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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 253 243
Rank change year-on-year +24 -10 -38
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 77 90 226
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.64% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 168
10th Percentile £313 £413 £384
25th Percentile £405 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £638
90th Percentile £700 £661 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £558 £548
% change year-on-year -8.15% +1.92% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £53.50 - £51.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -6.83%
75th Percentile £61.25 £57.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £62.00 - £83.07
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -20.86% +10.64% -3.56%

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 9,346 12,362 21,152
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.62% 87.28% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,297 8,363 14,898
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 499 515
10th Percentile £12.62 £15.81 £18.49
25th Percentile £18.51 £25.50 £25.95
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -17.51% +17.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%

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 18 July 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
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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 5 (6.49%) CMS
3 3 (3.90%) Drupal
3 3 (3.90%) WordPress
4 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Sketch
2 5 (6.49%) Adobe XD
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.90%) InVision
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
5 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (1.30%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (1.30%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
6 1 (1.30%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.57%) Figma
2 7 (9.09%) AWS
3 5 (6.49%) Azure
4 4 (5.19%) Miro
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.90%) GCP
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.60%) npm
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
6 2 (2.60%) Slack
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.19%) DNS
3 3 (3.90%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (3.90%) DHCP
3 3 (3.90%) HTTP
3 3 (3.90%) LAN
3 3 (3.90%) VLAN
3 3 (3.90%) Wireless
4 2 (2.60%) Intranet
4 2 (2.60%) SNMP
4 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.30%) Internet
5 1 (1.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.30%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.30%) Mixpanel
3 1 (1.30%) PouchDB
3 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) JIRA
2 6 (7.79%) Axure RP
3 4 (5.19%) Git
4 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.60%) GoogleTest
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.60%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.30%) Selenium
5 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.79%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Local Government
7 4 (5.19%) Marketing
8 3 (3.90%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Legal
8 3 (3.90%) Retail
9 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.60%) German Language
9 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.30%) Advertising
10 1 (1.30%) Aviation
10 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) Designer
2 14 (18.18%) Developer
3 13 (16.88%) UX Designer
4 10 (12.99%) Senior
5 8 (10.39%) Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Product Designer
6 6 (7.79%) UI Designer
7 5 (6.49%) Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Interaction Designer
7 5 (6.49%) Service Designer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Designer
8 4 (5.19%) UI/UX Designer
9 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk Developer
9 3 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Product Designer
9 3 (3.90%) UI Developer
9 3 (3.90%) UI/UX Developer
9 3 (3.90%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) CSS
1 11 (14.29%) HTML
2 3 (3.90%) Middleware
2 3 (3.90%) Node.js
2 3 (3.90%) React
2 3 (3.90%) REST
3 2 (2.60%) ADO
3 2 (2.60%) Android SDK
3 2 (2.60%) FHIR
3 2 (2.60%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.60%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) SOAP
4 1 (1.30%) Ajax
4 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.30%) D3.js
4 1 (1.30%) Ember.js
4 1 (1.30%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.30%) Sass
4 1 (1.30%) Web Services
4 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Mobile App
2 12 (15.58%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.90%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.60%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Animation
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Android
3 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) Agile
2 33 (42.86%) User Experience
3 28 (36.36%) UX Design
4 22 (28.57%) User Research
5 16 (20.78%) Wireframes
6 13 (16.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.58%) Rapid Prototyping
7 12 (15.58%) Service Design
8 11 (14.29%) Interaction Design
8 11 (14.29%) Scrum
9 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
10 9 (11.69%) Analytics
10 9 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (11.69%) DevOps
10 9 (11.69%) Front End Development
10 9 (11.69%) User Stories
11 8 (10.39%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.39%) Usability Testing
12 6 (7.79%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.69%) Python
2 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.19%) Java
3 4 (5.19%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) Jython
5 2 (2.60%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.79%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) WCAG
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.60%) HL7
3 2 (2.60%) PMO
4 1 (1.30%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.90%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Argo
2 2 (2.60%) Istio
2 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Adobe
2 5 (6.49%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco
4 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.60%) Cerner
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) Mercator
5 2 (2.60%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.30%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.30%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.30%) Solace
6 1 (1.30%) Workday
6 1 (1.30%) YouTube