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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 315 282
Rank change year-on-year -7 -33 +22
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 391 237 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.68% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.78% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 277 70 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,050 £47,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £78,312 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.52% +6.74% -

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 60,862 30,266 41,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.60% 87.16% 79.42%
Number of salaries quoted 42,828 16,093 20,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,225 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
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 8 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 8 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
North of England +4 107 £55,000 -4.35% 123
South East -6 103 £56,000 -13.85% 187
East of England +19 65 £60,000 -15.79% 120
North West +13 60 £53,750 -10.42% 66
Midlands -16 43 £56,250 -2.17% 58
West Midlands -13 33 £57,500 -2.13% 42
South West -45 33 £57,500 -32.35% 95
North East -35 29 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Wales -57 24 £53,171 +7.42% 18
Yorkshire -23 18 £50,000 +63.93% 30
Scotland -69 13 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands -33 10 £45,000 +36.36% 16
Northern Ireland -70 9 £80,000 - 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 (2.56%) Apache
2 8 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.79%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.53%) Confluence
5 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.63%) SOLIDWORKS
2 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.79%) InDesign
3 7 (1.79%) Solid Edge
4 6 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.53%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.53%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.28%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.28%) OrCAD
6 4 (1.02%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.77%) Sketch
8 2 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.51%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.51%) InVision
8 2 (0.51%) Simulink
8 2 (0.51%) Trello
8 2 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.51%) Windchill
9 1 (0.26%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 8 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.02%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.77%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.79%) Figma
2 45 (11.51%) AWS
3 24 (6.14%) Azure
4 18 (4.60%) Amazon S3
5 15 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.84%) Serverless
6 13 (3.32%) GCP
7 12 (3.07%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (3.07%) dbt
8 11 (2.81%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.56%) GitHub
10 9 (2.30%) SaaS
11 8 (2.05%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.28%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.32%) Broadband
2 8 (2.05%) Wireless
3 5 (1.28%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.28%) Intranet
3 5 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.28%) WPA
4 3 (0.77%) RS-485
5 2 (0.51%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.51%) RS-232
5 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) J1939
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.58%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.02%) Power BI
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.77%) Redis
5 3 (0.77%) Tableau
6 2 (0.51%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.51%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.26%) Metabase
7 1 (0.26%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
7 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (4.86%) Git
2 12 (3.07%) GitLab
3 11 (2.81%) JIRA
4 8 (2.05%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.53%) Postman
7 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.28%) Maven
7 5 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.77%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.77%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.51%) Bower
10 1 (0.26%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 146 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 119 (30.43%) Electronics
3 101 (25.83%) Manufacturing
4 56 (14.32%) Aerospace
5 47 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (12.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (10.74%) Public Sector
7 38 (9.72%) Finance
8 28 (7.16%) Automotive
9 15 (3.84%) Games
10 12 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.81%) Legal
11 11 (2.81%) Marketing
12 10 (2.56%) Military
12 10 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.56%) Retail
13 8 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.79%) Publishing
15 5 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (23.53%) Senior
2 56 (14.32%) Designer
3 48 (12.28%) Electronics Engineer
4 46 (11.76%) Developer
5 31 (7.93%) Software Engineer
6 29 (7.42%) Lead
7 20 (5.12%) Design Engineer
7 20 (5.12%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (4.60%) Architect
8 18 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (3.84%) Senior Designer
11 14 (3.58%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) UX Designer
13 12 (3.07%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.81%) Consultant
14 11 (2.81%) Lead Designer
14 11 (2.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.42%) React
2 20 (5.12%) .NET
3 15 (3.84%) CSS
3 15 (3.84%) HTML
3 15 (3.84%) Spring Boot
3 15 (3.84%) Terraform
4 13 (3.32%) Web Services
5 10 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.56%) Spring
6 9 (2.30%) AWS CDK
6 9 (2.30%) Kafka
6 9 (2.30%) RESTful
7 8 (2.05%) LangChain
8 7 (1.79%) Next.js
8 7 (1.79%) REST
9 6 (1.53%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.53%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.28%) Gherkin
10 5 (1.28%) Jest
10 5 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.72%) Embedded Systems
2 26 (6.65%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.37%) IoT
5 20 (5.12%) FPGA
6 19 (4.86%) Analogue Electronics
7 18 (4.60%) Robotics
8 13 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.32%) Social Media
9 12 (3.07%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.81%) Life Science
11 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.05%) Data Structures
12 8 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (2.05%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (2.05%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.79%) Acoustics
13 7 (1.79%) Media Streaming
13 7 (1.79%) Podcast
14 6 (1.53%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.05%) Linux
2 3 (0.77%) Android
2 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (31.71%) Agile
2 119 (30.43%) AI
3 88 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (21.99%) Validation
5 80 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (17.39%) Rapid Prototyping
7 62 (15.86%) Mentoring
8 60 (15.35%) Software Engineering
9 54 (13.81%) CI/CD
10 52 (13.30%) User Research
11 50 (12.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 49 (12.53%) User Experience
13 47 (12.02%) Analytics
14 44 (11.25%) Roadmaps
15 40 (10.23%) DevOps
16 32 (8.18%) Service Design
17 31 (7.93%) Computer Science
17 31 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (7.93%) UX Design
18 30 (7.67%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.37%) Python
2 36 (9.21%) TypeScript
3 30 (7.67%) Java
4 29 (7.42%) C++
5 28 (7.16%) C
6 25 (6.39%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.88%) C#
7 23 (5.88%) SQL
8 16 (4.09%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.30%) Rust
10 7 (1.79%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.53%) Bash
11 6 (1.53%) Embedded C++
12 5 (1.28%) Groovy
12 5 (1.28%) PHP
13 4 (1.02%) R
14 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.51%) Go
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 140 (35.81%) Degree
2 81 (20.72%) Security Cleared
3 60 (15.35%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.12%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.84%) PhD
7 14 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.58%) HND
8 9 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.30%) HNC
9 6 (1.53%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.51%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.26%) OCP
14 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (15.09%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.35%) WCAG
3 11 (2.81%) QA
4 6 (1.53%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) JTAG
7 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.51%) MISRA
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.26%) DO-254
8 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) IASME
System Software
1 36 (9.21%) Firmware
2 24 (6.14%) Docker
3 13 (3.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.28%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 35 (8.95%) EMC
2 34 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.16%) Adobe
4 23 (5.88%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.56%) SAP
6 8 (2.05%) Google
7 6 (1.53%) Thales
8 4 (1.02%) Databricks
8 4 (1.02%) Siemens
9 3 (0.77%) Apple
9 3 (0.77%) Foundry
9 3 (0.77%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.51%) Altera
10 2 (0.51%) Autodesk
10 2 (0.51%) Intel
10 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.51%) YouTube
11 1 (0.26%) Cadence
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.26%) Sparx