Prototyping Contract Job Trends in Wales

Prototyping
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.21% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +8.70% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 385 354 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.44% 77.63% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 200 322
10th Percentile £183 £140 £175
25th Percentile £256 £210 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £573
90th Percentile £613 £650 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 49 26
10th Percentile £13.42 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.85 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.60 £23.66 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% -9.00% +30.59%
75th Percentile £25.12 £37.28 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in Wales

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Wales region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Dyfed - 1 £550 -
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Statsmodels
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality