Rapid Prototyping Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Rapid Prototyping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 293 331 462
Rank change year-on-year +38 +131 +62
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 11 14 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.091% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 7
10th Percentile £327 £498 £420
25th Percentile £398 £538 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +30.43% -16.36%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £538
90th Percentile - - £653
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.94 - -
90th Percentile £26.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Rapid Prototyping
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Rapid Prototyping trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping.

Rapid Prototyping daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Rapid Prototyping daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping.

Rapid Prototyping hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Rapid 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) InVision
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (18.18%) Figma
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Mixpanel
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Axure RP
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Python Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Credit Risk Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 3 (27.27%) Market Risk Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Flask
2 1 (9.09%) Jinja
2 1 (9.09%) Nunjucks
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Credit Risk
1 3 (27.27%) Market Risk
2 1 (9.09%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Low Latency
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 3 (27.27%) User Research
4 3 (27.27%) UX Design
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
5 2 (18.18%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Jython
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Optimizely