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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 283 362
Rank change year-on-year -62 +79 -73
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 323 298 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.99% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 184 92 191
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,875 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +8.47% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%

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 53,026 30,167 46,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 87.61% 78.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37,265 16,507 30,128
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -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% - -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 3 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 3 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
North of England -6 82 £52,500 -19.23% 37
South East -1 78 £56,500 -7.00% 58
East of England +30 73 £63,750 +41.67% 31
North West +4 36 £50,000 -27.94% 24
Yorkshire -22 25 £65,000 +20.37% 5
South West -61 23 £60,000 -5.88% 27
North East -40 21 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Wales -43 21 £53,171 -22.38% 4
Midlands -34 20 £61,250 +4.26% 14
West Midlands -28 16 £68,665 +14.44% 13
Scotland -72 15 £52,250 -16.82% 11
Northern Ireland -66 11 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -29 4 £55,000 +66.67% 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 5 (1.55%) Confluence
2 4 (1.24%) Apache
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.79%) SOLIDWORKS
2 6 (1.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.86%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.86%) InDesign
2 6 (1.86%) Sketch
3 5 (1.55%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.55%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.24%) Solid Edge
5 2 (0.62%) InVision
5 2 (0.62%) Trello
5 2 (0.62%) Windchill
6 1 (0.31%) CATIA
6 1 (0.31%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.31%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.31%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.43%) Figma
2 57 (17.65%) Adobe Analytics
3 40 (12.38%) AWS
4 26 (8.05%) Azure
5 18 (5.57%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.26%) GCP
7 16 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
7 16 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (4.95%) Serverless
8 15 (4.64%) dbt
9 14 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (3.72%) SaaS
11 10 (3.10%) Apigee
12 9 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.55%) GitHub
14 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 65 (20.12%) Broadband
2 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.55%) Intranet
3 5 (1.55%) WPA
4 3 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.93%) Wireless
5 2 (0.62%) RS-485
6 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.31%) LTE
6 1 (0.31%) RS-232
6 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.95%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.17%) Redis
3 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.93%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.26%) Git
2 13 (4.02%) GitLab
3 12 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.10%) Cypress.io
4 10 (3.10%) JIRA
4 10 (3.10%) Maven
4 10 (3.10%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.48%) LabVIEW
6 5 (1.55%) Postman
7 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.93%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.62%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.62%) Bower
8 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.65%) Electronics
2 57 (17.65%) Games
3 46 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (12.69%) Manufacturing
6 33 (10.22%) Finance
7 30 (9.29%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.57%) Aerospace
9 12 (3.72%) Legal
9 12 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.41%) Marketing
11 8 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.55%) Automotive
14 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.24%) Swedish Language
15 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Law
16 2 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (19.20%) Designer
2 57 (17.65%) Senior
3 47 (14.55%) Lead
4 46 (14.24%) Developer
5 28 (8.67%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (8.05%) Lead Designer
6 26 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.19%) Interaction Designer
8 18 (5.57%) Architect
9 17 (5.26%) Product Manager
10 15 (4.64%) UX Designer
11 14 (4.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.72%) Hardware Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) Lead UX Designer
12 12 (3.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) Systems Manager
13 11 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.41%) Digital Designer
13 11 (3.41%) Technical Architect
14 10 (3.10%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.95%) AngularJS
2 15 (4.64%) React
3 13 (4.02%) .NET
3 13 (4.02%) Spring Boot
4 12 (3.72%) HTML
5 10 (3.10%) CSS
5 10 (3.10%) Gherkin
5 10 (3.10%) Jest
6 9 (2.79%) LangChain
6 9 (2.79%) Web Services
7 7 (2.17%) RESTful
8 6 (1.86%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.86%) JSON
8 6 (1.86%) XML
9 5 (1.55%) Ajax
9 5 (1.55%) jQuery
9 5 (1.55%) REST
10 4 (1.24%) Django
10 4 (1.24%) Next.js
11 3 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.65%) Social Media
2 20 (6.19%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.95%) FPGA
5 14 (4.33%) IoT
5 14 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.10%) Robotics
7 9 (2.79%) Life Science
7 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.48%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (2.48%) VHDL
9 7 (2.17%) Analogue Electronics
9 7 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.17%) Verilog
10 6 (1.86%) FMCG
10 6 (1.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.72%) Linux
2 7 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.31%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (49.54%) Agile
2 145 (44.89%) AI
3 93 (28.79%) User Research
4 91 (28.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 90 (27.86%) Roadmaps
6 78 (24.15%) Analytics
7 72 (22.29%) Product Roadmap
8 71 (21.98%) Customer Experience
9 65 (20.12%) Rapid Prototyping
10 61 (18.89%) Storytelling
11 57 (17.65%) Digital Customer Experience
12 54 (16.72%) Validation
13 53 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (16.10%) User Experience
15 44 (13.62%) Software Engineering
16 42 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (12.69%) Mentoring
18 40 (12.38%) CI/CD
19 38 (11.76%) Customer Insight
20 37 (11.46%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.27%) Python
2 32 (9.91%) Java
3 25 (7.74%) C
4 23 (7.12%) C++
4 23 (7.12%) TypeScript
5 21 (6.50%) C#
6 14 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.33%) SQL
7 11 (3.41%) Bash
7 11 (3.41%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.10%) Groovy
9 6 (1.86%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.93%) Pascal
11 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.62%) Go
12 2 (0.62%) Julia
13 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 87 (26.93%) Degree
2 49 (15.17%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.19%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.41%) PhD
7 10 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.86%) HND
10 3 (0.93%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.62%) HNC
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (27.24%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.46%) WCAG
3 6 (1.86%) QA
4 4 (1.24%) DO-254
5 3 (0.93%) GDPR
6 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) JTAG
7 1 (0.31%) DO-178B
System Software
1 25 (7.74%) Docker
2 14 (4.33%) Firmware
3 7 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.41%) Terraform
2 10 (3.10%) HP Fortify
3 6 (1.86%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.24%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 70 (21.67%) Adobe
2 22 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.95%) Google
3 16 (4.95%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.10%) EMC
5 4 (1.24%) Foundry
6 3 (0.93%) Motorola
6 3 (0.93%) SAP
6 3 (0.93%) Xilinx
7 2 (0.62%) Altera
7 2 (0.62%) Intel
8 1 (0.31%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.31%) Databricks
8 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.31%) Siemens