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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 296 347
Rank change year-on-year -36 +51 -28
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 251 218 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.83% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.91% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 119 111 300
10th Percentile £42,371 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,481 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.47% +4.35% -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 45,139 24,029 56,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.70% 91.32% 84.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27,484 13,695 40,800
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,650 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 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 16 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
East of England +18 65 £70,000 +40.00% 25
South East -21 64 £56,500 -24.67% 43
North of England -49 55 £57,500 +4.55% 31
Yorkshire -38 24 £67,500 +22.73% 11
South West -75 24 £77,000 +12.37% 19
North West -35 23 £51,250 -6.82% 16
Midlands -39 17 £53,750 -10.42% 20
West Midlands -11 15 £53,750 -10.42% 15
Scotland -41 15 £54,500 +13.38% 11
North East -31 8 £60,000 -10.70% 4
Wales -41 6 £71,151 +16.04% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -51 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 4 (1.59%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) WordPress
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Adobe XD
1 9 (3.59%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.39%) Sketch
3 5 (1.99%) Fusion 360
4 3 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.80%) CATIA
5 2 (0.80%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.80%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.40%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.40%) Blender
6 1 (0.40%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.40%) Maya
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.40%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.90%) Figma
2 62 (24.70%) Adobe Analytics
3 37 (14.74%) AWS
4 29 (11.55%) Azure
5 21 (8.37%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.97%) GCP
7 14 (5.58%) Serverless
8 13 (5.18%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.18%) Apigee
8 13 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (5.18%) SaaS
9 12 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.59%) PaaS
11 8 (3.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (3.19%) dbt
11 8 (3.19%) Pulumi
11 8 (3.19%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 67 (26.69%) Broadband
2 11 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) 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 (5.18%) DynamoDB
2 9 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.19%) 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 (5.98%) Cypress.io
2 13 (5.18%) GitLab
2 13 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.18%) Maven
2 13 (5.18%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.79%) Git
4 6 (2.39%) Axure RP
4 6 (2.39%) Balsamiq
4 6 (2.39%) JIRA
5 4 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (23.51%) Games
2 51 (20.32%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.34%) Finance
5 29 (11.55%) Manufacturing
6 26 (10.36%) Electronics
7 16 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (6.37%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.18%) Law
9 8 (3.19%) Legal
10 7 (2.79%) Marketing
11 6 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.59%) Swedish Language
14 3 (1.20%) Banking
15 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (21.51%) Designer
2 42 (16.73%) Lead
3 35 (13.94%) Senior
4 30 (11.95%) Lead Designer
5 28 (11.16%) Developer
6 18 (7.17%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) UX Designer
7 15 (5.98%) Product Manager
8 14 (5.58%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Digital Designer
10 12 (4.78%) Consultant
10 12 (4.78%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.78%) Lead UX Designer
10 12 (4.78%) Product Designer
10 12 (4.78%) Systems Manager
11 10 (3.98%) Analyst
12 9 (3.59%) Architect
13 8 (3.19%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.97%) AngularJS
2 18 (7.17%) Spring Boot
3 15 (5.98%) Jest
4 13 (5.18%) Gherkin
5 12 (4.78%) React
6 9 (3.59%) CSS
6 9 (3.59%) HTML
6 9 (3.59%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.59%) REST
7 8 (3.19%) Django
7 8 (3.19%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.79%) Google JAX
8 7 (2.79%) JAX
9 6 (2.39%) Vue
10 5 (1.99%) Spring
11 4 (1.59%) LangChain
11 4 (1.59%) Semantic Kernel
12 3 (1.20%) .NET
12 3 (1.20%) Next.js
13 2 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.51%) Social Media
2 15 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.19%) Life Science
5 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.19%) Robotics
6 7 (2.79%) CUDA
6 7 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.99%) Arduino
7 5 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.99%) IoT
7 5 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.59%) FPGA
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.59%) Verilog
8 4 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.17%) Linux
2 9 (3.59%) 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
1 132 (52.59%) Agile
2 113 (45.02%) AI
3 96 (38.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 87 (34.66%) User Research
5 83 (33.07%) Roadmaps
6 75 (29.88%) Customer Experience
7 72 (28.69%) Analytics
7 72 (28.69%) Product Roadmap
8 67 (26.69%) Storytelling
9 64 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (23.51%) Digital Customer Experience
11 52 (20.72%) User Experience
12 41 (16.33%) Software Engineering
12 41 (16.33%) UX Design
13 40 (15.94%) Workshop Facilitation
14 38 (15.14%) Rapid Prototyping
15 35 (13.94%) Customer Insight
15 35 (13.94%) DevOps
16 33 (13.15%) Machine Learning
17 32 (12.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.91%) Python
2 34 (13.55%) Java
3 17 (6.77%) C
3 17 (6.77%) C++
4 16 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.18%) Bash
5 13 (5.18%) Groovy
6 12 (4.78%) C#
7 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.39%) SQL
9 5 (1.99%) 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 53 (21.12%) Degree
2 49 (19.52%) Security Cleared
3 35 (13.94%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.18%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (5.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.18%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.20%) PhD
8 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.40%) HNC
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (35.06%) Accessibility
2 36 (14.34%) WCAG
3 5 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) DO-254
4 4 (1.59%) ISO 13485
4 4 (1.59%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (9.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.18%) HP Fortify
2 8 (3.19%) AWS Copilot
2 8 (3.19%) Terraform
3 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) Nessus
4 1 (0.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 73 (29.08%) Adobe
2 19 (7.57%) Google
3 10 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.39%) Foundry
5 4 (1.59%) Qualtrics
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