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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 293 302
Rank change year-on-year -75 +9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 353 263 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.88% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 247 74 133
10th Percentile £38,441 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,375 £88,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%

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 60,382 29,855 43,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.31% 86.73% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 42,606 16,113 22,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -2 100 £55,000 -4.35% 113
South East -26 84 £56,750 -12.69% 174
East of England +23 61 £60,000 +14.29% 122
North West -1 51 £51,250 -14.58% 74
Midlands -27 38 £56,250 -6.25% 56
West Midlands -26 29 £57,500 -4.17% 44
South West -56 28 £60,000 -29.41% 127
North East -47 27 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Yorkshire -20 22 £57,500 +88.52% 26
Wales -53 22 £53,171 +7.42% 17
Scotland -75 12 £55,000 - 55
Northern Ireland -79 11 £80,000 - 20
East Midlands -35 9 £45,000 +36.36% 12
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 8 (2.27%) Apache
2 6 (1.70%) Confluence
3 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.42%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (6.52%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.27%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.98%) InDesign
3 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.57%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.57%) InVision
6 2 (0.57%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.57%) Simulink
6 2 (0.57%) Trello
6 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.57%) Windchill
7 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.88%) Figma
2 45 (12.75%) AWS
3 24 (6.80%) Azure
4 19 (5.38%) Amazon S3
5 17 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (4.82%) Serverless
6 12 (3.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.40%) dbt
6 12 (3.40%) GCP
6 12 (3.40%) SaaS
7 11 (3.12%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.83%) GitHub
9 9 (2.55%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.98%) Apigee
12 6 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.40%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) Intranet
2 5 (1.42%) WPA
3 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.13%) Wireless
4 3 (0.85%) RS-485
5 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.57%) RS-232
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.53%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.13%) Power BI
5 3 (0.85%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.85%) Redis
5 3 (0.85%) Tableau
6 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) OLAP
7 1 (0.28%) OLTP
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.10%) Git
2 12 (3.40%) GitLab
3 10 (2.83%) JIRA
4 9 (2.55%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.27%) LabVIEW
6 7 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.98%) Maven
6 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.70%) Postman
8 3 (0.85%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.57%) Bower
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.28%) ERwin
10 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 135 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 100 (28.33%) Electronics
3 82 (23.23%) Manufacturing
4 48 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (12.18%) Aerospace
7 37 (10.48%) Public Sector
8 35 (9.92%) Finance
9 18 (5.10%) Automotive
10 15 (4.25%) Games
11 13 (3.68%) Legal
11 13 (3.68%) Marketing
12 11 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.55%) Retail
14 8 (2.27%) Military
14 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Publishing
16 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (21.53%) Senior
2 53 (15.01%) Designer
3 50 (14.16%) Developer
4 31 (8.78%) Software Engineer
5 30 (8.50%) Electronics Engineer
6 29 (8.22%) Lead
7 21 (5.95%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.67%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.38%) Architect
10 18 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.97%) Senior Designer
11 14 (3.97%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (3.40%) UX Designer
13 11 (3.12%) Consultant
13 11 (3.12%) Design Engineer
13 11 (3.12%) Lead Designer
13 11 (3.12%) Product Manager
13 11 (3.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.50%) React
2 20 (5.67%) .NET
3 17 (4.82%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.97%) AngularJS
4 14 (3.97%) CSS
4 14 (3.97%) HTML
5 13 (3.68%) Terraform
6 11 (3.12%) Web Services
7 10 (2.83%) Spring
8 9 (2.55%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.55%) RESTful
9 8 (2.27%) Kafka
9 8 (2.27%) LangChain
10 7 (1.98%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.98%) Jest
10 7 (1.98%) Next.js
11 6 (1.70%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.70%) REST
11 6 (1.70%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.78%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.10%) IoT
4 18 (5.10%) Robotics
5 17 (4.82%) FPGA
6 15 (4.25%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.68%) Social Media
8 12 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.12%) Life Science
10 10 (2.83%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.98%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.98%) Podcast
12 7 (1.98%) VHDL
13 6 (1.70%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.98%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Android
2 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (33.71%) Agile
2 115 (32.58%) AI
3 76 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 72 (20.40%) Validation
5 66 (18.70%) Rapid Prototyping
6 59 (16.71%) Mentoring
7 54 (15.30%) Software Engineering
8 53 (15.01%) CI/CD
9 51 (14.45%) User Research
10 50 (14.16%) User Experience
10 50 (14.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 48 (13.60%) Analytics
12 45 (12.75%) Roadmaps
13 39 (11.05%) DevOps
14 32 (9.07%) UX Design
15 30 (8.50%) Physics
15 30 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (8.22%) CAD
16 29 (8.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.86%) Python
2 34 (9.63%) TypeScript
3 29 (8.22%) Java
4 27 (7.65%) C++
5 24 (6.80%) C
6 23 (6.52%) C#
7 21 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.95%) SQL
8 14 (3.97%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.27%) Bash
10 7 (1.98%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.98%) Groovy
10 7 (1.98%) Rust
11 5 (1.42%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.57%) Go
13 2 (0.57%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 121 (34.28%) Degree
2 73 (20.68%) Security Cleared
3 52 (14.73%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.67%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.97%) PhD
7 11 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.12%) HND
8 10 (2.83%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.98%) HNC
9 7 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) OCP
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.15%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.53%) WCAG
3 12 (3.40%) QA
4 4 (1.13%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.85%) DO-254
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) JTAG
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) IASME
7 1 (0.28%) MISRA
System Software
1 28 (7.93%) Firmware
2 21 (5.95%) Docker
3 8 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.98%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 31 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.93%) Adobe
3 24 (6.80%) EMC
4 23 (6.52%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.27%) Google
5 8 (2.27%) SAP
6 4 (1.13%) Databricks
6 4 (1.13%) Thales
7 3 (0.85%) Apple
7 3 (0.85%) Siemens
7 3 (0.85%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.57%) Altera
8 2 (0.57%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.57%) Foundry
8 2 (0.57%) Intel
8 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.57%) YouTube
9 1 (0.28%) Sparx
9 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.28%) Xamarin