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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 265 342
Rank change year-on-year -71 +77 -36
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 249 237 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.92% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.01% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 114 126 299
10th Percentile £42,437 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £41,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +22.64% -15.20%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,690 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,125 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,490 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.83% +13.04% -11.54%

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 44,015 23,547 55,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.23% 91.21% 84.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,946 13,696 40,187
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,002 £38,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%
75th Percentile £69,188 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,979 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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
South East -9 67 £56,500 -24.67% 50
East of England +7 63 £80,000 +60.00% 22
North of England -61 56 £57,500 -2.13% 44
North West -40 24 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Yorkshire -40 24 £67,500 +22.73% 14
South West -65 23 £77,000 +12.37% 14
Midlands -51 17 £53,750 -15.77% 14
West Midlands -17 15 £53,750 -15.77% 9
Scotland -35 15 £54,500 -9.02% 21
North East -28 8 £60,000 -13.48% 9
Wales -46 5 £73,801 +8.43% 6
Northern Ireland -36 3 £77,500 +11.82% 1
East Midlands -53 2 £101,250 - 5
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 (3.21%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) WordPress
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.21%) Adobe XD
3 6 (2.41%) Sketch
4 5 (2.01%) Fusion 360
5 3 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.80%) CATIA
6 2 (0.80%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.80%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.40%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.40%) Blender
7 1 (0.40%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.40%) Maya
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.40%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (26.91%) Figma
2 65 (26.10%) Adobe Analytics
3 37 (14.86%) AWS
4 30 (12.05%) Azure
5 21 (8.43%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (8.03%) GCP
7 14 (5.62%) Serverless
8 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.22%) Apigee
8 13 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (5.22%) SaaS
9 12 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.61%) PaaS
11 8 (3.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (3.21%) dbt
11 8 (3.21%) Pulumi
11 8 (3.21%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 66 (26.51%) Broadband
2 11 (4.42%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (1.20%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.80%) 2G
5 2 (0.80%) 4G
5 2 (0.80%) 5G
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) HTTP
5 2 (0.80%) ICMP
5 2 (0.80%) LTE
5 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.80%) Wireless
6 1 (0.40%) Firewall
6 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.40%) Modbus
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.40%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.22%) DynamoDB
2 9 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.21%) Redis
4 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.02%) Cypress.io
2 13 (5.22%) GitLab
2 13 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.22%) Maven
2 13 (5.22%) SonarQube
3 10 (4.02%) JIRA
4 8 (3.21%) Git
5 7 (2.81%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.41%) Balsamiq
7 4 (1.61%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (23.29%) Games
2 50 (20.08%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.25%) Finance
5 28 (11.24%) Manufacturing
6 26 (10.44%) Electronics
7 16 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (6.02%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.22%) Law
10 8 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.81%) Banking
11 7 (2.81%) Legal
11 7 (2.81%) Marketing
12 6 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.61%) Swedish Language
15 3 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (20.88%) Designer
2 39 (15.66%) Lead
3 37 (14.86%) Senior
4 29 (11.65%) Lead Designer
5 27 (10.84%) Developer
6 17 (6.83%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.83%) UX Designer
7 15 (6.02%) Product Manager
8 14 (5.62%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (4.82%) Consultant
9 12 (4.82%) Digital Designer
9 12 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.82%) Product Designer
9 12 (4.82%) Systems Manager
10 11 (4.42%) Lead UX Designer
11 10 (4.02%) Analyst
11 10 (4.02%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.61%) Architect
13 8 (3.21%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.21%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.63%) AngularJS
2 17 (6.83%) Spring Boot
3 15 (6.02%) Jest
4 13 (5.22%) Gherkin
5 11 (4.42%) React
6 10 (4.02%) CSS
6 10 (4.02%) HTML
7 9 (3.61%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.61%) REST
8 8 (3.21%) Django
8 8 (3.21%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.81%) Google JAX
9 7 (2.81%) JAX
10 5 (2.01%) Vue
11 4 (1.61%) LangChain
11 4 (1.61%) Semantic Kernel
11 4 (1.61%) Spring
12 3 (1.20%) .NET
12 3 (1.20%) JSON
12 3 (1.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.29%) Social Media
2 15 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.21%) Life Science
5 8 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.21%) Robotics
6 7 (2.81%) CUDA
6 7 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.01%) Arduino
7 5 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.01%) IoT
7 5 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.01%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.61%) FPGA
8 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.61%) Verilog
8 4 (1.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.23%) Linux
2 9 (3.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.40%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (53.82%) Agile
2 111 (44.58%) AI
3 94 (37.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 84 (33.73%) User Research
5 82 (32.93%) Roadmaps
6 78 (31.33%) Customer Experience
7 75 (30.12%) Analytics
8 71 (28.51%) Product Roadmap
9 70 (28.11%) Storytelling
10 68 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (23.29%) Digital Customer Experience
12 55 (22.09%) User Experience
13 43 (17.27%) UX Design
14 40 (16.06%) Software Engineering
15 39 (15.66%) Workshop Facilitation
16 36 (14.46%) Rapid Prototyping
17 34 (13.65%) Customer Insight
17 34 (13.65%) DevOps
18 33 (13.25%) Machine Learning
19 31 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (22.09%) Python
2 33 (13.25%) Java
3 17 (6.83%) C
3 17 (6.83%) C++
4 16 (6.43%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.22%) Bash
5 13 (5.22%) Groovy
6 12 (4.82%) C#
7 8 (3.21%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.41%) SQL
9 5 (2.01%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.20%) Pascal
11 2 (0.80%) Julia
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (20.88%) Degree
2 48 (19.28%) Security Cleared
3 35 (14.06%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (5.22%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) PhD
9 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.40%) HNC
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (36.55%) Accessibility
2 36 (14.46%) WCAG
3 5 (2.01%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) DO-254
4 4 (1.61%) ISO 13485
4 4 (1.61%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) HP Fortify
2 8 (3.21%) AWS Copilot
2 8 (3.21%) Terraform
3 4 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) Nessus
4 1 (0.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 75 (30.12%) Adobe
2 19 (7.63%) Google
3 10 (4.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.21%) Qualtrics
5 6 (2.41%) Foundry
6 3 (1.20%) EMC
6 3 (1.20%) Motorola
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir
7 1 (0.40%) Planon
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.40%) Remedy
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.40%) Siemens
7 1 (0.40%) Splunk