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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 295 315
Rank change year-on-year -67 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 361 265 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.77% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.88% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 254 74 128
10th Percentile £38,209 £37,500 £42,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,375 £89,500
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 60,592 29,959 42,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.43% 86.74% 79.17%
Number of salaries quoted 42,760 16,149 22,358
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 £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 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 26 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 +3 98 £55,000 -4.35% 105
South East -8 87 £56,000 -13.85% 167
East of England +18 64 £60,000 +14.29% 115
North West -2 50 £52,500 -12.50% 68
Midlands -29 42 £57,500 -4.17% 55
West Midlands -16 32 £57,500 -4.17% 44
South West -55 29 £58,750 -30.88% 127
North East -40 26 £58,750 -9.62% 12
Yorkshire -28 22 £57,500 +88.52% 25
Wales -48 22 £53,171 +7.42% 17
Scotland -76 12 £55,000 - 54
Northern Ireland -75 11 £80,000 - 20
East Midlands -32 10 £45,000 +36.36% 11
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 (2.22%) Apache
2 6 (1.66%) 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 (0.83%) 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 (6.37%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.22%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.94%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.94%) InDesign
4 5 (1.39%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.39%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.11%) Sketch
6 2 (0.55%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.55%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.55%) InVision
6 2 (0.55%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.55%) Simulink
6 2 (0.55%) Trello
6 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.55%) Windchill
7 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.11%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.83%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.57%) Figma
2 44 (12.19%) AWS
3 24 (6.65%) Azure
4 18 (4.99%) Amazon S3
5 16 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (4.43%) Serverless
6 12 (3.32%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.32%) dbt
6 12 (3.32%) GCP
6 12 (3.32%) SaaS
7 11 (3.05%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.77%) GitHub
9 8 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.66%) Apigee
11 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.60%) 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 (0.83%) RS-485
5 2 (0.55%) RS-232
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.16%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.11%) Power BI
5 3 (0.83%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.83%) Redis
5 3 (0.83%) Tableau
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.55%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) OLAP
7 1 (0.28%) OLTP
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (4.99%) Git
2 11 (3.05%) GitLab
2 11 (3.05%) JIRA
3 8 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.22%) LabVIEW
4 6 (1.66%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.66%) Maven
4 6 (1.66%) Postman
4 6 (1.66%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.83%) Axure RP
5 3 (0.83%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.83%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (0.55%) Bower
7 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 137 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 106 (29.36%) Electronics
3 85 (23.55%) Manufacturing
4 47 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (12.47%) Aerospace
5 45 (12.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (9.97%) Public Sector
7 35 (9.70%) Finance
8 20 (5.54%) Automotive
9 15 (4.16%) Games
10 13 (3.60%) Marketing
11 12 (3.32%) Legal
12 11 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.49%) Retail
14 8 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.22%) Military
14 8 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.94%) Publishing
16 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (21.33%) Senior
2 53 (14.68%) Designer
3 48 (13.30%) Developer
4 35 (9.70%) Electronics Engineer
5 31 (8.59%) Software Engineer
6 29 (8.03%) Lead
7 21 (5.82%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.54%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.26%) Architect
10 18 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.16%) Design Engineer
12 14 (3.88%) Senior Designer
13 13 (3.60%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) UX Designer
15 11 (3.05%) Consultant
15 11 (3.05%) Electronics Technician
15 11 (3.05%) Lead Designer
15 11 (3.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 11 (3.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.31%) React
2 20 (5.54%) .NET
3 16 (4.43%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.88%) CSS
4 14 (3.88%) HTML
5 13 (3.60%) AngularJS
5 13 (3.60%) Terraform
6 11 (3.05%) Web Services
7 10 (2.77%) Spring
8 9 (2.49%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.49%) RESTful
9 8 (2.22%) Kafka
9 8 (2.22%) LangChain
10 7 (1.94%) Next.js
11 6 (1.66%) Gherkin
11 6 (1.66%) Jest
11 6 (1.66%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.66%) REST
11 6 (1.66%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.86%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.26%) IoT
5 18 (4.99%) FPGA
5 18 (4.99%) Robotics
6 17 (4.71%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.60%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.60%) Social Media
8 12 (3.32%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.05%) Life Science
10 10 (2.77%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.94%) Acoustics
12 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.94%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.94%) Podcast
12 7 (1.94%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.94%) Linux
2 3 (0.83%) Android
2 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (32.69%) Agile
2 115 (31.86%) AI
3 77 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (21.05%) Validation
5 74 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (18.28%) Rapid Prototyping
7 58 (16.07%) Mentoring
8 54 (14.96%) Software Engineering
9 52 (14.40%) CI/CD
10 50 (13.85%) User Experience
10 50 (13.85%) User Research
11 48 (13.30%) Analytics
11 48 (13.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 44 (12.19%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.53%) DevOps
14 32 (8.86%) UX Design
15 30 (8.31%) CAD
15 30 (8.31%) Physics
15 30 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (15.79%) Python
2 33 (9.14%) TypeScript
3 28 (7.76%) Java
4 27 (7.48%) C++
5 24 (6.65%) C
6 23 (6.37%) C#
7 21 (5.82%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.82%) SQL
8 15 (4.16%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.94%) Bash
9 7 (1.94%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.94%) Rust
10 6 (1.66%) Groovy
11 5 (1.39%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.39%) PHP
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 125 (34.63%) Degree
2 73 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 52 (14.40%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.54%) Master's Degree
5 19 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.88%) PhD
7 12 (3.32%) HND
8 11 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.22%) HNC
11 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.28%) OCP
15 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (15.51%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.43%) WCAG
3 12 (3.32%) QA
4 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.83%) DO-254
5 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.83%) JTAG
6 2 (0.55%) 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 (8.31%) Firmware
2 20 (5.54%) Docker
3 9 (2.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.66%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.76%) Adobe
2 28 (7.76%) EMC
3 23 (6.37%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.22%) Google
4 8 (2.22%) SAP
5 4 (1.11%) Databricks
5 4 (1.11%) Thales
6 3 (0.83%) Apple
6 3 (0.83%) Siemens
6 3 (0.83%) Xilinx
7 2 (0.55%) Altera
7 2 (0.55%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.55%) Foundry
7 2 (0.55%) Intel
7 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.55%) YouTube
8 1 (0.28%) Sparx
8 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.28%) Xamarin