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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 227 209
Rank change year-on-year +84 -18 0
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 37 62 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.03% 0.66% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.80% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 32
10th Percentile £41,125 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £48,750 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -6.25% +13.62%
75th Percentile £82,188 £61,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,875 -
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 3,360 7,769 6,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.20% 83.00% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 5,597 3,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £37,500 £39,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,325
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 - 21 £75,000 - 3
Bristol +50 11 £68,525 +19.17% 11
Gloucestershire +38 4 £55,000 - 15
Dorset +39 1 - - 2
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 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Figma
3 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Broadband
2 1 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (48.65%) Electronics
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Games
3 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Environmental Health
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Senior
2 17 (45.95%) Design Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) Electronics Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) Senior Design Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) GraphQL
1 6 (16.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 6 (16.22%) WebGL
2 4 (10.81%) CSS
2 4 (10.81%) Express.js
2 4 (10.81%) Next.js
2 4 (10.81%) Node.js
2 4 (10.81%) React
2 4 (10.81%) RESTful
2 4 (10.81%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.41%) OpenID
3 2 (5.41%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Optoelectronics
2 6 (16.22%) Animation
3 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.81%) N-Tier
5 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Requirements Analysis
2 18 (48.65%) Schematic Capture
2 18 (48.65%) Stress Analysis
3 12 (32.43%) Agile
4 8 (21.62%) Information Security
4 8 (21.62%) Microservices
4 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (18.92%) Rapid Prototyping
5 7 (18.92%) Scrum
6 6 (16.22%) 3D Animation
6 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Storytelling
6 6 (16.22%) User Research
6 6 (16.22%) Visual Effects
7 5 (13.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (10.81%) Availability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) HLSL
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.41%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.70%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) R
4 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Embedded Firmware
1 18 (48.65%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Google