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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 267 328
Rank change year-on-year -85 +61 -23
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 195 281 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.09% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 91 140 296
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,625 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,076 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +29.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £65,823
90th Percentile £91,000 £77,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%

All Process & 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 39,696 25,888 49,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.38% 92.28% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,605 13,407 37,515
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 12 March 2026.

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 12 March 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
South East -18 58 £55,000 -26.67% 132
North of England -60 46 £57,500 -4.17% 63
East of England +10 42 £80,788 +61.58% 64
North West -39 24 £57,500 -4.17% 29
South West -52 18 £79,750 +16.38% 39
Yorkshire -43 16 £67,500 +22.73% 25
Scotland -26 13 £54,500 -9.02% 17
Midlands -23 8 £47,500 -25.56% 43
Wales -32 8 £73,801 +6.96% 9
West Midlands 0 7 £46,022 -27.88% 23
North East -19 6 £73,801 +6.48% 10
Northern Ireland -25 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 - 19
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 (3.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.18%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.59%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.56%) Fusion 360
3 5 (2.56%) Sketch
4 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.51%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.51%) Blender
5 1 (0.51%) CATIA
5 1 (0.51%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.51%) Maya
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.77%) Figma
2 51 (26.15%) Adobe Analytics
3 32 (16.41%) AWS
3 32 (16.41%) Azure
4 23 (11.79%) Amazon ECR
4 23 (11.79%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (11.28%) GCP
6 15 (7.69%) PaaS
7 14 (7.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 14 (7.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 14 (7.18%) dbt
7 14 (7.18%) Pulumi
7 14 (7.18%) Sentry
8 10 (5.13%) Serverless
9 9 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.62%) Apigee
9 9 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (4.62%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.51%) Broadband
2 19 (9.74%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.56%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.05%) Firewall
4 4 (2.05%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.54%) Modbus
5 3 (1.54%) Network Security
5 3 (1.54%) VLAN
5 3 (1.54%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.54%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.03%) 2G
6 2 (1.03%) 4G
6 2 (1.03%) 5G
6 2 (1.03%) DNS
6 2 (1.03%) HTTP
6 2 (1.03%) ICMP
6 2 (1.03%) LTE
6 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.18%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (7.18%) Redis
2 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.51%) GIS
3 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.51%) Power BI
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Axure RP
1 11 (5.64%) Cypress.io
2 10 (5.13%) Git
3 9 (4.62%) GitLab
3 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.62%) JIRA
3 9 (4.62%) Maven
3 9 (4.62%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.08%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.05%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (1.54%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.54%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (20.00%) Games
1 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Finance
4 16 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.21%) Manufacturing
5 15 (7.69%) Electronics
5 15 (7.69%) Law
6 14 (7.18%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (6.15%) Banking
9 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.56%) Retail
10 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.05%) Legal
10 4 (2.05%) Marketing
10 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 45 (23.08%) Designer
2 39 (20.00%) Senior
3 25 (12.82%) Lead
4 22 (11.28%) Lead Designer
5 20 (10.26%) Developer
6 14 (7.18%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.18%) UX Designer
7 12 (6.15%) Consultant
7 12 (6.15%) Product Designer
7 12 (6.15%) Strategy Manager
8 10 (5.13%) Digital Designer
8 10 (5.13%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Analyst
9 9 (4.62%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.10%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.10%) Lead UX Designer
10 8 (4.10%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.59%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.18%) Django
2 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 13 (6.67%) CSS
2 13 (6.67%) HTML
3 12 (6.15%) Spring Boot
4 11 (5.64%) Jest
5 10 (5.13%) REST
6 9 (4.62%) Gherkin
6 9 (4.62%) PyTorch
6 9 (4.62%) React
7 8 (4.10%) TensorFlow
8 7 (3.59%) Google JAX
8 7 (3.59%) JAX
9 6 (3.08%) JSON
9 6 (3.08%) XML
10 4 (2.05%) Vue
11 3 (1.54%) Framer.js
11 3 (1.54%) Next.js
11 3 (1.54%) Spring
12 2 (1.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.00%) Social Media
2 18 (9.23%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.10%) Life Science
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.59%) CUDA
6 7 (3.59%) IoT
7 5 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.05%) Animation
8 4 (2.05%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.05%) FPGA
9 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.54%) CAN bus
9 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.54%) SCADA
10 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.79%) Linux
2 15 (7.69%) Unix
3 4 (2.05%) Android
4 3 (1.54%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.03%) Windows
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (55.38%) Agile
2 73 (37.44%) AI
3 69 (35.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 63 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (31.79%) User Research
6 59 (30.26%) Analytics
6 59 (30.26%) User Experience
7 56 (28.72%) Customer Experience
7 56 (28.72%) Storytelling
8 54 (27.69%) Roadmaps
9 47 (24.10%) Product Roadmap
10 42 (21.54%) UX Design
11 39 (20.00%) Digital Customer Experience
12 37 (18.97%) Wireframes
13 33 (16.92%) DevOps
14 30 (15.38%) Clean Code
15 29 (14.87%) Workshop Facilitation
16 27 (13.85%) CI/CD
17 25 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (12.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.10%) Python
2 21 (10.77%) Java
3 13 (6.67%) C++
4 11 (5.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.62%) Bash
6 9 (4.62%) C
6 9 (4.62%) Groovy
7 6 (3.08%) C#
8 5 (2.56%) SQL
9 3 (1.54%) R
9 3 (1.54%) Rust
10 2 (1.03%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) Julia
11 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 45 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.51%) Degree
3 33 (16.92%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.05%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.54%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.03%) HNC
9 2 (1.03%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) HND
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 27 (13.85%) WCAG
3 4 (2.05%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.54%) QA
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) DO-254
6 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.18%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (7.18%) Terraform
2 9 (4.62%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.54%) Nessus
3 3 (1.54%) Nmap
4 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.51%) WMI
Vendors
1 60 (30.77%) Adobe
2 20 (10.26%) Google
3 15 (7.69%) Qualtrics
4 11 (5.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.54%) Cisco
5 3 (1.54%) EMC
5 3 (1.54%) Foundry
5 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.54%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) Palantir
6 1 (0.51%) Planon
6 1 (0.51%) Remedy
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.51%) Siemens
6 1 (0.51%) VMware