Rapid Prototyping Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Rapid Prototyping
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% - 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £510 £583 £475
% change year-on-year -12.45% +22.63% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Rapid 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid Prototyping relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Rapid Prototyping.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid 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 Rapid Prototyping within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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 - 2 £525 - 7
Rapid Prototyping
England

Rapid Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared