Rapid Prototyping Contracts in the UK excluding London

Rapid Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 374 415
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 +69
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 22 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.028% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.033% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £310 £561 £433
25th Percentile £413 £566 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £750
90th Percentile £658 - £780
UK median daily rate £485 £579 £475
% change year-on-year -16.20% +21.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +43.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Rapid 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 13,713 15,054 19,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.26% 82.90% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,208 9,069 12,909
10th Percentile £239 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,372 1,502 1,189
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +19.72% +61.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.89
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Rapid Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
North of England -11 10 £425 -29.17% 6
North West - 10 £425 - 3
Scotland - 6 - - 8
South East +22 3 £600 +6.19% 37
Midlands - 3 £468 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £463 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £468 -
Rapid Prototyping
UK

Rapid Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (18.18%) Resin
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (18.18%) PTC Creo
2 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 2 (9.09%) InVision
2 2 (9.09%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Figma
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
4 1 (4.55%) Firebase
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Vercel
4 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Xcode
2 2 (9.09%) Axure RP
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (45.45%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Automotive
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead UX Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Product Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Designer
4 1 (4.55%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (4.55%) User Researcher
4 1 (4.55%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) SwiftUI
1 6 (27.27%) UIKit
2 3 (13.64%) Streamlit
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) Gradio
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) D3.js
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) Flutter
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) React Native
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Mobile App
2 6 (27.27%) Credit Risk
2 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (27.27%) iPad
2 6 (27.27%) iPhone
2 6 (27.27%) Virtual Team
3 4 (18.18%) 3D Printing
3 4 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (13.64%) Low-Code
5 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.55%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Android
1 9 (40.91%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 11 (50.00%) User Experience
3 11 (50.00%) UX Design
4 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 7 (31.82%) Customer Experience
5 7 (31.82%) Mobile Development
6 6 (27.27%) BDD
6 6 (27.27%) Build Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (27.27%) iOS Development
6 6 (27.27%) MVC
6 6 (27.27%) MVVM
6 6 (27.27%) Scrum
6 6 (27.27%) TDD
6 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Objective-C
1 6 (27.27%) Swift
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubeflow
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Netlify
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI