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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 272 236
Rank change year-on-year +42 -36 -7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 113 132 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.76% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.86% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 88 184
10th Percentile £357 £394 £400
25th Percentile £408 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £706
90th Percentile £660 £742 £825
England median daily rate £500 £562 £550
% change year-on-year -10.95% +2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £47.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% -2.71%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £57.75 - £70.50
England median hourly rate £53.69 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.10% +4.17% +2.35%

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 11,263 15,405 23,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.53% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,597 11,053 16,838
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -7.56% +3.48%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 310 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.90 £18.35
25th Percentile £23.33 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.83 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +11.41% -29.04% +9.68%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £63.35 £66.78 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%

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 24 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 24 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 +8 13 £468 -23.67% 13
East London +21 5 £495 -8.33% 4
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 (5.31%) CMS
2 3 (2.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Sketch
2 5 (4.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.54%) Chatbot
4 3 (2.65%) Acrobat
4 3 (2.65%) Adobe XD
4 3 (2.65%) InVision
4 3 (2.65%) Trello
5 2 (1.77%) Autodesk Smoke
5 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.88%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.88%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.88%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.02%) Figma
2 16 (14.16%) Azure
3 13 (11.50%) AWS
4 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub
7 3 (2.65%) DigitalOcean
7 3 (2.65%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.65%) Heroku
7 3 (2.65%) Slack
8 2 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) BigCommerce
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) Miro
8 2 (1.77%) SaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.88%) IaaS
9 1 (0.88%) PaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.77%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.77%) DHCP
3 2 (1.77%) LAN
3 2 (1.77%) VLAN
3 2 (1.77%) WebEx
3 2 (1.77%) Wireless
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) IPsec
4 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.88%) Multicast
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.42%) Power BI
1 5 (4.42%) Qlik Sense
1 5 (4.42%) Spotfire
2 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.77%) Big Data
3 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.77%) Mixpanel
3 2 (1.77%) Tableau
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.88%) Metadata
4 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Axure RP
2 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Grunt
3 2 (1.77%) webpack
4 1 (0.88%) ESLint
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) JIRA
4 1 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.24%) Finance
3 17 (15.04%) Banking
4 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Retail
6 8 (7.08%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.08%) Marketing
7 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.65%) Local Government
9 3 (2.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Games
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (47.79%) Designer
2 31 (27.43%) Senior
3 24 (21.24%) UX Designer
4 18 (15.93%) Product Designer
5 14 (12.39%) Senior Designer
6 11 (9.73%) Architect
6 11 (9.73%) Developer
7 9 (7.96%) UI Designer
8 7 (6.19%) Senior Product Designer
9 6 (5.31%) Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Senior UX Designer
9 6 (5.31%) Visual Designer
10 5 (4.42%) Data Scientist
10 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Service Designer
10 5 (4.42%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) CSS
2 7 (6.19%) HTML
3 3 (2.65%) Alpine.js
3 3 (2.65%) Android SDK
3 3 (2.65%) Bootstrap
3 3 (2.65%) Laravel
3 3 (2.65%) Node.js
3 3 (2.65%) React
3 3 (2.65%) REST
3 3 (2.65%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (2.65%) Web Services
4 2 (1.77%) ADO
4 2 (1.77%) CSS3
4 2 (1.77%) HTML5
4 2 (1.77%) Jest
4 2 (1.77%) LESS
4 2 (1.77%) Sass
4 2 (1.77%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (1.77%) SOAP
4 2 (1.77%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.70%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.42%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.54%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.65%) Animation
6 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.65%) FPGA
6 3 (2.65%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (2.65%) PCIe
6 3 (2.65%) Verilog
6 3 (2.65%) VHDL
7 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.77%) Photography
7 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Android
2 4 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (49.56%) User Experience
2 51 (45.13%) UX Design
3 39 (34.51%) Agile
4 25 (22.12%) User Research
5 23 (20.35%) Interaction Design
6 22 (19.47%) Wireframes
7 21 (18.58%) Rapid Prototyping
8 17 (15.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 15 (13.27%) Analytics
9 15 (13.27%) Project Management
10 14 (12.39%) Service Design
11 13 (11.50%) Visualisation
11 13 (11.50%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (10.62%) Machine Learning
12 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (10.62%) Storytelling
13 11 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.73%) UX Research
14 10 (8.85%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.39%) Python
1 14 (12.39%) SQL
2 8 (7.08%) Java
3 7 (6.19%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.42%) PHP
5 3 (2.65%) C#
5 3 (2.65%) Jython
5 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.65%) SystemVerilog
5 3 (2.65%) Tcl
6 2 (1.77%) C++
6 2 (1.77%) Go
6 2 (1.77%) R
6 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Degree
2 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) RACF
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.88%) Packer
2 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.16%) Adobe
2 8 (7.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.19%) SAP
4 6 (5.31%) Databricks
5 4 (3.54%) Google
5 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.65%) Intel
6 3 (2.65%) Sage
6 3 (2.65%) Xilinx
7 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco
7 2 (1.77%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.77%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.77%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.88%) Genesys
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Solace
8 1 (0.88%) YouTube