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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 257 264
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 -58
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 226 377 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.89% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.03% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 241 380
10th Percentile £303 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £475 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £661 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £560 £475
% change year-on-year -16.52% +17.89% -12.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 14
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.82 £52.38
25th Percentile £31.44 £42.19 £56.25
Median hourly rate £53.69 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.78 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £62.20 £91.40 £81.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £66.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.92% +8.33%

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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 16 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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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 -32 193 £510 -8.93% 538
London +9 119 £513 -6.82% 305
UK excluding London -70 81 £468 -16.52% 317
Work from Home +5 72 £475 -13.64% 300
South East -37 21 £638 -1.92% 129
Midlands +15 19 £350 -33.96% 29
Scotland 0 16 £425 -8.11% 27
West Midlands +12 14 £325 -37.20% 14
North of England -11 11 £400 -27.27% 55
East of England +29 8 £468 -15.00% 44
North West -6 8 £488 -5.34% 32
East Midlands +9 5 £468 -15.00% 15
South West +39 4 £575 -20.58% 33
Wales - 4 £306 - 6
Yorkshire -1 3 £400 -33.33% 20

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 14 (6.19%) Confluence
2 8 (3.54%) CMS
3 3 (1.33%) nginx
3 3 (1.33%) WordPress
4 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (10.62%) Sketch
2 12 (5.31%) Adobe XD
3 8 (3.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (3.54%) InVision
4 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.77%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.33%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.33%) Trello
7 2 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.88%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.88%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.88%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.88%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.88%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.88%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.88%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.51%) Figma
2 27 (11.95%) AWS
3 21 (9.29%) Azure
4 11 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.10%) GCP
5 7 (3.10%) SaaS
5 7 (3.10%) Serverless
6 6 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.21%) GitHub
8 4 (1.77%) Miro
9 3 (1.33%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (1.33%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.33%) Heroku
9 3 (1.33%) Slack
10 2 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.88%) IaaS
10 2 (0.88%) PaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) SNMP
1 6 (2.65%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.21%) HTTP
3 4 (1.77%) DNS
3 4 (1.77%) SSL
3 4 (1.77%) Wireless
4 3 (1.33%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.88%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.88%) Intranet
5 2 (0.88%) IPsec
5 2 (0.88%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.88%) SAN
5 2 (0.88%) WebEx
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.44%) DHCP
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) LAN
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.65%) Power BI
3 5 (2.21%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.21%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.21%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (2.21%) Qlik Sense
3 5 (2.21%) Spotfire
4 3 (1.33%) Big Data
4 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.33%) Tableau
5 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.88%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.88%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (7.52%) Axure RP
2 14 (6.19%) JIRA
3 10 (4.42%) Git
4 8 (3.54%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.65%) GoogleTest
5 6 (2.65%) Robot Framework
6 5 (2.21%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.77%) Xcode
8 3 (1.33%) GitLab
8 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.88%) Grunt
9 2 (0.88%) Maven
9 2 (0.88%) webpack
10 1 (0.44%) ESLint
10 1 (0.44%) MSI
10 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 63 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.80%) Finance
3 30 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.52%) Banking
5 13 (5.75%) Marketing
6 10 (4.42%) Retail
7 9 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.21%) Aviation
10 5 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.77%) Electronics
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Local Government
13 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.88%) Automotive
13 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Law
13 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (42.04%) Designer
2 44 (19.47%) Senior
3 36 (15.93%) UX Designer
4 27 (11.95%) Developer
5 24 (10.62%) Architect
6 22 (9.73%) Product Designer
7 19 (8.41%) Senior Designer
8 15 (6.64%) Service Designer
9 14 (6.19%) Interaction Designer
10 12 (5.31%) Data Scientist
10 12 (5.31%) UI Designer
11 11 (4.87%) Analyst
11 11 (4.87%) Business Analyst
12 10 (4.42%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.98%) Lead
13 9 (3.98%) UI/UX Designer
14 8 (3.54%) Senior Product Designer
15 7 (3.10%) Senior UX Designer
16 6 (2.65%) Digital Designer
16 6 (2.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.39%) CSS
2 27 (11.95%) HTML
3 8 (3.54%) React
4 7 (3.10%) Node.js
4 7 (3.10%) REST
5 6 (2.65%) Web Services
6 4 (1.77%) Android SDK
6 4 (1.77%) HTML5
6 4 (1.77%) Hugging Face
6 4 (1.77%) SwiftUI
6 4 (1.77%) UIKit
7 3 (1.33%) Alpine.js
7 3 (1.33%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.33%) LangChain
7 3 (1.33%) Laravel
7 3 (1.33%) SOAP
7 3 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.88%) ADO
8 2 (0.88%) VML
8 2 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.83%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.98%) Credit Risk
4 8 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.10%) Animation
5 7 (3.10%) Motion Graphics
5 7 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.21%) Photography
6 5 (2.21%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.77%) iPad
7 4 (1.77%) iPhone
7 4 (1.77%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.33%) CMDB
8 3 (1.33%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.96%) Android
2 14 (6.19%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.98%) Linux
4 2 (0.88%) Debian
4 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.36%) Agile
1 98 (43.36%) User Experience
2 85 (37.61%) UX Design
3 57 (25.22%) User Research
4 42 (18.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 41 (18.14%) Interaction Design
5 41 (18.14%) Wireframes
6 37 (16.37%) Rapid Prototyping
7 35 (15.49%) Service Design
8 31 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 23 (10.18%) Analytics
11 22 (9.73%) DevOps
11 22 (9.73%) Project Management
11 22 (9.73%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (9.29%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (8.85%) CI/CD
13 20 (8.85%) Usability Testing
13 20 (8.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.16%) Python
2 28 (12.39%) SQL
3 27 (11.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.98%) Java
5 8 (3.54%) C++
6 5 (2.21%) PHP
6 5 (2.21%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.77%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.77%) Objective-C
7 4 (1.77%) Swift
7 4 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.33%) C#
8 3 (1.33%) Jython
8 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.33%) R
8 3 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
8 3 (1.33%) Tcl
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) Go
10 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 40 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.64%) Degree
4 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) CCNP
8 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.44%) MCSE
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (19.47%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.42%) WCAG
3 5 (2.21%) QA
4 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) PERC
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.98%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.88%) RACF
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.10%) Terraform
2 4 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Packer
3 2 (0.88%) SCCM
3 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.88%) WSUS
4 1 (0.44%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (13.27%) Adobe
2 15 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.75%) Google
3 13 (5.75%) SAP
4 7 (3.10%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.10%) Databricks
5 5 (2.21%) Oracle
5 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.77%) Workday
7 3 (1.33%) Intel
7 3 (1.33%) Sage
7 3 (1.33%) VMware
7 3 (1.33%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.88%) Genesys
8 2 (0.88%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.88%) YouTube