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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 281 371
Rank change year-on-year -52 +90 -63
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 280 291 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.99% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.08% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 140 87 261
10th Percentile £42,472 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,200 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +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 46,318 26,901 62,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.63% 91.20% 80.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32,280 13,607 43,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £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 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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
East of England +42 75 £62,500 +38.89% 24
North of England -10 72 £55,000 -19.71% 30
South East -9 60 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Yorkshire -14 32 £67,500 -20.82% 6
North West +5 25 £50,000 -27.01% 19
South West -65 22 £60,000 -12.44% 25
Midlands -25 20 £60,000 +4.35% 13
West Midlands -20 17 £57,500 -4.17% 9
North East -31 15 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Scotland -78 12 £54,500 +19.43% 17
Wales -36 11 £53,171 -21.88% 6
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -40 3 £60,000 +81.82% 4
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 3 (1.07%) Apache
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Adobe XD
1 6 (2.14%) MS Visio
1 6 (2.14%) Sketch
1 6 (2.14%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.07%) Fusion 360
3 2 (0.71%) CATIA
3 2 (0.71%) InVision
3 2 (0.71%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.71%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.71%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.36%) Blender
4 1 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.36%) InDesign
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Solid Edge
4 1 (0.36%) Windchill
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 67 (23.93%) Figma
2 66 (23.57%) Adobe Analytics
3 38 (13.57%) AWS
4 22 (7.86%) Azure
5 19 (6.79%) Amazon ECR
6 18 (6.43%) Amazon S3
7 17 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.71%) Serverless
9 15 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (5.00%) GCP
10 14 (5.00%) SaaS
11 13 (4.64%) Apigee
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 4 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (26.07%) Broadband
2 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.71%) Intranet
3 2 (0.71%) LTE
3 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.71%) Wireless
4 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.36%) RS-232
4 1 (0.36%) RS-485
4 1 (0.36%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.71%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.79%) Redis
4 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.07%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (5.71%) GitLab
2 14 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.64%) Cypress.io
3 13 (4.64%) Maven
3 13 (4.64%) SonarQube
4 10 (3.57%) Git
5 7 (2.50%) JIRA
6 2 (0.71%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
6 2 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.36%) Bower
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (23.21%) Games
2 52 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.21%) Electronics
3 37 (13.21%) Finance
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (11.07%) Manufacturing
6 28 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.64%) Legal
9 12 (4.29%) Marketing
10 9 (3.21%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.43%) Law
13 4 (1.43%) Swedish Language
14 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.71%) Retail
15 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (21.79%) Designer
2 53 (18.93%) Lead
3 40 (14.29%) Senior
4 39 (13.93%) Developer
5 33 (11.79%) Lead Designer
6 20 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.14%) UX Designer
7 18 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (5.71%) Product Manager
9 15 (5.36%) Digital Designer
9 15 (5.36%) Interaction Designer
10 14 (5.00%) Lead UX Designer
11 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.29%) Systems Manager
12 11 (3.93%) Consultant
13 10 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.57%) Hardware Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (2.86%) Senior Designer
14 8 (2.86%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 19 (6.79%) Spring Boot
3 15 (5.36%) React
4 13 (4.64%) Gherkin
4 13 (4.64%) Jest
5 9 (3.21%) REST
6 8 (2.86%) .NET
6 8 (2.86%) HTML
7 7 (2.50%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.14%) CSS
8 6 (2.14%) Google JAX
8 6 (2.14%) JAX
8 6 (2.14%) LangChain
8 6 (2.14%) Spring
8 6 (2.14%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.14%) Vue
9 5 (1.79%) Node.js
9 5 (1.79%) Web Services
10 4 (1.43%) Django
11 3 (1.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.21%) Social Media
2 15 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.64%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (3.57%) FPGA
5 9 (3.21%) IoT
5 9 (3.21%) Robotics
6 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.50%) Life Science
8 6 (2.14%) CUDA
8 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.79%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.43%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.43%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.93%) Linux
2 7 (2.50%) 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 (49.64%) Agile
2 132 (47.14%) AI
3 99 (35.36%) User Research
4 98 (35.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 93 (33.21%) Roadmaps
6 82 (29.29%) Product Roadmap
7 80 (28.57%) Analytics
8 79 (28.21%) Customer Experience
9 70 (25.00%) Storytelling
10 65 (23.21%) Digital Customer Experience
11 53 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (15.71%) Customer Insight
12 44 (15.71%) User Experience
13 43 (15.36%) Workshop Facilitation
14 42 (15.00%) DevOps
14 42 (15.00%) Rapid Prototyping
15 39 (13.93%) Validation
16 37 (13.21%) Software Engineering
16 37 (13.21%) UX Design
17 35 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.93%) Python
2 36 (12.86%) Java
3 19 (6.79%) C
4 18 (6.43%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.71%) C#
5 16 (5.71%) C++
6 14 (5.00%) Bash
7 13 (4.64%) Groovy
8 12 (4.29%) SQL
9 6 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.79%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.07%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.07%) Pascal
11 3 (1.07%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) Julia
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (22.14%) Degree
2 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.64%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (4.64%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.07%) HND
7 3 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.07%) PhD
7 3 (1.07%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) HNC
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (33.93%) Accessibility
2 39 (13.93%) WCAG
3 4 (1.43%) DO-254
3 4 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (8.21%) Docker
2 11 (3.93%) Firmware
3 6 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.64%) HP Fortify
2 8 (2.86%) Terraform
3 4 (1.43%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (27.14%) Adobe
2 14 (5.00%) Google
3 10 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.14%) EMC
5 4 (1.43%) 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