Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 227 224
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 129 123 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.84% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.97% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 116
10th Percentile £400 £359 £400
25th Percentile £444 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.45% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £616
90th Percentile £692 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 21
10th Percentile £25.81 £54.29 £47.50
25th Percentile £27.03 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.44 £70.00
90th Percentile - £90.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.25 £62.25
% change year-on-year -38.86% -8.03% -4.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,633 12,740 17,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.61% 87.32% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,564 7,476 11,022
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,732 732 1,229
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%
75th Percentile £51.21 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East -31 33 £600 -6.25% 194
North of England -42 24 £479 -4.30% 175
Scotland +9 22 £469 -6.25% 44
East of England -1 21 £548 - 116
South West -4 15 £600 - 99
North West -17 12 £402 -33.00% 103
Midlands -43 11 £500 +40.45% 125
West Midlands -27 10 £513 +2.50% 66
Yorkshire -41 10 £513 -10.87% 64
Wales +2 3 £283 - 14
North East -8 2 £431 -4.17% 9
East Midlands -23 1 £485 +36.24% 50
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.65%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) IIS
3 2 (1.55%) CMS
3 2 (1.55%) Resin
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 8 (6.20%) InVision
2 8 (6.20%) Sketch
3 7 (5.43%) Adobe XD
4 6 (4.65%) Adobe Captivate
4 6 (4.65%) Chatbot
4 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.55%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.78%) Blender
7 1 (0.78%) CATIA
7 1 (0.78%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.78%) InDesign
7 1 (0.78%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) Figma
2 17 (13.18%) AWS
3 15 (11.63%) Azure
4 8 (6.20%) GitHub
4 8 (6.20%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.10%) PaaS
6 4 (3.10%) Serverless
7 3 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.33%) Slack
8 2 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) Internet
3 2 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (1.55%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.55%) SSL
3 2 (1.55%) VSAN
4 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) IPsec
4 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.78%) MQTT
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) UWB
4 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.78%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) Power BI
2 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.10%) MySQL
4 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.55%) OLTP
6 2 (1.55%) Tableau
6 2 (1.55%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.78%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Axure RP
1 8 (6.20%) JIRA
2 6 (4.65%) Git
3 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.10%) PyCharm
4 3 (2.33%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.33%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 36 (27.91%) Finance
2 34 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.05%) Banking
4 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.88%) Aviation
7 5 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Legal
8 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Automotive
10 2 (1.55%) Advertising
10 2 (1.55%) Billing
10 2 (1.55%) Electronics
10 2 (1.55%) Local Government
10 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (34.88%) Designer
2 21 (16.28%) Architect
3 18 (13.95%) UX Designer
4 12 (9.30%) Senior
4 12 (9.30%) Visual Designer
5 10 (7.75%) Analyst
6 8 (6.20%) Developer
7 7 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Senior Designer
7 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.10%) Interaction Designer
9 4 (3.10%) Lead
9 4 (3.10%) Product Designer
9 4 (3.10%) Senior UX Designer
9 4 (3.10%) Service Designer
9 4 (3.10%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) HTML
2 9 (6.98%) CSS
3 8 (6.20%) TensorFlow
4 7 (5.43%) .NET
5 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.88%) NumPy
6 5 (3.88%) Pandas
6 5 (3.88%) React
6 5 (3.88%) RESTful
7 4 (3.10%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.33%) REST
8 3 (2.33%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (2.33%) Vue
9 2 (1.55%) Framer.js
10 1 (0.78%) Flutter
10 1 (0.78%) Next.js
10 1 (0.78%) React Native
10 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.78%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (0.78%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Mobile App
1 13 (10.08%) PKI
2 10 (7.75%) Algorithms
2 10 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Fat Client
2 10 (7.75%) Thin Client
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.10%) Clustering
4 4 (3.10%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Graphic Design
5 3 (2.33%) Life Science
5 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.33%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.55%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Windows
2 10 (7.75%) Windows 7
3 8 (6.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.88%) Linux
5 2 (1.55%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.78%) Debian
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (61.24%) Agile
2 36 (27.91%) User Experience
3 33 (25.58%) User Research
4 30 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (23.26%) UX Design
5 28 (21.71%) AI
6 24 (18.60%) Interaction Design
7 20 (15.50%) Collaborative Working
8 19 (14.73%) Machine Learning
8 19 (14.73%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
9 16 (12.40%) Wireframes
10 15 (11.63%) LLM
10 15 (11.63%) Service Design
11 14 (10.85%) DevOps
12 13 (10.08%) Rapid Prototyping
12 13 (10.08%) Storytelling
12 13 (10.08%) Usability Testing
12 13 (10.08%) Validation
13 12 (9.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.46%) Python
2 12 (9.30%) SQL
3 8 (6.20%) C#
3 8 (6.20%) Java
4 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.65%) C++
5 6 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.33%) Bash
7 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.55%) ProC
7 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.78%) C
8 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.78%) R
8 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.40%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) Degree
4 10 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) MCP
6 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) CFA
6 2 (1.55%) MCSE
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.78%) APMP
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.58%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.88%) EU AI Act
2 5 (3.88%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) WCAG
3 4 (3.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.78%) GMP
5 1 (0.78%) GxP
System Software
1 14 (10.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.65%) Docker
3 2 (1.55%) NFS
3 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.55%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.78%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (7.75%) WMI
2 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.65%) Terraform
4 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.33%) Argo
4 3 (2.33%) Istio
5 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.78%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.28%) Adobe
3 16 (12.40%) VMware
4 5 (3.88%) Foundry
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle
6 3 (2.33%) Workday
7 2 (1.55%) Ariba
7 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.55%) NetApp
7 2 (1.55%) Palantir
7 2 (1.55%) SAP
7 2 (1.55%) Splunk
7 2 (1.55%) Veeam
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) Dell
8 1 (0.78%) Netlify
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat