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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 292 293
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 359 265 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.77% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.89% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 253 75 132
10th Percentile £37,595 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £74,358
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,000 £88,625
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 60,588 29,935 42,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 87.00% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 42,683 16,031 22,030
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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 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 28 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 -2 96 £55,000 -4.35% 92
South East -24 89 £56,000 -10.93% 142
East of England +18 63 £60,000 +14.29% 107
North West -9 51 £52,500 -12.50% 57
Midlands -30 41 £56,250 -6.25% 54
West Midlands -16 31 £57,500 -4.17% 42
South West -61 29 £58,750 -30.88% 115
North East -43 26 £58,750 -9.62% 10
Wales -44 22 £53,171 +7.42% 13
Yorkshire -16 19 £50,000 +63.93% 25
Scotland -80 12 £55,000 - 41
Northern Ireland -77 11 £80,000 - 16
East Midlands -38 10 £45,000 +36.36% 12
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 8 (2.23%) Apache
2 6 (1.67%) Confluence
3 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.39%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (6.41%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.23%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.95%) InDesign
4 6 (1.67%) Adobe XD
5 5 (1.39%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.39%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.84%) Sketch
8 2 (0.56%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.56%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.56%) InVision
8 2 (0.56%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.56%) Simulink
8 2 (0.56%) Trello
8 2 (0.56%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.56%) Windchill
9 1 (0.28%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 8 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.11%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.84%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.37%) Figma
2 43 (11.98%) AWS
3 24 (6.69%) Azure
4 17 (4.74%) Amazon S3
5 15 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (4.18%) Serverless
6 12 (3.34%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.34%) dbt
6 12 (3.34%) GCP
7 11 (3.06%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.79%) GitHub
8 10 (2.79%) SaaS
9 8 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.39%) Apigee
12 5 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.62%) Broadband
2 5 (1.39%) Intranet
2 5 (1.39%) Wireless
2 5 (1.39%) WPA
3 4 (1.11%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.84%) RS-485
5 2 (0.56%) RS-232
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.90%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.11%) Power BI
5 3 (0.84%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.84%) Redis
5 3 (0.84%) Tableau
6 2 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.56%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) Metadata
7 1 (0.28%) Power Query
7 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (5.01%) Git
2 11 (3.06%) JIRA
3 10 (2.79%) GitLab
4 8 (2.23%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.67%) Postman
7 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.39%) Maven
7 5 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.84%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.84%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.56%) Bower
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.28%) ERwin
10 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 137 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 106 (29.53%) Electronics
3 86 (23.96%) Manufacturing
4 47 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (12.81%) Aerospace
6 45 (12.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (10.03%) Public Sector
8 35 (9.75%) Finance
9 20 (5.57%) Automotive
10 15 (4.18%) Games
11 12 (3.34%) Marketing
12 11 (3.06%) Legal
12 11 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.23%) Military
13 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.23%) Retail
14 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.95%) Publishing
15 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (22.01%) Senior
2 52 (14.48%) Designer
3 47 (13.09%) Developer
4 36 (10.03%) Electronics Engineer
5 31 (8.64%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.80%) Lead
7 20 (5.57%) Interaction Designer
7 20 (5.57%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (5.29%) Architect
9 18 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.18%) Design Engineer
11 14 (3.90%) Senior Designer
12 13 (3.62%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.34%) UX Designer
14 11 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.06%) Consultant
14 11 (3.06%) Electronics Technician
14 11 (3.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.36%) React
2 20 (5.57%) .NET
3 15 (4.18%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.90%) CSS
4 14 (3.90%) HTML
5 13 (3.62%) Terraform
6 12 (3.34%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.06%) Web Services
8 10 (2.79%) Spring
9 9 (2.51%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.51%) RESTful
10 8 (2.23%) Kafka
10 8 (2.23%) LangChain
11 7 (1.95%) Next.js
12 6 (1.67%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.67%) REST
12 6 (1.67%) TensorFlow
13 5 (1.39%) Gherkin
13 5 (1.39%) JSON
13 5 (1.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.91%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.57%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.29%) IoT
5 18 (5.01%) FPGA
5 18 (5.01%) Robotics
6 17 (4.74%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.62%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.62%) Social Media
8 12 (3.34%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.06%) Life Science
10 10 (2.79%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.23%) Fibre Optics
12 7 (1.95%) Acoustics
12 7 (1.95%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.95%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.95%) Podcast
12 7 (1.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.95%) Linux
2 3 (0.84%) Android
2 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.59%) Agile
2 114 (31.75%) AI
3 78 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (21.73%) Validation
4 75 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (18.66%) Rapid Prototyping
6 58 (16.16%) Mentoring
7 55 (15.32%) Software Engineering
8 51 (14.21%) CI/CD
9 49 (13.65%) User Research
10 48 (13.37%) Analytics
10 48 (13.37%) User Experience
11 46 (12.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 42 (11.70%) Roadmaps
13 37 (10.31%) DevOps
14 31 (8.64%) UX Design
15 30 (8.36%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (8.08%) CAD
16 29 (8.08%) Full-Stack Development
16 29 (8.08%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 57 (15.88%) Python
2 33 (9.19%) TypeScript
3 28 (7.80%) Java
4 26 (7.24%) C++
5 24 (6.69%) C
6 22 (6.13%) C#
6 22 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.85%) SQL
8 15 (4.18%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.95%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.95%) Rust
10 6 (1.67%) Bash
11 5 (1.39%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.39%) Groovy
11 5 (1.39%) PHP
12 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.56%) Go
13 2 (0.56%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 125 (34.82%) Degree
2 74 (20.61%) Security Cleared
3 53 (14.76%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (5.57%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.90%) PhD
6 12 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.34%) HND
7 8 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.23%) HNC
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) OCP
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.32%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.46%) WCAG
3 12 (3.34%) QA
4 5 (1.39%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.84%) DO-254
5 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.84%) JTAG
6 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) IASME
7 1 (0.28%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (8.36%) Firmware
2 19 (5.29%) Docker
3 9 (2.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.39%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.80%) Adobe
2 28 (7.80%) EMC
3 23 (6.41%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.23%) Google
4 8 (2.23%) SAP
5 4 (1.11%) Databricks
5 4 (1.11%) Thales
6 3 (0.84%) Apple
6 3 (0.84%) Siemens
6 3 (0.84%) Xilinx
7 2 (0.56%) Altera
7 2 (0.56%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.56%) Foundry
7 2 (0.56%) Intel
7 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.56%) YouTube
8 1 (0.28%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.28%) Sparx
8 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro