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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 305 285
Rank change year-on-year -40 -20 +16
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 377 262 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.87% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 268 73 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £45,930
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 61,006 30,204 42,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.54% 87.28% 79.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,966 16,026 21,678
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £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 £64,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +1 102 £55,000 -4.35% 123
South East -11 96 £56,000 -13.85% 188
East of England +8 64 £60,000 - 119
North West -3 55 £52,500 -12.50% 73
Midlands -29 42 £57,500 -4.17% 60
West Midlands -20 32 £57,500 -4.17% 45
South West -47 31 £59,000 -30.59% 122
North East -38 28 £58,750 -9.62% 21
Wales -57 24 £53,171 +7.42% 14
Yorkshire -20 19 £50,000 +63.93% 30
Scotland -71 13 £55,000 - 60
East Midlands -41 10 £45,000 +36.36% 15
Northern Ireland -77 10 £80,000 - 21
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 9 (2.39%) Apache
2 7 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.59%) Confluence
3 6 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (6.10%) SOLIDWORKS
2 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.12%) Solid Edge
4 7 (1.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.86%) InDesign
5 6 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (1.59%) Adobe XD
5 6 (1.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.33%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.06%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.80%) Sketch
9 2 (0.53%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.53%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.53%) InVision
9 2 (0.53%) Simulink
9 2 (0.53%) Trello
9 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.53%) Windchill
10 1 (0.27%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.06%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.80%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.00%) Figma
2 45 (11.94%) AWS
3 24 (6.37%) Azure
4 17 (4.51%) Amazon S3
5 15 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.98%) Serverless
6 13 (3.45%) GCP
7 12 (3.18%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (3.18%) dbt
8 11 (2.92%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.65%) GitHub
9 10 (2.65%) SaaS
10 8 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (1.86%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.33%) Apigee
13 5 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.45%) Broadband
2 7 (1.86%) Wireless
3 5 (1.33%) Intranet
3 5 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.33%) WPA
4 4 (1.06%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.80%) RS-485
6 2 (0.53%) RS-232
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.27%) J1939
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.71%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.06%) Power BI
5 3 (0.80%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.80%) Redis
5 3 (0.80%) Tableau
6 2 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.53%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) Looker
7 1 (0.27%) Metadata
7 1 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (5.04%) Git
2 11 (2.92%) GitLab
2 11 (2.92%) JIRA
3 8 (2.12%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.59%) Postman
6 5 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.33%) Maven
6 5 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.80%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.80%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.53%) Bower
9 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 146 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 114 (30.24%) Electronics
3 96 (25.46%) Manufacturing
4 51 (13.53%) Aerospace
5 48 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (10.61%) Public Sector
8 37 (9.81%) Finance
9 25 (6.63%) Automotive
10 15 (3.98%) Games
11 12 (3.18%) Marketing
11 12 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.92%) Legal
13 10 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.65%) Retail
14 9 (2.39%) Military
15 8 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.86%) Publishing
17 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (23.34%) Senior
2 54 (14.32%) Designer
3 47 (12.47%) Developer
4 42 (11.14%) Electronics Engineer
5 32 (8.49%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.43%) Lead
7 20 (5.31%) Interaction Designer
8 19 (5.04%) Architect
8 19 (5.04%) Design Engineer
8 19 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.71%) Senior Designer
11 13 (3.45%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 13 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.45%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.18%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 12 (3.18%) UX Designer
13 11 (2.92%) Consultant
13 11 (2.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.96%) React
2 21 (5.57%) .NET
3 16 (4.24%) CSS
3 16 (4.24%) HTML
3 16 (4.24%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.71%) Terraform
5 12 (3.18%) Web Services
6 11 (2.92%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.92%) Spring
7 9 (2.39%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.39%) Kafka
7 9 (2.39%) RESTful
8 8 (2.12%) LangChain
9 7 (1.86%) Next.js
10 6 (1.59%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.59%) REST
10 6 (1.59%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.33%) Ajax
11 5 (1.33%) Gherkin
11 5 (1.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.02%) Embedded Systems
2 26 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.57%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.31%) IoT
5 18 (4.77%) FPGA
5 18 (4.77%) Robotics
6 17 (4.51%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.45%) Social Media
8 12 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.18%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.92%) Life Science
10 9 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.12%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.86%) Acoustics
12 7 (1.86%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.86%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.86%) Podcast
12 7 (1.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.12%) Linux
2 3 (0.80%) Android
2 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (31.83%) Agile
2 115 (30.50%) AI
3 86 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (22.02%) Validation
5 81 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (17.77%) Rapid Prototyping
7 62 (16.45%) Mentoring
8 58 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 53 (14.06%) CI/CD
10 51 (13.53%) User Research
11 49 (13.00%) User Experience
12 48 (12.73%) Analytics
12 48 (12.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 43 (11.41%) Roadmaps
14 39 (10.34%) DevOps
15 32 (8.49%) CAD
16 31 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (8.22%) UX Design
17 30 (7.96%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (7.96%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.45%) Python
2 34 (9.02%) TypeScript
3 29 (7.69%) Java
4 28 (7.43%) C++
5 26 (6.90%) C
6 24 (6.37%) C#
6 24 (6.37%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.84%) SQL
8 16 (4.24%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.12%) Rust
10 6 (1.59%) Bash
10 6 (1.59%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.33%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.33%) Groovy
11 5 (1.33%) PHP
12 4 (1.06%) R
13 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Go
15 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 135 (35.81%) Degree
2 77 (20.42%) Security Cleared
3 56 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.31%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.71%) PhD
7 13 (3.45%) HND
8 9 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.12%) HNC
10 6 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.53%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) OCP
15 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.85%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.51%) WCAG
3 11 (2.92%) QA
4 5 (1.33%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.80%) JTAG
6 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.53%) DO-254
6 2 (0.53%) MISRA
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.27%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) IASME
System Software
1 33 (8.75%) Firmware
2 22 (5.84%) Docker
3 11 (2.92%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 33 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.49%) EMC
3 29 (7.69%) Adobe
4 23 (6.10%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.39%) SAP
6 8 (2.12%) Google
7 6 (1.59%) Thales
8 4 (1.06%) Databricks
8 4 (1.06%) Siemens
9 3 (0.80%) Apple
9 3 (0.80%) Foundry
9 3 (0.80%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.53%) Altera
10 2 (0.53%) Autodesk
10 2 (0.53%) Intel
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.53%) YouTube
11 1 (0.27%) Cadence
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Sparx