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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 282 349
Rank change year-on-year -51 +67 -27
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 263 284 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 122 105 273
10th Percentile £43,522 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,438 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,746 £80,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,258 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.76% +4.35% -11.54%

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 47,254 26,994 57,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.81% 92.05% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 30,481 13,823 41,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,003
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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
East of England +38 73 £60,000 +33.33% 24
North of England -25 65 £57,500 -4.17% 27
South East +8 59 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Yorkshire -24 32 £67,500 +22.73% 4
North West -11 23 £51,250 -6.82% 19
Midlands -30 20 £52,500 -10.64% 12
South West -73 20 £60,000 -12.44% 18
West Midlands -28 18 £52,500 -12.50% 6
Scotland -80 11 £54,500 +19.43% 10
North East -36 10 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
Wales -30 7 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £101,250 +206.82% 6
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 2 (0.76%) Confluence
1 2 (0.76%) WordPress
2 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (2.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.90%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.90%) Fusion 360
2 5 (1.90%) Sketch
2 5 (1.90%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.76%) CATIA
3 2 (0.76%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.38%) Blender
4 1 (0.38%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.38%) Maya
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.38%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (25.86%) Figma
2 67 (25.48%) Adobe Analytics
3 37 (14.07%) AWS
4 20 (7.60%) Azure
5 18 (6.84%) Amazon ECR
5 18 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (6.08%) Amazon S3
6 16 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
6 16 (6.08%) Serverless
7 15 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (5.70%) GCP
8 14 (5.32%) Apigee
8 14 (5.32%) SaaS
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (28.14%) Broadband
2 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.76%) LTE
3 2 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.76%) Wireless
4 1 (0.38%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.08%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.52%) Redis
4 3 (1.14%) ClickHouse
5 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.38%) GIS
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.70%) GitLab
2 14 (5.32%) Cypress.io
2 14 (5.32%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.32%) Maven
2 14 (5.32%) SonarQube
3 5 (1.90%) Git
4 4 (1.52%) JIRA
5 3 (1.14%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.76%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (25.10%) Games
2 49 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.69%) Finance
4 31 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.79%) Electronics
5 30 (11.41%) Manufacturing
6 22 (8.37%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.18%) Legal
9 10 (3.80%) Marketing
10 7 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.66%) Law
11 6 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.52%) Swedish Language
14 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 61 (23.19%) Designer
2 54 (20.53%) Lead
3 34 (12.93%) Lead Designer
3 34 (12.93%) Senior
4 33 (12.55%) Developer
5 21 (7.98%) UX Designer
6 17 (6.46%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.08%) Product Manager
8 15 (5.70%) Digital Designer
8 15 (5.70%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) Interaction Designer
9 14 (5.32%) Lead UX Designer
10 13 (4.94%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.56%) Systems Manager
12 11 (4.18%) Consultant
12 11 (4.18%) Product Designer
13 9 (3.42%) Analyst
13 9 (3.42%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.04%) Architect
14 8 (3.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.98%) AngularJS
2 20 (7.60%) Spring Boot
3 14 (5.32%) Gherkin
3 14 (5.32%) Jest
4 11 (4.18%) React
5 9 (3.42%) REST
6 8 (3.04%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.66%) Google JAX
7 7 (2.66%) JAX
7 7 (2.66%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.28%) HTML
8 6 (2.28%) Spring
8 6 (2.28%) Vue
9 5 (1.90%) .NET
10 4 (1.52%) CSS
10 4 (1.52%) Django
10 4 (1.52%) LangChain
10 4 (1.52%) Node.js
11 3 (1.14%) Semantic Kernel
12 2 (0.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.10%) Social Media
2 12 (4.56%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.04%) FPGA
3 8 (3.04%) Life Science
3 8 (3.04%) Robotics
4 7 (2.66%) CUDA
4 7 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.90%) IoT
6 5 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.52%) Verilog
7 4 (1.52%) VHDL
8 3 (1.14%) Arduino
8 3 (1.14%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.42%) Linux
2 5 (1.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.38%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (51.71%) Agile
2 123 (46.77%) AI
3 103 (39.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 97 (36.88%) User Research
5 93 (35.36%) Roadmaps
6 83 (31.56%) Product Roadmap
7 80 (30.42%) Customer Experience
8 78 (29.66%) Analytics
9 73 (27.76%) Storytelling
10 66 (25.10%) Digital Customer Experience
11 52 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (17.49%) Workshop Facilitation
13 44 (16.73%) User Experience
14 43 (16.35%) Customer Insight
15 40 (15.21%) UX Design
16 37 (14.07%) Rapid Prototyping
17 36 (13.69%) DevOps
18 35 (13.31%) Validation
19 33 (12.55%) Software Engineering
20 32 (12.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.73%) Python
2 35 (13.31%) Java
3 17 (6.46%) TypeScript
4 15 (5.70%) Bash
4 15 (5.70%) C
5 14 (5.32%) Groovy
6 13 (4.94%) C#
7 11 (4.18%) C++
8 7 (2.66%) SQL
9 5 (1.90%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.14%) Pascal
11 2 (0.76%) Julia
12 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (22.05%) Degree
2 35 (13.31%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.14%) PhD
9 3 (1.14%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.38%) HNC
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (35.36%) Accessibility
2 36 (13.69%) WCAG
3 4 (1.52%) DO-254
3 4 (1.52%) GDPR
3 4 (1.52%) ISO 13485
3 4 (1.52%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (7.60%) Docker
2 7 (2.66%) Firmware
3 4 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.32%) HP Fortify
2 5 (1.90%) Terraform
3 4 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (28.90%) Adobe
2 13 (4.94%) Google
3 8 (3.04%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.90%) Foundry
5 4 (1.52%) EMC
6 3 (1.14%) Motorola
7 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.38%) Palantir
8 1 (0.38%) Planon
8 1 (0.38%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.38%) SAP
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Siemens