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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 253 320
Rank change year-on-year -123 +67 -15
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 158 337 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 1.05% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.16% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 82 141 257
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,375 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -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 37,263 29,152 43,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.64% 90.99% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 21,972 13,277 33,192
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -45 52 £55,000 -26.67% 93
North of England -59 41 £57,500 -2.13% 29
North West -40 21 £57,500 -4.17% 19
East of England -6 20 £81,575 +48.32% 41
South West -36 16 £79,750 +6.33% 21
Yorkshire -26 15 £67,500 +28.57% 6
Wales -22 10 £73,801 +5.95% 6
Scotland -31 9 £54,500 +7.92% 15
Midlands -3 8 £47,500 -22.01% 24
West Midlands +13 7 £46,022 -24.44% 17
North East -9 5 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Northern Ireland -24 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 7
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 (4.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.43%) Adobe XD
3 5 (3.16%) Fusion 360
3 5 (3.16%) Sketch
4 4 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.27%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.63%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.63%) Blender
6 1 (0.63%) CATIA
6 1 (0.63%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.63%) Maya
6 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.63%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.65%) Figma
2 31 (19.62%) Azure
3 30 (18.99%) AWS
4 29 (18.35%) Adobe Analytics
5 22 (13.92%) Amazon ECR
5 22 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (13.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (13.29%) GCP
7 15 (9.49%) PaaS
8 14 (8.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 14 (8.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (8.86%) dbt
8 14 (8.86%) Pulumi
8 14 (8.86%) Sentry
9 10 (6.33%) SaaS
10 9 (5.70%) Miro
10 9 (5.70%) Serverless
11 8 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.66%) TCP/IP
2 18 (11.39%) Broadband
3 5 (3.16%) Bluetooth
3 5 (3.16%) Firewall
4 4 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.53%) Modbus
4 4 (2.53%) Network Security
4 4 (2.53%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.53%) VLAN
4 4 (2.53%) Wireshark
4 4 (2.53%) ZigBee
5 2 (1.27%) 2G
5 2 (1.27%) 4G
5 2 (1.27%) 5G
5 2 (1.27%) DNS
5 2 (1.27%) HTTP
5 2 (1.27%) ICMP
6 1 (0.63%) RFID
6 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (8.86%) Redis
2 8 (5.06%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) GIS
3 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Axure RP
2 10 (6.33%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.70%) Git
4 8 (5.06%) GitLab
4 8 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.06%) JIRA
4 8 (5.06%) Maven
4 8 (5.06%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.80%) Balsamiq
6 4 (2.53%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.53%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (2.53%) Metasploit
General
1 36 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.66%) Finance
4 17 (10.76%) Games
5 15 (9.49%) Law
6 14 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (8.23%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (7.59%) Banking
8 12 (7.59%) Electronics
8 12 (7.59%) Manufacturing
8 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.43%) Retail
10 6 (3.80%) Marketing
11 5 (3.16%) Aerospace
11 5 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.53%) Legal
13 3 (1.90%) Aviation
13 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.63%) Military
14 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (22.78%) Designer
1 36 (22.78%) Senior
2 18 (11.39%) Developer
3 16 (10.13%) Lead
4 14 (8.86%) Lead Designer
4 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (8.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Product Designer
5 12 (7.59%) Strategy Manager
6 10 (6.33%) UX Designer
7 9 (5.70%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Analyst
8 8 (5.06%) Consultant
8 8 (5.06%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.06%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Lead Product Designer
9 7 (4.43%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.80%) Digital Designer
10 6 (3.80%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) Django
2 13 (8.23%) AngularJS
2 13 (8.23%) CSS
2 13 (8.23%) HTML
3 11 (6.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (6.33%) Jest
4 10 (6.33%) React
4 10 (6.33%) REST
5 8 (5.06%) Gherkin
6 6 (3.80%) JSON
6 6 (3.80%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.80%) XML
7 5 (3.16%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.16%) Vue
8 4 (2.53%) Google JAX
8 4 (2.53%) JAX
9 3 (1.90%) Framer.js
9 3 (1.90%) Next.js
9 3 (1.90%) Spring
10 2 (1.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.39%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (10.76%) Social Media
3 10 (6.33%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.43%) Life Science
6 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.80%) IoT
8 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.53%) Animation
9 4 (2.53%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.53%) CUDA
9 4 (2.53%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.53%) SCADA
10 3 (1.90%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (1.90%) Robotics
10 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 14 (8.86%) Unix
3 5 (3.16%) Android
4 4 (2.53%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.90%) Agile
2 60 (37.97%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (34.81%) User Experience
4 47 (29.75%) AI
5 45 (28.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 38 (24.05%) User Research
6 38 (24.05%) Wireframes
7 37 (23.42%) Analytics
7 37 (23.42%) UX Design
8 36 (22.78%) Storytelling
9 35 (22.15%) Customer Experience
10 31 (19.62%) DevOps
10 31 (19.62%) Roadmaps
11 28 (17.72%) Clean Code
12 26 (16.46%) CI/CD
13 24 (15.19%) Product Roadmap
14 23 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (14.56%) Software Engineering
15 21 (13.29%) Machine Learning
15 21 (13.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.05%) Python
2 22 (13.92%) Java
3 13 (8.23%) C++
4 10 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.33%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.06%) Bash
5 8 (5.06%) Groovy
6 6 (3.80%) C
7 5 (3.16%) SQL
8 4 (2.53%) R
8 4 (2.53%) Rust
9 3 (1.90%) C#
10 2 (1.27%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.63%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) Julia
11 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.89%) Degree
3 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (5.06%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.16%) HNC
8 4 (2.53%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.90%) HND
10 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (34.81%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.86%) WCAG
3 4 (2.53%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.90%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (14.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (8.86%) Terraform
2 8 (5.06%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.53%) Nessus
3 4 (2.53%) Nmap
4 1 (0.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (25.32%) Adobe
2 21 (13.29%) Google
3 16 (10.13%) Qualtrics
4 11 (6.96%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.53%) Cisco
5 4 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 3 (1.90%) Foundry
7 2 (1.27%) EMC
8 1 (0.63%) Palantir
8 1 (0.63%) Planon
8 1 (0.63%) Remedy
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Siemens
8 1 (0.63%) VMware