Prototyping Contracts in Birmingham

Prototyping
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 41 66 66
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +22
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 0.13% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.16% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile - - £223
25th Percentile £200 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.58%
75th Percentile £513 - £655
90th Percentile £538 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £381 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -15.28% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £95.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Birmingham

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in Birmingham

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in Birmingham

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Axure RP
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Digital User Researcher
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) User Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Digital Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience Architect
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Animation
1 2 (22.22%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (22.22%) Photography
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Diary Studies
4 2 (22.22%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (22.22%) Interaction Design
4 2 (22.22%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (22.22%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft