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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 274 329
Rank change year-on-year -93 +55 -31
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 170 292 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.94% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 85 142 253
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,229 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,626 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +35.25% -20.87%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,400 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +17.22% -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 37,876 28,338 44,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.26% 91.50% 86.95%
Number of salaries quoted 22,366 13,157 33,417
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.07%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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
South East -17 52 £55,000 -26.67% 86
North of England -53 42 £57,500 -4.17% 31
East of England -2 29 £81,575 +48.32% 43
North West -44 21 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Yorkshire -38 16 £67,500 +28.57% 6
South West -42 16 £79,750 +11.13% 17
Scotland -27 11 £54,500 +7.92% 8
Wales -23 10 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Midlands +6 8 £47,500 -29.76% 21
West Midlands +15 7 £46,022 -31.95% 16
North East -5 5 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland -25 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 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 7 (4.12%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (8.24%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.12%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.94%) Fusion 360
3 5 (2.94%) Sketch
4 3 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.18%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.59%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.59%) Blender
6 1 (0.59%) CATIA
6 1 (0.59%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.59%) Maya
6 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.59%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.35%) Figma
2 35 (20.59%) Adobe Analytics
3 32 (18.82%) AWS
3 32 (18.82%) Azure
4 23 (13.53%) Amazon ECR
4 23 (13.53%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (12.94%) GCP
6 15 (8.82%) PaaS
7 14 (8.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 14 (8.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 14 (8.24%) dbt
7 14 (8.24%) Pulumi
7 14 (8.24%) Sentry
8 10 (5.88%) Serverless
9 9 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (5.29%) Apigee
9 9 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (5.29%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.12%) Broadband
2 20 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.94%) Bluetooth
3 5 (2.94%) Firewall
4 4 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.35%) Modbus
4 4 (2.35%) Network Security
4 4 (2.35%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.35%) VLAN
4 4 (2.35%) Wireshark
4 4 (2.35%) ZigBee
5 2 (1.18%) 2G
5 2 (1.18%) 4G
5 2 (1.18%) 5G
5 2 (1.18%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) HTTP
5 2 (1.18%) ICMP
6 1 (0.59%) RFID
6 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (8.24%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (8.24%) Redis
2 9 (5.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.59%) GIS
3 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.59%) Power BI
3 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Axure RP
1 11 (6.47%) Cypress.io
2 9 (5.29%) Git
2 9 (5.29%) GitLab
2 9 (5.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.29%) Maven
2 9 (5.29%) SonarQube
3 8 (4.71%) JIRA
4 6 (3.53%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.35%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.35%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.35%) Metasploit
General
1 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.53%) Games
4 22 (12.94%) Finance
5 16 (9.41%) Law
6 15 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (8.24%) Electronics
7 14 (8.24%) Manufacturing
8 13 (7.65%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (7.65%) Public Sector
9 12 (7.06%) Banking
10 6 (3.53%) Retail
11 5 (2.94%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.94%) Marketing
11 5 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.35%) Legal
12 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.76%) Aviation
14 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (23.53%) Designer
2 39 (22.94%) Senior
3 21 (12.35%) Lead
4 18 (10.59%) Developer
4 18 (10.59%) Lead Designer
5 14 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (8.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.06%) Product Designer
6 12 (7.06%) Strategy Manager
6 12 (7.06%) UX Designer
7 10 (5.88%) Consultant
8 9 (5.29%) Analyst
8 9 (5.29%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.29%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Digital Designer
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.71%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.24%) Django
2 13 (7.65%) AngularJS
2 13 (7.65%) CSS
2 13 (7.65%) HTML
3 12 (7.06%) Spring Boot
4 11 (6.47%) Jest
5 10 (5.88%) REST
6 9 (5.29%) Gherkin
6 9 (5.29%) React
7 7 (4.12%) PyTorch
8 6 (3.53%) JSON
8 6 (3.53%) TensorFlow
8 6 (3.53%) XML
9 5 (2.94%) Google JAX
9 5 (2.94%) JAX
10 4 (2.35%) Vue
11 3 (1.76%) Framer.js
11 3 (1.76%) Next.js
11 3 (1.76%) Spring
12 2 (1.18%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.53%) Social Media
2 18 (10.59%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.71%) Life Science
5 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.12%) IoT
7 5 (2.94%) CUDA
7 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.35%) Animation
8 4 (2.35%) CAN bus
8 4 (2.35%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.35%) SCADA
9 3 (1.76%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.76%) FPGA
9 3 (1.76%) Robotics
10 2 (1.18%) Arduino
10 2 (1.18%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.12%) Linux
2 14 (8.24%) Unix
3 5 (2.94%) Android
4 4 (2.35%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (52.94%) Agile
2 63 (37.06%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (32.94%) User Experience
4 55 (32.35%) AI
5 52 (30.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 45 (26.47%) User Research
7 43 (25.29%) Analytics
8 41 (24.12%) Storytelling
9 40 (23.53%) Customer Experience
10 38 (22.35%) UX Design
11 37 (21.76%) Roadmaps
11 37 (21.76%) Wireframes
12 32 (18.82%) DevOps
13 30 (17.65%) Product Roadmap
14 29 (17.06%) Clean Code
15 27 (15.88%) CI/CD
16 25 (14.71%) Workshop Facilitation
17 24 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (13.53%) Digital Customer Experience
18 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.12%) Python
2 22 (12.94%) Java
3 13 (7.65%) C++
4 11 (6.47%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.29%) Bash
6 9 (5.29%) Groovy
7 6 (3.53%) C
8 5 (2.94%) SQL
9 4 (2.35%) C#
9 4 (2.35%) R
9 4 (2.35%) Rust
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
11 1 (0.59%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.59%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.59%) Julia
11 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.18%) Degree
3 33 (19.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.29%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (5.29%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.94%) HNC
7 4 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.76%) HND
9 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.59%) PhD
10 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (35.88%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.24%) WCAG
3 4 (2.35%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.76%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.59%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (14.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Firmware
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (8.24%) Terraform
2 9 (5.29%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.35%) Nessus
3 4 (2.35%) Nmap
4 1 (0.59%) WMI
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Adobe
2 21 (12.35%) Google
3 16 (9.41%) Qualtrics
4 11 (6.47%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.35%) Cisco
5 4 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.35%) Splunk
6 3 (1.76%) EMC
6 3 (1.76%) Foundry
7 1 (0.59%) Palantir
7 1 (0.59%) Planon
7 1 (0.59%) Remedy
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) Siemens
7 1 (0.59%) VMware