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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 301 316
Rank change year-on-year -53 +15 -34
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 337 279 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.80% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.92% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 210 87 173
10th Percentile £40,950 £37,500 £42,900
25th Percentile £46,563 £46,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.63% -6.46%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,500 £98,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,925
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.47% -7.81%

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 56,118 30,283 46,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.20% 86.83% 78.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,713 16,606 28,556
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 27 August 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 27 August 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
North of England -1 86 £52,500 -19.23% 98
South East -2 85 £57,500 -11.54% 116
East of England +9 59 £60,000 +33.33% 77
North West +2 40 £50,000 -25.93% 65
South West -52 31 £60,000 -5.88% 99
Midlands -23 29 £57,500 -4.17% 40
Yorkshire -25 23 £66,250 +22.69% 13
North East -40 23 £60,000 -7.69% 20
West Midlands -23 22 £58,000 -3.33% 24
Wales -48 21 £53,171 -17.24% 11
Scotland -70 16 £52,500 -16.42% 60
Northern Ireland -69 10 £80,000 - 16
East Midlands -24 7 £47,500 +43.94% 16
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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 6 (1.78%) Apache
3 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (5.34%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.37%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.08%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.08%) InDesign
4 5 (1.48%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.48%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.19%) Sketch
6 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.59%) InVision
6 2 (0.59%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.59%) Trello
6 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.59%) Windchill
7 1 (0.30%) CATIA
7 1 (0.30%) Mathcad
7 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.19%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.89%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.21%) Figma
2 38 (11.28%) Adobe Analytics
2 38 (11.28%) AWS
3 26 (7.72%) Azure
4 20 (5.93%) Amazon S3
5 18 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (5.34%) Serverless
6 13 (3.86%) SaaS
7 12 (3.56%) dbt
7 12 (3.56%) GCP
8 10 (2.97%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (2.97%) GitHub
9 9 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.67%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.37%) Apigee
10 8 (2.37%) Azure AI
10 8 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (13.35%) Broadband
2 5 (1.48%) Intranet
2 5 (1.48%) WPA
3 4 (1.19%) Wireless
4 3 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.59%) RS-485
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.30%) LTE
6 1 (0.30%) RS-232
6 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.04%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.89%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.89%) Power BI
5 3 (0.89%) Redis
5 3 (0.89%) Tableau
6 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) OLAP
7 1 (0.30%) OLTP
7 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.04%) Git
2 12 (3.56%) JIRA
3 11 (3.26%) GitLab
4 10 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.37%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.37%) LabVIEW
5 8 (2.37%) Maven
5 8 (2.37%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.78%) Postman
7 3 (0.89%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) Bower
8 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.47%) Electronics
3 53 (15.73%) Manufacturing
4 47 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (11.28%) Games
7 37 (10.98%) Finance
8 34 (10.09%) Public Sector
9 28 (8.31%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.86%) Legal
11 12 (3.56%) Marketing
12 11 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.67%) Automotive
14 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.78%) Military
16 5 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (1.19%) Law
17 4 (1.19%) Retail
17 4 (1.19%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 61 (18.10%) Senior
2 55 (16.32%) Designer
3 51 (15.13%) Developer
4 37 (10.98%) Lead
5 27 (8.01%) Software Engineer
6 25 (7.42%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (6.23%) Interaction Designer
8 19 (5.64%) Architect
9 18 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.34%) Lead Designer
10 15 (4.45%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.86%) Consultant
11 13 (3.86%) UX Designer
12 12 (3.56%) Senior Designer
13 11 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.26%) Electronics Engineer
13 11 (3.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.26%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.97%) Senior Interaction Designer
15 9 (2.67%) Electronics Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.23%) React
2 16 (4.75%) .NET
3 14 (4.15%) AngularJS
4 13 (3.86%) CSS
4 13 (3.86%) HTML
5 11 (3.26%) LangChain
5 11 (3.26%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.26%) Terraform
6 10 (2.97%) Web Services
7 9 (2.67%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.67%) RESTful
8 8 (2.37%) Gherkin
8 8 (2.37%) Jest
9 7 (2.08%) Next.js
9 7 (2.08%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.08%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.78%) JSON
10 6 (1.78%) XML
11 5 (1.48%) Ajax
11 5 (1.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.28%) Social Media
2 25 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.42%) Embedded Systems
3 17 (5.04%) FPGA
4 16 (4.75%) Robotics
4 16 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.56%) IoT
5 12 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.97%) Analogue Electronics
6 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.97%) Life Science
7 8 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.37%) Fibre Optics
7 8 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.37%) VHDL
8 7 (2.08%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.08%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.30%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (42.43%) Agile
2 137 (40.65%) AI
3 74 (21.96%) Rapid Prototyping
3 74 (21.96%) User Research
3 74 (21.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 71 (21.07%) Roadmaps
5 68 (20.18%) Analytics
6 65 (19.29%) Validation
7 59 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (16.02%) Mentoring
8 54 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (15.73%) User Experience
10 52 (15.43%) Customer Experience
10 52 (15.43%) Product Roadmap
11 50 (14.84%) Software Engineering
12 42 (12.46%) Storytelling
13 40 (11.87%) CI/CD
14 38 (11.28%) Digital Customer Experience
15 36 (10.68%) LLM
15 36 (10.68%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.21%) Python
2 28 (8.31%) Java
3 25 (7.42%) C
3 25 (7.42%) TypeScript
4 21 (6.23%) C#
5 20 (5.93%) C++
6 18 (5.34%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.75%) SQL
8 11 (3.26%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.67%) Bash
10 8 (2.37%) Groovy
11 6 (1.78%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.48%) PHP
13 3 (0.89%) Pascal
13 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.89%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Go
15 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.30%) Julia
Qualifications
1 103 (30.56%) Degree
2 66 (19.58%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.64%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.86%) PhD
7 12 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.08%) HND
11 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.59%) HNC
13 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.30%) OCP
14 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (23.44%) Accessibility
2 31 (9.20%) WCAG
3 9 (2.67%) QA
4 4 (1.19%) DO-254
4 4 (1.19%) GDPR
5 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.89%) JTAG
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (6.23%) Firmware
2 20 (5.93%) Docker
3 8 (2.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.37%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 54 (16.02%) Adobe
2 27 (8.01%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.82%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.15%) Google
5 13 (3.86%) EMC
6 8 (2.37%) SAP
7 5 (1.48%) Foundry
8 3 (0.89%) Databricks
8 3 (0.89%) Motorola
8 3 (0.89%) Siemens
8 3 (0.89%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.59%) Altera
9 2 (0.59%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.59%) Intel
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.59%) YouTube
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.30%) Sparx
10 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro