Prototyping Job Trends in South Wales

Prototyping
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 48 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +21
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 8 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.03% 2.86% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 3.44% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £43,925 £46,750 £48,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,651 £53,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.78% -18.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £78,790 £69,983 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
Wales median annual salary £61,651 £69,654 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.49% +7.16% +44.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 524 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.19% 83.17% 90.24%
Number of salaries quoted 403 266 428
10th Percentile £24,977 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,149 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in South Wales

Prototyping
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in South Wales

Prototyping
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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
Newport - 5 £49,500 - 7
Cardiff +9 2 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Gwent +1 1 £45,000 -7.22%
Prototyping
Wales

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (12.50%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 4 (50.00%) SurveyMonkey
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (25.00%) Sentry
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) Bluetooth
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (50.00%) Modbus
2 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 4 (50.00%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (50.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 4 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (50.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) CAN bus
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) IoT
1 4 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Android
2 4 (50.00%) Kali Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Experience
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Cognitive Science
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Ergonomics
2 4 (50.00%) Human Factors
2 4 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Psychology
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (50.00%) Smart Manufacturing
2 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) R
3 4 (50.00%) Rust
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
1 4 (50.00%) Nmap
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Qualtrics
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe