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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 248 315
Rank change year-on-year -134 +67 -15
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 150 368 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 1.13% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.25% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 83 137 259
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -21.71%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £68,375
90th Percentile £92,250 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -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 36,740 29,497 43,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.72% 90.85% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21,596 13,281 33,362
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%

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 February 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 February 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 -74 47 £55,000 -26.67% 82
North of England -53 39 £57,500 +4.55% 27
North West -27 20 £57,500 -4.17% 15
East of England 0 19 £81,575 +48.32% 33
South West -35 16 £79,750 +6.33% 26
Yorkshire -28 14 £67,500 +28.57% 7
Wales -20 10 £73,801 +5.95% 6
Scotland -30 9 £54,500 -9.02% 12
Midlands +5 8 £47,500 -22.01% 25
West Midlands +16 7 £46,022 -24.44% 13
North East -4 5 £73,801 +32.01% 5
Northern Ireland -20 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 12
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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.67%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.67%) Adobe XD
3 5 (3.33%) Fusion 360
4 4 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (2.00%) Sketch
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.67%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.67%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.67%) Blender
7 1 (0.67%) CATIA
7 1 (0.67%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.67%) Maya
7 1 (0.67%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.67%) Figma
2 30 (20.00%) AWS
2 30 (20.00%) Azure
3 23 (15.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 22 (14.67%) Amazon ECR
4 22 (14.67%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (13.33%) GCP
6 15 (10.00%) PaaS
7 14 (9.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 14 (9.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 14 (9.33%) dbt
7 14 (9.33%) Pulumi
7 14 (9.33%) Sentry
8 10 (6.67%) SaaS
9 9 (6.00%) Miro
9 9 (6.00%) Serverless
10 8 (5.33%) Apigee
10 8 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 11 (7.33%) Broadband
3 5 (3.33%) Bluetooth
3 5 (3.33%) Firewall
4 4 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.67%) Modbus
4 4 (2.67%) Network Security
4 4 (2.67%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.67%) VLAN
4 4 (2.67%) Wireshark
4 4 (2.67%) ZigBee
5 2 (1.33%) 2G
5 2 (1.33%) 4G
5 2 (1.33%) 5G
5 2 (1.33%) DNS
5 2 (1.33%) HTTP
5 2 (1.33%) ICMP
6 1 (0.67%) RFID
6 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (9.33%) Redis
2 8 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) GIS
3 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.67%) Power BI
3 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.33%) Axure RP
2 10 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 9 (6.00%) Git
4 8 (5.33%) GitLab
4 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.33%) JIRA
4 8 (5.33%) Maven
4 8 (5.33%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.00%) Balsamiq
6 4 (2.67%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.67%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (2.67%) Metasploit
General
1 34 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.33%) Finance
4 15 (10.00%) Law
5 14 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.67%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (8.00%) Banking
7 12 (8.00%) Electronics
7 12 (8.00%) Manufacturing
8 11 (7.33%) Games
8 11 (7.33%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.67%) Retail
10 6 (4.00%) Marketing
11 5 (3.33%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.67%) Legal
12 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.00%) Aviation
13 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.67%) Police
14 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (23.33%) Senior
2 30 (20.00%) Designer
3 19 (12.67%) Developer
4 14 (9.33%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Strategy Manager
6 11 (7.33%) Lead
6 11 (7.33%) Product Designer
7 10 (6.67%) Lead Designer
8 9 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.33%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) UX Designer
10 7 (4.67%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.67%) Senior Manager
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.33%) AngularJS
1 14 (9.33%) Django
2 13 (8.67%) CSS
3 11 (7.33%) HTML
3 11 (7.33%) React
3 11 (7.33%) Spring Boot
4 10 (6.67%) Jest
4 10 (6.67%) REST
5 8 (5.33%) Gherkin
6 6 (4.00%) JSON
6 6 (4.00%) PyTorch
6 6 (4.00%) Vue
6 6 (4.00%) XML
7 5 (3.33%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.67%) Google JAX
8 4 (2.67%) JAX
9 3 (2.00%) Framer.js
9 3 (2.00%) Next.js
9 3 (2.00%) Spring
10 2 (1.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.33%) Social Media
3 10 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.67%) Life Science
6 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.00%) IoT
8 5 (3.33%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.67%) Animation
9 4 (2.67%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.67%) CUDA
9 4 (2.67%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.67%) SCADA
9 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (2.00%) Robotics
11 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.00%) Linux
2 14 (9.33%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) Android
4 4 (2.67%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.67%) Agile
2 59 (39.33%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (34.00%) User Experience
4 40 (26.67%) AI
5 37 (24.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 36 (24.00%) Wireframes
7 33 (22.00%) UX Design
8 31 (20.67%) Analytics
8 31 (20.67%) DevOps
9 30 (20.00%) Storytelling
9 30 (20.00%) User Research
10 28 (18.67%) Customer Experience
11 27 (18.00%) Clean Code
12 26 (17.33%) CI/CD
13 24 (16.00%) Roadmaps
14 23 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (15.33%) Software Engineering
15 21 (14.00%) Strategic Thinking
16 20 (13.33%) Machine Learning
17 18 (12.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.67%) Python
2 22 (14.67%) Java
3 14 (9.33%) C++
4 10 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.33%) Bash
5 8 (5.33%) Groovy
6 6 (4.00%) C
7 5 (3.33%) SQL
8 4 (2.67%) R
8 4 (2.67%) Rust
9 3 (2.00%) C#
10 2 (1.33%) Go
10 2 (1.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.67%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.67%) Julia
11 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.67%) Degree
3 32 (21.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.33%) HNC
8 4 (2.67%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (2.00%) HND
10 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.67%) PhD
11 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (31.33%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.33%) WCAG
3 4 (2.67%) ISO 13485
4 3 (2.00%) QA
5 2 (1.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.67%) GRC
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (15.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Firmware
2 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (9.33%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (9.33%) Terraform
2 8 (5.33%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.67%) Nessus
3 4 (2.67%) Nmap
4 1 (0.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 34 (22.67%) Adobe
2 20 (13.33%) Google
3 16 (10.67%) Qualtrics
4 10 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.67%) Cisco
5 4 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.67%) Splunk
6 2 (1.33%) EMC
6 2 (1.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.67%) Palantir
7 1 (0.67%) Planon
7 1 (0.67%) Remedy
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Siemens
7 1 (0.67%) VMware