Prototyping Contracts

Prototyping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Prototyping over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 271 203
Rank change year-on-year +14 -68 +24
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 382 580 1,248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.00% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.12% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 387 861
10th Percentile £396 £375 £413
25th Percentile £475 £434 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £648 £619
90th Percentile £825 £743 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £480 £540
% change year-on-year +17.19% -11.11% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 19
10th Percentile £24.20 £52.38 £41.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £56.25 £49.38
Median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.20 £81.86 £81.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Prototyping is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 15 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 10 May 2024. 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 +9 335 £575 +4.55% 289
UK excluding London +38 214 £563 +17.19% 221
London -20 143 £550 -4.35% 86
South East +62 121 £650 +14.04% 63
Work from Home -7 96 £550 +4.76% 98
North of England +29 40 £550 +22.22% 38
Scotland +5 26 £444 -7.31% 20
North West +20 22 £515 +6.19% 27
Yorkshire +21 18 £600 +50.00% 6
Midlands +26 12 £550 +37.50% 45
West Midlands +14 7 £450 +12.15% 30
South West -4 6 £724 +60.88% 27
East Midlands +26 5 £550 +100.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £563 - 1
East of England +4 4 £550 +18.28% 32

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 18 (4.71%) Confluence
2 7 (1.83%) Apache
3 3 (0.79%) IIS
3 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) SAS
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (7.07%) Sketch
2 11 (2.88%) Adobe XD
3 10 (2.62%) InVision
4 9 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.57%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.26%) Blender
8 1 (0.26%) Houdini
8 1 (0.26%) InDesign
8 1 (0.26%) Marvel
8 1 (0.26%) Maya
8 1 (0.26%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (3.14%) Oracle Applications
2 9 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Maximo
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle AGIS
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.83%) Azure
2 48 (12.57%) Figma
3 19 (4.97%) AWS
4 18 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.40%) OCI
5 13 (3.40%) Power Automate
6 10 (2.62%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 9 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.36%) Oracle CX
8 8 (2.09%) GitHub
8 8 (2.09%) IaaS
8 8 (2.09%) PaaS
8 8 (2.09%) SaaS
9 6 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.57%) Serverless
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.71%) Ethernet
1 18 (4.71%) SAN
2 16 (4.19%) SNMP
2 16 (4.19%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (4.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.05%) BGP
3 4 (1.05%) DMVPN
3 4 (1.05%) EIGRP
3 4 (1.05%) OSPF
4 3 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.52%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) IPsec
6 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.26%) SSH
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.66%) Big Data
2 13 (3.40%) Hadoop
2 13 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (3.14%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.14%) Tableau
4 10 (2.62%) Power BI
5 9 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.57%) Flink
6 6 (1.57%) KDB
6 6 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.31%) InterSystems Cache
7 5 (1.31%) Redis
8 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.79%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.79%) GIS
9 3 (0.79%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (0.79%) Spatial Data
9 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 19 (4.97%) Git
1 19 (4.97%) JIRA
2 18 (4.71%) Rational DOORS
3 16 (4.19%) Eclipse
3 16 (4.19%) Robot Framework
4 15 (3.93%) GoogleTest
5 14 (3.66%) MSI
6 13 (3.40%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.83%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.26%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.26%) GoCD
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 102 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.04%) Finance
3 41 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.02%) Marketing
6 21 (5.50%) Electronics
7 20 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.88%) Banking
9 10 (2.62%) Games
10 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.52%) Back Office
13 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (25.65%) Designer
2 75 (19.63%) Architect
3 73 (19.11%) Developer
4 52 (13.61%) Infrastructure Architect
5 44 (11.52%) Senior
6 32 (8.38%) Python Developer
7 31 (8.12%) Consultant
8 25 (6.54%) Interaction Designer
8 25 (6.54%) UX Designer
9 24 (6.28%) Service Designer
10 22 (5.76%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.97%) Analyst
12 17 (4.45%) Lead
13 14 (3.66%) Data Scientist
14 13 (3.40%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.40%) Senior Designer
15 12 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 11 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (2.62%) Software Developer
18 8 (2.09%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.14%) CSS
1 54 (14.14%) HTML
2 24 (6.28%) React
3 16 (4.19%) Node.js
4 14 (3.66%) Flask
5 11 (2.88%) REST
6 8 (2.09%) HTML5
7 7 (1.83%) .NET
8 6 (1.57%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.57%) JSON
9 5 (1.31%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.31%) SignalR
10 4 (1.05%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 4 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
10 4 (1.05%) Web Services
11 3 (0.79%) XHTML
11 3 (0.79%) YAML
12 2 (0.52%) Express.js
12 2 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.85%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.28%) Robotics
3 18 (4.71%) Analogue Electronics
4 15 (3.93%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.83%) Augmented Reality
8 7 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.57%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.57%) Virtual Reality
10 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.05%) Social Media
11 3 (0.79%) Animation
11 3 (0.79%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Photography
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.97%) Windows
2 36 (9.42%) Linux
3 16 (4.19%) Debian
3 16 (4.19%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.14%) Android
5 11 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.79%) Unix
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (35.86%) Agile
2 73 (19.11%) User Experience
3 72 (18.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 57 (14.92%) Software Engineering
5 50 (13.09%) UX Design
6 48 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (12.57%) User Research
7 44 (11.52%) Interaction Design
8 41 (10.73%) Wireframes
9 38 (9.95%) Customer Service
9 38 (9.95%) Data Modelling
9 38 (9.95%) Service Design
9 38 (9.95%) User Stories
10 35 (9.16%) DevOps
11 30 (7.85%) Workshop Facilitation
12 27 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (6.81%) Visualisation
14 25 (6.54%) Rapid Prototyping
15 24 (6.28%) Configuration Management
15 24 (6.28%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.94%) Python
2 56 (14.66%) JavaScript
3 25 (6.54%) SQL
4 21 (5.50%) C++
5 20 (5.24%) Java
5 20 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.62%) R
6 10 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.36%) C#
8 2 (0.52%) Bash
8 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Jython
9 1 (0.26%) PHP
9 1 (0.26%) Rust
9 1 (0.26%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.26%) Tcl
9 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 53 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 51 (13.35%) Degree
4 48 (12.57%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.28%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) PhD
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CCNP
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.26%) MCSE
10 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.05%) QA
2 4 (1.05%) SLA
2 4 (1.05%) WCAG
3 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.52%) NCSC
4 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (3.40%) Firmware
2 8 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.09%) Docker
3 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) WMI
2 8 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.05%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.05%) Terraform
4 2 (0.52%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Istio
5 1 (0.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 93 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.50%) Adobe
2 21 (5.50%) VMware
3 17 (4.45%) Oracle
4 16 (4.19%) Google
4 16 (4.19%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.66%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.83%) SAP
7 4 (1.05%) Cisco
7 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.05%) Juniper
8 3 (0.79%) ESRI
8 3 (0.79%) IBM
8 3 (0.79%) Nintex
8 3 (0.79%) Pega
8 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.79%) Twitter
9 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) CA
10 1 (0.26%) Workday