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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 286 359
Rank change year-on-year -61 +73 -62
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 308 297 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.99% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 169 91 210
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%

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 51,636 29,972 50,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 87.95% 79.26%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 16,272 33,672
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 26 July 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 July 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 -8 77 £50,000 -24.60% 33
East of England +39 74 £74,000 +64.44% 20
South East -19 72 £56,500 -7.00% 48
North West +1 33 £50,000 -27.94% 21
Yorkshire -21 26 £65,000 +9.24% 5
South West -60 21 £60,000 -5.88% 24
Midlands -42 19 £68,665 +16.88% 10
Wales -43 19 £53,171 -22.38% 5
North East -38 18 £56,250 -13.46% 7
West Midlands -17 16 £74,830 +24.72% 9
Scotland -65 15 £52,250 -16.82% 8
Northern Ireland -56 11 £80,000 -
East Midlands -42 3 £60,000 +81.82% 1
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 4 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (0.97%) Confluence
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 6 (1.95%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.95%) InDesign
1 6 (1.95%) Sketch
2 5 (1.62%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (1.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.62%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.62%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.65%) CATIA
3 2 (0.65%) InVision
3 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.65%) Trello
3 2 (0.65%) Windchill
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.32%) Simulink
4 1 (0.32%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.73%) Figma
2 63 (20.45%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (12.66%) AWS
4 26 (8.44%) Azure
5 17 (5.52%) Amazon ECR
5 17 (5.52%) Amazon S3
5 17 (5.52%) GCP
6 15 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (4.87%) dbt
6 15 (4.87%) Serverless
7 13 (4.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (3.57%) Apigee
8 11 (3.57%) SaaS
9 10 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.30%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 71 (23.05%) Broadband
2 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.62%) Intranet
3 5 (1.62%) WPA
4 3 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.97%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.32%) LTE
5 1 (0.32%) RS-232
5 1 (0.32%) RS-485
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.87%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.27%) Redis
3 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.97%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.32%) Big Data
8 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.52%) Git
2 14 (4.55%) GitLab
3 13 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.57%) Cypress.io
4 11 (3.57%) Maven
4 11 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.60%) JIRA
5 8 (2.60%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.30%) Postman
7 3 (0.97%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.97%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.65%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.65%) Bower
8 2 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.45%) Games
3 48 (15.58%) Electronics
4 41 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 30 (9.74%) Finance
6 30 (9.74%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.90%) Legal
8 10 (3.25%) Marketing
8 10 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.92%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Swedish Language
13 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Law
14 2 (0.65%) Retail
15 1 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 65 (21.10%) Designer
2 52 (16.88%) Lead
3 50 (16.23%) Senior
4 44 (14.29%) Developer
5 31 (10.06%) Lead Designer
6 28 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
7 26 (8.44%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.17%) Interaction Designer
9 18 (5.84%) Architect
9 18 (5.84%) UX Designer
10 16 (5.19%) Product Manager
11 14 (4.55%) Digital Designer
11 14 (4.55%) Lead UX Designer
12 12 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.90%) Hardware Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Systems Manager
13 11 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.57%) Technical Architect
14 10 (3.25%) Senior Designer
14 10 (3.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.52%) AngularJS
2 14 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 13 (4.22%) .NET
3 13 (4.22%) React
4 12 (3.90%) HTML
5 11 (3.57%) Gherkin
5 11 (3.57%) Jest
6 10 (3.25%) CSS
7 8 (2.60%) Web Services
8 7 (2.27%) LangChain
9 6 (1.95%) JSON
9 6 (1.95%) RESTful
9 6 (1.95%) XML
10 5 (1.62%) Ajax
10 5 (1.62%) jQuery
10 5 (1.62%) REST
11 4 (1.30%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.30%) Django
12 3 (0.97%) Google JAX
12 3 (0.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.45%) Social Media
2 17 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (4.55%) FPGA
4 14 (4.55%) IoT
5 13 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.92%) Robotics
8 8 (2.60%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.27%) Life Science
9 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.27%) Verilog
9 7 (2.27%) VHDL
10 6 (1.95%) FMCG
11 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.90%) Linux
2 7 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.32%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (51.62%) Agile
2 145 (47.08%) AI
3 98 (31.82%) User Research
3 98 (31.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 96 (31.17%) Roadmaps
5 82 (26.62%) Analytics
6 78 (25.32%) Product Roadmap
7 75 (24.35%) Customer Experience
8 67 (21.75%) Storytelling
9 63 (20.45%) Digital Customer Experience
10 60 (19.48%) Rapid Prototyping
11 48 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (15.58%) User Experience
12 47 (15.26%) Validation
13 44 (14.29%) Software Engineering
14 43 (13.96%) Customer Insight
15 42 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
16 39 (12.66%) CI/CD
17 36 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (11.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 59 (19.16%) Python
2 32 (10.39%) Java
3 24 (7.79%) C
4 23 (7.47%) C++
5 22 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.82%) C#
7 14 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.22%) SQL
9 12 (3.90%) Bash
10 11 (3.57%) Groovy
10 11 (3.57%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.62%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.62%) PHP
12 3 (0.97%) Pascal
12 3 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.97%) Rust
13 2 (0.65%) Go
13 2 (0.65%) Julia
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 80 (25.97%) Degree
2 45 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.49%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.57%) PhD
7 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.62%) HND
9 3 (0.97%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) HNC
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (29.55%) Accessibility
2 38 (12.34%) WCAG
3 4 (1.30%) DO-254
3 4 (1.30%) QA
4 3 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) JTAG
6 1 (0.32%) DO-178B
System Software
1 26 (8.44%) Docker
2 13 (4.22%) Firmware
3 7 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.57%) HP Fortify
2 9 (2.92%) Terraform
3 6 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 76 (24.68%) Adobe
2 21 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.19%) Google
4 14 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.60%) EMC
6 4 (1.30%) Foundry
7 3 (0.97%) Motorola
7 3 (0.97%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.65%) Altera
8 2 (0.65%) Intel
9 1 (0.32%) Databricks
9 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.32%) SAP