Prototyping Contracts in England

Prototyping
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 269 217
Rank change year-on-year +19 -52 +26
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 329 463 901
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.96% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.07% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 297 638
10th Percentile £396 £375 £421
25th Percentile £500 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £825 £776 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 15
10th Percentile £41.25 £52.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.54% +25.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.44 £61.34
90th Percentile £92.00 £81.86 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £58.63
% change year-on-year -4.62% +10.87% +28.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in England.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in England.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -21 135 £550 -4.76% 99
South East +73 117 £663 +16.23% 69
North of England +32 40 £550 +22.22% 49
North West +20 22 £515 -0.96% 36
Midlands +30 18 £530 +32.50% 37
Yorkshire +18 18 £600 +50.00% 7
West Midlands +26 13 £518 +29.38% 23
South West -15 6 £724 +60.88% 25
East Midlands +18 5 £550 +100.00% 14
East of England -7 4 £550 +18.28% 34
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (3.65%) Confluence
2 7 (2.13%) Apache
3 3 (0.91%) IIS
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 8 (2.43%) Sketch
2 7 (2.13%) InVision
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.52%) CANalyzer
3 5 (1.52%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.91%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) InDesign
5 1 (0.30%) Marvel
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.43%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.91%) Maximo
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (11.25%) Azure
2 24 (7.29%) Figma
3 17 (5.17%) AWS
3 17 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.95%) Power Automate
5 10 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.74%) OCI
7 8 (2.43%) GitHub
7 8 (2.43%) IaaS
8 7 (2.13%) PaaS
9 6 (1.82%) Oracle CX
9 6 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (1.82%) Serverless
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.52%) SaaS
11 4 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.69%) Ethernet
2 16 (4.86%) SAN
3 15 (4.56%) SNMP
3 15 (4.56%) Software-Defined Radio
4 14 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.22%) BGP
5 4 (1.22%) DMVPN
5 4 (1.22%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.22%) FlexRay
5 4 (1.22%) OSPF
6 2 (0.61%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) IPsec
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.30%) MQTT
7 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.30%) SSH
7 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.26%) Big Data
2 13 (3.95%) Hadoop
3 12 (3.65%) Tableau
4 10 (3.04%) Power BI
5 9 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (1.82%) Flink
6 6 (1.82%) KDB
7 5 (1.52%) InterSystems Cache
7 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.52%) Redis
8 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.91%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.91%) GIS
9 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.91%) Spatial Data
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.30%) Metadata
11 1 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 18 (5.47%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (5.17%) Git
3 15 (4.56%) Eclipse
3 15 (4.56%) Robot Framework
4 14 (4.26%) GoogleTest
4 14 (4.26%) MSI
5 13 (3.95%) JIRA
6 12 (3.65%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.82%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.52%) CANoe
9 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.30%) GoCD
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
11 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.85%) Finance
3 35 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.60%) Electronics
5 23 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.78%) Marketing
7 12 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.43%) Automotive
8 8 (2.43%) Banking
8 8 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.13%) Games
10 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.61%) Back Office
11 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
11 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (21.58%) Developer
2 69 (20.97%) Architect
3 67 (20.36%) Designer
4 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure Architect
5 36 (10.94%) Senior
6 30 (9.12%) Consultant
6 30 (9.12%) Python Developer
7 20 (6.08%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.78%) Interaction Designer
9 16 (4.86%) Service Designer
10 15 (4.56%) Lead
11 14 (4.26%) Data Scientist
12 12 (3.65%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.34%) Analyst
13 11 (3.34%) UX Designer
14 10 (3.04%) Senior Designer
14 10 (3.04%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.43%) C++ Software Engineer
15 8 (2.43%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.81%) CSS
1 52 (15.81%) HTML
2 16 (4.86%) Node.js
2 16 (4.86%) React
3 14 (4.26%) Flask
4 11 (3.34%) REST
5 9 (2.74%) HTML5
6 6 (1.82%) .NET
6 6 (1.82%) FastAPI
6 6 (1.82%) JSON
7 5 (1.52%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.52%) SignalR
8 4 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.22%) Web Services
9 3 (0.91%) RESTful
9 3 (0.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 3 (0.91%) Unreal Engine
9 3 (0.91%) XHTML
9 3 (0.91%) YAML
10 2 (0.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.29%) Robotics
2 20 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.47%) Analogue Electronics
4 15 (4.56%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.52%) Infotainment
9 5 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.91%) Animation
10 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.91%) Social Media
11 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.61%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 61 (18.54%) Windows
2 32 (9.73%) Linux
3 14 (4.26%) Debian
3 14 (4.26%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.78%) Agile
2 54 (16.41%) Software Engineering
3 49 (14.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 48 (14.59%) User Experience
5 43 (13.07%) User Research
6 42 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (10.94%) Customer Service
7 36 (10.94%) UX Design
8 35 (10.64%) Data Modelling
8 35 (10.64%) Interaction Design
9 32 (9.73%) DevOps
10 29 (8.81%) Service Design
11 28 (8.51%) Wireframes
12 25 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (7.60%) Rapid Prototyping
12 25 (7.60%) User Stories
13 22 (6.69%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (6.38%) CI/CD
14 21 (6.38%) Configuration Management
15 20 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (21.28%) Python
2 55 (16.72%) JavaScript
3 24 (7.29%) SQL
4 20 (6.08%) C++
4 20 (6.08%) PowerShell
5 19 (5.78%) Java
6 10 (3.04%) C#
6 10 (3.04%) R
6 10 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.22%) VBA
8 2 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.30%) Jython
9 1 (0.30%) PHP
9 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.30%) Rust
9 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.30%) Tcl
9 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.98%) DV Cleared
3 43 (13.07%) Degree
3 43 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.47%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.61%) PhD
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CCNP
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.30%) MCSE
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.91%) GDPR
2 3 (0.91%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) SLA
3 2 (0.61%) NCSC
3 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.61%) WCAG
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) GRC
4 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
4 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.65%) Firmware
2 8 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.43%) Docker
3 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.26%) WMI
2 7 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.22%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.22%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.91%) Terraform
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 85 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.78%) VMware
3 15 (4.56%) Google
4 14 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 12 (3.65%) Adobe
7 10 (3.04%) Oracle
8 7 (2.13%) SAP
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco
9 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.22%) Juniper
10 3 (0.91%) ESRI
10 3 (0.91%) IBM
10 3 (0.91%) Nintex
10 3 (0.91%) Pega
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.30%) CA
12 1 (0.30%) Databricks
12 1 (0.30%) Workday