Prototyping Contracts in the North of England

Prototyping
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prototyping over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 166 128
Rank change year-on-year +22 -38 +3
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 40 42 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.86% 0.74% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.81% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 101
10th Percentile £363 £219 £420
25th Percentile £406 £366 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £615 £564 £600
90th Percentile £623 £656 £663
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.23% +8.33% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Prototyping is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,176 6,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.65% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,584 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.88
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +51.84% +3.15%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +20 22 £515 +6.19% 30
Yorkshire +24 18 £600 +50.00% 7
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 6 (15.00%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (10.00%) InVision
1 4 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub
3 3 (7.50%) IaaS
3 3 (7.50%) PaaS
3 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (7.50%) SaaS
3 3 (7.50%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Flink
2 3 (7.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Redis
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GoCD
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Designer
2 13 (32.50%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Interaction Designer
4 6 (15.00%) Python Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Designer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
6 4 (10.00%) Service Designer
7 3 (7.50%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Pega Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Content Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Data Scientist
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) UI Designer
9 1 (2.50%) Agile Business Analyst
9 1 (2.50%) Java Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) HTML
2 11 (27.50%) CSS
3 6 (15.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (15.00%) Flask
4 5 (12.50%) JSON
4 5 (12.50%) Node.js
4 5 (12.50%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) .NET
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.50%) SignalR
5 3 (7.50%) XHTML
6 2 (5.00%) Jest
6 2 (5.00%) React
6 2 (5.00%) Swagger
6 2 (5.00%) YAML
7 1 (2.50%) Spring
7 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.50%) Low-Code
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Agile
1 14 (35.00%) Interaction Design
2 13 (32.50%) User Research
3 12 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
6 7 (17.50%) Process Improvement
6 7 (17.50%) TDD
6 7 (17.50%) User Experience
7 6 (15.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
8 5 (12.50%) Sprint Backlog
8 5 (12.50%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Adobe
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) Nintex
3 3 (7.50%) Pega
3 3 (7.50%) SAP