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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 245 275
Rank change year-on-year -145 +30 -9
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 134 397 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 1.05% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.20% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 171 193
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,875 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,900 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.51%

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 33,970 33,172 28,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.59% 88.09% 90.66%
Number of salaries quoted 19,534 15,342 20,942
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,156 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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
South East -66 48 £55,000 -26.67% 270
North of England -39 31 £57,500 -1.65% 225
North West -30 17 £57,500 -4.17% 109
South West -32 13 £86,750 +15.67% 120
East of England -1 12 £90,000 +63.64% 178
Yorkshire -4 11 £36,455 -35.74% 100
Midlands +24 10 £60,000 +2.63% 197
Scotland -9 9 £54,500 -18.84% 60
Wales -20 9 £61,651 -11.05% 28
West Midlands +22 7 £60,000 +2.63% 105
North East +8 3 £73,801 +26.23% 17
East Midlands -2 3 £60,000 +50.00% 80
Northern Ireland -8 2 £73,801 +6.48% 14
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 7 (5.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Adobe XD
1 10 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (3.73%) Sketch
2 5 (3.73%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (2.99%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (2.99%) Fusion 360
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.49%) InVision
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.60%) Figma
2 32 (23.88%) Azure
3 25 (18.66%) AWS
4 21 (15.67%) GCP
5 13 (9.70%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (8.96%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (8.21%) PaaS
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (7.46%) dbt
8 10 (7.46%) Pulumi
8 10 (7.46%) Sentry
9 9 (6.72%) Miro
10 7 (5.22%) GitHub
10 7 (5.22%) SaaS
11 6 (4.48%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.48%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.99%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.94%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.73%) Bluetooth
2 5 (3.73%) Firewall
3 4 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.99%) Modbus
3 4 (2.99%) Network Security
3 4 (2.99%) VLAN
3 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.99%) ZigBee
4 3 (2.24%) Broadband
5 2 (1.49%) 2G
5 2 (1.49%) 4G
5 2 (1.49%) 5G
5 2 (1.49%) DNS
5 2 (1.49%) HTTP
5 2 (1.49%) ICMP
5 2 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.75%) RFID
6 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (7.46%) Redis
2 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.49%) Power BI
2 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.75%) GIS
3 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Axure RP
2 9 (6.72%) Git
3 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.99%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.99%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.99%) Metasploit
6 2 (1.49%) GitLab
6 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.49%) Maven
6 2 (1.49%) MSI
6 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.67%) Law
4 16 (11.94%) Finance
5 13 (9.70%) Manufacturing
6 12 (8.96%) Electronics
6 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
7 11 (8.21%) Banking
7 11 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (6.72%) Legal
9 7 (5.22%) Retail
10 5 (3.73%) Marketing
11 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.99%) Games
11 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.24%) Aviation
12 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.49%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.90%) Senior
2 27 (20.15%) Designer
3 14 (10.45%) Developer
4 11 (8.21%) Strategy Manager
5 10 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Product Designer
5 10 (7.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 8 (5.97%) Architect
6 8 (5.97%) Consultant
7 7 (5.22%) Product Manager
7 7 (5.22%) Test Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) UX Designer
8 6 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (4.48%) Machine Learning Consultant
8 6 (4.48%) Product Delivery Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Senior Strategy Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) CSS
2 12 (8.96%) HTML
3 10 (7.46%) Django
4 8 (5.97%) React
5 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.22%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.22%) REST
5 7 (5.22%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.48%) Google JAX
6 6 (4.48%) JAX
6 6 (4.48%) JSON
6 6 (4.48%) XML
7 5 (3.73%) Vue
8 4 (2.99%) Jest
9 3 (2.24%) Framer.js
9 3 (2.24%) Next.js
9 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.49%) Flash
10 2 (1.49%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.72%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.48%) CUDA
5 5 (3.73%) IoT
6 4 (2.99%) CAN bus
6 4 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.99%) Life Science
6 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.99%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.99%) SCADA
7 3 (2.24%) Animation
7 3 (2.24%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Robotics
7 3 (2.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.67%) Linux
2 10 (7.46%) Unix
3 5 (3.73%) Android
4 4 (2.99%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.24%) Windows
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.01%) Agile
2 58 (43.28%) User Experience
3 57 (42.54%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (28.36%) Wireframes
5 30 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (22.39%) UX Design
6 29 (21.64%) AI
7 26 (19.40%) Machine Learning
8 25 (18.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 23 (17.16%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.42%) User Research
11 21 (15.67%) Analytics
11 21 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (14.18%) Storytelling
13 18 (13.43%) Computer Science
13 18 (13.43%) Customer Experience
13 18 (13.43%) DevOps
13 18 (13.43%) Strategic Thinking
14 17 (12.69%) Matrix Organization
14 17 (12.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.12%) Python
2 14 (10.45%) C++
3 11 (8.21%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.46%) Java
5 9 (6.72%) C#
6 7 (5.22%) C
7 5 (3.73%) SQL
8 4 (2.99%) Delphi
8 4 (2.99%) PHP
8 4 (2.99%) R
8 4 (2.99%) Rust
8 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.24%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) Bash
10 2 (1.49%) Groovy
10 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.75%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.75%) Julia
11 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.87%) Degree
3 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.99%) HNC
7 3 (2.24%) HND
7 3 (2.24%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) MCP
9 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.61%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.72%) WCAG
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 13485
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.24%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (9.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.46%) AWS Copilot
1 10 (7.46%) Terraform
2 4 (2.99%) Nessus
2 4 (2.99%) Nmap
3 3 (2.24%) WMI
4 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Adobe
2 22 (16.42%) Google
3 15 (11.19%) Qualtrics
4 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.97%) Foundry
6 4 (2.99%) Autodesk
6 4 (2.99%) Cisco
6 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.99%) Sage
6 4 (2.99%) Splunk
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.75%) Palantir
8 1 (0.75%) Remedy