Prototyping Contracts in the South East

Prototyping
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 87 143
Rank change year-on-year -43 +56 +40
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 20 117 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.67% 2.14% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.54% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 58 41
10th Percentile £386 £537 £400
25th Percentile £510 £560 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +16.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £600
90th Percentile £673 - £650
England median daily rate £510 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -8.93% +1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 8
10th Percentile £51.78 £62.00 £51.25
25th Percentile £53.22 £62.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £59.13 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +21.74% +15.29%
75th Percentile £62.25 £90.50 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.13 £92.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.20% - +9.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,724 4,602 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.56% 84.22% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,674 3,475
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 440 218
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.16 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the South East

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the South East

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the South East

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the South East

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Hampshire -30 11 £600 -25.00% 50
Thames Valley +7 7 £638 +13.84% 27
Berkshire +12 5 £644 -4.63% 11
Surrey +10 1 £365 -43.85% 12
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £550 - 7
East Sussex - 1 £650 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £320 - 9
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Figma
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) SNMP
1 6 (30.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) GoogleTest
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
1 6 (30.00%) Robot Framework
2 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Aviation
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) CSS
1 7 (35.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Ajax
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
4 7 (35.00%) Validation
5 6 (30.00%) SysML
5 6 (30.00%) UML
5 6 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (15.00%) CRUD
7 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
7 3 (15.00%) Service Design
7 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C++
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Firmware
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
1 2 (10.00%) WSUS
2 1 (5.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Snow
4 1 (5.00%) Twitter