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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 311 324
Rank change year-on-year -45 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 339 267 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.90% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 232 76 129
10th Percentile £38,975 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,625 £46,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.99%
75th Percentile £70,625 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%

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 58,541 29,655 43,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.09% 86.65% 78.26%
Number of salaries quoted 41,477 15,958 23,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -4 89 £52,500 -12.50% 115
South East -11 85 £58,250 -13.70% 159
East of England +11 58 £60,000 +33.33% 119
North West -4 42 £50,000 -25.93% 71
Midlands -37 34 £57,500 -4.17% 60
South West -58 31 £60,000 -29.41% 129
West Midlands -22 27 £57,500 -4.17% 42
North East -40 25 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Yorkshire -29 22 £65,000 +113.11% 29
Wales -58 22 £53,171 -2.88% 17
Northern Ireland -67 11 £80,000 - 29
Scotland -79 11 £55,000 - 77
East Midlands -33 7 £45,000 +36.36% 18
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 (1.77%) Apache
1 6 (1.77%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (5.90%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.36%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.06%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.06%) InDesign
4 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.18%) Sketch
7 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.59%) InVision
7 2 (0.59%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.59%) Simulink
7 2 (0.59%) Trello
7 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.36%) 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 53 (15.63%) Figma
2 37 (10.91%) AWS
3 20 (5.90%) Adobe Analytics
3 20 (5.90%) Amazon S3
3 20 (5.90%) Azure
4 18 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (5.31%) Serverless
5 12 (3.54%) dbt
6 11 (3.24%) SaaS
7 10 (2.95%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
7 10 (2.95%) GitHub
8 9 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.65%) GCP
8 9 (2.65%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.36%) Apigee
10 7 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.90%) Broadband
2 5 (1.47%) Intranet
2 5 (1.47%) WPA
3 3 (0.88%) RS-485
3 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.88%) Wireless
4 2 (0.59%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.59%) RS-232
4 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.01%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.77%) 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%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.29%) Metadata
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) OLAP
7 1 (0.29%) OLTP
7 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (4.42%) Git
2 11 (3.24%) GitLab
3 10 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.95%) JIRA
4 8 (2.36%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.36%) LabVIEW
4 8 (2.36%) Maven
4 8 (2.36%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.77%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (0.59%) Bower
7 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) ERwin
General
1 121 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 92 (27.14%) Electronics
3 71 (20.94%) Manufacturing
4 45 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (11.50%) Aerospace
6 38 (11.21%) Finance
7 33 (9.73%) Public Sector
8 23 (6.78%) Games
9 15 (4.42%) Automotive
10 12 (3.54%) Legal
10 12 (3.54%) Marketing
11 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.36%) Military
13 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.06%) Retail
14 5 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.18%) Law
15 4 (1.18%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 66 (19.47%) Senior
2 51 (15.04%) Designer
3 49 (14.45%) Developer
4 33 (9.73%) Lead
5 28 (8.26%) Software Engineer
6 24 (7.08%) Electronics Engineer
7 23 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.90%) Architect
8 20 (5.90%) Interaction Designer
9 18 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.13%) Lead Designer
11 12 (3.54%) Product Manager
11 12 (3.54%) Senior Designer
12 11 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 11 (3.24%) Consultant
12 11 (3.24%) Electronics Technician
12 11 (3.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.24%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.24%) UX Designer
13 10 (2.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.08%) React
2 17 (5.01%) .NET
3 15 (4.42%) AngularJS
4 14 (4.13%) CSS
4 14 (4.13%) HTML
4 14 (4.13%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.24%) Terraform
6 10 (2.95%) Web Services
7 9 (2.65%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.65%) RESTful
8 8 (2.36%) Gherkin
8 8 (2.36%) Jest
8 8 (2.36%) LangChain
9 7 (2.06%) Next.js
10 6 (1.77%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.77%) Spring
10 6 (1.77%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.47%) Ajax
11 5 (1.47%) Node.js
11 5 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.14%) Embedded Systems
2 22 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.90%) Social Media
4 18 (5.31%) Robotics
5 17 (5.01%) FPGA
6 16 (4.72%) IoT
7 13 (3.83%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.54%) Analogue Electronics
8 12 (3.54%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.24%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.95%) Life Science
11 9 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.36%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (2.36%) VHDL
13 7 (2.06%) Acoustics
13 7 (2.06%) Data Structures
13 7 (2.06%) Verilog
14 6 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.65%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Android
2 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (35.40%) Agile
2 118 (34.81%) AI
3 73 (21.53%) Rapid Prototyping
4 69 (20.35%) Validation
5 63 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (16.52%) User Research
8 55 (16.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 54 (15.93%) Roadmaps
10 52 (15.34%) Analytics
11 51 (15.04%) Mentoring
11 51 (15.04%) Software Engineering
12 49 (14.45%) User Experience
13 44 (12.98%) CI/CD
14 35 (10.32%) Product Roadmap
15 33 (9.73%) DevOps
16 32 (9.44%) Physics
16 32 (9.44%) UX Design
17 29 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
18 28 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.34%) Python
2 29 (8.55%) TypeScript
3 26 (7.67%) C
3 26 (7.67%) C++
3 26 (7.67%) Java
4 21 (6.19%) C#
5 19 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.01%) SQL
7 14 (4.13%) MATLAB
8 9 (2.65%) Bash
9 8 (2.36%) Embedded C
9 8 (2.36%) Groovy
10 5 (1.47%) Embedded C++
10 5 (1.47%) PHP
11 4 (1.18%) Rust
12 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.59%) Go
13 2 (0.59%) Pascal
14 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 113 (33.33%) Degree
2 71 (20.94%) Security Cleared
3 49 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.90%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.13%) PhD
7 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.65%) HND
9 8 (2.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.47%) HNC
12 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.29%) OCP
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (17.99%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.01%) WCAG
3 12 (3.54%) QA
4 4 (1.18%) DO-254
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) GDPR
5 3 (0.88%) JTAG
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) MISRA
System Software
1 25 (7.37%) Firmware
2 19 (5.60%) Docker
3 8 (2.36%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.36%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (10.62%) Adobe
2 28 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.78%) OpenAI
4 21 (6.19%) EMC
5 8 (2.36%) SAP
6 7 (2.06%) Google
7 3 (0.88%) Apple
7 3 (0.88%) Databricks
7 3 (0.88%) Siemens
7 3 (0.88%) Thales
7 3 (0.88%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.59%) Altera
8 2 (0.59%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.59%) Foundry
8 2 (0.59%) Intel
8 2 (0.59%) Motorola
8 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.59%) YouTube
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro