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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 268 338
Rank change year-on-year -45 +70 -23
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 234 246 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.96% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.04% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 107 129 299
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.06% +29.25% -15.20%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -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 41,461 23,554 53,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 74.38% 91.97% 85.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24,926 13,433 39,039
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -17 67 £56,500 -24.67% 50
East of England +8 56 £80,788 +61.58% 22
North of England -59 53 £57,500 -4.17% 44
North West -43 23 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Yorkshire -46 22 £67,500 +22.73% 14
South West -61 21 £79,750 +16.38% 14
Scotland -31 16 £54,500 -9.02% 21
Midlands -30 13 £51,250 -19.69% 14
West Midlands -9 11 £50,000 -21.65% 9
North East -28 8 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Wales -41 6 £73,801 +6.96% 6
Northern Ireland -35 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -47 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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.99%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.14%) Fusion 360
3 5 (2.14%) Sketch
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.43%) Blender
5 1 (0.43%) CATIA
5 1 (0.43%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.43%) Maya
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.43%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (26.07%) Adobe Analytics
1 61 (26.07%) Figma
2 41 (17.52%) AWS
3 36 (15.38%) Azure
4 27 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
4 27 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (11.11%) GCP
6 15 (6.41%) PaaS
7 14 (5.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 14 (5.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 14 (5.98%) dbt
7 14 (5.98%) Pulumi
7 14 (5.98%) Sentry
7 14 (5.98%) Serverless
8 13 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.56%) Apigee
8 13 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (26.50%) Broadband
2 17 (7.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.71%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (1.28%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.85%) 2G
5 2 (0.85%) 4G
5 2 (0.85%) 5G
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 2 (0.85%) Firewall
5 2 (0.85%) HTTP
5 2 (0.85%) ICMP
5 2 (0.85%) LTE
5 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.85%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.43%) Modbus
6 1 (0.43%) Network Security
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.43%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (5.98%) Redis
2 13 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.43%) GIS
3 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.43%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.41%) Cypress.io
2 13 (5.56%) GitLab
2 13 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.56%) Maven
2 13 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 10 (4.27%) JIRA
4 8 (3.42%) Axure RP
4 8 (3.42%) Git
5 6 (2.56%) Balsamiq
6 4 (1.71%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (23.08%) Games
2 47 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.97%) Finance
5 22 (9.40%) Manufacturing
6 21 (8.97%) Electronics
7 16 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.56%) Law
10 8 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.99%) Banking
11 7 (2.99%) Legal
12 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.71%) Marketing
13 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.28%) Retail
15 2 (0.85%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (20.51%) Designer
2 42 (17.95%) Senior
3 33 (14.10%) Lead
4 26 (11.11%) Developer
4 26 (11.11%) Lead Designer
5 16 (6.84%) UX Designer
6 15 (6.41%) Software Engineer
7 14 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 12 (5.13%) Consultant
8 12 (5.13%) Digital Designer
8 12 (5.13%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.13%) Product Manager
8 12 (5.13%) Systems Manager
9 11 (4.70%) Product Designer
9 11 (4.70%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) Analyst
10 10 (4.27%) Lead UX Designer
10 10 (4.27%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.42%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.26%) AngularJS
2 16 (6.84%) Spring Boot
3 15 (6.41%) Jest
4 14 (5.98%) Django
5 13 (5.56%) Gherkin
6 10 (4.27%) CSS
6 10 (4.27%) HTML
6 10 (4.27%) React
7 9 (3.85%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.42%) REST
8 8 (3.42%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.99%) Google JAX
9 7 (2.99%) JAX
10 4 (1.71%) JSON
10 4 (1.71%) LangChain
10 4 (1.71%) Semantic Kernel
10 4 (1.71%) Vue
10 4 (1.71%) XML
11 3 (1.28%) Next.js
11 3 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.08%) Social Media
2 18 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.42%) Life Science
5 8 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.99%) CUDA
6 7 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.14%) Arduino
7 5 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.14%) IoT
7 5 (2.14%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.14%) Robotics
8 4 (1.71%) FPGA
8 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.26%) Linux
2 15 (6.41%) Unix
3 2 (0.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (55.56%) Agile
2 102 (43.59%) AI
3 89 (38.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 78 (33.33%) User Research
5 75 (32.05%) Roadmaps
6 73 (31.20%) Customer Experience
7 70 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (29.49%) Analytics
9 66 (28.21%) Storytelling
10 65 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
11 54 (23.08%) Digital Customer Experience
12 53 (22.65%) User Experience
13 41 (17.52%) UX Design
14 39 (16.67%) DevOps
15 36 (15.38%) Clean Code
16 35 (14.96%) Software Engineering
16 35 (14.96%) Workshop Facilitation
17 32 (13.68%) CI/CD
17 32 (13.68%) Machine Learning
18 31 (13.25%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 58 (24.79%) Python
2 31 (13.25%) Java
3 16 (6.84%) TypeScript
4 15 (6.41%) C++
5 14 (5.98%) C
6 13 (5.56%) Bash
6 13 (5.56%) Groovy
7 10 (4.27%) C#
8 8 (3.42%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.14%) SQL
10 3 (1.28%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.28%) Pascal
11 2 (0.85%) Julia
11 2 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.09%) Degree
3 38 (16.24%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.28%) PhD
8 3 (1.28%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) HNC
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (36.75%) Accessibility
2 35 (14.96%) WCAG
3 5 (2.14%) GDPR
4 4 (1.71%) ISO 13485
5 3 (1.28%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) DO-254
7 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (12.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.98%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (5.98%) Terraform
2 13 (5.56%) HP Fortify
3 4 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.43%) Nessus
4 1 (0.43%) Nmap
4 1 (0.43%) WMI
Vendors
1 70 (29.91%) Adobe
2 25 (10.68%) Google
3 11 (4.70%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.42%) Qualtrics
5 6 (2.56%) Foundry
6 3 (1.28%) EMC
6 3 (1.28%) Motorola
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco
7 1 (0.43%) Palantir
7 1 (0.43%) Planon
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy
7 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.43%) Siemens
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk
7 1 (0.43%) VMware