Prototyping Jobs in the South West

Prototyping
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 238 203
Rank change year-on-year +90 -35 +14
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 30 62 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.84% 0.63% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.77% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 31
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,444 £47,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.59% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £74,888 £74,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,309 8,021 6,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.00% 81.15% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 5,745 3,489
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,222
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.86% +8.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the South West.

Salary trend for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the South West

Prototyping
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Devon - 14 - - 41
Bristol +61 11 £68,525 +19.17% 29
Gloucestershire +43 4 £55,000 - 54
Dorset +34 1 - - 21
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Figma
3 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 11 (36.67%) Electronics
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Games
4 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Environmental Health
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Senior
2 11 (36.67%) Design Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior Design Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Team Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Team Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (20.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 6 (20.00%) WebGL
2 5 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) Express.js
3 4 (13.33%) Next.js
3 4 (13.33%) Node.js
3 4 (13.33%) React
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 4 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.67%) OAuth
4 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.67%) OpenID
4 2 (6.67%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) CSS3
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Optoelectronics
2 6 (20.00%) Animation
3 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (13.33%) N-Tier
5 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Schematic Capture
3 11 (36.67%) Stress Analysis
4 9 (30.00%) Information Security
4 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (26.67%) Microservices
6 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (23.33%) Rapid Prototyping
6 7 (23.33%) Scrum
6 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) 3D Animation
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Storytelling
7 6 (20.00%) Visual Effects
8 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 5 (16.67%) User Research
8 5 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) HLSL
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 11 (36.67%) Firmware
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Google