Prototyping Contracts

Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 304 259 268
Rank change year-on-year -45 +9 -65
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 235 388 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.89% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.03% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 249 409
10th Percentile £313 £394 £377
25th Percentile £400 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £644
90th Percentile £688 £805 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £498
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.58% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £21.43 £52.75
25th Percentile £41.31 £41.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £54.94 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -7.69% +7.88%
75th Percentile £61.75 £70.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £63.13 £79.00 £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -3.85% +7.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England -37 202 £520 -9.57% 432
London +10 119 £515 -6.36% 229
UK excluding London -46 88 £500 -13.04% 254
Work from Home +19 76 £475 -13.64% 253
South East -39 29 £644 -0.96% 84
Midlands +27 17 £463 -15.91% 17
Scotland 0 14 £438 -7.89% 21
North of England -8 13 £400 -25.58% 48
West Midlands +19 12 £381 -15.28% 6
East of England +35 8 £468 - 55
North West +3 8 £369 -23.52% 27
South West +46 6 £575 -20.58% 33
East Midlands +10 5 £468 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -6 4 £400 -33.33% 12
Wales - 3 £306 - 7
North East - 1 £400 - 9

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.53%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) CMS
3 5 (2.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.70%) nginx
5 3 (1.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (11.06%) Sketch
2 15 (6.38%) Adobe XD
3 9 (3.83%) InVision
4 8 (3.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.28%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.28%) Trello
7 2 (0.85%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.85%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.85%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.85%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.85%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.85%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.85%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.85%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 75 (31.91%) Figma
2 33 (14.04%) AWS
3 25 (10.64%) Azure
4 14 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.83%) SaaS
6 8 (3.40%) GCP
6 8 (3.40%) Serverless
7 6 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.13%) GitHub
9 4 (1.70%) Miro
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.28%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (1.28%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.28%) Heroku
10 3 (1.28%) Slack
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.85%) IaaS
11 2 (0.85%) PaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) HTTP
2 7 (2.98%) SNMP
2 7 (2.98%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (2.98%) SSL
3 5 (2.13%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.70%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.28%) DNS
5 3 (1.28%) Wireless
6 2 (0.85%) BGP
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.85%) DMVPN
6 2 (0.85%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.85%) Intranet
6 2 (0.85%) IPsec
6 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.85%) OSPF
6 2 (0.85%) SAN
6 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) WebEx
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.98%) Oracle Database
2 7 (2.98%) Oracle Database 11g
3 6 (2.55%) Power BI
4 5 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
4 5 (2.13%) Spotfire
5 3 (1.28%) Big Data
5 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.28%) Tableau
6 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.85%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.85%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.09%) Axure RP
2 14 (5.96%) JIRA
3 11 (4.68%) Git
4 10 (4.26%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.98%) GoogleTest
5 7 (2.98%) Robot Framework
6 6 (2.55%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.70%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.28%) GitLab
8 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.28%) Xcode
9 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.85%) Grunt
9 2 (0.85%) Maven
9 2 (0.85%) webpack
10 1 (0.43%) ESLint
10 1 (0.43%) MSI
10 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 69 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.15%) Finance
3 32 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.23%) Banking
6 10 (4.26%) Marketing
7 9 (3.83%) Retail
8 8 (3.40%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.13%) Aviation
11 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.85%) Electronics
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 96 (40.85%) Designer
2 42 (17.87%) Senior
3 38 (16.17%) UX Designer
4 29 (12.34%) Developer
5 27 (11.49%) Architect
6 21 (8.94%) Product Designer
7 18 (7.66%) Interaction Designer
7 18 (7.66%) Senior Designer
8 15 (6.38%) Service Designer
9 13 (5.53%) Data Scientist
10 11 (4.68%) UI Designer
11 10 (4.26%) Analyst
11 10 (4.26%) Lead
11 10 (4.26%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.83%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.83%) UI/UX Designer
13 8 (3.40%) Senior Product Designer
14 7 (2.98%) Digital Designer
14 7 (2.98%) Senior UX Designer
14 7 (2.98%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.19%) CSS
1 31 (13.19%) HTML
2 8 (3.40%) React
3 7 (2.98%) Node.js
3 7 (2.98%) REST
4 6 (2.55%) Hugging Face
4 6 (2.55%) Web Services
5 5 (2.13%) HTML5
6 4 (1.70%) LangChain
7 3 (1.28%) Alpine.js
7 3 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.28%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.28%) Laravel
7 3 (1.28%) RxJS
7 3 (1.28%) SOAP
7 3 (1.28%) SwiftUI
7 3 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (1.28%) UIKit
8 2 (0.85%) ADO
8 2 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.21%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.83%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.40%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.98%) Animation
6 7 (2.98%) Motion Graphics
6 7 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.13%) Photography
7 5 (2.13%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.70%) FPGA
8 4 (1.70%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.70%) PCIe
8 4 (1.70%) Verilog
8 4 (1.70%) VHDL
8 4 (1.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.96%) Android
2 12 (5.11%) Apple iOS
3 10 (4.26%) Linux
4 5 (2.13%) Windows
5 4 (1.70%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.70%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.85%) Debian
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (43.83%) Agile
2 97 (41.28%) User Experience
3 81 (34.47%) UX Design
4 63 (26.81%) User Research
5 47 (20.00%) Interaction Design
6 44 (18.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 40 (17.02%) Wireframes
8 38 (16.17%) Service Design
9 37 (15.74%) Rapid Prototyping
10 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (11.49%) DevOps
12 26 (11.06%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.21%) Analytics
14 23 (9.79%) User Stories
15 22 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
15 22 (9.36%) Visualisation
16 21 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
16 21 (8.94%) CI/CD
16 21 (8.94%) Project Management
16 21 (8.94%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.89%) Python
2 33 (14.04%) SQL
3 29 (12.34%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.83%) C++
4 9 (3.83%) Java
5 7 (2.98%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.13%) PHP
7 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.70%) SystemVerilog
8 4 (1.70%) Tcl
9 3 (1.28%) C#
9 3 (1.28%) Jython
9 3 (1.28%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.28%) R
9 3 (1.28%) Swift
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) Go
10 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 50 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.23%) Degree
4 14 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.70%) CCNP
6 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.70%) MCSE
6 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.15%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.26%) WCAG
3 5 (2.13%) NIST
4 4 (1.70%) NCSC
4 4 (1.70%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (4.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.85%) Firmware
3 2 (0.85%) RACF
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.98%) Terraform
2 5 (2.13%) Ansible
2 5 (2.13%) SCCM
2 5 (2.13%) WSUS
3 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Packer
3 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (13.62%) Adobe
2 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.96%) Google
4 11 (4.68%) SAP
5 8 (3.40%) Oracle
6 7 (2.98%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.98%) Databricks
7 6 (2.55%) VMware
8 5 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.70%) Intel
9 4 (1.70%) Workday
9 4 (1.70%) Xilinx
10 3 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.28%) Sage
11 2 (0.85%) Cisco
11 2 (0.85%) Juniper
11 2 (0.85%) McAfee
11 2 (0.85%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow