Prototyping Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Prototyping
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 55 53
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £451 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -21.52% +2.22% +11.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 651 419 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.88% 89.34% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 216 256
10th Percentile £307 £228 £375
25th Percentile £389 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.04% +16.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Sheffield -21 3 £508 +1.50% 4
Prototyping
Yorkshire

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) PyCharm
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Munging
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Image Processing
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR