Prototyping Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 274 286
Rank change year-on-year -77 +12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 154 411 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.06% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 73 179 188
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,870 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £92,200 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,536 38,782 27,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.40% 82.28% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,576 18,892 20,797
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
South East -38 61 £55,000 -26.67% 85
North of England -22 30 £50,000 -16.67% 25
North West +4 20 £57,500 -4.17% 17
Scotland +1 16 £64,151 -4.47% 16
Midlands +53 13 £61,250 +4.76% 12
East of England -7 12 £86,250 +56.82% 30
South West +8 11 £85,000 +13.33% 20
Wales -6 9 £61,651 -11.05%
East Midlands +37 8 £60,000 +50.00% 5
Yorkshire +8 7 £30,500 -47.83% 5
West Midlands +43 5 £62,500 +6.90% 7
North East +11 3 £73,801 +19.55% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +13.54%
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Adobe XD
2 8 (5.19%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.25%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.60%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.60%) Sketch
5 2 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.65%) Maya
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.57%) Azure
2 41 (26.62%) AWS
3 33 (21.43%) Figma
4 32 (20.78%) GCP
5 15 (9.74%) Azure AI
5 15 (9.74%) Vertex AI
6 11 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (7.14%) PaaS
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.49%) dbt
7 10 (6.49%) Pulumi
7 10 (6.49%) Sentry
8 8 (5.19%) Miro
9 7 (4.55%) GitHub
10 5 (3.25%) SaaS
11 4 (2.60%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.04%) Modbus
2 16 (10.39%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.44%) MQTT
4 12 (7.79%) Ethernet
5 5 (3.25%) Firewall
6 4 (2.60%) Bluetooth
6 4 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.60%) Network Security
6 4 (2.60%) VLAN
6 4 (2.60%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.60%) ZigBee
7 2 (1.30%) 2G
7 2 (1.30%) 4G
7 2 (1.30%) 5G
7 2 (1.30%) DNS
7 2 (1.30%) HTTP
7 2 (1.30%) ICMP
7 2 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.49%) Redis
2 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Git
2 11 (7.14%) Axure RP
3 8 (5.19%) JIRA
4 6 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.60%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.60%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.60%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.60%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.60%) MSI
5 4 (2.60%) webpack
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (21.43%) Law
1 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.53%) Finance
3 23 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 17 (11.04%) Legal
6 16 (10.39%) Banking
7 13 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (8.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (7.14%) Retail
9 9 (5.84%) Electronics
9 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.90%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.60%) Marketing
12 3 (1.95%) Aviation
12 3 (1.95%) Games
13 2 (1.30%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (24.03%) Senior
2 22 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 19 (12.34%) Designer
4 15 (9.74%) Product Delivery Manager
4 15 (9.74%) Product Manager
5 13 (8.44%) Architect
6 12 (7.79%) Developer
7 11 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Strategy Manager
8 10 (6.49%) Lead
8 10 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.55%) UX Designer
12 6 (3.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.90%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.90%) Senior Strategy Manager
13 5 (3.25%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.94%) CSS
2 15 (9.74%) HTML
3 13 (8.44%) React
4 10 (6.49%) Django
5 8 (5.19%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.55%) .NET
7 6 (3.90%) Jest
7 6 (3.90%) JSON
7 6 (3.90%) REST
7 6 (3.90%) XML
8 5 (3.25%) OAuth
8 5 (3.25%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.25%) OpenID
8 5 (3.25%) SAML
8 5 (3.25%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (2.60%) RxJS
9 4 (2.60%) Spring
9 4 (2.60%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.60%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.58%) IoT
2 17 (11.04%) Operational Technology
2 17 (11.04%) SCADA
3 15 (9.74%) AI Agents
4 14 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (8.44%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (8.44%) Cloud Native
5 13 (8.44%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (8.44%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (7.14%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (3.25%) CAN bus
10 5 (3.25%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.60%) Wiki
12 3 (1.95%) Animation
12 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (6.49%) Unix
3 6 (3.90%) Android
4 5 (3.25%) Windows
5 4 (2.60%) Kali Linux
5 4 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (53.25%) Agile
2 61 (39.61%) User Experience
3 43 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 33 (21.43%) Wireframes
7 32 (20.78%) AI
7 32 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (18.18%) Machine Learning
9 26 (16.88%) DevOps
9 26 (16.88%) Matrix Organization
10 25 (16.23%) Mentoring
10 25 (16.23%) UX Design
11 24 (15.58%) Data Science
12 23 (14.94%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 22 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
14 21 (13.64%) Analytics
15 19 (12.34%) Product Management
16 18 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.22%) Python
2 21 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.34%) C#
4 16 (10.39%) Java
5 14 (9.09%) C++
6 8 (5.19%) Go
6 8 (5.19%) PHP
7 7 (4.55%) C
7 7 (4.55%) SQL
7 7 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.60%) Delphi
8 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.60%) R
8 4 (2.60%) Rust
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.65%) Julia
9 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (27.27%) Degree
2 41 (26.62%) Security Cleared
3 24 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.69%) HNC
5 17 (11.04%) HND
6 13 (8.44%) Chartered Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) DV Cleared
7 11 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
9 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.55%) WCAG
3 4 (2.60%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.30%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.04%) Docker
2 13 (8.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.44%) Functional Safety
2 11 (7.14%) Terraform
3 10 (6.49%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (3.25%) WMI
5 4 (2.60%) Nessus
5 4 (2.60%) Nmap
6 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (23.38%) Google
2 22 (14.29%) Adobe
3 16 (10.39%) Foundry
4 15 (9.74%) Qualtrics
5 14 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 14 (9.09%) VMware
6 13 (8.44%) AVEVA
6 13 (8.44%) Rockwell
6 13 (8.44%) Siemens
7 5 (3.25%) Facebook
8 4 (2.60%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.60%) Cisco
8 4 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.60%) Sage
8 4 (2.60%) Splunk
9 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.65%) EMC
9 1 (0.65%) Remedy