Prototyping Contracts with Work from Home Options

Prototyping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 244 177
Rank change year-on-year -3 -67 +11
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 94 241 689
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.96% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.07% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 181 488
10th Percentile £453 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile £53.00 £55.75 £37.43
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £47.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £58.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.87% +30.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £63.98
90th Percentile £69.00 £86.07 £65.28
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Prototyping
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Prototyping trend for jobs with a WFH option

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Prototyping.

Prototyping daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Prototyping daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Prototyping.

Prototyping hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Prototyping hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) CMS
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Sketch
2 5 (5.32%) Adobe XD
3 3 (3.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.06%) InVision
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.06%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.15%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (13.83%) Figma
3 7 (7.45%) GitHub
4 5 (5.32%) Azure Functions
4 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.32%) OCI
4 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
4 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.32%) Serverless
5 4 (4.26%) AWS
5 4 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle CX
7 2 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) GCP
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) SAN
1 14 (14.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) SNMP
2 2 (2.13%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Big Data
1 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
1 5 (5.32%) Hadoop
1 5 (5.32%) InterSystems Cache
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.32%) Power BI
1 5 (5.32%) Redis
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (2.13%) Axure RP
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.13%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.13%) GoogleTest
3 2 (2.13%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.06%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.40%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.89%) Finance
4 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Police
7 1 (1.06%) Publishing
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Designer
2 25 (26.60%) Developer
3 15 (15.96%) Python Developer
4 11 (11.70%) Interaction Designer
4 11 (11.70%) Senior
5 7 (7.45%) Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.38%) Consultant
6 6 (6.38%) Service Designer
7 5 (5.32%) CRM Consultant
7 5 (5.32%) Data Scientist
7 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 5 (5.32%) Functional Consultant
7 5 (5.32%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (5.32%) UX Designer
8 4 (4.26%) Business IT Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) IT Business Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) CSS
1 8 (8.51%) HTML
2 5 (5.32%) Node.js
2 5 (5.32%) SignalR
3 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 2 (2.13%) Flask
3 2 (2.13%) Pandas
3 2 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) Kafka
4 1 (1.06%) NumPy
4 1 (1.06%) SciPy
4 1 (1.06%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.06%) Swagger
4 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.06%) XML
4 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.38%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.19%) Social Media
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.06%) Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Debian
2 14 (14.89%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.06%) Agile
2 31 (32.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 23 (24.47%) Customer Service
4 22 (23.40%) User Experience
5 20 (21.28%) Wireframes
6 19 (20.21%) Data Modelling
7 18 (19.15%) DevOps
8 17 (18.09%) Interaction Design
8 17 (18.09%) ITIL
9 16 (17.02%) User Research
10 15 (15.96%) Configuration Management
10 15 (15.96%) Matrix Organization
10 15 (15.96%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (14.89%) Data Engineering
11 14 (14.89%) Service Design
11 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.83%) Rapid Prototyping
13 12 (12.77%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.98%) Python
2 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.32%) Java
3 5 (5.32%) SQL
4 3 (3.19%) C++
5 2 (2.13%) C#
5 2 (2.13%) R
6 1 (1.06%) Jython
6 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.15%) Degree
4 14 (14.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CCNP
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.06%) MCSE
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) NCSC
2 2 (2.13%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (1.06%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
1 2 (2.13%) Firmware
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.06%) Argo
2 1 (1.06%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (1.06%) Istio
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 14 (14.89%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.57%) Adobe
5 6 (6.38%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.13%) Google
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) Workday