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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 310 303
Rank change year-on-year -53 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 353 262 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.88% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 247 75 133
10th Percentile £38,441 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £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 £86,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -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 60,318 29,730 42,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.36% 86.71% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 42,477 16,113 22,475
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 £89,200 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 24 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 24 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 +2 99 £55,000 -4.35% 103
South East -27 85 £57,500 -11.54% 161
East of England +11 61 £60,000 +14.29% 113
North West +4 51 £51,250 -14.58% 64
Midlands -34 38 £56,250 -6.25% 52
West Midlands -27 29 £57,500 -4.17% 43
South West -58 28 £60,000 -29.41% 120
North East -43 26 £58,750 -9.62% 14
Yorkshire -24 22 £57,500 +88.52% 25
Wales -61 22 £53,171 -2.88% 14
Scotland -79 12 £55,000 - 46
Northern Ireland -76 11 £80,000 - 16
East Midlands -30 9 £45,000 +36.36% 9
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 7 (1.98%) Apache
2 6 (1.70%) Confluence
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (6.52%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.27%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.98%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.98%) InDesign
3 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.57%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.57%) InVision
6 2 (0.57%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.57%) Simulink
6 2 (0.57%) Trello
6 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.57%) Windchill
7 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.88%) Figma
2 44 (12.46%) AWS
3 24 (6.80%) Azure
4 19 (5.38%) Amazon S3
5 17 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (4.82%) Serverless
6 12 (3.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.40%) dbt
6 12 (3.40%) GCP
6 12 (3.40%) SaaS
7 11 (3.12%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.83%) GitHub
9 9 (2.55%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.98%) Apigee
12 6 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.40%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) Intranet
2 5 (1.42%) WPA
3 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.13%) Wireless
4 3 (0.85%) RS-485
5 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.57%) RS-232
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.53%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.13%) Power BI
5 3 (0.85%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.85%) Redis
5 3 (0.85%) Tableau
6 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.57%) 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 17 (4.82%) Git
2 11 (3.12%) GitLab
3 10 (2.83%) JIRA
4 9 (2.55%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.27%) LabVIEW
6 7 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.98%) Maven
6 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.70%) Postman
8 3 (0.85%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.57%) Bower
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.28%) ERwin
10 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 134 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 100 (28.33%) Electronics
3 82 (23.23%) Manufacturing
4 47 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (12.18%) Aerospace
7 36 (10.20%) Public Sector
8 35 (9.92%) Finance
9 18 (5.10%) Automotive
10 15 (4.25%) Games
11 13 (3.68%) Legal
11 13 (3.68%) Marketing
12 11 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.55%) Retail
14 8 (2.27%) Military
14 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.98%) Publishing
16 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (21.53%) Senior
2 53 (15.01%) Designer
3 49 (13.88%) Developer
4 32 (9.07%) Software Engineer
5 30 (8.50%) Electronics Engineer
6 29 (8.22%) Lead
7 21 (5.95%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.67%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.38%) Architect
10 18 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.97%) Senior Designer
12 13 (3.68%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.40%) UX Designer
14 11 (3.12%) Consultant
14 11 (3.12%) Design Engineer
14 11 (3.12%) Electronics Technician
14 11 (3.12%) Product Manager
14 11 (3.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.50%) React
2 20 (5.67%) .NET
3 17 (4.82%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.97%) AngularJS
4 14 (3.97%) CSS
4 14 (3.97%) HTML
5 12 (3.40%) Terraform
6 11 (3.12%) Web Services
7 10 (2.83%) Spring
8 9 (2.55%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.55%) RESTful
9 8 (2.27%) Kafka
9 8 (2.27%) LangChain
10 7 (1.98%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.98%) Jest
10 7 (1.98%) Next.js
11 6 (1.70%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.70%) REST
11 6 (1.70%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.78%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.10%) IoT
4 18 (5.10%) Robotics
5 17 (4.82%) FPGA
6 15 (4.25%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.68%) Social Media
8 12 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.12%) Life Science
10 10 (2.83%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.98%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.98%) Media Streaming
12 7 (1.98%) Podcast
12 7 (1.98%) VHDL
13 6 (1.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.98%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Android
2 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (33.71%) Agile
2 115 (32.58%) AI
3 75 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (20.40%) Validation
6 66 (18.70%) Rapid Prototyping
7 58 (16.43%) Mentoring
8 55 (15.58%) Software Engineering
9 52 (14.73%) CI/CD
10 51 (14.45%) User Research
11 50 (14.16%) User Experience
12 49 (13.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 48 (13.60%) Analytics
14 45 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 39 (11.05%) DevOps
16 32 (9.07%) UX Design
17 30 (8.50%) Physics
17 30 (8.50%) Technical Leadership
18 29 (8.22%) CAD
18 29 (8.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.58%) Python
2 34 (9.63%) TypeScript
3 29 (8.22%) Java
4 27 (7.65%) C++
5 24 (6.80%) C
6 23 (6.52%) C#
7 21 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.95%) SQL
8 14 (3.97%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.27%) Bash
10 7 (1.98%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.98%) Groovy
10 7 (1.98%) Rust
11 5 (1.42%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.57%) Go
13 2 (0.57%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 121 (34.28%) Degree
2 72 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 51 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.67%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.97%) PhD
7 11 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.12%) HND
8 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.98%) HNC
9 7 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.15%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.53%) WCAG
3 12 (3.40%) QA
4 4 (1.13%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.85%) DO-254
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) JTAG
6 2 (0.57%) 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 28 (7.93%) Firmware
2 20 (5.67%) Docker
3 8 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.98%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 31 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.93%) Adobe
3 24 (6.80%) EMC
4 23 (6.52%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.27%) Google
5 8 (2.27%) SAP
6 4 (1.13%) Databricks
6 4 (1.13%) Thales
7 3 (0.85%) Apple
7 3 (0.85%) Siemens
7 3 (0.85%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.57%) Altera
8 2 (0.57%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.57%) Foundry
8 2 (0.57%) Intel
8 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.57%) YouTube
9 1 (0.28%) Sparx
9 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.28%) Xamarin