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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 259 286
Rank change year-on-year -101 +27 -9
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 145 414 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.97% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.14% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 76 185 189
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,750 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

All Process and 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 32,488 36,200 27,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.80% 84.59% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,839 17,533 20,384
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 -43 60 £55,000 -26.67% 77
North of England -36 28 £50,000 -16.67% 50
North West -9 17 £57,500 -4.17% 31
Midlands +31 13 £60,000 +2.63% 33
East of England -6 12 £90,000 +63.64% 42
South West -3 11 £85,000 +13.33% 18
Scotland -11 10 £64,151 -4.47% 13
Wales -17 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
Yorkshire -14 8 £30,500 -46.24% 14
East Midlands +20 7 £60,000 +50.00% 8
West Midlands +24 6 £61,250 +4.76% 24
North East +2 3 £73,801 +19.55% 6
Northern Ireland -8 2 £73,801 +13.54% 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 7 (4.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.90%) Adobe XD
2 8 (5.52%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.45%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.76%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.76%) Sketch
5 2 (1.38%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.38%) InVision
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.69%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.69%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.69%) Maya
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.66%) Azure
2 38 (26.21%) Figma
3 33 (22.76%) AWS
4 31 (21.38%) GCP
5 15 (10.34%) Azure AI
5 15 (10.34%) Vertex AI
6 11 (7.59%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (7.59%) PaaS
7 10 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.90%) dbt
7 10 (6.90%) Pulumi
7 10 (6.90%) Sentry
8 9 (6.21%) Miro
9 7 (4.83%) GitHub
10 6 (4.14%) SaaS
11 4 (2.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.03%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.97%) Modbus
3 9 (6.21%) Ethernet
3 9 (6.21%) MQTT
4 5 (3.45%) Firewall
5 4 (2.76%) Bluetooth
5 4 (2.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.76%) Network Security
5 4 (2.76%) VLAN
5 4 (2.76%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.76%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.38%) 2G
6 2 (1.38%) 4G
6 2 (1.38%) 5G
6 2 (1.38%) DNS
6 2 (1.38%) HTTP
6 2 (1.38%) ICMP
6 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.90%) Redis
2 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.69%) GIS
4 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Axure RP
2 9 (6.21%) Git
3 8 (5.52%) JIRA
4 5 (3.45%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.76%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.76%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.76%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.76%) MSI
6 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.07%) Law
3 24 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.10%) Manufacturing
5 17 (11.72%) Legal
6 16 (11.03%) Finance
7 13 (8.97%) Banking
8 12 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
10 10 (6.90%) Electronics
10 10 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (5.52%) Retail
12 6 (4.14%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.76%) Marketing
14 3 (2.07%) Aviation
14 3 (2.07%) Games
15 2 (1.38%) Digital Health
15 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.76%) Senior
2 24 (16.55%) Designer
3 15 (10.34%) Product Delivery Manager
3 15 (10.34%) Product Manager
4 12 (8.28%) Developer
5 11 (7.59%) Architect
5 11 (7.59%) Strategy Manager
6 10 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Product Designer
8 7 (4.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) UX Designer
9 6 (4.14%) Consultant
9 6 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.14%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.14%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.41%) CSS
2 12 (8.28%) HTML
3 10 (6.90%) Django
4 7 (4.83%) React
5 6 (4.14%) JSON
5 6 (4.14%) REST
5 6 (4.14%) XML
6 5 (3.45%) .NET
6 5 (3.45%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.45%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.76%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.76%) Google JAX
7 4 (2.76%) JAX
7 4 (2.76%) Vue
8 3 (2.07%) Flash
8 3 (2.07%) Framer.js
8 3 (2.07%) Next.js
9 2 (1.38%) OAuth
9 2 (1.38%) OpenID
9 2 (1.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) IoT
2 15 (10.34%) AI Agents
3 14 (9.66%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (8.97%) Operational Technology
4 13 (8.97%) SCADA
5 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.21%) Biopharmaceutical
6 9 (6.21%) Industry 4.0
6 9 (6.21%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.83%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.45%) CAN bus
9 5 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.76%) CUDA
10 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (2.07%) Animation
11 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.07%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.17%) Linux
2 10 (6.90%) Unix
3 5 (3.45%) Android
3 5 (3.45%) Windows
4 4 (2.76%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (49.66%) Agile
2 66 (45.52%) User Experience
3 47 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (26.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (25.52%) Wireframes
6 32 (22.07%) AI
7 30 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 27 (18.62%) UX Design
9 26 (17.93%) Matrix Organization
10 25 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (16.55%) Software Engineering
12 23 (15.86%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (15.17%) Data Science
13 22 (15.17%) Mentoring
13 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
14 21 (14.48%) Analytics
14 21 (14.48%) Strategic Thinking
14 21 (14.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 20 (13.79%) Product Management
16 19 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.28%) Python
2 16 (11.03%) C#
3 15 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.66%) C++
5 9 (6.21%) Java
6 7 (4.83%) C
6 7 (4.83%) PHP
7 6 (4.14%) SQL
8 5 (3.45%) Go
9 4 (2.76%) Delphi
9 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.76%) R
9 4 (2.76%) Rust
10 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.69%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.69%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.69%) Julia
11 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.97%) Degree
3 26 (17.93%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.66%) HNC
5 13 (8.97%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.97%) HND
6 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.21%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) MCP
9 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.76%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.52%) WCAG
3 4 (2.76%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.07%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (8.28%) Docker
2 10 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.69%) Firmware
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.90%) AWS Copilot
1 10 (6.90%) Terraform
2 9 (6.21%) Functional Safety
3 5 (3.45%) WMI
4 4 (2.76%) Nessus
4 4 (2.76%) Nmap
5 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (22.76%) Google
2 24 (16.55%) Adobe
3 17 (11.72%) Foundry
4 15 (10.34%) Qualtrics
5 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.59%) VMware
7 9 (6.21%) AVEVA
7 9 (6.21%) Rockwell
7 9 (6.21%) Siemens
8 4 (2.76%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.76%) Cisco
8 4 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.76%) Sage
8 4 (2.76%) Splunk
9 2 (1.38%) Facebook
10 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.69%) EMC
10 1 (0.69%) Palantir
10 1 (0.69%) Remedy