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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 246 279
Rank change year-on-year -129 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 134 383 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 1.07% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.20% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 79 154 212
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,063 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £68,950
90th Percentile £91,300 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,525 £62,644
% change year-on-year +2.15% +9.39% -7.19%

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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -63 42 £55,000 -26.67% 110
North of England -34 37 £57,500 -4.17% 62
North West -25 18 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Yorkshire -7 15 £45,705 -12.94% 29
East of England -2 14 £90,000 +63.64% 62
South West -23 13 £86,750 +15.67% 56
Wales -9 9 £61,651 -11.49% 16
Scotland -9 9 £54,500 -21.36% 12
Midlands +18 8 £60,000 +11.63% 56
West Midlands +17 7 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North East +9 4 £73,801 +32.01% 10
Northern Ireland -11 2 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East Midlands -7 1 £60,000 +50.00% 30
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 (5.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Adobe XD
1 10 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.48%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (3.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.73%) Fusion 360
3 5 (3.73%) Sketch
4 4 (2.99%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.49%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (1.49%) InVision
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.75%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.75%) Blender
6 1 (0.75%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.75%) Maya
6 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.75%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.60%) Figma
2 27 (20.15%) Azure
3 23 (17.16%) AWS
4 16 (11.94%) GCP
5 14 (10.45%) Amazon ECR
5 14 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (9.70%) Adobe Analytics
7 11 (8.21%) PaaS
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (7.46%) dbt
8 10 (7.46%) Pulumi
8 10 (7.46%) Sentry
9 9 (6.72%) Miro
9 9 (6.72%) SaaS
10 7 (5.22%) GitHub
11 6 (4.48%) Serverless
12 4 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (2.99%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.94%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.73%) Bluetooth
2 5 (3.73%) Firewall
3 4 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.99%) Modbus
3 4 (2.99%) Network Security
3 4 (2.99%) VLAN
3 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.99%) ZigBee
4 3 (2.24%) Broadband
4 3 (2.24%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (1.49%) 2G
5 2 (1.49%) 4G
5 2 (1.49%) 5G
5 2 (1.49%) DNS
5 2 (1.49%) HTTP
5 2 (1.49%) ICMP
6 1 (0.75%) LTE
6 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (7.46%) Redis
2 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.75%) GIS
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Axure RP
2 9 (6.72%) Git
3 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) Balsamiq
4 6 (4.48%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.99%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.99%) GitLab
5 4 (2.99%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.99%) Maven
5 4 (2.99%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.93%) Finance
4 16 (11.94%) Law
5 13 (9.70%) Manufacturing
5 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.21%) Banking
7 11 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (7.46%) Electronics
9 7 (5.22%) Marketing
9 7 (5.22%) Retail
10 5 (3.73%) Aerospace
10 5 (3.73%) Legal
11 4 (2.99%) Games
11 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.24%) Aviation
13 2 (1.49%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (20.90%) Senior
2 27 (20.15%) Designer
3 17 (12.69%) Developer
4 11 (8.21%) Strategy Manager
5 10 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Product Designer
5 10 (7.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Consultant
7 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) Architect
8 7 (5.22%) Machine Learning Consultant
8 7 (5.22%) Test Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) UX Designer
9 6 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.48%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Senior Strategy Manager
10 5 (3.73%) Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Interaction Designer
11 4 (2.99%) Graduate Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) CSS
2 12 (8.96%) HTML
3 10 (7.46%) AngularJS
3 10 (7.46%) Django
3 10 (7.46%) React
4 9 (6.72%) PyTorch
4 9 (6.72%) REST
5 8 (5.97%) TensorFlow
6 7 (5.22%) Google JAX
6 7 (5.22%) JAX
7 6 (4.48%) Jest
7 6 (4.48%) JSON
7 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.48%) Vue
7 6 (4.48%) XML
8 4 (2.99%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.24%) Framer.js
9 3 (2.24%) Next.js
10 2 (1.49%) Flash
10 2 (1.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.22%) CUDA
6 5 (3.73%) IoT
7 4 (2.99%) Animation
7 4 (2.99%) CAN bus
7 4 (2.99%) Life Science
7 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.99%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.99%) SCADA
8 3 (2.24%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (2.24%) Robotics
8 3 (2.24%) Social Media
9 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.93%) Linux
2 10 (7.46%) Unix
3 5 (3.73%) Android
4 4 (2.99%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.78%) Agile
1 60 (44.78%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (40.30%) User Experience
3 38 (28.36%) Wireframes
4 32 (23.88%) UX Design
5 29 (21.64%) AI
6 27 (20.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 25 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
8 24 (17.91%) Machine Learning
8 24 (17.91%) User Research
9 21 (15.67%) Analytics
9 21 (15.67%) DevOps
10 20 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (14.18%) Computer Science
11 19 (14.18%) Storytelling
12 18 (13.43%) Clean Code
12 18 (13.43%) Customer Experience
13 17 (12.69%) CI/CD
13 17 (12.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.36%) Python
2 15 (11.19%) C++
3 14 (10.45%) Java
4 11 (8.21%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.97%) C#
6 7 (5.22%) C
7 6 (4.48%) SQL
7 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.99%) Bash
8 4 (2.99%) Delphi
8 4 (2.99%) Groovy
8 4 (2.99%) R
8 4 (2.99%) Rust
9 3 (2.24%) Go
9 3 (2.24%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.75%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.75%) Julia
10 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.36%) Degree
3 28 (20.90%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.46%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.99%) HNC
7 4 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.99%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (2.24%) HND
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) MCP
9 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.61%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.72%) WCAG
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 13485
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.24%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (11.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.46%) AWS Copilot
1 10 (7.46%) Terraform
2 4 (2.99%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.99%) Nessus
2 4 (2.99%) Nmap
3 1 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Adobe
2 16 (11.94%) Google
3 15 (11.19%) Qualtrics
4 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.99%) Autodesk
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco
5 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.99%) Sage
5 4 (2.99%) Splunk
6 2 (1.49%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.75%) Palantir
7 1 (0.75%) Remedy
7 1 (0.75%) Siemens
7 1 (0.75%) VMware