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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 303 363
Rank change year-on-year -50 +60 -85
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 343 296 347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.85% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.97% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 196 92 183
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,375 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +3.27% -2.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,850
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.60% -7.92%

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 54,441 30,367 46,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.44% 87.40% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 38,235 16,502 29,487
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 14 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 14 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 -5 89 £56,500 -7.00% 62
North of England -9 83 £51,250 -21.15% 47
East of England +33 71 £62,500 +38.89% 36
North West +2 38 £48,750 -29.74% 28
South West -44 30 £60,000 -5.88% 35
Yorkshire -23 24 £65,000 +20.37% 7
Midlands -28 23 £60,000 - 20
North East -45 21 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Wales -46 21 £53,171 -22.38% 5
West Midlands -19 18 £61,250 +2.08% 15
Scotland -76 16 £52,250 -16.82% 16
Northern Ireland -58 10 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -34 5 £50,000 +51.52% 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 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 5 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.08%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.33%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.04%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.04%) 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%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.87%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.58%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.41%) Figma
2 55 (16.03%) Adobe Analytics
3 40 (11.66%) AWS
4 26 (7.58%) Azure
5 21 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 19 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (5.54%) Serverless
7 14 (4.08%) GCP
8 12 (3.50%) SaaS
9 11 (3.21%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (3.21%) dbt
10 10 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.62%) Apigee
11 9 (2.62%) GitHub
12 8 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (2.33%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.04%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.37%) Broadband
2 5 (1.46%) Intranet
2 5 (1.46%) WPA
3 3 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.87%) 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 (5.25%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.87%) ClickHouse
4 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.87%) Power BI
4 3 (0.87%) Redis
4 3 (0.87%) 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 (4.96%) Git
2 12 (3.50%) GitLab
3 11 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.21%) JIRA
4 9 (2.62%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.62%) Maven
4 9 (2.62%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.33%) LabVIEW
6 6 (1.75%) Postman
7 3 (0.87%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.87%) 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
1 100 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.24%) Electronics
3 55 (16.03%) Games
4 49 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 48 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (11.08%) Finance
8 35 (10.20%) Public Sector
9 27 (7.87%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.79%) Legal
11 12 (3.50%) Marketing
11 12 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.62%) Automotive
12 9 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.17%) Law
15 4 (1.17%) Swedish Language
16 3 (0.87%) Retail
17 2 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (18.37%) Designer
2 61 (17.78%) Senior
3 50 (14.58%) Developer
4 46 (13.41%) Lead
5 28 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 25 (7.29%) Lead Designer
8 22 (6.41%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.54%) Architect
10 17 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.66%) Product Manager
11 16 (4.66%) UX Designer
12 13 (3.79%) Consultant
13 12 (3.50%) Lead UX Designer
13 12 (3.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.50%) Systems Manager
14 11 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.21%) Senior Designer
14 11 (3.21%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.92%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.54%) React
2 15 (4.37%) AngularJS
3 14 (4.08%) .NET
3 14 (4.08%) HTML
4 12 (3.50%) CSS
4 12 (3.50%) LangChain
4 12 (3.50%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.92%) Web Services
6 9 (2.62%) AWS CDK
6 9 (2.62%) Gherkin
6 9 (2.62%) Jest
6 9 (2.62%) RESTful
7 7 (2.04%) Next.js
8 6 (1.75%) JSON
8 6 (1.75%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.75%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.75%) XML
9 5 (1.46%) Ajax
9 5 (1.46%) jQuery
9 5 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.03%) Social Media
2 25 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.29%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (5.25%) FPGA
4 15 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.50%) IoT
5 12 (3.50%) Robotics
6 11 (3.21%) Life Science
6 11 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.21%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.62%) Analogue Electronics
9 8 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
9 8 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.33%) VHDL
10 7 (2.04%) Acoustics
10 7 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.04%) Verilog
11 6 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.33%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (46.94%) Agile
2 151 (44.02%) AI
3 93 (27.11%) User Research
4 91 (26.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 88 (25.66%) Roadmaps
6 84 (24.49%) Analytics
7 70 (20.41%) Customer Experience
7 70 (20.41%) Rapid Prototyping
8 69 (20.12%) Product Roadmap
9 60 (17.49%) Validation
10 59 (17.20%) Storytelling
11 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (16.62%) User Experience
12 55 (16.03%) Digital Customer Experience
13 53 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (14.87%) Mentoring
15 47 (13.70%) Software Engineering
16 41 (11.95%) UX Design
17 39 (11.37%) CI/CD
18 37 (10.79%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.91%) Python
2 29 (8.45%) Java
3 25 (7.29%) C
3 25 (7.29%) TypeScript
4 22 (6.41%) C++
5 21 (6.12%) C#
6 16 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.37%) SQL
8 11 (3.21%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.92%) Bash
10 9 (2.62%) Groovy
11 6 (1.75%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.46%) PHP
13 3 (0.87%) Pascal
13 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
14 2 (0.58%) Go
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 99 (28.86%) Degree
2 60 (17.49%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.54%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.21%) PhD
8 10 (2.92%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.04%) HND
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.87%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.58%) HNC
12 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.29%) OCP
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (27.11%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.08%) 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 (6.12%) Docker
2 18 (5.25%) Firmware
3 7 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.21%) Terraform
2 9 (2.62%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (20.41%) Adobe
2 26 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.41%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.08%) Google
5 12 (3.50%) EMC
6 6 (1.75%) Foundry
6 6 (1.75%) SAP
7 3 (0.87%) Databricks
7 3 (0.87%) Motorola
7 3 (0.87%) Siemens
7 3 (0.87%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.58%) Altera
8 2 (0.58%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.58%) Intel
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.29%) Sparx
9 1 (0.29%) YouTube