Prototyping Contracts in the West Midlands

Prototyping
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 125 122
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 -19
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 7 17 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.71% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.80% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 32
10th Percentile £375 £274 £407
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -14.35% +9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £655 £586
90th Percentile £838 - £600
England median daily rate £569 £541 £550
% change year-on-year +5.13% -1.59% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year -0.80% +3.73% +30.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,126 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.55% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,460 2,360
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.43% +16.75%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Shropshire +35 2 £375 -12.02%
Coventry +11 2 £450 -11.76% 3
Birmingham +1 1 - - 9
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) IPsec
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
2 3 (42.86%) Service Designer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Designer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) ERP Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Service Design
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Minimum Viable Product
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Interaction Design
4 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) User Research
4 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (14.29%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle