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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 291 362
Rank change year-on-year -52 +71 -47
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 311 301 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.89% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.01% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 170 88 243
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,563 £50,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £78,109 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%

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 50,483 29,861 58,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.57% 88.38% 80.05%
Number of salaries quoted 35,473 15,986 40,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -5 77 £50,000 -27.94% 76
East of England +36 74 £74,000 +64.44% 49
South East -11 71 £56,250 -13.46% 92
North West -9 33 £48,750 -29.74% 38
Yorkshire -12 28 £65,000 -23.76% 26
South West -60 22 £60,000 -11.11% 41
Midlands -35 21 £61,250 +4.26% 39
Wales -41 19 £53,171 -21.88% 15
West Midlands -23 18 £62,500 +4.17% 23
North East -48 16 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Scotland -63 16 £54,500 +19.43% 46
Northern Ireland - 11 £80,000 - 15
East Midlands -34 3 £60,000 +81.82% 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 4 (1.29%) Apache
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 6 (1.93%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.93%) Sketch
2 5 (1.61%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.61%) InDesign
2 5 (1.61%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.61%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.64%) CATIA
4 2 (0.64%) InVision
4 2 (0.64%) Trello
4 2 (0.64%) Windchill
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.32%) Simulink
5 1 (0.32%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.51%) Figma
2 65 (20.90%) Adobe Analytics
3 40 (12.86%) AWS
4 27 (8.68%) Azure
5 19 (6.11%) Amazon ECR
5 19 (6.11%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (5.47%) GCP
6 17 (5.47%) Serverless
7 15 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (4.82%) dbt
8 13 (4.18%) Apigee
9 12 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.54%) SaaS
11 7 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 72 (23.15%) Broadband
2 6 (1.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.61%) Intranet
3 5 (1.61%) WPA
4 3 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.96%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.32%) LTE
5 1 (0.32%) RS-232
5 1 (0.32%) RS-485
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.47%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.25%) Redis
3 5 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.96%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.32%) Big Data
7 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.47%) Git
2 16 (5.14%) GitLab
3 15 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.18%) Cypress.io
4 13 (4.18%) Maven
4 13 (4.18%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.57%) JIRA
5 8 (2.57%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.29%) Postman
7 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.96%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.64%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.64%) Bower
8 2 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.58%) Games
3 47 (15.11%) Electronics
4 44 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (10.29%) Finance
6 32 (10.29%) Manufacturing
7 28 (9.00%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.54%) Legal
9 10 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.89%) Marketing
11 8 (2.57%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.29%) Swedish Language
14 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Law
15 2 (0.64%) Retail
16 1 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (21.22%) Designer
2 51 (16.40%) Lead
3 50 (16.08%) Senior
4 46 (14.79%) Developer
5 32 (10.29%) Lead Designer
6 28 (9.00%) Systems Engineer
7 24 (7.72%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.11%) Architect
8 19 (6.11%) UX Designer
9 18 (5.79%) Interaction Designer
10 15 (4.82%) Product Manager
11 14 (4.50%) Digital Designer
11 14 (4.50%) Lead UX Designer
12 13 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.86%) Hardware Engineer
13 12 (3.86%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.86%) Systems Manager
14 11 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.11%) AngularJS
2 17 (5.47%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.50%) React
4 13 (4.18%) Gherkin
4 13 (4.18%) Jest
5 12 (3.86%) .NET
5 12 (3.86%) HTML
6 10 (3.22%) CSS
7 8 (2.57%) Web Services
8 7 (2.25%) LangChain
9 6 (1.93%) JSON
9 6 (1.93%) REST
9 6 (1.93%) RESTful
9 6 (1.93%) XML
10 5 (1.61%) Ajax
10 5 (1.61%) jQuery
11 4 (1.29%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.29%) Django
11 4 (1.29%) Spring
11 4 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.58%) Social Media
2 16 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.14%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (4.50%) IoT
4 13 (4.18%) FPGA
4 13 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.89%) Robotics
7 8 (2.57%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.25%) Life Science
8 7 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.93%) FMCG
9 6 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.93%) Verilog
9 6 (1.93%) VHDL
10 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.61%) Analogue Electronics
10 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.86%) Linux
2 7 (2.25%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.32%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (51.45%) Agile
2 146 (46.95%) AI
3 100 (32.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 99 (31.83%) Roadmaps
4 99 (31.83%) User Research
5 84 (27.01%) Analytics
6 79 (25.40%) Product Roadmap
7 78 (25.08%) Customer Experience
8 68 (21.86%) Storytelling
9 64 (20.58%) Digital Customer Experience
10 56 (18.01%) Rapid Prototyping
11 52 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (15.11%) User Experience
12 47 (15.11%) Validation
13 43 (13.83%) Customer Insight
14 42 (13.50%) Software Engineering
14 42 (13.50%) Workshop Facilitation
15 41 (13.18%) CI/CD
15 41 (13.18%) DevOps
16 36 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (19.29%) Python
2 35 (11.25%) Java
3 24 (7.72%) C
3 24 (7.72%) TypeScript
4 23 (7.40%) C++
5 21 (6.75%) C#
6 14 (4.50%) Bash
6 14 (4.50%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.18%) Groovy
8 12 (3.86%) SQL
9 11 (3.54%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.93%) PHP
11 5 (1.61%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.96%) Pascal
12 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.96%) Rust
13 2 (0.64%) Julia
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 80 (25.72%) Degree
2 44 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 35 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.75%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.18%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.18%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.54%) PhD
7 8 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.61%) HND
9 3 (0.96%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) HNC
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (30.23%) Accessibility
2 40 (12.86%) WCAG
3 4 (1.29%) DO-254
3 4 (1.29%) GDPR
3 4 (1.29%) QA
4 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.64%) JTAG
5 1 (0.32%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (8.36%) Docker
2 14 (4.50%) Firmware
3 7 (2.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.18%) HP Fortify
2 9 (2.89%) Terraform
3 4 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (25.08%) Adobe
2 22 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.14%) Google
4 14 (4.50%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.57%) EMC
6 4 (1.29%) Foundry
7 3 (0.96%) Motorola
8 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.64%) Xilinx
9 1 (0.32%) Altera
9 1 (0.32%) Databricks
9 1 (0.32%) Intel
9 1 (0.32%) Planon
9 1 (0.32%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.32%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow