Prototyping Contracts in the North of England

Prototyping
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 153 145 171
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -54
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 13 40 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.84% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.98% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 31
10th Percentile £300 £363 £213
25th Percentile £324 £386 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £428 £615 £563
90th Percentile £644 £622 £650
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the North of England

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the North of England

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the North of England

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the North of England

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +3 8 £369 -23.52% 25
Yorkshire -6 4 £400 -33.33% 10
North East - 1 £400 - 9
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) InVision
1 2 (15.38%) UserZoom
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Axure RP
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Designer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Interaction Designer
3 3 (23.08%) UX Designer
4 2 (15.38%) UI Designer
4 2 (15.38%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Content Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Content Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (7.69%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) User Research
2 8 (61.54%) User Stories
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Interaction Design
4 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 5 (38.46%) UX Design
5 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
6 3 (23.08%) Usability Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
7 2 (15.38%) Co-Creation
7 2 (15.38%) Content Strategy
7 2 (15.38%) Ethnographic Research
7 2 (15.38%) Ethnography
7 2 (15.38%) Guerrilla Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) Task Model
7 2 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe