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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 312 305
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 267 383 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.88% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 76 135 221
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £46,688 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,150
Median % change year-on-year - -4.99% +9.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £96,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.31% -5.00% +4.00%

All Process and 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 29,858 43,371 33,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.63% 78.28% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,125 23,980 23,959
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping 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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 2025. 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
Scotland +141 113 - - 24
South East -74 55 £67,500 +3.85% 156
North of England -22 37 £60,000 +1.01% 51
North West -21 26 £67,500 +3.85% 25
Midlands +40 22 £60,000 +2.33% 25
East of England -20 19 £45,000 -18.18% 30
East Midlands +33 12 £33,000 -17.50% 10
West Midlands +33 10 £60,000 +2.04% 15
South West +51 9 £85,000 +9.68% 34
Wales +18 8 £54,750 -15.77% 7
Yorkshire +4 7 £30,500 -39.28% 20
North East +5 4 £65,000 +10.86% 9
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +11 1 - - 9
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.50%) Apache
1 4 (1.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) IIS
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (3.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (1.87%) Sketch
2 5 (1.87%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (1.50%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.50%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (1.50%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.75%) InVision
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.75%) Simulink
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.37%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.37%) InDesign
6 1 (0.37%) Maya
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.10%) AWS
2 27 (10.11%) Azure
3 26 (9.74%) GCP
4 19 (7.12%) Figma
5 15 (5.62%) Azure AI
5 15 (5.62%) Vertex AI
6 6 (2.25%) GitHub
7 5 (1.87%) SaaS
8 4 (1.50%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.12%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.12%) SurveyMonkey
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.75%) Serverless
11 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.37%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.99%) Modbus
2 13 (4.87%) MQTT
3 12 (4.49%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.12%) Bluetooth
5 3 (1.12%) DNS
5 3 (1.12%) Firewall
5 3 (1.12%) Network Security
5 3 (1.12%) SMTP
5 3 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
5 3 (1.12%) VSAN
5 3 (1.12%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.12%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
6 1 (0.37%) Internet
6 1 (0.37%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.37%) MySQL
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Git
1 7 (2.62%) JIRA
1 7 (2.62%) MSI
2 6 (2.25%) GitLab
3 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.50%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.50%) Selenium
3 4 (1.50%) webpack
4 3 (1.12%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.12%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.75%) Subversion
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (51.69%) Finance
2 106 (39.70%) Banking
3 43 (16.10%) Social Skills
4 28 (10.49%) Law
5 26 (9.74%) Manufacturing
6 17 (6.37%) Legal
7 16 (5.99%) Electronics
8 15 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (4.12%) Retail
11 8 (3.00%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.87%) Marketing
14 4 (1.50%) Aviation
14 4 (1.50%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.12%) Advertising
15 3 (1.12%) Games
16 2 (0.75%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 113 (42.32%) Senior
2 104 (38.95%) Designer
3 87 (32.58%) UX Designer
4 82 (30.71%) Senior Designer
5 80 (29.96%) Senior UX Designer
6 30 (11.24%) Software Engineer
7 27 (10.11%) Developer
8 22 (8.24%) UX Developer
9 15 (5.62%) Product Delivery Manager
9 15 (5.62%) Product Manager
10 14 (5.24%) Lead
11 12 (4.49%) Architect
12 11 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.12%) Senior UX Developer
13 10 (3.75%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.37%) Electronics Engineer
14 9 (3.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.24%) React
2 12 (4.49%) CSS
3 10 (3.75%) .NET
4 8 (3.00%) Kafka
4 8 (3.00%) OAuth
4 8 (3.00%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.00%) OpenID
4 8 (3.00%) Spring
4 8 (3.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.62%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.25%) SAML
7 5 (1.87%) HTML
8 4 (1.50%) CSS3
8 4 (1.50%) Jest
8 4 (1.50%) Playwright
8 4 (1.50%) RxJS
8 4 (1.50%) Semantic HTML
9 3 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.12%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.99%) IoT
2 16 (5.99%) AI Agents
2 16 (5.99%) Operational Technology
2 16 (5.99%) SCADA
3 14 (5.24%) Renewable Energy
4 13 (4.87%) Biopharmaceutical
4 13 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.87%) FPGA
4 13 (4.87%) Industry 4.0
5 11 (4.12%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.37%) Verilog
6 9 (3.37%) VHDL
7 8 (3.00%) Wiki
8 7 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.50%) CAN bus
11 4 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.37%) Linux
2 7 (2.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Android
4 3 (1.12%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (69.29%) Agile
2 152 (56.93%) User Experience
3 133 (49.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 118 (44.19%) UX Design
5 116 (43.45%) Wireframes
6 115 (43.07%) User Research
7 113 (42.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 106 (39.70%) Usability Testing
9 104 (38.95%) Journey Map
10 103 (38.58%) Project Management
11 102 (38.20%) UX Research
12 100 (37.45%) Design Thinking
13 45 (16.85%) Software Engineering
14 32 (11.99%) Mentoring
15 31 (11.61%) DevOps
16 28 (10.49%) Roadmaps
17 27 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
18 26 (9.74%) Machine Learning
19 24 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 24 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.99%) Python
2 28 (10.49%) C#
3 25 (9.36%) Java
4 15 (5.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.49%) C++
6 10 (3.75%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.75%) SQL
7 9 (3.37%) Go
7 9 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.00%) PHP
9 7 (2.62%) C
10 4 (1.50%) Delphi
11 3 (1.12%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.12%) R
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.37%) Julia
Qualifications
1 42 (15.73%) Degree
2 27 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.49%) HNC
4 16 (5.99%) HND
5 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.87%) Chartered Engineer
7 10 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.75%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (41.20%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.62%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.50%) NCSC
3 4 (1.50%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.75%) COBIT
6 1 (0.37%) DO-254
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.24%) Docker
3 13 (4.87%) Firmware
4 11 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (4.87%) Functional Safety
2 9 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.62%) WMI
4 5 (1.87%) Ansible
4 5 (1.87%) Terraform
5 3 (1.12%) Nessus
5 3 (1.12%) Nmap
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (8.99%) Google
2 18 (6.74%) VMware
3 17 (6.37%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.62%) Foundry
5 13 (4.87%) AVEVA
5 13 (4.87%) Rockwell
5 13 (4.87%) Siemens
6 12 (4.49%) Adobe
7 6 (2.25%) Facebook
8 4 (1.50%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.50%) IBM
8 4 (1.50%) Sage
9 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco
9 3 (1.12%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.12%) Splunk
10 2 (0.75%) Agilent
10 2 (0.75%) EMC
10 2 (0.75%) Guidewire