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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 291 370
Rank change year-on-year -53 +79 -81
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 341 301 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.99% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 198 95 178
10th Percentile £40,350 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,750 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +3.91% -2.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.54% -9.54%

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 54,045 30,267 46,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.68% 87.45% 78.62%
Number of salaries quoted 37,960 16,583 29,669
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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% - -8.71%

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 9 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 9 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
South East -18 86 £56,500 -7.00% 62
North of England -9 82 £52,500 -19.23% 48
East of England +27 75 £62,500 +38.89% 46
North West -2 37 £50,000 -27.94% 30
South West -47 28 £60,000 -5.88% 35
Yorkshire -25 24 £65,000 +20.37% 4
Midlands -32 22 £60,000 - 16
Wales -47 22 £53,171 -22.38% 3
North East -38 21 £57,500 -11.54% 14
West Midlands -25 17 £62,500 +4.17% 14
Scotland -73 15 £52,250 -16.82% 14
Northern Ireland -61 11 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -33 5 £50,000 +51.52% 2
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 (1.47%) Apache
1 5 (1.47%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.81%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.35%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.05%) InDesign
4 6 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.76%) Adobe XD
4 6 (1.76%) Sketch
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.59%) InVision
7 2 (0.59%) Trello
7 2 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.29%) CATIA
8 1 (0.29%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.29%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.88%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.59%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.23%) Figma
2 56 (16.42%) Adobe Analytics
3 41 (12.02%) AWS
4 28 (8.21%) Azure
5 19 (5.57%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.28%) GCP
7 17 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (4.99%) Serverless
8 15 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.40%) dbt
9 14 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (3.52%) SaaS
12 11 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.64%) Apigee
14 8 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (1.76%) GitHub
15 6 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (18.77%) Broadband
2 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.47%) Intranet
3 5 (1.47%) WPA
4 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.88%) Wireless
5 2 (0.59%) RS-485
6 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.29%) LTE
6 1 (0.29%) RS-232
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.69%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.05%) Redis
3 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.88%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.59%) Power BI
7 2 (0.59%) Tableau
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Flink
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) Looker
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.99%) Git
2 12 (3.52%) GitLab
3 11 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.93%) JIRA
5 9 (2.64%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.64%) Maven
5 9 (2.64%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.35%) LabVIEW
7 6 (1.76%) Postman
8 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.59%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.59%) Bower
9 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.29%) ERwin
10 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.65%) Electronics
3 56 (16.42%) Games
4 48 (14.08%) Manufacturing
5 47 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (13.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (10.56%) Finance
7 32 (9.38%) Public Sector
8 26 (7.62%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.81%) Legal
10 12 (3.52%) Marketing
10 12 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.64%) Automotive
12 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.17%) Swedish Language
15 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.59%) Law
16 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (18.18%) Designer
2 61 (17.89%) Senior
3 47 (13.78%) Developer
4 46 (13.49%) Lead
5 28 (8.21%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 25 (7.33%) Lead Designer
8 21 (6.16%) Interaction Designer
9 19 (5.57%) Architect
10 17 (4.99%) Product Manager
11 15 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.40%) UX Designer
12 13 (3.81%) Consultant
13 12 (3.52%) Lead UX Designer
13 12 (3.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.52%) Systems Manager
14 11 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (3.23%) Digital Designer
14 11 (3.23%) Hardware Engineer
14 11 (3.23%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.69%) React
2 15 (4.40%) AngularJS
3 13 (3.81%) .NET
4 12 (3.52%) HTML
4 12 (3.52%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.93%) CSS
5 10 (2.93%) LangChain
5 10 (2.93%) Web Services
6 9 (2.64%) Gherkin
6 9 (2.64%) Jest
6 9 (2.64%) RESTful
7 7 (2.05%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.76%) JSON
8 6 (1.76%) XML
9 5 (1.47%) Ajax
9 5 (1.47%) Django
9 5 (1.47%) jQuery
9 5 (1.47%) Next.js
9 5 (1.47%) REST
9 5 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.42%) Social Media
2 25 (7.33%) Embedded Systems
3 22 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.99%) FPGA
5 15 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.81%) IoT
7 12 (3.52%) Life Science
8 11 (3.23%) Robotics
9 10 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.64%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.35%) Analogue Electronics
11 8 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
11 8 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.35%) VHDL
12 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
12 7 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (2.05%) Verilog
13 6 (1.76%) Acoustics
13 6 (1.76%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.52%) Linux
2 7 (2.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.29%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (47.51%) Agile
2 148 (43.40%) AI
3 92 (26.98%) User Research
4 90 (26.39%) Roadmaps
4 90 (26.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 80 (23.46%) Analytics
6 71 (20.82%) Product Roadmap
7 70 (20.53%) Customer Experience
8 67 (19.65%) Rapid Prototyping
9 61 (17.89%) Storytelling
10 57 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (16.72%) Validation
11 56 (16.42%) Digital Customer Experience
12 54 (15.84%) User Experience
13 50 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (13.49%) Mentoring
14 46 (13.49%) Software Engineering
15 40 (11.73%) CI/CD
16 38 (11.14%) Customer Insight
16 38 (11.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.89%) Python
2 32 (9.38%) Java
3 25 (7.33%) C
4 23 (6.74%) C++
4 23 (6.74%) TypeScript
5 21 (6.16%) C#
6 15 (4.40%) SQL
7 14 (4.11%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.23%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.93%) Bash
10 9 (2.64%) Groovy
11 6 (1.76%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.47%) PHP
13 3 (0.88%) Pascal
13 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.88%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Go
14 2 (0.59%) Julia
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 94 (27.57%) Degree
2 58 (17.01%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.87%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.52%) PhD
8 10 (2.93%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.05%) HND
11 3 (0.88%) HNC
11 3 (0.88%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.29%) OCP
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (26.69%) Accessibility
2 36 (10.56%) WCAG
3 6 (1.76%) QA
4 4 (1.17%) DO-254
4 4 (1.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) JTAG
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (7.33%) Docker
2 18 (5.28%) Firmware
3 7 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.81%) Terraform
2 9 (2.64%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 70 (20.53%) Adobe
2 23 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.28%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.69%) Google
5 12 (3.52%) EMC
6 6 (1.76%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) Foundry
8 3 (0.88%) Motorola
8 3 (0.88%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.59%) Altera
9 2 (0.59%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.59%) Databricks
9 2 (0.59%) Intel
9 2 (0.59%) Siemens
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Sparx