Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Prototyping
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 92 112
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 13 32 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.64% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.72% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 29
10th Percentile £400 £558 £550
25th Percentile £438 £620 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% +1.56% +16.36%
75th Percentile £618 £688 £700
90th Percentile £950 £743 £729
South East median daily rate £600 £631 £593
% change year-on-year -4.95% +6.54% +7.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the Thames Valley

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire -17 10 £475 -26.92% 12
Buckinghamshire +1 3 £550 -25.98% 4
Prototyping
South East

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Boomi
3 1 (7.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Automotive
1 2 (15.38%) Billing
1 2 (15.38%) Legal
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Designer
4 1 (7.69%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (7.69%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Debian
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) AI
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (30.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Business Case
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Vision
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Data Science
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) LLM
5 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (23.08%) User Stories
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) VCP5
3 1 (7.69%) VCP6
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) NFS
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Foundry
3 2 (15.38%) Palantir
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam