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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 290 371
Rank change year-on-year -63 +81 -83
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 325 297 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.86% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.99% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 186 91 187
10th Percentile £41,733 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,750 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +4.81% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,632
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.86% -9.80%

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 53,472 30,130 47,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 87.60% 78.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37,635 16,450 30,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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
North of England -7 81 £52,500 -19.23% 46
South East -19 79 £56,500 -7.00% 65
East of England +28 72 £65,000 +44.44% 41
North West +1 36 £50,000 -27.94% 27
Yorkshire -11 24 £65,000 +20.37% 5
South West -52 24 £60,000 -5.88% 34
Wales -37 22 £53,171 -22.38% 3
North East -38 21 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Midlands -41 21 £60,000 +2.13% 19
West Midlands -23 17 £62,500 +4.17% 18
Scotland -58 15 £52,250 -16.82% 11
Northern Ireland -63 11 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -25 4 £55,000 +66.67% 1
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 5 (1.54%) Confluence
2 4 (1.23%) Apache
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.08%) SOLIDWORKS
2 6 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.85%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.85%) InDesign
2 6 (1.85%) Sketch
3 5 (1.54%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.54%) Photoshop
3 5 (1.54%) Solid Edge
4 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) InVision
5 2 (0.62%) Trello
5 2 (0.62%) Windchill
6 1 (0.31%) CATIA
6 1 (0.31%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.31%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.31%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.31%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.62%) Figma
2 56 (17.23%) Adobe Analytics
3 40 (12.31%) AWS
4 27 (8.31%) Azure
5 18 (5.54%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.23%) GCP
7 16 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (4.92%) Serverless
8 15 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.62%) dbt
9 13 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.69%) SaaS
11 11 (3.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (2.77%) Apigee
13 8 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (1.85%) GitHub
14 6 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.69%) Broadband
2 6 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.54%) Intranet
3 5 (1.54%) WPA
4 3 (0.92%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.92%) Wireless
5 2 (0.62%) RS-485
6 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.31%) LTE
6 1 (0.31%) RS-232
6 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.92%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.15%) Redis
3 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.92%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.31%) Power BI
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (5.23%) Git
2 12 (3.69%) GitLab
3 11 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.08%) JIRA
5 9 (2.77%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.77%) Maven
5 9 (2.77%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.46%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.54%) Postman
8 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.92%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.62%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.62%) Bower
9 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.15%) Electronics
3 56 (17.23%) Games
4 46 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (12.62%) Manufacturing
7 34 (10.46%) Finance
8 31 (9.54%) Public Sector
9 19 (5.85%) Aerospace
10 12 (3.69%) Legal
10 12 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.38%) Marketing
12 8 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.85%) Automotive
13 6 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.23%) Swedish Language
15 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Law
16 2 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (18.77%) Designer
2 58 (17.85%) Senior
3 46 (14.15%) Developer
3 46 (14.15%) Lead
4 28 (8.62%) Systems Engineer
5 26 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 25 (7.69%) Lead Designer
7 20 (6.15%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (5.54%) Architect
9 17 (5.23%) Product Manager
10 15 (4.62%) UX Designer
11 14 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.69%) Lead UX Designer
12 12 (3.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) Systems Manager
13 11 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.38%) Consultant
13 11 (3.38%) Digital Designer
13 11 (3.38%) Hardware Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.92%) React
2 15 (4.62%) AngularJS
3 13 (4.00%) .NET
4 12 (3.69%) HTML
4 12 (3.69%) Spring Boot
5 10 (3.08%) CSS
5 10 (3.08%) LangChain
6 9 (2.77%) Gherkin
6 9 (2.77%) Jest
6 9 (2.77%) Web Services
7 7 (2.15%) AWS CDK
7 7 (2.15%) RESTful
8 6 (1.85%) JSON
8 6 (1.85%) XML
9 5 (1.54%) Ajax
9 5 (1.54%) Django
9 5 (1.54%) jQuery
9 5 (1.54%) Next.js
9 5 (1.54%) REST
10 4 (1.23%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.23%) Social Media
2 21 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.46%) Embedded Systems
3 16 (4.92%) FPGA
4 14 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.00%) IoT
6 11 (3.38%) Robotics
7 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.08%) Life Science
8 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.46%) Fibre Optics
9 8 (2.46%) VHDL
10 7 (2.15%) Analogue Electronics
10 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.15%) Verilog
11 6 (1.85%) FMCG
11 6 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.69%) Linux
2 7 (2.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (48.92%) Agile
2 146 (44.92%) AI
3 92 (28.31%) User Research
4 89 (27.38%) Roadmaps
4 89 (27.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 79 (24.31%) Analytics
6 71 (21.85%) Product Roadmap
7 70 (21.54%) Customer Experience
8 66 (20.31%) Rapid Prototyping
9 60 (18.46%) Storytelling
10 56 (17.23%) Digital Customer Experience
10 56 (17.23%) Validation
11 54 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (16.00%) User Experience
13 45 (13.85%) Software Engineering
14 44 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (12.92%) Mentoring
16 40 (12.31%) CI/CD
17 38 (11.69%) Customer Insight
18 37 (11.38%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.46%) Python
2 31 (9.54%) Java
3 25 (7.69%) C
4 23 (7.08%) C++
4 23 (7.08%) TypeScript
5 21 (6.46%) C#
6 14 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.31%) SQL
7 11 (3.38%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.08%) Bash
9 9 (2.77%) Groovy
10 6 (1.85%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.54%) PHP
12 3 (0.92%) Pascal
12 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.92%) Rust
13 2 (0.62%) Go
13 2 (0.62%) Julia
14 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 89 (27.38%) Degree
2 51 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 37 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.15%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.38%) PhD
8 9 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.77%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.85%) HND
11 3 (0.92%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.62%) HNC
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (27.08%) Accessibility
2 36 (11.08%) WCAG
3 6 (1.85%) QA
4 4 (1.23%) DO-254
5 3 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) JTAG
7 1 (0.31%) DO-178B
System Software
1 24 (7.38%) Docker
2 16 (4.92%) Firmware
3 7 (2.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (3.69%) Terraform
2 9 (2.77%) HP Fortify
3 6 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 69 (21.23%) Adobe
2 23 (7.08%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.54%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.92%) Google
5 11 (3.38%) EMC
6 5 (1.54%) Foundry
7 3 (0.92%) Motorola
7 3 (0.92%) SAP
7 3 (0.92%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.62%) Altera
8 2 (0.62%) Databricks
8 2 (0.62%) Intel
9 1 (0.31%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.31%) Siemens