Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Prototyping
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -27.66% +2.17% +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 172 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 91.50% 71.97% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 84 79
10th Percentile £129 £151 £219
25th Percentile £152 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £563
90th Percentile £638 £632 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.67 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £49.50 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile £51.02 £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +50.39%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Liverpool - 4 £425 - 1
Prototyping
North West

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Firebase
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Vercel
3 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Streamlit
2 2 (50.00%) Gradio
2 2 (50.00%) LangChain
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
3 1 (25.00%) D3.js
3 1 (25.00%) Faiss
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) Flask
3 1 (25.00%) Flutter
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (75.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (25.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Netlify
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI