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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 280 289
Rank change year-on-year -75 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 168 386 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.00% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 79 159 192
10th Percentile £37,965 £46,586 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,300 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £71,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.38% - -

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 30,820 38,526 28,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.79% 80.46% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,323 18,756 21,276
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 15 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 15 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 -45 62 £55,000 -26.67% 54
North of England -14 36 £54,000 -10.00% 36
North West +3 24 £73,801 +23.00% 23
Scotland -1 18 £73,801 +6.48% 14
Midlands +53 17 £60,000 +2.63% 10
East of England +1 12 £86,250 +56.82% 41
East Midlands +34 11 £46,500 +16.25% 7
South West +8 11 £85,000 +9.68% 26
Wales -5 10 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +3 8 £39,750 -32.01% 9
West Midlands +32 6 £61,250 +4.76% 3
North East 0 4 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland -1 2 £73,801 +13.54% 2
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 (6.55%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) Apache
3 3 (1.79%) IIS
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Adobe XD
2 6 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (2.98%) Sketch
3 5 (2.98%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.38%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.19%) InVision
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.60%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.60%) Maya
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.17%) AWS
2 46 (27.38%) Azure
3 35 (20.83%) GCP
4 30 (17.86%) Figma
5 15 (8.93%) Azure AI
5 15 (8.93%) Vertex AI
6 13 (7.74%) GitHub
7 11 (6.55%) Adobe Analytics
7 11 (6.55%) PaaS
8 10 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (5.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.95%) dbt
8 10 (5.95%) Pulumi
8 10 (5.95%) Sentry
9 7 (4.17%) Miro
10 6 (3.57%) SaaS
11 4 (2.38%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.12%) Modbus
2 16 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 13 (7.74%) MQTT
4 12 (7.14%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.98%) DNS
5 5 (2.98%) Firewall
5 5 (2.98%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.38%) Bluetooth
6 4 (2.38%) Network Security
6 4 (2.38%) VLAN
6 4 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.38%) ZigBee
7 3 (1.79%) SMTP
8 2 (1.19%) 2G
8 2 (1.19%) 4G
8 2 (1.19%) 5G
8 2 (1.19%) HTTP
8 2 (1.19%) ICMP
8 2 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.95%) Redis
3 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Git
2 12 (7.14%) JIRA
3 9 (5.36%) Axure RP
4 6 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.98%) MSI
6 4 (2.38%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.38%) GitLab
6 4 (2.38%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (2.38%) Metasploit
6 4 (2.38%) Selenium
6 4 (2.38%) webpack
7 2 (1.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.05%) Law
3 31 (18.45%) Finance
4 22 (13.10%) Manufacturing
5 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (10.12%) Banking
6 17 (10.12%) Legal
7 13 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (7.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (6.55%) Retail
9 9 (5.36%) Electronics
10 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 6 (3.57%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.38%) Marketing
13 3 (1.79%) Aviation
13 3 (1.79%) Games
14 2 (1.19%) Digital Health
14 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (22.02%) Senior
2 27 (16.07%) Software Engineer
3 19 (11.31%) Designer
4 15 (8.93%) Product Delivery Manager
4 15 (8.93%) Product Manager
5 14 (8.33%) Architect
6 13 (7.74%) Lead
7 12 (7.14%) Developer
8 11 (6.55%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.55%) Strategy Manager
9 10 (5.95%) Java Engineer
9 10 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.17%) UX Designer
13 6 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.57%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) CSS
2 14 (8.33%) HTML
2 14 (8.33%) React
3 10 (5.95%) Django
4 8 (4.76%) .NET
4 8 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.76%) Kafka
4 8 (4.76%) Spring
4 8 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.57%) Jest
5 6 (3.57%) JSON
5 6 (3.57%) OAuth
5 6 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 6 (3.57%) OpenID
5 6 (3.57%) REST
5 6 (3.57%) SAML
5 6 (3.57%) XML
6 5 (2.98%) Semantic HTML
7 4 (2.38%) CSS3
7 4 (2.38%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.29%) IoT
2 17 (10.12%) Operational Technology
2 17 (10.12%) SCADA
3 16 (9.52%) AI Agents
4 14 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (7.74%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (7.74%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (7.74%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (6.55%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (4.76%) Wiki
8 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.98%) CAN bus
10 5 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.38%) PKI
11 4 (2.38%) Robotics
12 3 (1.79%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (5.95%) Unix
3 6 (3.57%) Android
3 6 (3.57%) Windows
4 4 (2.38%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (54.17%) Agile
2 63 (37.50%) User Experience
3 43 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (25.60%) Software Engineering
4 39 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (22.62%) DevOps
6 36 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (19.05%) AI
7 32 (19.05%) Wireframes
8 28 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 28 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 26 (15.48%) Matrix Organization
9 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
10 24 (14.29%) Data Science
10 24 (14.29%) UX Design
11 22 (13.10%) CI/CD
12 21 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (11.90%) Analytics
13 20 (11.90%) Strategic Thinking
14 19 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.57%) Python
2 24 (14.29%) Java
3 22 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 19 (11.31%) C#
5 15 (8.93%) C++
6 9 (5.36%) Go
6 9 (5.36%) PHP
7 8 (4.76%) C
7 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.76%) SQL
7 8 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.38%) Delphi
8 4 (2.38%) R
8 4 (2.38%) Rust
9 2 (1.19%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.60%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.60%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.60%) Julia
Qualifications
1 42 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.21%) Degree
3 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.90%) HNC
5 17 (10.12%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.12%) HND
6 13 (7.74%) Chartered Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.60%) MCP
10 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.07%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.57%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.57%) WCAG
3 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.19%) NCSC
3 2 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) COBIT
4 1 (0.60%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (13.10%) Docker
2 15 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.60%) Firmware
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.74%) Functional Safety
1 13 (7.74%) Terraform
2 10 (5.95%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.57%) WMI
5 5 (2.98%) Ansible
6 4 (2.38%) Nessus
6 4 (2.38%) Nmap
Vendors
1 36 (21.43%) Google
2 21 (12.50%) Adobe
3 18 (10.71%) VMware
4 16 (9.52%) Foundry
5 15 (8.93%) Microsoft
5 15 (8.93%) Qualtrics
6 13 (7.74%) AVEVA
6 13 (7.74%) Rockwell
6 13 (7.74%) Siemens
7 6 (3.57%) Facebook
8 4 (2.38%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.38%) Cisco
8 4 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.38%) Sage
8 4 (2.38%) Splunk
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.60%) EMC
10 1 (0.60%) Pega
10 1 (0.60%) Remedy