Rapid Prototyping Contracts

Rapid Prototyping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rapid Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 626 689
Rank change year-on-year +75 +63 -60
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 28 58 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 95
10th Percentile £510 £413 £410
25th Percentile £538 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £588
90th Percentile £655 £625 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Rapid 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +69 27 £600 +14.56% 25
Work from Home +102 12 £600 +30.43% 11
London +80 12 £600 +11.63% 12
UK excluding London +40 12 £570 -0.87% 16
North of England +34 10 £563 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +24 5 £600 -20.00% 2
North West +18 5 £550 - 1
South West +10 1 £700 +64.71% 3
South East +4 1 £565 +7.62% 6

Rapid Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (10.71%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) InVision
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (3.57%) Sketch
1 1 (3.57%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Functions
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) Figma
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) InterSystems Cache
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.86%) Redis
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) KNIME
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.57%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.57%) Balsamiq
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Pega Developer
5 3 (10.71%) UI Designer
5 3 (10.71%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (10.71%) UX Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Digital UX Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Interaction Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) CSS
2 7 (25.00%) HTML
3 5 (17.86%) JSON
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js
3 5 (17.86%) REST
3 5 (17.86%) SignalR
4 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.71%) XHTML
6 2 (7.14%) CSS3
6 2 (7.14%) HTML5
6 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (7.14%) YAML
7 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.57%) Framer.js
7 1 (3.57%) React
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
1 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Animation
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) User Experience
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) User Research
6 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (17.86%) OO
6 5 (17.86%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Sprint Backlog
6 5 (17.86%) UX Design
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Jython
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CISA
4 1 (3.57%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Nintex
2 3 (10.71%) Pega
2 3 (10.71%) SAP