Rapid Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Rapid Prototyping
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% - 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £502
25th Percentile £413 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £538
75th Percentile £438 - £578
90th Percentile - - £584
England median daily rate £510 £600 £495
% change year-on-year -15.00% +21.21% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +34.62% -58.40% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Rapid 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 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend in the North of England

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West - 8 £425 - 1
Rapid Prototyping
England

Rapid Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Resin
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (50.00%) PTC Creo
2 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
3 1 (12.50%) Firebase
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Vercel
3 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead UX Designer
2 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Streamlit
2 2 (25.00%) Gradio
2 2 (25.00%) LangChain
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) CrewAI
3 1 (12.50%) D3.js
3 1 (12.50%) Faiss
3 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) Flutter
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) LangGraph
3 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) React Native
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) 3D Printing
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (37.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (12.50%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 4 (50.00%) CAD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 3 (37.50%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) LLM
5 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Multi-Agent System
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Netlify
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI