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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 301 324
Rank change year-on-year -48 +23 -20
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 353 269 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.78% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.90% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 234 79 137
10th Percentile £40,650 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -5.99%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

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 58,402 29,941 43,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.23% 86.56% 78.23%
Number of salaries quoted 41,475 16,234 24,317
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 11 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 11 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 +10 89 £53,750 -10.42% 64
South East -10 89 £59,000 -14.80% 93
East of England +16 65 £61,250 +36.11% 51
North West -7 41 £50,000 -25.93% 32
Midlands -35 35 £57,500 -4.17% 36
South West -55 30 £60,000 -29.41% 78
West Midlands -14 28 £57,500 -4.17% 26
North East -35 25 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -31 23 £66,250 +117.21% 18
Wales -52 22 £53,171 -2.88% 11
Scotland -73 14 £55,000 - 35
Northern Ireland -66 11 £80,000 - 10
East Midlands -38 7 £47,500 +43.94% 10
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 (1.98%) Confluence
2 6 (1.70%) Apache
3 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (5.38%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.27%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.98%) InDesign
4 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.13%) Sketch
7 2 (0.57%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.57%) InVision
7 2 (0.57%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.57%) Simulink
7 2 (0.57%) Trello
7 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.57%) Windchill
8 1 (0.28%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (15.01%) Figma
2 40 (11.33%) AWS
3 27 (7.65%) Adobe Analytics
4 26 (7.37%) Azure
5 20 (5.67%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.10%) Serverless
7 13 (3.68%) SaaS
8 12 (3.40%) dbt
8 12 (3.40%) GCP
9 10 (2.83%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.83%) GitHub
10 9 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.55%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.27%) Apigee
11 8 (2.27%) Azure AI
11 8 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.63%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) Intranet
2 5 (1.42%) WPA
3 4 (1.13%) Wireless
4 3 (0.85%) RS-485
4 3 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.57%) RS-232
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.82%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.85%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.85%) Power BI
5 3 (0.85%) Redis
5 3 (0.85%) Tableau
6 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) OLAP
7 1 (0.28%) OLTP
7 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (4.82%) Git
2 12 (3.40%) JIRA
3 11 (3.12%) GitLab
4 10 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.27%) LabVIEW
5 8 (2.27%) Maven
5 8 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.85%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) Bower
8 2 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) ERwin
9 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.21%) Electronics
3 70 (19.83%) Manufacturing
4 48 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (11.05%) Finance
7 38 (10.76%) Aerospace
8 33 (9.35%) Public Sector
9 30 (8.50%) Games
10 14 (3.97%) Automotive
11 13 (3.68%) Legal
12 12 (3.40%) Marketing
13 11 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.27%) Military
15 7 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Retail
16 5 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.13%) Law
17 4 (1.13%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 65 (18.41%) Senior
2 51 (14.45%) Designer
2 51 (14.45%) Developer
3 35 (9.92%) Lead
4 28 (7.93%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.80%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.52%) Electronics Engineer
7 20 (5.67%) Architect
7 20 (5.67%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.97%) Lead Designer
9 14 (3.97%) Product Manager
10 12 (3.40%) Senior Designer
11 11 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 11 (3.12%) Consultant
11 11 (3.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.12%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.12%) UX Designer
12 10 (2.83%) Design Engineer
12 10 (2.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.80%) React
2 17 (4.82%) .NET
3 15 (4.25%) AngularJS
4 14 (3.97%) CSS
4 14 (3.97%) HTML
5 13 (3.68%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.12%) LangChain
6 11 (3.12%) Terraform
7 10 (2.83%) Web Services
8 9 (2.55%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.55%) RESTful
9 8 (2.27%) Gherkin
9 8 (2.27%) Jest
10 7 (1.98%) Next.js
11 6 (1.70%) JSON
11 6 (1.70%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.70%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.70%) XML
12 5 (1.42%) Ajax
12 5 (1.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.07%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (7.65%) Social Media
3 24 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.10%) Robotics
6 17 (4.82%) FPGA
7 16 (4.53%) IoT
8 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.40%) Public Cloud
10 11 (3.12%) Analogue Electronics
10 11 (3.12%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.83%) Life Science
12 8 (2.27%) Data Structures
12 8 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (2.27%) VHDL
13 7 (1.98%) Acoustics
13 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.98%) Verilog
14 6 (1.70%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.12%) Linux
2 4 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.85%) Android
3 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (38.24%) Agile
2 132 (37.39%) AI
3 73 (20.68%) Rapid Prototyping
3 73 (20.68%) Validation
4 66 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (17.85%) Roadmaps
6 63 (17.85%) User Research
7 62 (17.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 59 (16.71%) Analytics
9 55 (15.58%) Mentoring
9 55 (15.58%) Software Engineering
10 51 (14.45%) User Experience
11 44 (12.46%) CI/CD
12 43 (12.18%) Product Roadmap
13 40 (11.33%) Customer Experience
14 35 (9.92%) LLM
15 34 (9.63%) UX Design
16 33 (9.35%) DevOps
17 32 (9.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (16.71%) Python
2 33 (9.35%) Java
3 29 (8.22%) C
4 28 (7.93%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.08%) C++
6 21 (5.95%) C#
7 20 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.82%) SQL
9 14 (3.97%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.55%) Bash
10 9 (2.55%) Embedded C
11 8 (2.27%) Groovy
12 5 (1.42%) Embedded C++
12 5 (1.42%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) Pascal
13 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.85%) Rust
14 2 (0.57%) Go
15 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 114 (32.29%) Degree
2 72 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 50 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.95%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.25%) PhD
7 12 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.27%) HND
9 8 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (0.85%) HNC
12 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.28%) OCP
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (19.26%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.80%) WCAG
3 11 (3.12%) QA
4 4 (1.13%) DO-254
4 4 (1.13%) GDPR
5 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.85%) JTAG
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) MISRA
System Software
1 25 (7.08%) Firmware
2 20 (5.67%) Docker
3 8 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.27%) HP Fortify
1 8 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 43 (12.18%) Adobe
2 28 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.52%) OpenAI
4 21 (5.95%) EMC
5 14 (3.97%) Google
6 8 (2.27%) SAP
7 5 (1.42%) Foundry
8 3 (0.85%) Apple
8 3 (0.85%) Databricks
8 3 (0.85%) Motorola
8 3 (0.85%) Siemens
8 3 (0.85%) Thales
8 3 (0.85%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.57%) Altera
9 2 (0.57%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.57%) Intel
9 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.57%) YouTube
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro