Rapid Prototyping Contracts in the North West

Rapid Prototyping
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 127 151
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +27
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.036% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.042% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £363 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £438 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -4.17% +18.81% -8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 2,353 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.44% 83.77% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 267 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in the North West

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the North West

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cheshire -5 2 £313 -43.09% 2
Merseyside - 2 £425 - 2
Rapid Prototyping
England

Rapid 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) InVision
1 2 (50.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Co-Creation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Ethnographic Research
2 2 (50.00%) Ethnography
2 2 (50.00%) Guerrilla Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Model
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) UX Research
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CA Agile Central