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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 272 280
Rank change year-on-year -87 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 155 414 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.88% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.07% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 73 182 186
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,563 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £92,200 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.54% - -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 30,751 38,829 27,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.23% 82.70% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,778 18,883 20,474
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -35 62 £55,000 -26.67% 129
North of England -12 30 £49,500 -17.50% 57
North West +5 20 £57,500 -4.17% 30
Scotland +1 15 £64,151 -4.47% 24
Midlands +43 13 £61,250 +4.76% 42
East of England +3 12 £86,250 +56.82% 57
South West -3 12 £85,000 +13.33% 35
Wales -12 9 £61,651 -11.05% 6
East Midlands +33 8 £60,000 +50.00% 17
Yorkshire -5 7 £30,500 -47.83% 23
West Midlands +53 5 £62,500 +6.90% 23
North East +10 3 £73,801 +19.55% 4
Northern Ireland -2 2 £73,801 +13.54% 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 7 (4.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.81%) Adobe XD
2 8 (5.16%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.23%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.58%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.58%) Sketch
5 2 (1.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.29%) InVision
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.65%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.65%) Maya
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.03%) Azure
2 42 (27.10%) AWS
3 33 (21.29%) Figma
3 33 (21.29%) GCP
4 15 (9.68%) Azure AI
4 15 (9.68%) Vertex AI
5 11 (7.10%) Adobe Analytics
5 11 (7.10%) PaaS
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 10 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (6.45%) dbt
6 10 (6.45%) Pulumi
6 10 (6.45%) Sentry
7 8 (5.16%) Miro
8 7 (4.52%) GitHub
9 6 (3.87%) SaaS
10 4 (2.58%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.97%) Modbus
2 16 (10.32%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.39%) MQTT
4 12 (7.74%) Ethernet
5 5 (3.23%) Firewall
6 4 (2.58%) Bluetooth
6 4 (2.58%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.58%) Network Security
6 4 (2.58%) VLAN
6 4 (2.58%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.58%) ZigBee
7 2 (1.29%) 2G
7 2 (1.29%) 4G
7 2 (1.29%) 5G
7 2 (1.29%) DNS
7 2 (1.29%) HTTP
7 2 (1.29%) ICMP
7 2 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.29%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.45%) Redis
2 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Git
2 11 (7.10%) Axure RP
3 8 (5.16%) JIRA
4 6 (3.87%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.58%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.58%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.58%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (2.58%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.58%) MSI
5 4 (2.58%) webpack
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 34 (21.94%) Law
1 34 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.06%) Finance
3 23 (14.84%) Manufacturing
4 22 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.97%) Legal
6 16 (10.32%) Banking
7 14 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (8.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (7.10%) Retail
10 10 (6.45%) Electronics
10 10 (6.45%) Public Sector
11 6 (3.87%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.58%) Marketing
13 3 (1.94%) Aviation
13 3 (1.94%) Games
14 2 (1.29%) Digital Health
14 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (23.87%) Senior
2 22 (14.19%) Software Engineer
3 19 (12.26%) Designer
4 15 (9.68%) Product Delivery Manager
4 15 (9.68%) Product Manager
5 12 (7.74%) Architect
5 12 (7.74%) Developer
6 11 (7.10%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Strategy Manager
7 10 (6.45%) Lead
7 10 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.52%) UX Designer
11 6 (3.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Strategy Manager
12 5 (3.23%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.84%) CSS
2 15 (9.68%) HTML
3 13 (8.39%) React
4 10 (6.45%) Django
5 8 (5.16%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.52%) .NET
7 6 (3.87%) Jest
7 6 (3.87%) JSON
7 6 (3.87%) REST
7 6 (3.87%) XML
8 5 (3.23%) OAuth
8 5 (3.23%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.23%) OpenID
8 5 (3.23%) SAML
8 5 (3.23%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (2.58%) CSS3
9 4 (2.58%) Kafka
9 4 (2.58%) RxJS
9 4 (2.58%) Spring
9 4 (2.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.48%) IoT
2 17 (10.97%) Operational Technology
2 17 (10.97%) SCADA
3 15 (9.68%) AI Agents
4 14 (9.03%) Cloud Native
4 14 (9.03%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (8.39%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (8.39%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (8.39%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (7.10%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.23%) CAN bus
9 5 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.58%) Wiki
11 3 (1.94%) Animation
11 3 (1.94%) CUDA
11 3 (1.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.19%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Unix
3 5 (3.23%) Android
3 5 (3.23%) Windows
4 4 (2.58%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (52.26%) Agile
2 61 (39.35%) User Experience
3 45 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (24.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 33 (21.29%) Wireframes
7 32 (20.65%) AI
7 32 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (18.71%) Machine Learning
9 26 (16.77%) Matrix Organization
9 26 (16.77%) Mentoring
10 25 (16.13%) DevOps
10 25 (16.13%) UX Design
11 24 (15.48%) Data Science
12 23 (14.84%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (13.55%) Analytics
13 21 (13.55%) Roadmaps
13 21 (13.55%) Strategic Thinking
14 19 (12.26%) Product Management
15 17 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.03%) Python
2 21 (13.55%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.26%) C#
4 16 (10.32%) Java
5 14 (9.03%) C++
6 8 (5.16%) Go
6 8 (5.16%) PHP
7 7 (4.52%) C
7 7 (4.52%) SQL
7 7 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.58%) Delphi
8 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.58%) R
8 4 (2.58%) Rust
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.65%) Julia
9 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 44 (28.39%) Degree
2 42 (27.10%) Security Cleared
3 25 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.61%) HNC
5 17 (10.97%) HND
6 13 (8.39%) Chartered Engineer
6 13 (8.39%) DV Cleared
7 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
9 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.35%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.52%) WCAG
3 4 (2.58%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.29%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (10.97%) Docker
2 13 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.39%) Functional Safety
2 11 (7.10%) Terraform
3 10 (6.45%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (3.23%) WMI
5 4 (2.58%) Nessus
5 4 (2.58%) Nmap
6 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (23.23%) Google
2 23 (14.84%) Adobe
3 16 (10.32%) Foundry
4 15 (9.68%) Qualtrics
5 14 (9.03%) Microsoft
5 14 (9.03%) VMware
6 13 (8.39%) AVEVA
6 13 (8.39%) Rockwell
6 13 (8.39%) Siemens
7 5 (3.23%) Facebook
8 4 (2.58%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco
8 4 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.58%) Sage
8 4 (2.58%) Splunk
9 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.65%) EMC
9 1 (0.65%) Remedy