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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 297 311
Rank change year-on-year -71 +14 -18
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 345 262 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.77% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.89% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 244 75 132
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £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 £86,000 £88,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.31% -5.00%

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 59,850 29,558 42,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.30% 86.62% 78.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42,238 15,999 22,774
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 £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 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 22 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 -8 94 £55,000 -4.35% 98
South East -17 83 £57,500 -13.21% 158
East of England +15 60 £60,000 +33.33% 104
North West -16 45 £50,000 -16.67% 58
Midlands -29 38 £57,500 -4.17% 55
West Midlands -29 30 £57,500 -4.17% 45
South West -57 28 £60,000 -29.41% 113
North East -42 26 £58,750 -9.62% 14
Yorkshire -28 23 £57,500 +88.52% 26
Wales -59 22 £53,171 -2.88% 14
Scotland -83 12 £55,000 - 48
Northern Ireland -71 11 £80,000 - 16
East Midlands -32 8 £45,000 +36.36% 10
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 (2.03%) Apache
2 6 (1.74%) Confluence
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (6.38%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.32%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.03%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.03%) InDesign
3 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.45%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.45%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.16%) Sketch
6 2 (0.58%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.58%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.58%) InVision
6 2 (0.58%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.58%) Simulink
6 2 (0.58%) Trello
6 2 (0.58%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.58%) Windchill
7 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 8 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.16%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.87%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.20%) Figma
2 41 (11.88%) AWS
3 23 (6.67%) Azure
4 20 (5.80%) Amazon S3
5 18 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (5.22%) Serverless
6 12 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.48%) dbt
6 12 (3.48%) SaaS
7 11 (3.19%) GCP
8 10 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (2.90%) GitHub
8 10 (2.90%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.32%) Apigee
10 8 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.48%) Broadband
2 5 (1.45%) Intranet
2 5 (1.45%) WPA
3 4 (1.16%) Wireless
4 3 (0.87%) RS-485
4 3 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.58%) RS-232
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.93%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.74%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.87%) ClickHouse
4 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.87%) Power BI
4 3 (0.87%) Redis
4 3 (0.87%) Tableau
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) OLAP
6 1 (0.29%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (0.29%) OLTP
6 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.64%) Git
2 12 (3.48%) GitLab
3 10 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.90%) JIRA
4 8 (2.32%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.32%) LabVIEW
4 8 (2.32%) Maven
4 8 (2.32%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.74%) Postman
6 3 (0.87%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.87%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (0.58%) Bower
8 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) ERwin
8 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 126 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.83%) Electronics
3 79 (22.90%) Manufacturing
4 46 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (12.17%) Aerospace
6 36 (10.43%) Finance
6 36 (10.43%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.22%) Automotive
8 15 (4.35%) Games
9 13 (3.77%) Legal
9 13 (3.77%) Marketing
10 11 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.32%) Military
11 8 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.32%) Retail
12 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.16%) Law
14 4 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (20.58%) Senior
2 51 (14.78%) Designer
3 49 (14.20%) Developer
4 30 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 28 (8.12%) Electronics Engineer
6 27 (7.83%) Lead
7 21 (6.09%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.80%) Architect
8 20 (5.80%) Interaction Designer
9 18 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.06%) Senior Designer
11 12 (3.48%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.48%) UX Designer
12 11 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 11 (3.19%) Consultant
12 11 (3.19%) Design Engineer
12 11 (3.19%) Electronics Technician
12 11 (3.19%) Product Manager
12 11 (3.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.54%) React
2 19 (5.51%) .NET
3 15 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 15 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.06%) CSS
4 14 (4.06%) HTML
5 12 (3.48%) Terraform
6 11 (3.19%) Web Services
7 9 (2.61%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.61%) RESTful
8 8 (2.32%) Gherkin
8 8 (2.32%) Jest
8 8 (2.32%) LangChain
9 7 (2.03%) Next.js
9 7 (2.03%) Spring
10 6 (1.74%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.74%) REST
10 6 (1.74%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.45%) Kafka
11 5 (1.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
2 23 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.22%) IoT
5 17 (4.93%) FPGA
6 16 (4.64%) Robotics
7 14 (4.06%) Analogue Electronics
8 13 (3.77%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.77%) Social Media
9 12 (3.48%) Onboarding
10 11 (3.19%) Life Science
10 11 (3.19%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.32%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (2.03%) Data Structures
12 7 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (2.03%) VHDL
13 6 (1.74%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.74%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.03%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Android
2 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.33%) Agile
2 111 (32.17%) AI
3 71 (20.58%) Validation
4 69 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (19.13%) Rapid Prototyping
6 55 (15.94%) Mentoring
7 52 (15.07%) Software Engineering
8 51 (14.78%) User Research
9 50 (14.49%) User Experience
10 49 (14.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 48 (13.91%) CI/CD
12 46 (13.33%) Analytics
13 45 (13.04%) Roadmaps
14 36 (10.43%) DevOps
15 32 (9.28%) UX Design
16 30 (8.70%) Physics
17 29 (8.41%) CAD
17 29 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.36%) Python
2 32 (9.28%) TypeScript
3 27 (7.83%) Java
4 26 (7.54%) C++
5 22 (6.38%) C
5 22 (6.38%) C#
6 20 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.51%) SQL
8 14 (4.06%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.61%) Bash
10 8 (2.32%) Groovy
11 7 (2.03%) Embedded C
12 6 (1.74%) Rust
13 5 (1.45%) Embedded C++
13 5 (1.45%) PHP
14 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.58%) Go
15 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 119 (34.49%) Degree
2 69 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 48 (13.91%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.09%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.35%) PhD
7 11 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.90%) HND
9 8 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.74%) HNC
11 4 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.58%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.29%) OCP
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.94%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.64%) WCAG
3 12 (3.48%) QA
4 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.87%) DO-254
4 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.87%) JTAG
5 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) MISRA
System Software
1 26 (7.54%) Firmware
2 21 (6.09%) Docker
3 8 (2.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.32%) HP Fortify
1 8 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 30 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.12%) Adobe
3 23 (6.67%) EMC
3 23 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.32%) Google
4 8 (2.32%) SAP
5 3 (0.87%) Apple
5 3 (0.87%) Databricks
5 3 (0.87%) Siemens
5 3 (0.87%) Thales
5 3 (0.87%) Xilinx
6 2 (0.58%) Altera
6 2 (0.58%) Autodesk
6 2 (0.58%) Foundry
6 2 (0.58%) Intel
6 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.58%) YouTube
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.29%) Xamarin