Prototyping Contracts in Reading

Prototyping
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 53 89 77
Rank change year-on-year +36 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 0.17% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.19% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £619 - £481
25th Percentile £621 £620 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £640 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +13.78% -13.46%
75th Percentile £672 £660 £588
90th Percentile £681 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -17.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Reading

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in Reading

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in Reading

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database 11g
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Clean Code
1 6 (85.71%) CRUD
1 6 (85.71%) Data Migration
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (85.71%) Secure Coding
1 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PL/SQL
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP