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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 312 288
Rank change year-on-year -18 -24 +10
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 415 242 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.70% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.81% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 294 75 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £78,312 £86,000 £86,875
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 61,341 29,897 40,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.81% 87.07% 79.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,024 16,149 20,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,025
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 13 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 13 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
South East +10 115 £56,000 -10.93% 81
North of England +8 112 £55,000 -8.33% 82
East of England +18 68 £58,750 -28.79% 42
North West +3 63 £55,000 -17.79% 47
Midlands -27 45 £56,250 -4.26% 16
South West -43 37 £56,250 -33.82% 43
West Midlands -14 34 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -44 29 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Wales -54 25 £53,171 -2.88% 5
Yorkshire -21 20 £50,000 +63.93% 26
Scotland -67 13 £55,000 -25.48% 31
East Midlands -33 11 £45,000 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland -69 8 £80,000 +8.40% 23
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 (2.41%) Apache
2 8 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.69%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.45%) Confluence
5 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.30%) SOLIDWORKS
2 12 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.69%) InDesign
3 7 (1.69%) Solid Edge
4 6 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.45%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.45%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.20%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.72%) EPLAN
7 3 (0.72%) Sketch
8 2 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.48%) InVision
8 2 (0.48%) Simulink
8 2 (0.48%) Trello
8 2 (0.48%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.48%) Windchill
9 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 8 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.96%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.72%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.33%) Figma
2 46 (11.08%) AWS
3 25 (6.02%) Azure
4 18 (4.34%) Amazon S3
5 15 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.61%) Serverless
6 14 (3.37%) GCP
7 13 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.89%) dbt
9 10 (2.41%) GitHub
10 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.17%) SaaS
11 8 (1.93%) Adobe Analytics
11 8 (1.93%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.17%) Broadband
1 9 (2.17%) Wireless
2 5 (1.20%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.20%) Intranet
2 5 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.20%) WPA
3 3 (0.72%) RS-485
4 2 (0.48%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.48%) RS-232
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.24%) J1939
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.37%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.20%) Power BI
5 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.72%) Redis
6 3 (0.72%) Tableau
7 2 (0.48%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.24%) Big Data
8 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.24%) OLAP
8 1 (0.24%) OLTP
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.82%) Git
2 12 (2.89%) GitLab
2 12 (2.89%) JIRA
3 8 (1.93%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.45%) Postman
6 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.20%) Maven
6 5 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.72%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.72%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.48%) Bower
9 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.24%) ERwin
General
1 157 (37.83%) Social Skills
2 135 (32.53%) Electronics
3 113 (27.23%) Manufacturing
4 62 (14.94%) Aerospace
5 51 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (10.60%) Public Sector
8 38 (9.16%) Finance
9 29 (6.99%) Automotive
10 14 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (3.13%) Games
12 11 (2.65%) Legal
12 11 (2.65%) Marketing
12 11 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.65%) Retail
13 10 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.41%) Military
14 8 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.69%) Publishing
16 6 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (23.13%) Senior
2 58 (13.98%) Designer
2 58 (13.98%) Electronics Engineer
3 45 (10.84%) Developer
4 33 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.75%) Design Engineer
6 26 (6.27%) Lead
7 21 (5.06%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (4.34%) Architect
8 18 (4.34%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 18 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (4.34%) Systems Engineer
9 17 (4.10%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 15 (3.61%) Senior Designer
11 13 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (2.89%) Electrical Engineer
12 12 (2.89%) Electronics Technician
12 12 (2.89%) UX Designer
13 11 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.75%) React
2 20 (4.82%) .NET
3 17 (4.10%) CSS
3 17 (4.10%) HTML
4 15 (3.61%) Terraform
5 14 (3.37%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.13%) Web Services
7 9 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.17%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.17%) Kafka
7 9 (2.17%) RESTful
7 9 (2.17%) Spring
8 8 (1.93%) LangChain
9 7 (1.69%) Next.js
10 6 (1.45%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.45%) REST
10 6 (1.45%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.20%) Django
11 5 (1.20%) JSON
11 5 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.36%) Embedded Systems
2 27 (6.51%) Analogue Electronics
2 27 (6.51%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.30%) IoT
5 21 (5.06%) FPGA
6 19 (4.58%) Robotics
7 14 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.89%) Life Science
8 12 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.17%) Acoustics
10 9 (2.17%) Social Media
11 8 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.93%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.69%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.93%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Android
2 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) macOS
4 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (30.60%) Agile
2 120 (28.92%) AI
3 101 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (22.89%) Validation
5 90 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (17.11%) Rapid Prototyping
7 68 (16.39%) Mentoring
8 65 (15.66%) Software Engineering
9 55 (13.25%) CI/CD
10 50 (12.05%) User Research
11 48 (11.57%) User Experience
11 48 (11.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 44 (10.60%) Analytics
13 39 (9.40%) DevOps
13 39 (9.40%) Roadmaps
14 37 (8.92%) Service Design
15 35 (8.43%) Schematic Capture
16 33 (7.95%) Computer Science
17 32 (7.71%) CAD
17 32 (7.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.90%) Python
2 37 (8.92%) TypeScript
3 33 (7.95%) C
3 33 (7.95%) C++
4 29 (6.99%) Java
5 25 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.54%) C#
6 23 (5.54%) SQL
7 17 (4.10%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.41%) Embedded C
8 10 (2.41%) Rust
9 8 (1.93%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.45%) Bash
11 5 (1.20%) Groovy
11 5 (1.20%) PHP
11 5 (1.20%) R
12 4 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Go
15 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 152 (36.63%) Degree
2 86 (20.72%) Security Cleared
3 66 (15.90%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (5.06%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.86%) HND
6 16 (3.86%) PhD
7 14 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.41%) HNC
9 9 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.72%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.24%) OCP
14 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.22%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.10%) WCAG
3 11 (2.65%) QA
4 7 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.72%) JTAG
6 3 (0.72%) MISRA
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) DO-254
7 2 (0.48%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) ARP4754
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.24%) IASME
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 40 (9.64%) Firmware
2 24 (5.78%) Docker
3 16 (3.86%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.20%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.24%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 42 (10.12%) EMC
2 37 (8.92%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.78%) Adobe
4 23 (5.54%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.41%) SAP
6 8 (1.93%) Google
7 7 (1.69%) Thales
8 5 (1.20%) Siemens
9 4 (0.96%) Databricks
10 3 (0.72%) Apple
10 3 (0.72%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.72%) Foundry
10 3 (0.72%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.48%) Altera
11 2 (0.48%) Intel
11 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.48%) YouTube
12 1 (0.24%) Sparx
12 1 (0.24%) Splunk
12 1 (0.24%) Trend Micro