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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 306 316
Rank change year-on-year -64 +10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 352 266 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.77% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.89% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 239 75 132
10th Percentile £40,550 £37,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £47,125 £47,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £77,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £99,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%

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 59,433 29,819 43,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.34% 86.69% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,991 16,159 23,565
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -7 96 £55,000 -8.33% 94
South East -13 85 £58,250 -13.70% 162
East of England +13 61 £60,000 +33.33% 114
North West +6 46 £50,000 -25.93% 53
Midlands -29 37 £57,500 -4.17% 50
South West -63 31 £60,000 -29.41% 106
West Midlands -26 28 £57,500 -4.17% 36
North East -46 26 £58,750 -9.62% 18
Yorkshire -29 24 £65,000 +113.11% 23
Wales -54 22 £53,171 -2.88% 16
Scotland -78 12 £55,000 - 55
Northern Ireland -67 11 £80,000 - 17
East Midlands -45 9 £52,500 +59.09% 14
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 (1.99%) Apache
2 6 (1.70%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.14%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (5.68%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.27%) Solid Edge
3 7 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.99%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.99%) InDesign
4 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.42%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.14%) Sketch
7 2 (0.57%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.57%) InVision
7 2 (0.57%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.57%) Simulink
7 2 (0.57%) Trello
7 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.57%) Windchill
8 1 (0.28%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (15.63%) Figma
2 40 (11.36%) AWS
3 21 (5.97%) Amazon S3
4 20 (5.68%) Adobe Analytics
4 20 (5.68%) Azure
5 19 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (5.40%) Serverless
6 12 (3.41%) dbt
6 12 (3.41%) SaaS
7 11 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
7 11 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.84%) GitHub
9 9 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (2.56%) Apigee
9 9 (2.56%) GCP
9 9 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.68%) Broadband
2 5 (1.42%) Intranet
2 5 (1.42%) WPA
3 4 (1.14%) Wireless
4 3 (0.85%) RS-485
4 3 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.57%) RS-232
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.85%) ClickHouse
4 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.85%) Power BI
4 3 (0.85%) Redis
4 3 (0.85%) Tableau
5 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Big Data
6 1 (0.28%) Flink
6 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.28%) OLAP
6 1 (0.28%) OLTP
6 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.55%) Git
2 13 (3.69%) GitLab
3 11 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.84%) JIRA
5 9 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.56%) Maven
5 9 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.27%) LabVIEW
7 6 (1.70%) Postman
8 3 (0.85%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.57%) Bower
9 2 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.28%) ERwin
General
1 126 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 97 (27.56%) Electronics
3 75 (21.31%) Manufacturing
4 49 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (11.36%) Aerospace
7 38 (10.80%) Finance
8 35 (9.94%) Public Sector
9 23 (6.53%) Games
10 16 (4.55%) Automotive
11 13 (3.69%) Legal
11 13 (3.69%) Marketing
12 11 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.27%) Military
13 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.27%) Retail
14 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.14%) Law
15 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (19.89%) Senior
2 54 (15.34%) Designer
3 50 (14.20%) Developer
4 33 (9.38%) Lead
5 29 (8.24%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.95%) Electronics Engineer
7 22 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.68%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.40%) Architect
10 18 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.98%) Lead Designer
11 14 (3.98%) Senior Designer
12 13 (3.69%) UX Designer
13 12 (3.41%) Product Manager
13 12 (3.41%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.13%) Consultant
14 11 (3.13%) Design Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) Electronics Technician
14 11 (3.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.39%) React
2 18 (5.11%) .NET
3 16 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 16 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.98%) CSS
4 14 (3.98%) HTML
5 12 (3.41%) Terraform
6 10 (2.84%) Web Services
7 9 (2.56%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.56%) Gherkin
7 9 (2.56%) Jest
7 9 (2.56%) RESTful
8 8 (2.27%) LangChain
9 7 (1.99%) Next.js
9 7 (1.99%) Spring
10 6 (1.70%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.70%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.42%) JSON
11 5 (1.42%) Kafka
11 5 (1.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.81%) Embedded Systems
2 22 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.97%) Social Media
4 20 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.40%) Robotics
6 17 (4.83%) FPGA
6 17 (4.83%) IoT
7 14 (3.98%) Analogue Electronics
8 13 (3.69%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.41%) Onboarding
10 11 (3.13%) Life Science
10 11 (3.13%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.27%) VHDL
12 7 (1.99%) Acoustics
12 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.99%) Verilog
13 6 (1.70%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Android
2 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (34.94%) Agile
2 121 (34.38%) AI
3 73 (20.74%) Validation
4 72 (20.45%) Rapid Prototyping
5 66 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 66 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (16.48%) User Research
7 57 (16.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 54 (15.34%) Analytics
8 54 (15.34%) Roadmaps
9 53 (15.06%) Mentoring
9 53 (15.06%) Software Engineering
10 51 (14.49%) User Experience
11 48 (13.64%) CI/CD
12 36 (10.23%) DevOps
13 35 (9.94%) Product Roadmap
14 33 (9.38%) UX Design
15 31 (8.81%) Physics
16 29 (8.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (7.95%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.06%) Python
2 31 (8.81%) TypeScript
3 28 (7.95%) Java
4 25 (7.10%) C
4 25 (7.10%) C++
5 21 (5.97%) C#
6 20 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.11%) SQL
8 14 (3.98%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.84%) Bash
10 9 (2.56%) Groovy
11 8 (2.27%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.42%) Embedded C++
12 5 (1.42%) PHP
13 4 (1.14%) Rust
14 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.57%) Go
15 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.28%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 118 (33.52%) Degree
2 72 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 50 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.26%) PhD
7 12 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.84%) HND
10 9 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.70%) HNC
12 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
16 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.28%) OCP
16 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.61%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.83%) WCAG
3 12 (3.41%) QA
4 4 (1.14%) DO-254
5 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.85%) JTAG
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) GDPR
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) MISRA
System Software
1 27 (7.67%) Firmware
2 21 (5.97%) Docker
3 8 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (2.56%) HP Fortify
2 8 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (10.23%) Adobe
2 28 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.53%) EMC
3 23 (6.53%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.27%) Google
4 8 (2.27%) SAP
5 3 (0.85%) Apple
5 3 (0.85%) Databricks
5 3 (0.85%) Siemens
5 3 (0.85%) Thales
5 3 (0.85%) Xilinx
6 2 (0.57%) Altera
6 2 (0.57%) Autodesk
6 2 (0.57%) Foundry
6 2 (0.57%) Intel
6 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.57%) YouTube
7 1 (0.28%) Motorola
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro