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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 276 378
Rank change year-on-year -62 +102 -60
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 281 294 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.98% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.08% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 141 88 260
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.77% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £82,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 47,109 27,343 63,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.73% 91.03% 79.78%
Number of salaries quoted 32,980 13,881 44,192
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £32,851 £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 £81,000 £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 19 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 19 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
North of England -3 75 £52,500 -24.33% 21
East of England +40 74 £62,500 +38.89% 26
South East -12 60 £65,000 +8.33% 37
Yorkshire -16 32 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West -5 27 £50,000 -27.94% 16
Midlands -23 20 £60,000 +4.35% 11
South West -59 19 £60,000 -12.44% 23
West Midlands -9 17 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -33 16 £56,250 -13.46% 3
Wales -39 14 £53,171 -21.88% 3
Scotland -72 11 £54,500 +19.43% 13
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -33 3 £60,000 +81.82% 3
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 4 (1.42%) Apache
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Adobe XD
1 6 (2.14%) Sketch
1 6 (2.14%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.07%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.71%) CATIA
4 2 (0.71%) InDesign
4 2 (0.71%) InVision
4 2 (0.71%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.71%) Trello
4 2 (0.71%) Windchill
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.36%) Blender
5 1 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.36%) Maya
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Solid Edge
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 (23.49%) Figma
2 65 (23.13%) Adobe Analytics
3 38 (13.52%) AWS
4 23 (8.19%) Azure
5 19 (6.76%) Amazon ECR
6 18 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 17 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.69%) Serverless
9 15 (5.34%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.98%) GCP
10 14 (4.98%) SaaS
11 13 (4.63%) Apigee
12 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.78%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.42%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.42%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 72 (25.62%) Broadband
2 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.42%) Intranet
4 2 (0.71%) LTE
4 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.71%) Wireless
4 2 (0.71%) WPA
5 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.36%) RS-232
5 1 (0.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.69%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.14%) Redis
4 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.07%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (5.69%) GitLab
2 15 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.63%) Cypress.io
3 13 (4.63%) Maven
3 13 (4.63%) SonarQube
4 12 (4.27%) Git
5 8 (2.85%) JIRA
6 2 (0.71%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) Bower
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
6 2 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (22.78%) Games
2 51 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.81%) Electronics
3 36 (12.81%) Finance
4 33 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.32%) Manufacturing
5 29 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.63%) Legal
8 12 (4.27%) Marketing
9 9 (3.20%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Law
12 4 (1.42%) Swedish Language
13 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (22.06%) Designer
2 52 (18.51%) Lead
3 42 (14.95%) Developer
4 39 (13.88%) Senior
5 32 (11.39%) Lead Designer
6 20 (7.12%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.12%) UX Designer
7 19 (6.76%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (5.69%) Interaction Designer
8 16 (5.69%) Product Manager
9 14 (4.98%) Digital Designer
9 14 (4.98%) Lead UX Designer
10 12 (4.27%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.27%) Systems Manager
11 11 (3.91%) Consultant
12 10 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.56%) Hardware Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Senior Designer
13 8 (2.85%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.76%) AngularJS
2 18 (6.41%) Spring Boot
3 15 (5.34%) React
4 13 (4.63%) Gherkin
4 13 (4.63%) Jest
5 10 (3.56%) HTML
6 9 (3.20%) .NET
7 8 (2.85%) CSS
7 8 (2.85%) REST
8 6 (2.14%) LangChain
8 6 (2.14%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.14%) Web Services
9 5 (1.78%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.78%) JAX
9 5 (1.78%) JSON
9 5 (1.78%) Node.js
9 5 (1.78%) Spring
9 5 (1.78%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.78%) Vue
9 5 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.78%) Social Media
2 16 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.98%) Embedded Systems
4 11 (3.91%) IoT
5 10 (3.56%) FPGA
6 9 (3.20%) Robotics
7 7 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.78%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.78%) CUDA
9 5 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.78%) Life Science
9 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.42%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.42%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.27%) Linux
2 7 (2.49%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.36%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (49.47%) Agile
2 133 (47.33%) AI
3 99 (35.23%) User Research
4 97 (34.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 93 (33.10%) Roadmaps
6 81 (28.83%) Product Roadmap
7 80 (28.47%) Analytics
8 78 (27.76%) Customer Experience
9 68 (24.20%) Storytelling
10 64 (22.78%) Digital Customer Experience
11 48 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.37%) User Experience
13 43 (15.30%) Customer Insight
14 42 (14.95%) DevOps
14 42 (14.95%) Workshop Facilitation
15 41 (14.59%) Rapid Prototyping
16 38 (13.52%) UX Design
16 38 (13.52%) Validation
17 36 (12.81%) CI/CD
17 36 (12.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.22%) Python
2 35 (12.46%) Java
3 20 (7.12%) C
4 19 (6.76%) TypeScript
5 17 (6.05%) C#
5 17 (6.05%) C++
6 14 (4.98%) Bash
7 13 (4.63%) Groovy
7 13 (4.63%) SQL
8 10 (3.56%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.78%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.78%) PHP
10 4 (1.42%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.07%) Pascal
12 2 (0.71%) Julia
12 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 63 (22.42%) Degree
2 34 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.63%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (4.63%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.42%) HND
9 4 (1.42%) PhD
10 3 (1.07%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.36%) HNC
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (33.45%) Accessibility
2 40 (14.23%) WCAG
3 4 (1.42%) DO-254
3 4 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (8.90%) Docker
2 11 (3.91%) Firmware
3 6 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.63%) HP Fortify
2 8 (2.85%) Terraform
3 4 (1.42%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (27.05%) Adobe
2 14 (4.98%) Google
3 12 (4.27%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.14%) EMC
5 4 (1.42%) Foundry
6 3 (1.07%) Motorola
7 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.36%) Databricks
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