Prototyping Contracts in the Midlands

Prototyping
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 150 156
Rank change year-on-year +38 +6 -26
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 18 12 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.36% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.41% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 36
10th Percentile £400 £243 £409
25th Percentile £488 £263 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -25.93% +13.68%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £586
90th Percentile £560 £521 £619
England median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,911 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.15% 88.32% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,038 3,212
10th Percentile £235 £244 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +3.79% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 105 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.88 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.52 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +16.11% +14.75%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Prototyping in the Midlands

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the Midlands

Prototyping
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Prototyping in the Midlands

Prototyping
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Midlands +21 13 £518 +28.97% 26
East Midlands +19 5 £550 +100.00% 16
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (27.78%) CANalyzer
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Figma
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) OCI
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) Ethernet
2 4 (22.22%) FlexRay
3 1 (5.56%) IPsec
3 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) CANoe
General
1 6 (33.33%) Automotive
2 4 (22.22%) Electronics
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Integration Manager
1 5 (27.78%) Python Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Software Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Service Designer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Integration Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Infotainment
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Debian
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
3 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Matrix Organization
4 4 (22.22%) Power Management
4 4 (22.22%) Software Deployment
5 3 (16.67%) Service Design
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) Data Acquisition
6 2 (11.11%) Minimum Viable Product
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) User Experience
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) VBA
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle