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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 269 332
Rank change year-on-year -62 +63 -21
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 218 270 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 1.00% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.08% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 100 136 298
10th Percentile £42,491 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £49,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,525 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% +29.29% -15.20%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £91,025 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%

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 40,464 24,897 51,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 74.92% 92.09% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 24,163 13,522 38,000
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,335
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,125 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 64 £55,000 -26.67% 67
East of England +9 52 £80,788 +61.58% 27
North of England -63 49 £57,500 -4.17% 48
North West -44 25 £57,500 -4.17% 21
South West -58 19 £79,750 +16.38% 11
Yorkshire -38 18 £67,500 +22.73% 19
Scotland -28 16 £54,500 -9.02% 12
Midlands -30 10 £47,500 -25.56% 13
West Midlands +3 9 £46,022 -27.88% 8
North East -26 6 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Wales -40 6 £73,801 +6.96% 7
Northern Ireland -31 2 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -52 1 £50,000 - 5
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 8 (3.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.96%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.21%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.29%) Fusion 360
3 5 (2.29%) Sketch
4 2 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.46%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.46%) Blender
5 1 (0.46%) CATIA
5 1 (0.46%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.46%) Maya
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.46%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.52%) Figma
2 58 (26.61%) Adobe Analytics
3 38 (17.43%) AWS
3 38 (17.43%) Azure
4 26 (11.93%) GCP
5 24 (11.01%) Amazon ECR
5 24 (11.01%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (6.88%) PaaS
7 14 (6.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 14 (6.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 14 (6.42%) dbt
7 14 (6.42%) Pulumi
7 14 (6.42%) Sentry
8 11 (5.05%) Serverless
9 10 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (4.59%) Apigee
9 10 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.77%) Broadband
2 17 (7.80%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (1.38%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.92%) 2G
5 2 (0.92%) 4G
5 2 (0.92%) 5G
5 2 (0.92%) DNS
5 2 (0.92%) Firewall
5 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 2 (0.92%) ICMP
5 2 (0.92%) LTE
5 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.92%) Wireless
6 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.46%) Modbus
6 1 (0.46%) Network Security
6 1 (0.46%) VLAN
6 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.46%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (6.42%) Redis
2 10 (4.59%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.46%) GIS
3 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.46%) Power BI
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.50%) Cypress.io
2 10 (4.59%) Axure RP
2 10 (4.59%) Git
2 10 (4.59%) GitLab
2 10 (4.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.59%) JIRA
2 10 (4.59%) Maven
2 10 (4.59%) SonarQube
3 6 (2.75%) Balsamiq
4 4 (1.83%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (21.10%) Games
1 46 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.47%) Finance
4 19 (8.72%) Manufacturing
5 18 (8.26%) Electronics
6 16 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.96%) Law
9 12 (5.50%) Banking
10 5 (2.29%) Legal
10 5 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.83%) Marketing
11 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.83%) Retail
12 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.92%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (20.64%) Designer
2 41 (18.81%) Senior
3 27 (12.39%) Lead
4 24 (11.01%) Developer
5 22 (10.09%) Lead Designer
6 14 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (6.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 14 (6.42%) UX Designer
7 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.50%) Consultant
8 12 (5.50%) Product Designer
8 12 (5.50%) Strategy Manager
9 11 (5.05%) Systems Manager
10 10 (4.59%) Digital Designer
10 10 (4.59%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.13%) Analyst
11 9 (4.13%) Product Manager
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Manager
11 9 (4.13%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.42%) AngularJS
1 14 (6.42%) Django
2 13 (5.96%) Spring Boot
3 12 (5.50%) CSS
3 12 (5.50%) HTML
3 12 (5.50%) Jest
4 10 (4.59%) Gherkin
4 10 (4.59%) React
4 10 (4.59%) REST
5 9 (4.13%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.67%) TensorFlow
7 7 (3.21%) Google JAX
7 7 (3.21%) JAX
8 6 (2.75%) JSON
8 6 (2.75%) XML
9 4 (1.83%) LangChain
9 4 (1.83%) Semantic Kernel
9 4 (1.83%) Vue
10 3 (1.38%) Framer.js
10 3 (1.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.10%) Social Media
2 18 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.67%) Life Science
5 8 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.21%) CUDA
6 7 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.29%) Arduino
7 5 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.29%) IoT
7 5 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.29%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.83%) Animation
8 4 (1.83%) FPGA
9 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.38%) Robotics
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.01%) Linux
2 15 (6.88%) Unix
3 2 (0.92%) Android
3 2 (0.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (56.88%) Agile
2 88 (40.37%) AI
3 77 (35.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 72 (33.03%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (32.11%) Customer Experience
6 69 (31.65%) User Research
7 66 (30.28%) Analytics
8 63 (28.90%) Roadmaps
8 63 (28.90%) Storytelling
9 58 (26.61%) User Experience
10 55 (25.23%) Product Roadmap
11 46 (21.10%) Digital Customer Experience
12 44 (20.18%) UX Design
13 36 (16.51%) Wireframes
14 35 (16.06%) DevOps
15 32 (14.68%) Clean Code
16 31 (14.22%) Software Engineering
17 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (13.76%) Machine Learning
18 29 (13.30%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.23%) Python
2 28 (12.84%) Java
3 14 (6.42%) C
4 13 (5.96%) C++
4 13 (5.96%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.59%) Bash
5 10 (4.59%) Groovy
5 10 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.21%) C#
7 5 (2.29%) SQL
8 3 (1.38%) Embedded C
8 3 (1.38%) Pascal
9 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) Julia
10 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) R
10 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.18%) Degree
3 36 (16.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.38%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.92%) PhD
10 1 (0.46%) HNC
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (38.53%) Accessibility
2 34 (15.60%) WCAG
3 5 (2.29%) GDPR
4 4 (1.83%) ISO 13485
5 3 (1.38%) QA
6 2 (0.92%) DO-254
7 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (11.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Firmware
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.42%) AWS Copilot
1 14 (6.42%) Terraform
2 10 (4.59%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.46%) Nessus
4 1 (0.46%) Nmap
4 1 (0.46%) WMI
Vendors
1 67 (30.73%) Adobe
2 25 (11.47%) Google
3 13 (5.96%) Qualtrics
4 11 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.75%) Foundry
6 3 (1.38%) EMC
6 3 (1.38%) Motorola
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco
7 1 (0.46%) Palantir
7 1 (0.46%) Planon
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.46%) Remedy
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Siemens
7 1 (0.46%) Splunk
7 1 (0.46%) VMware