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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 261 283
Rank change year-on-year -103 +22 -9
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 151 415 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.95% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.13% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 185 186
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,900 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 31,722 36,864 27,088
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.55% 84.32% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 18,897 17,819 20,233
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,748 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,900
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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -43 61 £55,000 -26.67% 55
North of England -23 30 £49,500 -17.50% 16
North West -6 19 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Midlands +41 13 £60,000 +2.63% 19
Scotland +4 12 £64,151 -4.47% 9
East of England -2 12 £90,000 +63.64% 26
South West -10 12 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Wales -13 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
Yorkshire -11 8 £30,500 -46.24% 4
East Midlands +14 7 £60,000 +50.00% 3
West Midlands +22 6 £61,250 +4.76% 16
North East +3 3 £73,801 +19.55% 5
Northern Ireland -2 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 7 (4.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Adobe XD
2 8 (5.30%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.31%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.65%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.65%) Sketch
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.32%) InVision
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.66%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.66%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.66%) Maya
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.48%) Azure
2 38 (25.17%) AWS
3 37 (24.50%) Figma
4 31 (20.53%) GCP
5 15 (9.93%) Azure AI
5 15 (9.93%) Vertex AI
6 11 (7.28%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (7.28%) PaaS
7 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (6.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.62%) dbt
7 10 (6.62%) Pulumi
7 10 (6.62%) Sentry
8 9 (5.96%) Miro
9 7 (4.64%) GitHub
10 6 (3.97%) SaaS
11 4 (2.65%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.60%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.61%) Modbus
3 9 (5.96%) Ethernet
3 9 (5.96%) MQTT
4 5 (3.31%) Firewall
5 4 (2.65%) Bluetooth
5 4 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.65%) Network Security
5 4 (2.65%) VLAN
5 4 (2.65%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.65%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.32%) 2G
6 2 (1.32%) 4G
6 2 (1.32%) 5G
6 2 (1.32%) DNS
6 2 (1.32%) HTTP
6 2 (1.32%) ICMP
6 2 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.32%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.62%) Redis
2 4 (2.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.32%) Power BI
4 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.66%) GIS
4 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Axure RP
2 11 (7.28%) Git
3 8 (5.30%) JIRA
4 5 (3.31%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.65%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.65%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.65%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.65%) MSI
6 2 (1.32%) webpack
7 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 34 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.19%) Law
3 24 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (15.23%) Finance
5 19 (12.58%) Manufacturing
6 17 (11.26%) Legal
7 13 (8.61%) Banking
8 12 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (7.28%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
10 10 (6.62%) Electronics
10 10 (6.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (5.96%) Retail
12 6 (3.97%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.65%) Marketing
14 3 (1.99%) Aviation
14 3 (1.99%) Games
15 2 (1.32%) Digital Health
15 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (21.85%) Senior
2 23 (15.23%) Designer
3 15 (9.93%) Product Delivery Manager
3 15 (9.93%) Product Manager
3 15 (9.93%) Software Engineer
4 12 (7.95%) Developer
5 11 (7.28%) Architect
5 11 (7.28%) Strategy Manager
6 10 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (6.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) UX Designer
9 6 (3.97%) Consultant
9 6 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (3.97%) Lead
9 6 (3.97%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.25%) CSS
2 14 (9.27%) HTML
3 11 (7.28%) React
4 10 (6.62%) Django
5 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.97%) JSON
5 6 (3.97%) REST
5 6 (3.97%) XML
6 5 (3.31%) .NET
6 5 (3.31%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.31%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.65%) Google JAX
7 4 (2.65%) JAX
7 4 (2.65%) Jest
7 4 (2.65%) Kafka
7 4 (2.65%) Spring
7 4 (2.65%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.65%) Vue
8 3 (1.99%) Framer.js
8 3 (1.99%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) IoT
2 15 (9.93%) AI Agents
3 14 (9.27%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (8.61%) Operational Technology
4 13 (8.61%) SCADA
5 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.96%) Biopharmaceutical
6 9 (5.96%) Industry 4.0
6 9 (5.96%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (5.30%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.64%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.31%) CAN bus
9 5 (3.31%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.65%) CUDA
10 4 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.99%) Animation
11 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.57%) Linux
2 10 (6.62%) Unix
3 5 (3.31%) Android
3 5 (3.31%) Windows
4 4 (2.65%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (51.66%) Agile
2 66 (43.71%) User Experience
3 47 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (25.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (23.84%) Wireframes
6 32 (21.19%) AI
7 31 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (19.87%) Machine Learning
8 30 (19.87%) Software Engineering
9 27 (17.88%) UX Design
10 26 (17.22%) Matrix Organization
11 23 (15.23%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (15.23%) Data Science
12 22 (14.57%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.57%) Roadmaps
13 21 (13.91%) Analytics
13 21 (13.91%) DevOps
13 21 (13.91%) Strategic Thinking
14 20 (13.25%) Product Management
14 20 (13.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 17 (11.26%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.60%) C#
4 14 (9.27%) C++
5 13 (8.61%) Java
6 7 (4.64%) C
6 7 (4.64%) PHP
6 7 (4.64%) SQL
7 5 (3.31%) Go
8 4 (2.65%) Delphi
8 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.65%) R
8 4 (2.65%) Rust
8 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.66%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.66%) Julia
9 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (28.48%) Degree
1 43 (28.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) HNC
4 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.61%) HND
5 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.96%) Chartered Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) MCP
8 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.19%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.30%) WCAG
3 4 (2.65%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.99%) QA
5 1 (0.66%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (9.27%) Docker
2 10 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.66%) Firmware
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.62%) AWS Copilot
1 10 (6.62%) Terraform
2 9 (5.96%) Functional Safety
3 5 (3.31%) WMI
4 4 (2.65%) Nessus
4 4 (2.65%) Nmap
5 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (21.85%) Google
2 24 (15.89%) Adobe
3 17 (11.26%) Foundry
4 15 (9.93%) Qualtrics
5 14 (9.27%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.28%) VMware
7 9 (5.96%) AVEVA
7 9 (5.96%) Rockwell
7 9 (5.96%) Siemens
8 4 (2.65%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.65%) Cisco
8 4 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.65%) Sage
8 4 (2.65%) Splunk
9 2 (1.32%) Facebook
10 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.66%) EMC
10 1 (0.66%) Palantir
10 1 (0.66%) Remedy