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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 639 696
Rank change year-on-year +83 +57 -68
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 28 58 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 96
10th Percentile £521 £413 £410
25th Percentile £552 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £586
90th Percentile £658 £625 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £32.33
25th Percentile - - £36.94
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year - +43.65% -
75th Percentile - - £52.94
90th Percentile - - £57.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
% 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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 24 June 2024.

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 24 June 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 +58 27 £600 +14.56% 17
London +64 13 £600 +11.63% 10
UK excluding London +19 12 £575 - 8
Work from Home +105 10 £600 +30.43% 8
North of England +21 9 £575 -23.33%
Yorkshire +17 5 £600 -20.00%
North West +16 4 £550 -
South East +9 2 £565 +7.62% 2
South West +2 1 £700 +64.71% 2

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 3 (10.71%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) InVision
1 2 (7.14%) OmniGraffle
1 2 (7.14%) Sketch
1 2 (7.14%) UXPin
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Functions
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub
2 5 (17.86%) Serverless
3 3 (10.71%) Figma
3 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) InterSystems Cache
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.86%) Redis
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) KNIME
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Axure RP
1 2 (7.14%) Balsamiq
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (17.86%) UI Designer
3 5 (17.86%) UI/UX Designer
3 5 (17.86%) UX Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Digital Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Digital UX Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Pega Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) CSS
2 7 (25.00%) HTML
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js
3 5 (17.86%) SignalR
4 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 4 (14.29%) JSON
4 4 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (10.71%) CSS3
5 3 (10.71%) HTML5
5 3 (10.71%) XHTML
6 2 (7.14%) Framer.js
7 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.57%) React
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) Swagger
7 1 (3.57%) XML
7 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
1 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Animation
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) User Experience
4 7 (25.00%) User Research
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) UX Design
6 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (17.86%) OO
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Sprint Backlog
7 4 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Jython
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CISA
4 1 (3.57%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Nintex
2 3 (10.71%) Pega
2 3 (10.71%) SAP