Hybrid/Remote Rapid Prototyping Contract Job Trends

Rapid Prototyping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 301 356
Rank change year-on-year -3 +55 +151
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 10 13 18
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £388 £470 £378
25th Percentile £469 £523 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £413
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +63.64% -26.34%
75th Percentile £599 £713 £499
90th Percentile £623 - £608
UK median daily rate £510 £583 £495
% change year-on-year -12.45% +17.68% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +34.62% -58.40% -

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 9,289 10,391 15,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.88% 89.11% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,123 6,538 10,363
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 211 367
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.10 £19.69
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £36.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -33.33% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.30 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid Prototyping and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Rapid Prototyping daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Heroku
3 1 (10.00%) Miro
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Interaction Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Low-Code
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Interaction Design
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Journey Map
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Service Design
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) User Journey Map
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Mercator
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks