Prototyping Job Trends in the East of England

Prototyping
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 143 115
Rank change year-on-year -2 -28 +38
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 14 41 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.33% 1.16% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.33% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 10
10th Percentile £54,250 - £52,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £47,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -26.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £64,063 £80,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,400 £63,037
% change year-on-year +3.86% +6.92% -7.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,101 3,079 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.17% 87.30% 86.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 1,190 1,578
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the East of England

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the East of England

Prototyping
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridgeshire +9 8 - - 19
Hertfordshire +6 3 £90,000 +28.57% 12
Essex - 3 £63,750 - 8
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (7.14%) 3ds Max
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (7.14%) Blender
1 1 (7.14%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (7.14%) Fusion 360
1 1 (7.14%) Maya
1 1 (7.14%) Siemens NX
1 1 (7.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 2 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) LTE
1 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Consultant
1 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Product Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Product Designer
4 1 (7.14%) RF Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior RF Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) PyTorch
2 8 (57.14%) TensorFlow
3 7 (50.00%) Google JAX
3 7 (50.00%) JAX
4 1 (7.14%) NumPy
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) SciPy
4 1 (7.14%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (7.14%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (7.14%) V-Ray
4 1 (7.14%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) CUDA
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
4 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (7.14%) Animation
5 1 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 1 (7.14%) FPGA
5 1 (7.14%) IoT
5 1 (7.14%) Social Media
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Machine Learning
2 8 (57.14%) Rapid Prototyping
3 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 7 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (50.00%) Physics
4 6 (42.86%) AI
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) API Design
5 3 (21.43%) API Development
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
7 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) EU AI Act
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Foundry
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens