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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 289 353
Rank change year-on-year -60 +64 -69
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 342 298 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.85% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.98% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 201 95 177
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,750 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +3.91% -6.46%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 54,931 30,454 46,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.45% 87.29% 78.40%
Number of salaries quoted 38,625 16,580 29,151
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -18 87 £57,500 -5.35% 67
North of England -17 84 £52,500 -19.23% 34
East of England +29 71 £61,250 +36.11% 37
North West -8 38 £48,750 -29.74% 17
South West -57 30 £60,000 -5.88% 32
Yorkshire -18 24 £65,000 +20.37% 7
Midlands -29 23 £60,000 - 28
North East -46 22 £58,750 -9.62% 10
Wales -49 21 £53,171 -21.88% 8
West Midlands -12 18 £61,250 +2.08% 17
Scotland -79 16 £52,250 -16.82% 18
Northern Ireland -65 10 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -28 5 £50,000 +51.52% 11
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 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 5 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.09%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.34%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.05%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.05%) InDesign
4 6 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.75%) Sketch
5 5 (1.46%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.46%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.46%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.58%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.58%) InVision
6 2 (0.58%) Trello
6 2 (0.58%) Windchill
7 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
7 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.29%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.17%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.88%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (19.01%) Figma
2 49 (14.33%) Adobe Analytics
3 40 (11.70%) AWS
4 27 (7.89%) Azure
5 21 (6.14%) Amazon S3
6 19 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (5.56%) Serverless
7 14 (4.09%) GCP
8 12 (3.51%) SaaS
9 11 (3.22%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (3.22%) dbt
10 10 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.92%) GitHub
11 9 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.63%) Apigee
11 9 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.34%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (16.67%) Broadband
2 5 (1.46%) Intranet
2 5 (1.46%) WPA
3 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.88%) Wireless
4 2 (0.58%) RS-485
4 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) RS-232
5 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.88%) ClickHouse
4 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.88%) Power BI
4 3 (0.88%) Redis
4 3 (0.88%) Tableau
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.29%) Flink
6 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.29%) Looker
6 1 (0.29%) Metadata
6 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.97%) Git
2 12 (3.51%) GitLab
3 11 (3.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.22%) JIRA
4 9 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.63%) Maven
4 9 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.34%) LabVIEW
6 6 (1.75%) Postman
7 3 (0.88%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.58%) Bower
8 2 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.59%) Electronics
3 50 (14.62%) Manufacturing
4 49 (14.33%) Games
5 48 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (13.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (11.11%) Finance
8 35 (10.23%) Public Sector
9 27 (7.89%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.80%) Legal
11 12 (3.51%) Marketing
11 12 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.63%) Automotive
12 9 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.17%) Law
15 4 (1.17%) Retail
15 4 (1.17%) Swedish Language
16 2 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (18.13%) Senior
2 59 (17.25%) Designer
3 51 (14.91%) Developer
4 41 (11.99%) Lead
5 28 (8.19%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.43%) Interaction Designer
8 21 (6.14%) Lead Designer
9 19 (5.56%) Architect
10 17 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.68%) Product Manager
12 15 (4.39%) Consultant
13 14 (4.09%) UX Designer
14 12 (3.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 12 (3.51%) Systems Manager
15 11 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 11 (3.22%) Senior Designer
15 11 (3.22%) Technical Architect
16 10 (2.92%) Lead UX Designer
16 10 (2.92%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.85%) React
2 15 (4.39%) .NET
2 15 (4.39%) AngularJS
3 14 (4.09%) HTML
4 12 (3.51%) CSS
4 12 (3.51%) LangChain
4 12 (3.51%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.92%) Web Services
6 9 (2.63%) AWS CDK
6 9 (2.63%) Gherkin
6 9 (2.63%) Jest
6 9 (2.63%) RESTful
7 7 (2.05%) Next.js
7 7 (2.05%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.05%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.75%) JSON
8 6 (1.75%) XML
9 5 (1.46%) Ajax
9 5 (1.46%) Node.js
9 5 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.33%) Social Media
2 25 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.31%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (5.26%) FPGA
4 15 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.51%) IoT
6 12 (3.51%) Robotics
7 11 (3.22%) Life Science
7 11 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.63%) Analogue Electronics
10 8 (2.34%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.34%) VHDL
11 7 (2.05%) Acoustics
11 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.05%) Verilog
12 6 (1.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.34%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (45.32%) Agile
2 147 (42.98%) AI
3 87 (25.44%) User Research
4 85 (24.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 82 (23.98%) Roadmaps
6 78 (22.81%) Analytics
7 72 (21.05%) Rapid Prototyping
8 64 (18.71%) Customer Experience
9 63 (18.42%) Product Roadmap
10 60 (17.54%) Validation
11 58 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (16.08%) User Experience
13 53 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (15.50%) Storytelling
14 52 (15.20%) Mentoring
15 49 (14.33%) Digital Customer Experience
16 48 (14.04%) Software Engineering
17 40 (11.70%) CI/CD
18 39 (11.40%) UX Design
19 36 (10.53%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.54%) Python
2 29 (8.48%) Java
3 25 (7.31%) C
3 25 (7.31%) TypeScript
4 22 (6.43%) C#
4 22 (6.43%) C++
5 16 (4.68%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.39%) SQL
7 11 (3.22%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.92%) Bash
9 9 (2.63%) Groovy
10 6 (1.75%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.46%) PHP
12 3 (0.88%) Pascal
12 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.88%) Rust
13 2 (0.58%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 100 (29.24%) Degree
2 61 (17.84%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.51%) PhD
7 10 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.05%) HND
10 4 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.88%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.58%) HNC
13 1 (0.29%) OCP
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (26.02%) Accessibility
2 37 (10.82%) WCAG
3 6 (1.75%) QA
4 4 (1.17%) DO-254
4 4 (1.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) JTAG
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (6.14%) Docker
2 18 (5.26%) Firmware
3 7 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.22%) Terraform
2 9 (2.63%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (18.71%) Adobe
2 26 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.73%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.09%) Google
5 12 (3.51%) EMC
6 8 (2.34%) SAP
7 6 (1.75%) Foundry
8 3 (0.88%) Databricks
8 3 (0.88%) Motorola
8 3 (0.88%) Siemens
8 3 (0.88%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.58%) Altera
9 2 (0.58%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.58%) Intel
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Sparx
10 1 (0.29%) YouTube