Rapid Prototyping Contracts

Rapid Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 483 555 659
Rank change year-on-year +72 +104 +1
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 37 27 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.062% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.072% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 22
10th Percentile £406 £499 £414
25th Percentile £468 £525 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £616
90th Percentile £745 £640 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -32.13% - +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.94 - -
90th Percentile £26.28 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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 +65 34 £600 - 87
London +54 27 £600 +0.63% 53
Work from Home +38 11 £575 -4.17% 45
UK excluding London +57 6 £390 -32.13% 45
Scotland - 3 - - 2
North West +14 2 £313 -43.09% 1
North of England +11 2 £313 -44.36% 9
East Midlands - 1 £468 - 3
Midlands - 1 £468 - 4

Rapid 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) InVision
1 2 (5.41%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) GCP
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.51%) Figma
5 2 (5.41%) BigCommerce
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Mixpanel
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) Xcode
3 2 (5.41%) Axure RP
3 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.41%) Grunt
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) webpack
4 1 (2.70%) ESLint
General
1 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Investment Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Marketing
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Data Scientist
3 7 (18.92%) Designer
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Product Designer
4 5 (13.51%) Python Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Designer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Product Designer
6 3 (8.11%) Angular Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Credit Risk Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Market Risk Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.41%) UX Designer
8 1 (2.70%) Digital Designer
8 1 (2.70%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) HTML
2 6 (16.22%) CSS
3 5 (13.51%) HTML5
4 4 (10.81%) Hugging Face
4 4 (10.81%) LangChain
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) RxJS
5 3 (8.11%) SwiftUI
5 3 (8.11%) UIKit
6 2 (5.41%) CSS3
6 2 (5.41%) Jest
6 2 (5.41%) LESS
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js
6 2 (5.41%) Sass
6 2 (5.41%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (5.41%) VML
7 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.70%) Jinja
7 1 (2.70%) Nunjucks
7 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Credit Risk
2 6 (16.22%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
3 5 (13.51%) Private Cloud
4 4 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (10.81%) Market Risk
5 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (8.11%) iPad
5 3 (8.11%) iPhone
5 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.70%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Android
1 8 (21.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 20 (54.05%) Agile
3 9 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (24.32%) User Experience
3 9 (24.32%) UX Design
4 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.62%) Data Science
4 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) Code Quality
5 7 (18.92%) High Availability
5 7 (18.92%) Low Latency
5 7 (18.92%) User Research
6 6 (16.22%) Generative AI
6 6 (16.22%) LLM
7 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (13.51%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (13.51%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) Jython
5 3 (8.11%) Objective-C
5 3 (8.11%) Swift
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe
2 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Optimizely
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
2 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks