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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 - 155
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% - 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £332 - -
25th Percentile £379 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £557 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £476 £565 £450
% change year-on-year -15.71% +25.56% -18.92%

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 2,248 2,178 2,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.47% 81.57% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,444 1,755
10th Percentile £243 £255 £250
25th Percentile £360 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £573 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £706
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 86 95
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.38
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.78 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -25.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Rapid Prototyping 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the Midlands

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 30 August 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 £463 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £468 - 3
Rapid Prototyping
England

Rapid 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Product Designer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform