adobe
2 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Optimizely
2 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks