Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the North East

Prototyping
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.49% 1.35% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £411 £415 -
25th Percentile £417 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £442 £463 -
90th Percentile £447 £486 -
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 275 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.29% 92.59% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 130 149
10th Percentile £176 £310 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £530 £593 £575
90th Percentile £588 £722 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 13
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.13 £15.47
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -59.94% +105.24%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £57.00 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the North East

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tyne and Wear -10 2 £431 -4.17% 11
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Heroku
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Axure RP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Framer.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Progressive Enhancement
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG