Prototyping Job Trends in the West Midlands

Prototyping
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 184 141
Rank change year-on-year +18 -43 +14
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 7 12 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.29% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.32% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 47
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,300 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,483 £68,750
90th Percentile £69,766 £74,144 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,400 £63,287
% change year-on-year +3.86% +6.50% -8.04%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,306 3,789 3,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.07% 91.48% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 1,690 2,758
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the West Midlands

Prototyping
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +19 3 £60,000 -7.69%
Warwickshire - 2 £62,500 - 7
Coventry +2 1 £52,500 +61.54%
Solihull +1 1 £40,000 -23.81%
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Bluetooth
1 1 (14.29%) RFID
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UML Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Django
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Graphic Design
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) User Experience
2 5 (71.43%) UX Design
2 5 (71.43%) Wireframes
3 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Logistics
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
1 1 (14.29%) Google