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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 99 116
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +29
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Prototyping 11 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.58% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.71% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile £315 £479 -
25th Percentile £338 £511 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £528 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - -
75th Percentile £563 £539 -
90th Percentile £608 £551 -
England median daily rate £513 £596 £550
% change year-on-year -14.05% +8.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.50 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £92.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £95.00
75th Percentile £28.75 - £97.50
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £56.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% -6.46% -4.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,541 1,545 1,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 81.14% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,021 1,239
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £398 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £603
90th Percentile £650 £725 £726
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 46
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £14.81 £14.70 £21.26
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.99 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -27.33% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.45 £35.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.25 £69.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Prototyping
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Prototyping
DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire -12 5 £525 -0.19% 4
Birmingham - 1 £350 - 3
Coventry - 1 £625 - 3
Solihull - 1 £300 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (9.09%) Blender
1 1 (9.09%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (9.09%) Figma
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Animator
2 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 1 (9.09%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
2 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) Framer.js
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Animation
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) UX Design
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) R
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 26262
2 1 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks