Prototyping Contracts in Manchester

Prototyping
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 74 82 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 5 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.06% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £252 - £216
25th Percentile £355 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £456
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -17.81% -18.89%
75th Percentile £653 £420 £606
90th Percentile £681 £491 £648
North West median daily rate £369 £483 £456
% change year-on-year -23.52% +5.75% -13.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Content Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Research
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform