Prototyping Contracts in the North West

Prototyping
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 119 131
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 8 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.81% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.95% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 11
10th Percentile £313 - £400
25th Percentile £338 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +15.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £586 £625
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,760 2,312 2,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.75% 84.84% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,437 1,898
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 267 142
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £26.66 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -23.83% +49.64%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £84.17 £66.61 £65.98
England median hourly rate £28.08 £37.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -25.13% +1.99% +47.08%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the North West over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Manchester +11 5 £588 +56.67% 75
Cheshire -9 3 £313 -43.09% 38
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) InVision
1 2 (25.00%) UserZoom
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Figma
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Axure RP
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Research
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) User Experience
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
2 4 (50.00%) UX Design
3 3 (37.50%) Usability Testing
3 3 (37.50%) UX Research
3 3 (37.50%) Wireframes
4 2 (25.00%) Co-Creation
4 2 (25.00%) Ethnographic Research
4 2 (25.00%) Ethnography
4 2 (25.00%) Guerrilla Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (25.00%) Interaction Design
4 2 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Task Model
4 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys