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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 278 283
Rank change year-on-year -83 +5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 161 402 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.83% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.02% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 78 171 190
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,125 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,375 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,875 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,450 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -1.52%

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 30,561 39,252 28,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 81.41% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,580 19,304 21,029
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £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 22 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 22 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 -32 65 £55,000 -26.67% 70
North of England -21 32 £52,000 -13.33% 37
North West +1 21 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Scotland +5 17 £64,151 -4.47% 15
Midlands +62 13 £61,250 +4.76% 18
East of England -6 12 £86,250 +56.82% 41
South West +7 11 £85,000 +11.48% 24
Wales -8 9 £61,651 -11.05%
East Midlands +36 8 £60,000 +50.00% 9
Yorkshire +2 8 £36,455 -37.65% 11
West Midlands +45 5 £62,500 +6.90% 8
North East +9 3 £73,801 +19.55% 5
Northern Ireland +1 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 9 (5.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.48%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) IIS
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Adobe XD
2 8 (4.97%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.11%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.48%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.48%) Sketch
5 2 (1.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.24%) InVision
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.62%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.62%) Maya
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 44 (27.33%) Azure
2 43 (26.71%) AWS
3 32 (19.88%) Figma
3 32 (19.88%) GCP
4 15 (9.32%) Azure AI
4 15 (9.32%) Vertex AI
5 11 (6.83%) Adobe Analytics
5 11 (6.83%) PaaS
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 10 (6.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 10 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (6.21%) dbt
6 10 (6.21%) GitHub
6 10 (6.21%) Pulumi
6 10 (6.21%) Sentry
7 8 (4.97%) Miro
8 5 (3.11%) SaaS
9 4 (2.48%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.56%) Modbus
2 16 (9.94%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.07%) MQTT
4 12 (7.45%) Ethernet
5 5 (3.11%) DNS
5 5 (3.11%) Firewall
5 5 (3.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.48%) Bluetooth
6 4 (2.48%) Network Security
6 4 (2.48%) VLAN
6 4 (2.48%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.48%) ZigBee
7 3 (1.86%) SMTP
8 2 (1.24%) 2G
8 2 (1.24%) 4G
8 2 (1.24%) 5G
8 2 (1.24%) HTTP
8 2 (1.24%) ICMP
8 2 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (6.21%) Redis
3 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) MySQL
6 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) Git
2 11 (6.83%) Axure RP
3 10 (6.21%) JIRA
4 6 (3.73%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.11%) MSI
6 4 (2.48%) Balsamiq
6 4 (2.48%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.48%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (2.48%) Metasploit
6 4 (2.48%) webpack
7 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.24%) GitLab
7 2 (1.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Law
3 28 (17.39%) Finance
4 23 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (13.66%) Manufacturing
6 17 (10.56%) Legal
7 16 (9.94%) Banking
8 13 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (8.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (6.83%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (6.83%) Retail
10 10 (6.21%) Public Sector
11 9 (5.59%) Electronics
12 6 (3.73%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.48%) Marketing
14 3 (1.86%) Aviation
14 3 (1.86%) Games
15 2 (1.24%) Digital Health
15 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (22.98%) Senior
2 24 (14.91%) Software Engineer
3 20 (12.42%) Designer
4 15 (9.32%) Product Delivery Manager
4 15 (9.32%) Product Manager
5 13 (8.07%) Architect
6 12 (7.45%) Developer
6 12 (7.45%) Lead
7 11 (6.83%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Strategy Manager
8 10 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.35%) Java Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) UX Designer
12 6 (3.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.29%) CSS
2 15 (9.32%) HTML
3 14 (8.70%) React
4 10 (6.21%) Django
5 8 (4.97%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.35%) .NET
7 6 (3.73%) Jest
7 6 (3.73%) JSON
7 6 (3.73%) Kafka
7 6 (3.73%) REST
7 6 (3.73%) Spring
7 6 (3.73%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.73%) XML
8 5 (3.11%) OAuth
8 5 (3.11%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.11%) OpenID
8 5 (3.11%) SAML
8 5 (3.11%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (2.48%) CSS3
9 4 (2.48%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.91%) IoT
2 17 (10.56%) Operational Technology
2 17 (10.56%) SCADA
3 16 (9.94%) AI Agents
4 14 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (8.07%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (8.07%) Cloud Native
5 13 (8.07%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (8.07%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (6.83%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.73%) Wiki
9 5 (3.11%) CAN bus
9 5 (3.11%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.48%) PKI
11 3 (1.86%) Animation
11 3 (1.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (6.21%) Unix
3 6 (3.73%) Android
3 6 (3.73%) Windows
4 4 (2.48%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (54.04%) Agile
2 61 (37.89%) User Experience
3 43 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (23.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (23.60%) Software Engineering
5 33 (20.50%) AI
5 33 (20.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (20.50%) Wireframes
6 32 (19.88%) DevOps
7 28 (17.39%) Machine Learning
8 26 (16.15%) Matrix Organization
8 26 (16.15%) Mentoring
9 24 (14.91%) Data Science
9 24 (14.91%) UX Design
10 23 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 21 (13.04%) Analytics
11 21 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (11.80%) CI/CD
12 19 (11.80%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.95%) Python
2 21 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.80%) C#
3 19 (11.80%) Java
4 14 (8.70%) C++
5 9 (5.59%) PHP
6 8 (4.97%) Go
6 8 (4.97%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.35%) C
7 7 (4.35%) SQL
8 4 (2.48%) Delphi
8 4 (2.48%) R
8 4 (2.48%) Rust
9 1 (0.62%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.62%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.62%) Julia
9 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 45 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.47%) Degree
3 24 (14.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.18%) HNC
5 17 (10.56%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.56%) HND
6 13 (8.07%) Chartered Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.62%) MCP
9 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.01%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.35%) WCAG
3 4 (2.48%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.24%) QA
5 1 (0.62%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (11.80%) Docker
2 14 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.83%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.62%) Firmware
5 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Functional Safety
2 12 (7.45%) Terraform
3 10 (6.21%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (3.73%) WMI
5 4 (2.48%) Ansible
5 4 (2.48%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.48%) Nessus
5 4 (2.48%) Nmap
Vendors
1 36 (22.36%) Google
2 22 (13.66%) Adobe
3 17 (10.56%) VMware
4 16 (9.94%) Foundry
5 15 (9.32%) Microsoft
5 15 (9.32%) Qualtrics
6 13 (8.07%) AVEVA
6 13 (8.07%) Rockwell
6 13 (8.07%) Siemens
7 5 (3.11%) Facebook
8 4 (2.48%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.48%) Cisco
8 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.48%) Sage
8 4 (2.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.62%) EMC
9 1 (0.62%) Remedy