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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 296 364
Rank change year-on-year -44 +68 -91
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 344 299 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.86% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.99% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 200 93 178
10th Percentile £40,450 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £73,628 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.54% -9.54%

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 54,375 30,230 47,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.50% 87.42% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 38,201 16,507 29,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £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% - -9.09%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -15 86 £56,500 -7.00% 60
North of England -12 83 £52,500 -19.23% 51
East of England +26 74 £61,250 +36.11% 45
North West -8 38 £50,000 -27.01% 29
South West -54 30 £60,000 -5.88% 34
Yorkshire -20 24 £65,000 +20.37% 7
Midlands -51 23 £60,000 - 18
Wales -42 22 £53,171 -22.38% 4
North East -42 21 £57,500 -11.54% 15
West Midlands -31 18 £61,250 +2.08% 14
Scotland -69 15 £52,250 -16.82% 14
Northern Ireland -61 11 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -32 5 £50,000 +51.52% 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 5 (1.45%) Apache
1 5 (1.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.07%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.33%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.03%) InDesign
4 6 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.74%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.74%) Sketch
5 5 (1.45%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.45%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.45%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.58%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.58%) InVision
7 2 (0.58%) Trello
7 2 (0.58%) Windchill
8 1 (0.29%) CATIA
8 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.87%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.58%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (19.77%) Figma
2 55 (15.99%) Adobe Analytics
3 42 (12.21%) AWS
4 29 (8.43%) Azure
5 20 (5.81%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.23%) GCP
6 18 (5.23%) Serverless
7 15 (4.36%) Amazon ECR
7 15 (4.36%) dbt
8 14 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.49%) SaaS
11 11 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (2.62%) Apigee
13 8 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.33%) GitHub
14 7 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (2.03%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.74%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.31%) Broadband
2 6 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.45%) Intranet
3 5 (1.45%) WPA
4 3 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.87%) Wireless
5 2 (0.58%) RS-485
6 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.29%) LTE
6 1 (0.29%) RS-232
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.94%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.03%) Redis
3 6 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.87%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.58%) Power BI
7 2 (0.58%) Tableau
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Flink
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) Looker
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.94%) Git
2 12 (3.49%) GitLab
3 11 (3.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.91%) JIRA
5 9 (2.62%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.62%) Maven
5 9 (2.62%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.33%) LabVIEW
7 6 (1.74%) Postman
8 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.87%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.58%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.58%) Bower
9 2 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.29%) ERwin
10 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.48%) Electronics
3 55 (15.99%) Games
4 49 (14.24%) Manufacturing
5 47 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (13.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (10.76%) Finance
7 32 (9.30%) Public Sector
8 27 (7.85%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.78%) Legal
10 12 (3.49%) Marketing
10 12 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Automotive
11 9 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Swedish Language
14 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Retail
15 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (18.31%) Senior
2 61 (17.73%) Designer
3 49 (14.24%) Developer
4 45 (13.08%) Lead
5 28 (8.14%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 24 (6.98%) Lead Designer
8 21 (6.10%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.52%) Architect
10 16 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.65%) Product Manager
11 15 (4.36%) UX Designer
12 13 (3.78%) Consultant
13 12 (3.49%) Electronics Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Lead UX Designer
13 12 (3.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Systems Manager
14 11 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.20%) Hardware Engineer
14 11 (3.20%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.23%) React
2 15 (4.36%) AngularJS
3 14 (4.07%) .NET
4 12 (3.49%) HTML
4 12 (3.49%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.20%) LangChain
6 10 (2.91%) CSS
6 10 (2.91%) Web Services
7 9 (2.62%) Gherkin
7 9 (2.62%) Jest
7 9 (2.62%) RESTful
8 8 (2.33%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.74%) JSON
9 6 (1.74%) Next.js
9 6 (1.74%) XML
10 5 (1.45%) Ajax
10 5 (1.45%) Django
10 5 (1.45%) jQuery
10 5 (1.45%) REST
10 5 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.99%) Social Media
2 25 (7.27%) Embedded Systems
3 23 (6.69%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.23%) FPGA
5 15 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.78%) IoT
7 12 (3.49%) Life Science
7 12 (3.49%) Robotics
8 10 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.91%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.62%) Analogue Electronics
9 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.33%) VHDL
11 7 (2.03%) Acoustics
11 7 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.03%) Verilog
12 6 (1.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.49%) Linux
2 7 (2.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (47.09%) Agile
2 148 (43.02%) AI
3 91 (26.45%) User Research
4 89 (25.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 88 (25.58%) Roadmaps
6 80 (23.26%) Analytics
7 69 (20.06%) Customer Experience
7 69 (20.06%) Product Roadmap
8 68 (19.77%) Rapid Prototyping
9 59 (17.15%) Storytelling
9 59 (17.15%) Validation
10 58 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (15.99%) Digital Customer Experience
12 54 (15.70%) User Experience
13 51 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (14.24%) Mentoring
15 46 (13.37%) Software Engineering
16 42 (12.21%) CI/CD
17 38 (11.05%) UX Design
18 37 (10.76%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 62 (18.02%) Python
2 32 (9.30%) Java
3 25 (7.27%) C
4 24 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.69%) C++
6 22 (6.40%) C#
7 15 (4.36%) SQL
8 14 (4.07%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.20%) MATLAB
10 10 (2.91%) Bash
11 9 (2.62%) Groovy
12 6 (1.74%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.45%) PHP
14 3 (0.87%) Pascal
14 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.87%) Rust
15 2 (0.58%) Go
15 2 (0.58%) Julia
16 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 97 (28.20%) Degree
2 60 (17.44%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.81%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.49%) PhD
8 10 (2.91%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.03%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.03%) HND
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.87%) HNC
11 3 (0.87%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.29%) OCP
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (26.16%) Accessibility
2 36 (10.47%) WCAG
3 6 (1.74%) QA
4 4 (1.16%) DO-254
4 4 (1.16%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) JTAG
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (7.27%) Docker
2 18 (5.23%) Firmware
3 7 (2.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (4.07%) Terraform
2 9 (2.62%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.03%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.16%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 69 (20.06%) Adobe
2 23 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.81%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.65%) Google
5 13 (3.78%) EMC
6 6 (1.74%) SAP
7 5 (1.45%) Foundry
8 3 (0.87%) Motorola
8 3 (0.87%) Siemens
8 3 (0.87%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.58%) Altera
9 2 (0.58%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.58%) Databricks
9 2 (0.58%) Intel
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Sparx