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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 325 278
Rank change year-on-year -6 -47 +32
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 407 242 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.70% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.81% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 289 75 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £46,144
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -

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 61,098 29,971 40,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.75% 87.08% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42,849 16,150 20,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,049
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 October 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 October 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 +16 110 £55,000 -8.33% 80
South East +2 110 £56,000 -10.93% 86
East of England +16 68 £58,750 -28.79% 41
North West +8 63 £55,000 -17.79% 43
Midlands -18 45 £56,250 -4.26% 16
South West -43 36 £55,000 -35.29% 41
West Midlands -13 34 £57,500 -4.17% 13
North East -42 29 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Wales -50 25 £53,171 -2.88% 5
Yorkshire -30 18 £50,000 +63.93% 26
Scotland -67 13 £55,000 -25.48% 31
East Midlands -31 11 £45,000 +36.36% 3
Northern Ireland -67 8 £80,000 +8.40% 22
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 10 (2.46%) Apache
2 8 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.41%) SOLIDWORKS
2 12 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.72%) InDesign
3 7 (1.72%) Solid Edge
4 6 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.47%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.47%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.23%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.23%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.74%) EPLAN
7 3 (0.74%) Sketch
8 2 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.49%) InVision
8 2 (0.49%) Simulink
8 2 (0.49%) Trello
8 2 (0.49%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.49%) Windchill
9 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 8 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.98%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.74%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (11.30%) AWS
1 46 (11.30%) Figma
2 25 (6.14%) Azure
3 18 (4.42%) Amazon S3
4 15 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (3.69%) Serverless
5 14 (3.44%) GCP
6 13 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.95%) dbt
8 10 (2.46%) GitHub
9 9 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.21%) SaaS
10 8 (1.97%) Adobe Analytics
10 8 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.21%) Broadband
2 8 (1.97%) Wireless
3 5 (1.23%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.23%) Intranet
3 5 (1.23%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.23%) WPA
4 3 (0.74%) RS-485
5 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.49%) RS-232
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) J1939
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.44%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.23%) Power BI
5 4 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.74%) Redis
6 3 (0.74%) Tableau
7 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.49%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.25%) Big Data
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) OLAP
8 1 (0.25%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (0.25%) OLTP
8 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.91%) Git
2 12 (2.95%) GitLab
2 12 (2.95%) JIRA
3 8 (1.97%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.47%) Postman
6 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.23%) Maven
6 5 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.74%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.74%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.49%) Bower
9 1 (0.25%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.25%) ERwin
General
1 154 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 129 (31.70%) Electronics
3 109 (26.78%) Manufacturing
4 58 (14.25%) Aerospace
5 50 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (10.81%) Public Sector
8 38 (9.34%) Finance
9 28 (6.88%) Automotive
10 14 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.95%) Games
12 11 (2.70%) Legal
12 11 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.46%) Marketing
13 10 (2.46%) Military
13 10 (2.46%) Retail
14 7 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.72%) Publishing
15 6 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (23.59%) Senior
2 57 (14.00%) Designer
3 54 (13.27%) Electronics Engineer
4 45 (11.06%) Developer
5 33 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 26 (6.39%) Lead
7 23 (5.65%) Design Engineer
8 21 (5.16%) Interaction Designer
9 18 (4.42%) Architect
9 18 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.18%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 15 (3.69%) Senior Designer
12 14 (3.44%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 13 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (2.95%) Electrical Engineer
14 12 (2.95%) Electronics Technician
14 12 (2.95%) UX Designer
15 11 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 11 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.88%) React
2 20 (4.91%) .NET
3 16 (3.93%) CSS
3 16 (3.93%) HTML
4 15 (3.69%) Terraform
5 14 (3.44%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.19%) Web Services
7 9 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.21%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.21%) Kafka
7 9 (2.21%) RESTful
7 9 (2.21%) Spring
8 8 (1.97%) LangChain
9 7 (1.72%) Next.js
10 6 (1.47%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.47%) REST
10 6 (1.47%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.23%) Ajax
11 5 (1.23%) Gherkin
11 5 (1.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.32%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (5.65%) Analogue Electronics
3 23 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.16%) FPGA
4 21 (5.16%) IoT
5 19 (4.67%) Robotics
6 14 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.95%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.70%) Life Science
9 10 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.21%) Acoustics
10 9 (2.21%) Social Media
11 8 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.97%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.97%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.72%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.97%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Android
2 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) macOS
4 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.96%) Agile
2 119 (29.24%) AI
3 97 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 89 (21.87%) Validation
5 70 (17.20%) Rapid Prototyping
6 66 (16.22%) Mentoring
7 64 (15.72%) Software Engineering
8 54 (13.27%) CI/CD
9 49 (12.04%) User Research
10 48 (11.79%) User Experience
10 48 (11.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 44 (10.81%) Analytics
12 39 (9.58%) DevOps
12 39 (9.58%) Roadmaps
13 37 (9.09%) Service Design
14 32 (7.86%) Computer Science
14 32 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (7.62%) CAD
15 31 (7.62%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.97%) Python
2 37 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 32 (7.86%) C++
4 30 (7.37%) C
5 29 (7.13%) Java
6 25 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.65%) C#
7 23 (5.65%) SQL
8 17 (4.18%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.46%) Rust
10 8 (1.97%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.72%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.47%) Bash
13 5 (1.23%) Groovy
13 5 (1.23%) PHP
14 4 (0.98%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.98%) R
15 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.49%) Go
17 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 146 (35.87%) Degree
2 85 (20.88%) Security Cleared
3 65 (15.97%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (4.67%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.69%) HND
6 15 (3.69%) PhD
7 14 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.21%) HNC
9 7 (1.72%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.25%) OCP
14 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.50%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.18%) WCAG
3 11 (2.70%) QA
4 7 (1.72%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.74%) JTAG
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.49%) MISRA
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.25%) DO-254
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) IASME
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 38 (9.34%) Firmware
2 24 (5.90%) Docker
3 15 (3.69%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.23%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 37 (9.09%) EMC
1 37 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.90%) Adobe
3 23 (5.65%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.46%) SAP
5 8 (1.97%) Google
6 6 (1.47%) Thales
7 5 (1.23%) Siemens
8 4 (0.98%) Databricks
9 3 (0.74%) Apple
9 3 (0.74%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.74%) Foundry
9 3 (0.74%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.49%) Altera
10 2 (0.49%) Intel
10 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.49%) YouTube
11 1 (0.25%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.25%) Sparx
11 1 (0.25%) Trend Micro