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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 259 303
Rank change year-on-year -66 +44 -11
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 209 440 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.92% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.15% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 78 154 187
10th Percentile £35,625 £47,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -6.06%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,438 £71,150
90th Percentile £91,450 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 29,395 38,268 28,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 79.97% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 18,758 21,255
10th Percentile £26,875 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £54,063 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +2.98% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 November 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 November 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 -63 62 £55,000 -26.67% 192
Scotland +34 57 £73,801 +6.48% 21
North of England -49 37 £59,500 -0.83% 56
North West -16 26 £73,801 +13.54% 25
Midlands +45 19 £58,750 +0.49% 8
East Midlands +21 12 £33,000 -17.50% 3
East of England -4 12 £86,250 +56.82% 46
South West +32 11 £85,000 +9.68% 52
Wales -7 9 £60,000 -13.86% 10
West Midlands +38 7 £60,000 +2.63% 4
Yorkshire -6 7 £30,500 -47.83% 27
North East 0 4 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -6 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 11 (5.26%) Confluence
2 4 (1.91%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) IIS
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 7 (3.35%) Sketch
2 6 (2.87%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.87%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.39%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (1.91%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (1.91%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.96%) InVision
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.48%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.48%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.48%) Maya
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.40%) AWS
2 46 (22.01%) Azure
3 36 (17.22%) GCP
4 31 (14.83%) Figma
5 15 (7.18%) Azure AI
5 15 (7.18%) Vertex AI
6 13 (6.22%) GitHub
7 11 (5.26%) Adobe Analytics
7 11 (5.26%) PaaS
8 10 (4.78%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (4.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (4.78%) dbt
8 10 (4.78%) Pulumi
8 10 (4.78%) Sentry
9 6 (2.87%) Miro
9 6 (2.87%) SaaS
10 4 (1.91%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.13%) Modbus
2 16 (7.66%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.22%) MQTT
4 12 (5.74%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.39%) DNS
5 5 (2.39%) Firewall
5 5 (2.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.91%) Bluetooth
6 4 (1.91%) Network Security
6 4 (1.91%) VLAN
6 4 (1.91%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.91%) ZigBee
7 3 (1.44%) SMTP
8 2 (0.96%) 2G
8 2 (0.96%) 4G
8 2 (0.96%) 5G
8 2 (0.96%) HTTP
8 2 (0.96%) ICMP
8 2 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.78%) Redis
3 8 (3.83%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Git
2 12 (5.74%) JIRA
3 7 (3.35%) Axure RP
4 6 (2.87%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.39%) MSI
6 4 (1.91%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.91%) GitLab
6 4 (1.91%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (1.91%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.91%) Selenium
6 4 (1.91%) webpack
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (32.54%) Finance
2 53 (25.36%) Banking
3 40 (19.14%) Social Skills
4 29 (13.88%) Law
5 22 (10.53%) Manufacturing
6 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.66%) Legal
8 13 (6.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (5.26%) Retail
11 10 (4.78%) Electronics
12 6 (2.87%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.39%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.91%) Marketing
15 3 (1.44%) Aviation
15 3 (1.44%) Games
16 2 (0.96%) Advertising
16 2 (0.96%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (34.93%) Senior
2 57 (27.27%) Designer
3 43 (20.57%) UX Designer
4 39 (18.66%) Senior Designer
5 37 (17.70%) Senior UX Designer
6 27 (12.92%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.18%) Product Delivery Manager
7 15 (7.18%) Product Manager
8 13 (6.22%) Architect
8 13 (6.22%) Lead
9 12 (5.74%) Developer
10 11 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Strategy Manager
11 10 (4.78%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.05%) CSS
2 14 (6.70%) React
3 13 (6.22%) HTML
4 10 (4.78%) Django
5 8 (3.83%) .NET
5 8 (3.83%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.83%) Kafka
5 8 (3.83%) Spring
5 8 (3.83%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.87%) Jest
6 6 (2.87%) JSON
6 6 (2.87%) OAuth
6 6 (2.87%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.87%) OpenID
6 6 (2.87%) REST
6 6 (2.87%) SAML
6 6 (2.87%) XML
7 5 (2.39%) Semantic HTML
8 4 (1.91%) CSS3
8 4 (1.91%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.48%) IoT
2 17 (8.13%) Operational Technology
2 17 (8.13%) SCADA
3 16 (7.66%) AI Agents
4 14 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.70%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (6.22%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (6.22%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (6.22%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (5.26%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.83%) Wiki
8 6 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.39%) CAN bus
9 5 (2.39%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.39%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) PKI
10 4 (1.91%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.48%) Linux
2 10 (4.78%) Unix
3 6 (2.87%) Android
3 6 (2.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.91%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (61.24%) Agile
2 103 (49.28%) User Experience
3 74 (35.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (33.01%) Wireframes
5 62 (29.67%) UX Design
6 52 (24.88%) User Research
7 51 (24.40%) Journey Map
8 49 (23.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 48 (22.97%) Design Thinking
10 45 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (21.53%) UX Research
11 44 (21.05%) Software Engineering
12 43 (20.57%) Usability Testing
13 40 (19.14%) DevOps
14 38 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (17.70%) Project Management
16 31 (14.83%) AI
17 30 (14.35%) Roadmaps
18 28 (13.40%) Machine Learning
19 27 (12.92%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.40%) Python
2 26 (12.44%) Java
3 23 (11.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (9.09%) C#
5 15 (7.18%) C++
6 9 (4.31%) C
6 9 (4.31%) Go
6 9 (4.31%) PHP
7 8 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.83%) SQL
7 8 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.91%) Delphi
8 4 (1.91%) R
8 4 (1.91%) Rust
9 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.48%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.48%) Julia
Qualifications
1 39 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.18%) Degree
3 21 (10.05%) HNC
4 18 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.13%) HND
6 13 (6.22%) Chartered Engineer
7 11 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) MCP
10 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (30.14%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.35%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.91%) WCAG
4 2 (0.96%) COBIT
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) NCSC
4 2 (0.96%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (10.53%) Docker
2 15 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.22%) Functional Safety
1 13 (6.22%) Terraform
2 10 (4.78%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (3.35%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.87%) WMI
5 5 (2.39%) Ansible
6 4 (1.91%) Nessus
6 4 (1.91%) Nmap
Vendors
1 35 (16.75%) Google
2 21 (10.05%) Adobe
3 18 (8.61%) VMware
4 16 (7.66%) Foundry
5 15 (7.18%) Qualtrics
6 13 (6.22%) AVEVA
6 13 (6.22%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.22%) Rockwell
6 13 (6.22%) Siemens
7 6 (2.87%) Facebook
8 4 (1.91%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.91%) Cisco
8 4 (1.91%) IBM
8 4 (1.91%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.91%) Sage
8 4 (1.91%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.48%) Cadence
9 1 (0.48%) EMC
9 1 (0.48%) Pega