Prototyping Contracts in the South West

Prototyping
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 105 151 142
Rank change year-on-year +46 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 6 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.19% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.23% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £297 £571 £400
25th Percentile £468 £622 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £724 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +60.88% -14.29%
75th Percentile £591 £750 £500
90th Percentile £596 - £593
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% -4.62% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +21 3 £381 -45.54% 15
Devon +12 2 £588 -21.56% 17
Wiltshire +32 1 - - 9
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (16.67%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (16.67%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Axure RP
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Content Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Author
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Content Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Human Factors Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Motion Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Motion Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Author
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Animation
1 1 (16.67%) Graphic Design
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
1 1 (16.67%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Design
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (16.67%) CAD
3 1 (16.67%) Content Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Ergonomics
3 1 (16.67%) Human Factors
3 1 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (16.67%) SEO
3 1 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Def Stans
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) YouTube