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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 286 375
Rank change year-on-year -43 +89 -57
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 275 288 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.98% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.07% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 136 86 264
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £80,625 £83,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 45,890 26,873 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.62% 91.25% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 31,846 13,591 43,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +47 75 £62,500 +38.89% 31
North of England -13 71 £55,000 -19.71% 30
South East +2 58 £65,000 +8.33% 49
Yorkshire -21 32 £67,500 -20.82% 6
North West -7 24 £50,000 -27.01% 19
South West -55 21 £60,000 -12.44% 27
Midlands -20 20 £60,000 +4.35% 13
West Midlands -15 17 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -32 15 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Scotland -69 12 £54,500 +19.43% 17
Wales -40 10 £53,085 -22.01% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -31 3 £60,000 +81.82% 5
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 3 (1.09%) Apache
2 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.73%) Confluence
2 2 (0.73%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) MS Visio
1 6 (2.18%) Sketch
1 6 (2.18%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (1.82%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.45%) Fusion 360
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.73%) CATIA
4 2 (0.73%) InVision
4 2 (0.73%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.73%) Trello
5 1 (0.36%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.36%) Blender
5 1 (0.36%) Maya
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) Simulink
5 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 65 (23.64%) Figma
3 36 (13.09%) AWS
4 21 (7.64%) Azure
5 19 (6.91%) Amazon ECR
6 17 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (6.18%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (5.45%) Serverless
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (5.09%) SaaS
9 13 (4.73%) Apigee
9 13 (4.73%) GCP
10 5 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (26.55%) Broadband
2 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.73%) Intranet
3 2 (0.73%) LTE
3 2 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.73%) Wireless
4 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.36%) RS-232
4 1 (0.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.45%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.82%) Redis
4 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.09%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (5.82%) GitLab
2 14 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.73%) Cypress.io
3 13 (4.73%) Maven
3 13 (4.73%) SonarQube
4 9 (3.27%) Git
5 7 (2.55%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.36%) Bower
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (23.64%) Games
2 49 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.82%) Electronics
4 37 (13.45%) Finance
5 32 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (11.27%) Manufacturing
7 27 (9.82%) Public Sector
8 20 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.36%) Legal
9 12 (4.36%) Marketing
10 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Law
12 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Swedish Language
13 2 (0.73%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.45%) Designer
2 53 (19.27%) Lead
3 38 (13.82%) Senior
4 36 (13.09%) Developer
5 33 (12.00%) Lead Designer
6 20 (7.27%) UX Designer
7 19 (6.91%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.55%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Product Manager
10 15 (5.45%) Digital Designer
11 14 (5.09%) Interaction Designer
11 14 (5.09%) Lead UX Designer
12 12 (4.36%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.36%) Systems Manager
13 11 (4.00%) Consultant
14 10 (3.64%) Hardware Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Analyst
15 8 (2.91%) Architect
15 8 (2.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.27%) AngularJS
2 19 (6.91%) Spring Boot
3 13 (4.73%) Gherkin
3 13 (4.73%) Jest
3 13 (4.73%) React
4 9 (3.27%) REST
5 8 (2.91%) HTML
6 7 (2.55%) .NET
6 7 (2.55%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.18%) CSS
7 6 (2.18%) Google JAX
7 6 (2.18%) JAX
7 6 (2.18%) Spring
7 6 (2.18%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.18%) Vue
8 5 (1.82%) LangChain
8 5 (1.82%) Node.js
9 4 (1.45%) Django
9 4 (1.45%) Web Services
10 3 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.64%) Social Media
2 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.36%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (3.64%) FPGA
5 9 (3.27%) Robotics
6 8 (2.91%) IoT
6 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.55%) Life Science
8 6 (2.18%) CUDA
9 5 (1.82%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.45%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.45%) Verilog
10 4 (1.45%) VHDL
11 3 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.00%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.36%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (49.45%) Agile
2 129 (46.91%) AI
3 98 (35.64%) User Research
4 97 (35.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 93 (33.82%) Roadmaps
6 82 (29.82%) Product Roadmap
7 79 (28.73%) Analytics
7 79 (28.73%) Customer Experience
8 70 (25.45%) Storytelling
9 65 (23.64%) Digital Customer Experience
10 52 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (16.00%) Customer Insight
12 43 (15.64%) Workshop Facilitation
13 42 (15.27%) DevOps
13 42 (15.27%) User Experience
14 41 (14.91%) Rapid Prototyping
15 40 (14.55%) Validation
16 37 (13.45%) UX Design
17 36 (13.09%) Software Engineering
18 33 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (18.91%) Python
2 35 (12.73%) Java
3 17 (6.18%) C
3 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
4 15 (5.45%) C#
5 14 (5.09%) Bash
5 14 (5.09%) C++
6 13 (4.73%) Groovy
7 11 (4.00%) SQL
8 5 (1.82%) Embedded C
8 5 (1.82%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.09%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.09%) Pascal
9 3 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (0.73%) Julia
11 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 61 (22.18%) Degree
2 35 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 3 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.73%) HND
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) HNC
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (34.18%) Accessibility
2 39 (14.18%) WCAG
3 4 (1.45%) DO-254
3 4 (1.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.73%) QA
6 1 (0.36%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (8.36%) Docker
2 11 (4.00%) Firmware
3 6 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.73%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.55%) Terraform
3 4 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (26.91%) Adobe
2 13 (4.73%) Google
3 9 (3.27%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.18%) EMC
5 4 (1.45%) Foundry
6 3 (1.09%) Motorola
7 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.36%) Databricks
8 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.36%) Planon
8 1 (0.36%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.36%) Siemens