Prototyping Contracts in the West Midlands

Prototyping
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 85 104 124
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing Prototyping 12 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.36% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.43% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 11
10th Percentile - £375 £263
25th Percentile £200 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £559 £601
90th Percentile £538 £838 £655
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% -4.62% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Birmingham +25 9 £300 - 1
Shropshire -3 2 - -
Coventry +7 1 £463 +2.78%
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Axure RP
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Digital User Researcher
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) User Researcher
4 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Digital Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Animation
1 2 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (16.67%) Photography
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) User Research
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) User Stories
4 3 (25.00%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Research
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Service Design
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Scala
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PERC
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks