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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 294 348
Rank change year-on-year -29 +54 -31
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 257 213 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.86% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 123 110 293
10th Percentile £43,547 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,234 £45,784 £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 £78,125 £76,690 £66,250
90th Percentile £89,493 £80,125 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,249 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.08% +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 46,842 24,905 57,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.92% 91.25% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,795 13,837 40,932
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +23 69 £60,000 +33.33% 28
South East -5 64 £56,500 -24.67% 33
North of England -56 59 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Yorkshire -45 28 £67,500 +22.73% 6
North West -42 22 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Midlands -30 19 £53,750 -10.42% 21
South West -69 19 £60,000 -12.44% 16
West Midlands -18 17 £53,750 -10.42% 14
Scotland -39 11 £54,500 +19.43% 7
North East -29 9 £52,500 -21.87% 2
Wales -37 8 £53,171 -3.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -47 2 £101,250 - 7
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 (0.78%) WordPress
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.50%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.95%) Fusion 360
3 5 (1.95%) Sketch
4 3 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.78%) CATIA
5 2 (0.78%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.39%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.39%) Blender
6 1 (0.39%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.39%) Maya
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.39%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (27.63%) Figma
2 67 (26.07%) Adobe Analytics
3 38 (14.79%) AWS
4 21 (8.17%) Azure
5 18 (7.00%) Amazon ECR
5 18 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (6.23%) Amazon S3
6 16 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 16 (6.23%) GCP
6 16 (6.23%) Serverless
7 15 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (5.45%) Apigee
8 14 (5.45%) SaaS
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.56%) PaaS
9 4 (1.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 74 (28.79%) Broadband
2 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.17%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.78%) LTE
4 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.78%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.39%) Modbus
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) RFID
5 1 (0.39%) VLAN
5 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.39%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.56%) Redis
4 3 (1.17%) ClickHouse
5 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Big Data
6 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Cypress.io
1 15 (5.84%) GitLab
2 14 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.45%) Maven
2 14 (5.45%) SonarQube
3 6 (2.33%) Balsamiq
4 5 (1.95%) Axure RP
5 4 (1.56%) Git
6 3 (1.17%) JIRA
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (25.68%) Games
2 48 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.79%) Finance
4 34 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.67%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.34%) Electronics
6 24 (9.34%) Public Sector
7 19 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.67%) Law
9 11 (4.28%) Legal
10 7 (2.72%) Marketing
11 6 (2.33%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.56%) Swedish Language
14 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Banking
15 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 64 (24.90%) Designer
2 50 (19.46%) Lead
3 34 (13.23%) Lead Designer
4 32 (12.45%) Developer
4 32 (12.45%) Senior
5 20 (7.78%) UX Designer
6 16 (6.23%) Product Manager
6 16 (6.23%) Software Engineer
7 15 (5.84%) Digital Designer
8 14 (5.45%) Interaction Designer
8 14 (5.45%) Lead UX Designer
8 14 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.06%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.67%) Consultant
10 12 (4.67%) Product Designer
10 12 (4.67%) Systems Manager
11 11 (4.28%) Analyst
12 10 (3.89%) Architect
13 9 (3.50%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.17%) AngularJS
2 20 (7.78%) Spring Boot
3 15 (5.84%) Jest
4 14 (5.45%) Gherkin
5 12 (4.67%) React
6 9 (3.50%) REST
7 8 (3.11%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.72%) Google JAX
8 7 (2.72%) HTML
8 7 (2.72%) JAX
8 7 (2.72%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.33%) CSS
9 6 (2.33%) Spring
9 6 (2.33%) Vue
10 5 (1.95%) .NET
11 4 (1.56%) Django
11 4 (1.56%) LangChain
11 4 (1.56%) Node.js
12 3 (1.17%) Semantic Kernel
13 2 (0.78%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.68%) Social Media
2 13 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.11%) Life Science
4 8 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.11%) Robotics
5 7 (2.72%) CUDA
6 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.95%) IoT
6 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.56%) FPGA
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.56%) Verilog
7 4 (1.56%) VHDL
8 3 (1.17%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.50%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.39%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.39%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (54.86%) Agile
2 124 (48.25%) AI
3 106 (41.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 100 (38.91%) User Research
5 89 (34.63%) Roadmaps
6 80 (31.13%) Customer Experience
7 79 (30.74%) Analytics
8 78 (30.35%) Product Roadmap
9 73 (28.40%) Storytelling
10 66 (25.68%) Digital Customer Experience
11 53 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (19.46%) User Experience
13 47 (18.29%) Workshop Facilitation
14 42 (16.34%) Customer Insight
15 41 (15.95%) UX Design
16 38 (14.79%) Rapid Prototyping
17 37 (14.40%) Software Engineering
18 35 (13.62%) DevOps
19 33 (12.84%) Machine Learning
20 30 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.12%) Python
2 36 (14.01%) Java
3 18 (7.00%) TypeScript
4 14 (5.45%) Bash
4 14 (5.45%) C#
4 14 (5.45%) Groovy
5 12 (4.67%) C
5 12 (4.67%) C++
6 7 (2.72%) SQL
7 5 (1.95%) Embedded C
8 4 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.17%) Pascal
10 2 (0.78%) Julia
10 2 (0.78%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Degree
2 41 (15.95%) Security Cleared
3 31 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.17%) PhD
8 3 (1.17%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.39%) HNC
9 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (37.35%) Accessibility
2 38 (14.79%) WCAG
3 5 (1.95%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) DO-254
4 4 (1.56%) ISO 13485
4 4 (1.56%) QA
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (7.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.45%) HP Fortify
2 5 (1.95%) Terraform
3 4 (1.56%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.39%) Nessus
4 1 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 79 (30.74%) Adobe
2 15 (5.84%) Google
3 10 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.95%) Foundry
5 3 (1.17%) EMC
5 3 (1.17%) Motorola
6 2 (0.78%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir
7 1 (0.39%) Planon
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Siemens
7 1 (0.39%) Splunk