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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 292 357
Rank change year-on-year -47 +65 -37
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 268 267 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.02% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 129 89 271
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,628 £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 £78,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £79,000 £83,750
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 47,926 26,284 58,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.04% 91.99% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31,240 12,956 41,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +40 75 £70,000 +55.56% 16
North of England -28 68 £55,000 -17.06% 21
South East -3 59 £65,000 +8.33% 36
Yorkshire -30 33 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West -13 24 £50,000 -21.65% 13
Midlands -30 20 £55,000 -4.35% 10
South West -60 20 £60,000 -12.44% 15
West Midlands -30 18 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North East -32 11 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Scotland -83 11 £54,500 +19.43% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 1
Wales -36 7 £53,171 -21.38% 6
East Midlands -38 2 £101,250 +206.82% 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 2 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.37%) Apache
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.24%) MS Visio
1 6 (2.24%) Sketch
1 6 (2.24%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (1.49%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.49%) Fusion 360
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.75%) CATIA
3 2 (0.75%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.37%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.37%) Blender
4 1 (0.37%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.37%) Maya
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.37%) Solid Edge
4 1 (0.37%) Trello
4 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 64 (23.88%) Figma
3 36 (13.43%) AWS
4 19 (7.09%) Amazon ECR
4 19 (7.09%) Azure
5 18 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (6.34%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
7 16 (5.97%) Serverless
8 15 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.22%) Apigee
9 14 (5.22%) SaaS
10 13 (4.85%) GCP
11 5 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 4 (1.49%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (27.61%) Broadband
2 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.75%) LTE
3 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.37%) RFID
4 1 (0.37%) RS-232
4 1 (0.37%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.97%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.49%) Redis
4 3 (1.12%) ClickHouse
5 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.37%) Big Data
6 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (5.97%) GitLab
2 14 (5.22%) Cypress.io
2 14 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.22%) Maven
2 14 (5.22%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.61%) Git
4 5 (1.87%) JIRA
5 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.37%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (24.63%) Games
2 48 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.43%) Electronics
4 35 (13.06%) Finance
5 30 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.19%) Manufacturing
6 22 (8.21%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.10%) Legal
8 11 (4.10%) Marketing
9 8 (2.99%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Law
11 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Swedish Language
12 2 (0.75%) Retail
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (21.27%) Designer
2 54 (20.15%) Lead
3 35 (13.06%) Senior
4 34 (12.69%) Developer
4 34 (12.69%) Lead Designer
5 20 (7.46%) UX Designer
6 19 (7.09%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.97%) Product Manager
9 15 (5.60%) Digital Designer
10 14 (5.22%) Lead UX Designer
11 13 (4.85%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.48%) Consultant
12 12 (4.48%) Interaction Designer
12 12 (4.48%) Systems Manager
13 10 (3.73%) Product Designer
14 9 (3.36%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) Analyst
15 8 (2.99%) Hardware Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.84%) AngularJS
2 20 (7.46%) Spring Boot
3 14 (5.22%) Gherkin
3 14 (5.22%) Jest
4 12 (4.48%) React
5 9 (3.36%) REST
6 8 (2.99%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.61%) Google JAX
7 7 (2.61%) JAX
7 7 (2.61%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.24%) .NET
8 6 (2.24%) Spring
8 6 (2.24%) Vue
9 5 (1.87%) HTML
9 5 (1.87%) LangChain
9 5 (1.87%) Node.js
10 4 (1.49%) Django
11 3 (1.12%) CSS
11 3 (1.12%) Semantic Kernel
12 2 (0.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.63%) Social Media
2 12 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.48%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (3.73%) FPGA
4 9 (3.36%) Robotics
5 8 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.61%) CUDA
6 7 (2.61%) IoT
6 7 (2.61%) Life Science
7 5 (1.87%) Analogue Electronics
7 5 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Acoustics
8 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.49%) Verilog
8 4 (1.49%) VHDL
9 3 (1.12%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.73%) Linux
2 7 (2.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.37%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (50.00%) Agile
2 127 (47.39%) AI
3 98 (36.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 95 (35.45%) Roadmaps
4 95 (35.45%) User Research
5 84 (31.34%) Product Roadmap
6 80 (29.85%) Customer Experience
7 77 (28.73%) Analytics
8 72 (26.87%) Storytelling
9 66 (24.63%) Digital Customer Experience
10 52 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (16.04%) Customer Insight
11 43 (16.04%) Workshop Facilitation
12 41 (15.30%) DevOps
12 41 (15.30%) Rapid Prototyping
12 41 (15.30%) User Experience
13 38 (14.18%) UX Design
14 36 (13.43%) Software Engineering
14 36 (13.43%) Validation
15 33 (12.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.03%) Python
2 35 (13.06%) Java
3 17 (6.34%) C
3 17 (6.34%) TypeScript
4 15 (5.60%) Bash
5 14 (5.22%) C#
5 14 (5.22%) C++
5 14 (5.22%) Groovy
6 7 (2.61%) SQL
7 5 (1.87%) Embedded C
8 3 (1.12%) Pascal
9 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.75%) Julia
9 2 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (22.39%) Degree
2 34 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (5.22%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.12%) PhD
9 3 (1.12%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.75%) HND
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) HNC
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (34.33%) Accessibility
2 37 (13.81%) WCAG
3 4 (1.49%) DO-254
3 4 (1.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.12%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.75%) QA
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (7.84%) Docker
2 10 (3.73%) Firmware
3 5 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.22%) HP Fortify
2 6 (2.24%) Terraform
3 4 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (27.61%) Adobe
2 13 (4.85%) Google
3 8 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.87%) EMC
5 4 (1.49%) Foundry
6 3 (1.12%) Motorola
7 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.37%) Planon
8 1 (0.37%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.37%) Siemens