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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 284 363
Rank change year-on-year -66 +79 -60
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 307 298 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.99% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 168 89 228
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,125
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 50,992 30,002 55,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 88.25% 79.83%
Number of salaries quoted 35,944 16,170 37,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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 20 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 20 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 +3 76 £50,000 -26.06% 25
East of England +40 74 £74,000 +64.44% 17
South East -10 70 £56,500 -13.08% 38
North West -6 33 £48,750 -29.74% 16
Yorkshire -7 27 £65,000 - 2
South West -54 22 £60,000 -5.88% 20
Midlands -35 20 £62,500 +6.38% 10
Wales -42 19 £53,171 -21.88% 2
West Midlands -15 17 £68,665 +14.44% 8
North East -36 16 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Scotland -71 15 £52,250 +14.50% 12
Northern Ireland -50 11 £80,000 -
East Midlands -30 3 £60,000 +81.82% 2
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 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 6 (1.95%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.95%) Sketch
2 5 (1.63%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.63%) InDesign
2 5 (1.63%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.63%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.65%) CATIA
3 2 (0.65%) InVision
3 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.65%) Trello
3 2 (0.65%) Windchill
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.33%) Simulink
4 1 (0.33%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.80%) Figma
2 64 (20.85%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (12.70%) AWS
4 27 (8.79%) Azure
5 18 (5.86%) Amazon ECR
5 18 (5.86%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.54%) GCP
7 16 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.21%) Serverless
8 15 (4.89%) dbt
9 14 (4.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (3.91%) Apigee
11 11 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.26%) SaaS
13 7 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.63%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (23.13%) Broadband
2 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.63%) Intranet
3 5 (1.63%) WPA
4 3 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.98%) Wireless
5 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.33%) LTE
5 1 (0.33%) RS-232
5 1 (0.33%) RS-485
5 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.21%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.28%) Redis
3 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.98%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.33%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.54%) Git
2 15 (4.89%) GitLab
3 14 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.91%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.91%) Maven
4 12 (3.91%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.61%) JIRA
5 8 (2.61%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.30%) Postman
7 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.98%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.65%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.65%) Bower
8 2 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.52%) Games
3 47 (15.31%) Electronics
4 42 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (13.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (10.42%) Manufacturing
7 30 (9.77%) Finance
8 28 (9.12%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.58%) Legal
10 10 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.93%) Marketing
12 8 (2.61%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.30%) Swedish Language
15 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.65%) Law
16 2 (0.65%) Retail
17 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 64 (20.85%) Designer
2 51 (16.61%) Lead
3 49 (15.96%) Senior
4 45 (14.66%) Developer
5 31 (10.10%) Lead Designer
6 28 (9.12%) Systems Engineer
7 25 (8.14%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.86%) Architect
8 18 (5.86%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (5.86%) UX Designer
9 15 (4.89%) Product Manager
10 14 (4.56%) Digital Designer
10 14 (4.56%) Lead UX Designer
11 12 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.91%) Hardware Engineer
11 12 (3.91%) Systems Manager
12 11 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 11 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.86%) AngularJS
2 16 (5.21%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.56%) React
4 12 (3.91%) .NET
4 12 (3.91%) Gherkin
4 12 (3.91%) HTML
4 12 (3.91%) Jest
5 10 (3.26%) CSS
6 8 (2.61%) Web Services
7 7 (2.28%) LangChain
8 6 (1.95%) JSON
8 6 (1.95%) REST
8 6 (1.95%) RESTful
8 6 (1.95%) XML
9 5 (1.63%) Ajax
9 5 (1.63%) jQuery
10 4 (1.30%) AWS CDK
10 4 (1.30%) Django
10 4 (1.30%) Spring
10 4 (1.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.52%) Social Media
2 16 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.21%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (4.56%) FPGA
3 14 (4.56%) IoT
4 13 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.93%) Robotics
7 8 (2.61%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.28%) Life Science
8 7 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.28%) Verilog
8 7 (2.28%) VHDL
9 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.95%) FMCG
9 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.63%) Analogue Electronics
10 5 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.33%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (51.79%) Agile
2 144 (46.91%) AI
3 98 (31.92%) Roadmaps
3 98 (31.92%) User Research
3 98 (31.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 83 (27.04%) Analytics
5 78 (25.41%) Product Roadmap
6 77 (25.08%) Customer Experience
7 67 (21.82%) Storytelling
8 63 (20.52%) Digital Customer Experience
9 57 (18.57%) Rapid Prototyping
10 50 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (15.31%) Validation
12 46 (14.98%) User Experience
13 43 (14.01%) Customer Insight
13 43 (14.01%) Software Engineering
14 42 (13.68%) Workshop Facilitation
15 40 (13.03%) CI/CD
16 39 (12.70%) DevOps
17 36 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (19.22%) Python
2 34 (11.07%) Java
3 24 (7.82%) C
4 23 (7.49%) C++
4 23 (7.49%) TypeScript
5 20 (6.51%) C#
6 14 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.23%) Bash
8 12 (3.91%) Groovy
8 12 (3.91%) SQL
9 11 (3.58%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.63%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.63%) PHP
11 3 (0.98%) Pascal
11 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.98%) Rust
12 2 (0.65%) Julia
13 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 80 (26.06%) Degree
2 44 (14.33%) Security Cleared
3 35 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.84%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (3.58%) PhD
8 8 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.63%) HND
10 3 (0.98%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) HNC
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (30.29%) Accessibility
2 39 (12.70%) WCAG
3 4 (1.30%) DO-254
3 4 (1.30%) GDPR
3 4 (1.30%) QA
4 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.65%) JTAG
5 1 (0.33%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.33%) GRC
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (8.47%) Docker
2 14 (4.56%) Firmware
3 7 (2.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (3.91%) HP Fortify
2 9 (2.93%) Terraform
3 5 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 77 (25.08%) Adobe
2 22 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.21%) Google
4 14 (4.56%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.61%) EMC
6 4 (1.30%) Foundry
7 3 (0.98%) Motorola
7 3 (0.98%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.65%) Altera
8 2 (0.65%) Intel
8 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) Databricks
9 1 (0.33%) Planon
9 1 (0.33%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.33%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow