Prototyping Contracts in London

Prototyping
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 234 244 235
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 119 149 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.84% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.94% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 100 196
10th Percentile £360 £394 £400
25th Percentile £411 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -1.12% +1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £831
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £47.25 - £49.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £41.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +2.13%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% -4.62% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in London

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in London

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in London

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in London

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the London 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
Central London +7 19 £493 -19.10% 12
East London +19 5 £495 -8.33% 1
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.04%) CMS
2 4 (3.36%) nginx
3 3 (2.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Sketch
2 10 (8.40%) Adobe XD
3 6 (5.04%) InVision
4 5 (4.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.52%) Acrobat
6 3 (2.52%) Trello
7 2 (1.68%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.84%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.84%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.84%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.84%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.84%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.84%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.84%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (43.70%) Figma
2 17 (14.29%) AWS
3 16 (13.45%) Azure
4 8 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.20%) GCP
5 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.20%) SaaS
6 3 (2.52%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (2.52%) GitHub
6 3 (2.52%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.52%) Heroku
6 3 (2.52%) Slack
7 2 (1.68%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.68%) Miro
8 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.84%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.84%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.84%) Serverless
8 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.52%) DNS
3 2 (1.68%) WebEx
4 1 (0.84%) HTTP
4 1 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.84%) Intranet
4 1 (0.84%) IPsec
4 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.20%) Power BI
1 5 (4.20%) Qlik Sense
1 5 (4.20%) Spotfire
2 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.68%) Big Data
3 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.68%) Mixpanel
3 2 (1.68%) Tableau
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.84%) Metadata
4 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Axure RP
2 4 (3.36%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.68%) Git
4 2 (1.68%) Grunt
4 2 (1.68%) webpack
5 1 (0.84%) ESLint
5 1 (0.84%) GitLab
5 1 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.84%) Maven
General
1 36 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.89%) Finance
3 17 (14.29%) Banking
4 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Investment Banking
5 8 (6.72%) Retail
6 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.04%) Marketing
8 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.84%) Games
10 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.84%) Law
10 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (46.22%) Designer
2 33 (27.73%) Senior
3 26 (21.85%) UX Designer
4 18 (15.13%) Product Designer
5 16 (13.45%) Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Senior Designer
7 11 (9.24%) Architect
8 8 (6.72%) Data Scientist
9 7 (5.88%) Interaction Designer
9 7 (5.88%) Senior Product Designer
9 7 (5.88%) UI Designer
10 6 (5.04%) Senior UX Designer
10 6 (5.04%) Service Designer
11 5 (4.20%) Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (4.20%) UI/UX Designer
12 4 (3.36%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) CSS
1 14 (11.76%) HTML
2 6 (5.04%) React
3 5 (4.20%) HTML5
4 4 (3.36%) Hugging Face
4 4 (3.36%) LangChain
5 3 (2.52%) Alpine.js
5 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.52%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.52%) Laravel
5 3 (2.52%) Node.js
5 3 (2.52%) REST
5 3 (2.52%) RxJS
5 3 (2.52%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (2.52%) Web Services
6 2 (1.68%) ADO
6 2 (1.68%) Sass
6 2 (1.68%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (1.68%) SOAP
6 2 (1.68%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.04%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.36%) FPGA
5 4 (3.36%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.36%) PCIe
5 4 (3.36%) Verilog
5 4 (3.36%) VHDL
6 3 (2.52%) Animation
6 3 (2.52%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (1.68%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.68%) Photography
7 2 (1.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Android
2 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) User Experience
2 51 (42.86%) UX Design
3 43 (36.13%) Agile
4 30 (25.21%) User Research
5 27 (22.69%) Interaction Design
5 27 (22.69%) Rapid Prototyping
6 22 (18.49%) Wireframes
7 20 (16.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 17 (14.29%) Visualisation
9 16 (13.45%) Analytics
9 16 (13.45%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (12.61%) Project Management
10 15 (12.61%) Service Design
11 14 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (10.92%) Data Science
12 13 (10.92%) DevOps
12 13 (10.92%) Usability Testing
13 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (10.08%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.29%) Python
2 15 (12.61%) SQL
3 10 (8.40%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.88%) Java
5 5 (4.20%) PHP
5 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.36%) SystemVerilog
6 4 (3.36%) Tcl
7 3 (2.52%) C#
7 3 (2.52%) Jython
8 2 (1.68%) C++
8 2 (1.68%) Go
8 2 (1.68%) R
9 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.56%) Degree
2 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Docker
1 5 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.84%) RACF
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Ansible
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Packer
3 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Adobe
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) SAP
3 6 (5.04%) Databricks
4 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.36%) Google
5 4 (3.36%) Intel
5 4 (3.36%) Xilinx
6 3 (2.52%) Sage
7 2 (1.68%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.68%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.84%) Facebook
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle
8 1 (0.84%) Pega
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) YouTube