Prototyping Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Prototyping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 228 247 253
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -79
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 76 98 240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.64% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.73% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 79 182
10th Percentile £302 £450 £400
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £663 £642 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile - £53.00 £55.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £53.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £62.81 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.63 £69.00 £86.07
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -7.69% +7.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Prototyping
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Prototyping trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 6 (7.89%) CMS
1 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Sketch
2 4 (5.26%) Adobe XD
3 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.95%) Trello
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (1.32%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (1.32%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (1.32%) Fusion 360
5 1 (1.32%) InVision
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.32%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (1.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) Figma
2 12 (15.79%) AWS
3 7 (9.21%) Serverless
4 5 (6.58%) GitHub
5 4 (5.26%) Azure
5 4 (5.26%) GCP
5 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.95%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (3.95%) Google Workspace
6 3 (3.95%) Heroku
6 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 3 (3.95%) Slack
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.63%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.63%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) DNS
1 3 (3.95%) HTTP
1 3 (3.95%) SNMP
1 3 (3.95%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.63%) IPsec
2 2 (2.63%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database 11g
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.32%) Mixpanel
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Axure RP
2 7 (9.21%) JIRA
3 4 (5.26%) Git
4 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.95%) GoogleTest
4 3 (3.95%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.63%) GitLab
5 2 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Banking
3 7 (9.21%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.95%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (47.37%) Designer
2 13 (17.11%) UX Designer
3 11 (14.47%) Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Architect
4 9 (11.84%) Interaction Designer
5 8 (10.53%) Product Designer
6 7 (9.21%) Service Designer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Data Scientist
8 4 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Designer
8 4 (5.26%) UI Designer
8 4 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
9 3 (3.95%) Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Credit Risk Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Market Risk Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Software Test Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) CSS
2 13 (17.11%) HTML
3 5 (6.58%) Web Services
4 4 (5.26%) Node.js
4 4 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (3.95%) Alpine.js
5 3 (3.95%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.95%) Laravel
5 3 (3.95%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (2.63%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.63%) OAuth
6 2 (2.63%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.63%) OpenID
6 2 (2.63%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.63%) SOAP
6 2 (2.63%) SpaCy
6 2 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.63%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.63%) XACML
6 2 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
1 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.95%) Credit Risk
2 3 (3.95%) Market Risk
2 3 (3.95%) Taxonomies
3 2 (2.63%) CMDB
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.32%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.32%) Animation
4 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.32%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.32%) IoT
4 1 (1.32%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Social Media
4 1 (1.32%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Android
1 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Agile
2 27 (35.53%) User Experience
3 25 (32.89%) User Research
4 24 (31.58%) UX Design
5 16 (21.05%) Interaction Design
6 14 (18.42%) DevOps
6 14 (18.42%) Service Design
6 14 (18.42%) Wireframes
7 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.47%) Project Management
8 11 (14.47%) Rapid Prototyping
8 11 (14.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (11.84%) Analytics
9 9 (11.84%) User Stories
10 8 (10.53%) Software Testing
11 7 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.21%) Microservices
11 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.79%) Python
3 11 (14.47%) SQL
4 5 (6.58%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.95%) C++
5 3 (3.95%) Java
5 3 (3.95%) Jython
5 3 (3.95%) PHP
6 2 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.21%) WCAG
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Terraform
2 2 (2.63%) Ansible
2 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Packer
2 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Google
2 7 (9.21%) Adobe
3 6 (7.89%) Oracle
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.95%) Sage
6 2 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.32%) Facebook
7 1 (1.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Snow
7 1 (1.32%) Workday
7 1 (1.32%) YouTube