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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 82 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 7 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 1.02% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.19% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -26.83% -11.26%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £606
90th Percentile £675 £613 £659
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £485
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.22% -15.65%

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 817 1,260 1,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.80% 85.89% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 827 1,175
10th Percentile £307 £320 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £460 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 80 48
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.49 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.48 £13.97 £16.85
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% +15.56% +23.29%
75th Percentile £74.38 £57.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £86.20 £72.70 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
% change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%

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 25 June 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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Bolton - 1 - - 5
Prototyping
North West

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Resin
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Figma
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) 3D Printing
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) User Research
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) CAD
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) HOOD
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Genesys