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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 292 362
Rank change year-on-year -53 +70 -72
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 324 298 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.99% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 185 92 191
10th Percentile £41,636 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,875 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +8.47% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £83,000 £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 52,983 30,143 47,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.52% 87.59% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 37,203 16,463 30,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 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 4 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 -6 81 £52,500 -19.23% 36
South East -10 79 £56,500 -7.00% 64
East of England +28 72 £65,000 +44.44% 33
North West -2 36 £50,000 -27.94% 22
Yorkshire -20 24 £65,000 +20.37% 5
South West -49 24 £60,000 -5.88% 34
Wales -36 21 £53,171 -22.38% 4
North East -38 21 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Midlands -44 21 £60,000 +2.13% 14
West Midlands -28 17 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Scotland -71 15 £52,250 -16.82% 8
Northern Ireland -66 11 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -28 4 £55,000 +66.67% 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 5 (1.54%) Confluence
2 4 (1.23%) Apache
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.93%) 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 (3.09%) 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 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.68%) Figma
2 56 (17.28%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (12.04%) AWS
4 27 (8.33%) Azure
5 17 (5.25%) Amazon S3
5 17 (5.25%) GCP
6 15 (4.63%) Amazon ECR
6 15 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (4.63%) dbt
6 15 (4.63%) Serverless
7 13 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (3.70%) SaaS
9 11 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (2.78%) Apigee
11 8 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.54%) GitHub
13 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.75%) Broadband
2 6 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.54%) Intranet
3 5 (1.54%) WPA
4 3 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.93%) 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 15 (4.63%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.16%) Redis
3 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.93%) 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 (5.25%) Git
2 12 (3.70%) GitLab
3 11 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.09%) JIRA
5 9 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.78%) Maven
5 9 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.47%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.54%) Postman
8 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.93%) 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 88 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.21%) Electronics
3 56 (17.28%) Games
4 46 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (12.65%) Manufacturing
7 34 (10.49%) Finance
8 31 (9.57%) Public Sector
9 19 (5.86%) Aerospace
10 12 (3.70%) Legal
10 12 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.40%) Marketing
12 8 (2.47%) 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 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Law
16 2 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (18.83%) Designer
2 58 (17.90%) Senior
3 46 (14.20%) Lead
4 45 (13.89%) Developer
5 28 (8.64%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (8.02%) Software Engineer
7 25 (7.72%) Lead Designer
8 20 (6.17%) Interaction Designer
9 18 (5.56%) Architect
10 17 (5.25%) Product Manager
11 15 (4.63%) UX Designer
12 13 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.70%) Lead UX Designer
13 12 (3.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.70%) Systems Manager
14 11 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.40%) Consultant
14 11 (3.40%) Digital Designer
14 11 (3.40%) Hardware Engineer
14 11 (3.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.63%) AngularJS
1 15 (4.63%) React
2 13 (4.01%) .NET
3 12 (3.70%) HTML
3 12 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.09%) CSS
5 9 (2.78%) Gherkin
5 9 (2.78%) Jest
5 9 (2.78%) LangChain
5 9 (2.78%) Web Services
6 7 (2.16%) RESTful
7 6 (1.85%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.85%) JSON
7 6 (1.85%) XML
8 5 (1.54%) Ajax
8 5 (1.54%) Django
8 5 (1.54%) jQuery
8 5 (1.54%) REST
9 4 (1.23%) Next.js
9 4 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.28%) Social Media
2 21 (6.48%) Embedded Systems
3 20 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.94%) FPGA
5 14 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.01%) IoT
7 11 (3.40%) Robotics
8 10 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.09%) Life Science
9 9 (2.78%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.47%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (2.47%) VHDL
11 7 (2.16%) Analogue Electronics
11 7 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.16%) Verilog
12 6 (1.85%) FMCG
12 6 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.70%) Linux
2 7 (2.16%) Unix
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (48.77%) Agile
2 145 (44.75%) AI
3 92 (28.40%) User Research
4 89 (27.47%) Roadmaps
4 89 (27.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 78 (24.07%) Analytics
6 71 (21.91%) Product Roadmap
7 70 (21.60%) Customer Experience
8 65 (20.06%) Rapid Prototyping
9 60 (18.52%) Storytelling
10 56 (17.28%) Digital Customer Experience
10 56 (17.28%) Validation
11 54 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (16.05%) User Experience
13 45 (13.89%) Software Engineering
14 44 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (12.96%) Mentoring
16 39 (12.04%) CI/CD
17 38 (11.73%) Customer Insight
18 37 (11.42%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.52%) Python
2 31 (9.57%) Java
3 25 (7.72%) C
4 23 (7.10%) C++
5 22 (6.79%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.48%) C#
7 14 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.32%) SQL
8 11 (3.40%) MATLAB
9 10 (3.09%) Bash
10 9 (2.78%) Groovy
11 6 (1.85%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.54%) PHP
13 3 (0.93%) Pascal
13 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.93%) Rust
14 2 (0.62%) Go
14 2 (0.62%) Julia
15 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 89 (27.47%) Degree
2 51 (15.74%) Security Cleared
3 37 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.17%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.40%) PhD
8 9 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.85%) HND
11 3 (0.93%) 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 (27.16%) Accessibility
2 36 (11.11%) WCAG
3 6 (1.85%) QA
4 4 (1.23%) DO-254
5 3 (0.93%) 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 (7.41%) Docker
2 16 (4.94%) Firmware
3 7 (2.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.40%) Terraform
2 9 (2.78%) HP Fortify
3 6 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 69 (21.30%) Adobe
2 23 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.25%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.94%) Google
5 11 (3.40%) EMC
6 5 (1.54%) Foundry
7 3 (0.93%) Motorola
7 3 (0.93%) SAP
7 3 (0.93%) 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