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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 295 292
Rank change year-on-year -57 -3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 364 263 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.88% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 258 73 129
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £45,244
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,750 £89,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 60,888 30,038 41,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 87.27% 79.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42,851 15,926 21,525
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 £88,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%

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 30 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 30 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 -4 98 £55,000 -4.35% 113
South East -20 91 £56,000 -13.85% 152
East of England +13 63 £60,000 - 104
North West -2 53 £52,500 -12.50% 70
Midlands -37 43 £57,500 -4.17% 57
West Midlands -23 33 £57,500 -4.17% 44
South West -55 29 £59,000 -30.59% 115
North East -43 26 £58,750 -9.62% 16
Wales -58 22 £53,171 +7.42% 12
Yorkshire -24 19 £50,000 +63.93% 28
Scotland -70 12 £55,000 - 45
East Midlands -41 10 £45,000 +36.36% 13
Northern Ireland -81 10 £80,000 - 17
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 (2.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.65%) Confluence
3 5 (1.37%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (6.32%) SOLIDWORKS
2 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.20%) Solid Edge
4 7 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.92%) InDesign
5 6 (1.65%) Adobe XD
6 5 (1.37%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (1.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.37%) Photoshop
7 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.82%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.82%) Sketch
9 2 (0.55%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.55%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.55%) InVision
9 2 (0.55%) Simulink
9 2 (0.55%) Trello
9 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.55%) Windchill
10 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.10%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.82%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.19%) Figma
2 43 (11.81%) AWS
3 24 (6.59%) Azure
4 17 (4.67%) Amazon S3
5 15 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (4.12%) Serverless
6 13 (3.57%) GCP
7 12 (3.30%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (3.30%) dbt
8 11 (3.02%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.75%) GitHub
9 10 (2.75%) SaaS
10 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.37%) Apigee
13 5 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.57%) Broadband
2 5 (1.37%) Intranet
2 5 (1.37%) Wireless
2 5 (1.37%) WPA
3 4 (1.10%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.82%) RS-485
5 2 (0.55%) RS-232
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.27%) J1939
6 1 (0.27%) LTE
6 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.10%) Power BI
5 3 (0.82%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.82%) Redis
5 3 (0.82%) Tableau
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.55%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.27%) Big Data
7 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.27%) OLAP
7 1 (0.27%) OLTP
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (4.67%) Git
2 11 (3.02%) JIRA
3 10 (2.75%) GitLab
4 8 (2.20%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.65%) Postman
7 5 (1.37%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.37%) Maven
7 5 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.82%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.82%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.55%) Bower
10 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 139 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 104 (28.57%) Electronics
3 88 (24.18%) Manufacturing
4 48 (13.19%) Aerospace
5 46 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (10.16%) Finance
6 37 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.04%) Automotive
8 15 (4.12%) Games
9 12 (3.30%) Marketing
10 11 (3.02%) Legal
10 11 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.47%) Military
11 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.47%) Retail
12 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.92%) Publishing
13 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (22.80%) Senior
2 52 (14.29%) Designer
3 46 (12.64%) Developer
4 36 (9.89%) Electronics Engineer
5 31 (8.52%) Software Engineer
6 27 (7.42%) Lead
7 20 (5.49%) Architect
7 20 (5.49%) Interaction Designer
8 19 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.12%) Design Engineer
11 14 (3.85%) Senior Designer
12 12 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (3.30%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.30%) UX Designer
13 11 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.02%) Consultant
13 11 (3.02%) Electronics Technician
13 11 (3.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.02%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.24%) React
2 21 (5.77%) .NET
3 15 (4.12%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.85%) CSS
4 14 (3.85%) HTML
5 13 (3.57%) Terraform
6 12 (3.30%) Web Services
7 11 (3.02%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.75%) Spring
9 9 (2.47%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.47%) Kafka
9 9 (2.47%) RESTful
10 8 (2.20%) LangChain
11 7 (1.92%) Next.js
12 6 (1.65%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.65%) REST
12 6 (1.65%) TensorFlow
13 5 (1.37%) Ajax
13 5 (1.37%) Node.js
13 5 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.79%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.49%) IoT
5 18 (4.95%) FPGA
5 18 (4.95%) Robotics
6 17 (4.67%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.57%) Social Media
8 12 (3.30%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.02%) Life Science
10 10 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.20%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.92%) Acoustics
12 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.92%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.92%) Podcast
12 7 (1.92%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.20%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Android
2 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.14%) Agile
2 115 (31.59%) AI
3 79 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 78 (21.43%) Validation
5 66 (18.13%) Rapid Prototyping
6 61 (16.76%) Mentoring
7 56 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 52 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 50 (13.74%) User Research
10 48 (13.19%) Analytics
10 48 (13.19%) User Experience
11 46 (12.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 43 (11.81%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.44%) DevOps
14 31 (8.52%) CAD
14 31 (8.52%) UX Design
15 30 (8.24%) Computer Science
15 30 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (7.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (16.48%) Python
2 34 (9.34%) TypeScript
3 28 (7.69%) Java
4 26 (7.14%) C++
5 24 (6.59%) C
6 23 (6.32%) C#
6 23 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.04%) SQL
8 16 (4.40%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.92%) Rust
10 6 (1.65%) Bash
10 6 (1.65%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.37%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.37%) Groovy
11 5 (1.37%) PHP
12 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.82%) R
12 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.55%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 129 (35.44%) Degree
2 75 (20.60%) Security Cleared
3 54 (14.84%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.49%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.85%) PhD
7 13 (3.57%) HND
8 8 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.20%) HNC
9 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) OCP
13 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.11%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.40%) WCAG
3 11 (3.02%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) JTAG
6 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.55%) DO-254
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.27%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) IASME
7 1 (0.27%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (8.24%) Firmware
2 21 (5.77%) Docker
3 9 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.37%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 33 (9.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.97%) EMC
3 28 (7.69%) Adobe
4 23 (6.32%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.20%) Google
5 8 (2.20%) SAP
6 5 (1.37%) Thales
7 4 (1.10%) Databricks
7 4 (1.10%) Siemens
8 3 (0.82%) Apple
8 3 (0.82%) Foundry
8 3 (0.82%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.55%) Altera
9 2 (0.55%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.55%) Intel
9 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.55%) YouTube
10 1 (0.27%) Sparx
10 1 (0.27%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.27%) Xamarin