Prototyping Contracts in Scotland

Prototyping
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 97 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 25 23 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 1.13% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.29% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 48
10th Percentile £400 £400 £352
25th Percentile £408 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +14.64% -12.77%
75th Percentile £655 £649 £541
90th Percentile £675 £676 £673
UK median daily rate £513 £556 £548
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.55% -0.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,607 1,782 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.18% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,111 1,747
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 69 57
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.64 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +10.55% -52.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Scotland

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in Scotland

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Scotland

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in Scotland

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Glasgow -9 15 £635 +37.30% 14
Edinburgh +5 9 £419 -33.00% 18
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £463 -
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Drupal
3 1 (4.00%) Joomla!
3 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
1 4 (16.00%) Slack
2 3 (12.00%) Figma
3 2 (8.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Xcode
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (16.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Terragrunt
4 1 (4.00%) Axure RP
4 1 (4.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
1 15 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Electronics
3 7 (28.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (28.00%) Marketing
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) RF Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Designer
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Content Designer
6 2 (8.00%) UX Designer
7 1 (4.00%) Business IT Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Interaction Designer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Content Designer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Designer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 1 (4.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) SwiftUI
1 6 (24.00%) UIKit
2 2 (8.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Credit Risk
1 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (24.00%) iPad
1 6 (24.00%) iPhone
1 6 (24.00%) Mobile App
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Android
1 8 (32.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (32.00%) User Experience
3 8 (32.00%) UX Design
4 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (28.00%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (28.00%) Feasibility Study
4 7 (28.00%) Programme Management
4 7 (28.00%) Schematic Capture
5 6 (24.00%) Build Automation
5 6 (24.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (24.00%) iOS Development
5 6 (24.00%) Mobile Development
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Push Notifications
5 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) TDD
5 6 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Objective-C
1 6 (24.00%) Python
1 6 (24.00%) Swift
2 4 (16.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Argo
1 4 (16.00%) Istio
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft