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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 295 329
Rank change year-on-year -57 +34 -51
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 340 290 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.84% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.96% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 201 90 177
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,375 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +3.27% -6.46%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 55,106 30,247 46,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.35% 87.21% 78.33%
Number of salaries quoted 38,768 16,468 28,994
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -9 86 £57,500 -8.55% 52
North of England +4 83 £51,250 -21.15% 27
East of England +27 69 £62,500 +38.89% 42
North West -3 39 £50,000 -26.06% 12
South West -52 30 £60,000 -5.88% 33
Midlands -28 24 £60,000 - 24
Yorkshire -22 22 £65,000 +20.37% 6
North East -42 22 £58,750 -9.62% 9
Wales -48 21 £53,171 -21.88% 6
West Midlands -23 18 £61,250 +2.08% 13
Scotland -77 17 £52,250 -34.69% 12
Northern Ireland -71 10 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -33 6 £50,000 +51.52% 11
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 (1.76%) Apache
1 6 (1.76%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.12%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.35%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.06%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.06%) InDesign
4 6 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.18%) Sketch
7 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.59%) InVision
7 2 (0.59%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.59%) Trello
7 2 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.29%) CATIA
8 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.18%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.88%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (18.53%) Figma
2 49 (14.41%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (11.47%) AWS
4 26 (7.65%) Azure
5 20 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.29%) Serverless
7 13 (3.82%) GCP
7 13 (3.82%) SaaS
8 12 (3.53%) dbt
9 10 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.94%) GitHub
10 9 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.65%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.35%) Apigee
11 8 (2.35%) Azure AI
11 8 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (16.47%) Broadband
2 5 (1.47%) Intranet
2 5 (1.47%) WPA
3 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.88%) Wireless
4 2 (0.59%) RS-485
4 2 (0.59%) 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 17 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.88%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.88%) Power BI
5 3 (0.88%) Redis
5 3 (0.88%) Tableau
6 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) OLAP
7 1 (0.29%) OLTP
7 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Git
2 11 (3.24%) GitLab
2 11 (3.24%) JIRA
3 10 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.35%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.35%) LabVIEW
4 8 (2.35%) Maven
4 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.76%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.59%) Bower
7 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) ERwin
8 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.41%) Electronics
3 49 (14.41%) Games
3 49 (14.41%) Manufacturing
4 48 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (11.47%) Finance
7 34 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 27 (7.94%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.82%) Legal
10 12 (3.53%) Marketing
11 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.65%) Automotive
13 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.18%) Law
16 4 (1.18%) Retail
16 4 (1.18%) Swedish Language
17 2 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (18.24%) Senior
2 58 (17.06%) Designer
3 50 (14.71%) Developer
4 42 (12.35%) Lead
5 27 (7.94%) Software Engineer
6 26 (7.65%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Lead Designer
8 21 (6.18%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.59%) Architect
10 17 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.71%) Product Manager
12 15 (4.41%) Consultant
13 14 (4.12%) UX Designer
14 12 (3.53%) Systems Manager
15 11 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 11 (3.24%) Senior Designer
15 11 (3.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 11 (3.24%) Technical Architect
16 10 (2.94%) Lead UX Designer
16 10 (2.94%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.88%) React
2 15 (4.41%) .NET
3 14 (4.12%) AngularJS
4 12 (3.53%) CSS
4 12 (3.53%) HTML
5 11 (3.24%) LangChain
5 11 (3.24%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.24%) Terraform
6 10 (2.94%) Web Services
7 9 (2.65%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.65%) RESTful
8 8 (2.35%) Gherkin
8 8 (2.35%) Jest
9 7 (2.06%) Next.js
9 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.06%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.76%) JSON
10 6 (1.76%) XML
11 5 (1.47%) Ajax
11 5 (1.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.41%) Social Media
2 25 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.35%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (5.29%) FPGA
4 15 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.53%) Robotics
6 11 (3.24%) IoT
6 11 (3.24%) Life Science
6 11 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.94%) Analogue Electronics
7 10 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.35%) VHDL
9 7 (2.06%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.06%) Verilog
10 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.35%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (44.71%) Agile
2 148 (43.53%) AI
3 85 (25.00%) User Research
4 83 (24.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 81 (23.82%) Roadmaps
6 78 (22.94%) Analytics
7 72 (21.18%) Rapid Prototyping
8 63 (18.53%) Customer Experience
8 63 (18.53%) Product Roadmap
9 61 (17.94%) Validation
10 56 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (15.59%) Mentoring
11 53 (15.59%) Storytelling
11 53 (15.59%) User Experience
12 49 (14.41%) Digital Customer Experience
12 49 (14.41%) Software Engineering
13 39 (11.47%) CI/CD
14 37 (10.88%) UX Design
15 36 (10.59%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.65%) Python
2 28 (8.24%) Java
3 25 (7.35%) C
4 24 (7.06%) TypeScript
5 21 (6.18%) C#
5 21 (6.18%) C++
6 17 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.71%) SQL
8 11 (3.24%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.65%) Bash
10 8 (2.35%) Groovy
11 6 (1.76%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.47%) PHP
13 3 (0.88%) Pascal
13 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.88%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Go
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 99 (29.12%) Degree
2 61 (17.94%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.59%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.53%) PhD
7 9 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.06%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.06%) HND
10 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.88%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) HNC
13 1 (0.29%) OCP
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (25.88%) Accessibility
2 35 (10.29%) WCAG
3 7 (2.06%) QA
4 4 (1.18%) DO-254
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) JTAG
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (5.88%) Docker
2 19 (5.59%) Firmware
3 7 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.35%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (18.82%) Adobe
2 26 (7.65%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.76%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.82%) Google
5 12 (3.53%) EMC
6 8 (2.35%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) Foundry
8 3 (0.88%) Databricks
8 3 (0.88%) Motorola
8 3 (0.88%) Siemens
8 3 (0.88%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.59%) Altera
9 2 (0.59%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.59%) Intel
9 2 (0.59%) YouTube
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Sparx
10 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro