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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 296 333
Rank change year-on-year -55 +37 -47
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 338 289 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.83% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.96% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 205 90 175
10th Percentile £41,100 £37,500 £43,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,375 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +3.27% -6.46%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,125 £96,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 55,362 30,195 46,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.37% 87.09% 78.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39,016 16,455 28,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,100 £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 22 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 22 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 0 88 £57,500 -8.55% 50
North of England -14 84 £52,500 -19.23% 29
East of England +16 62 £61,250 +36.11% 37
North West +1 39 £50,000 -26.06% 13
South West -52 31 £60,000 -5.88% 48
Midlands -41 24 £60,000 - 21
Yorkshire -25 23 £66,250 +22.69% 7
North East -34 22 £58,750 -9.62% 9
Wales -42 21 £53,171 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -21 18 £61,250 +2.08% 13
Scotland -67 18 £52,250 -34.69% 12
Northern Ireland -76 10 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -30 6 £50,000 +51.52% 8
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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 6 (1.78%) Apache
3 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.14%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (2.37%) Solid Edge
3 7 (2.07%) Adobe XD
3 7 (2.07%) InDesign
4 6 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.48%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.48%) Photoshop
6 4 (1.18%) Sketch
7 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.59%) InVision
7 2 (0.59%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.59%) Trello
7 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.30%) CATIA
8 1 (0.30%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.18%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.89%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.86%) Figma
2 43 (12.72%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (11.54%) AWS
4 27 (7.99%) Azure
5 20 (5.92%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.33%) Serverless
7 13 (3.85%) GCP
7 13 (3.85%) SaaS
8 12 (3.55%) dbt
9 10 (2.96%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (2.96%) GitHub
10 9 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.66%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.37%) Apigee
11 8 (2.37%) Azure AI
11 8 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.79%) Broadband
2 5 (1.48%) Intranet
2 5 (1.48%) WPA
3 4 (1.18%) Wireless
4 3 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.59%) RS-485
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.30%) LTE
6 1 (0.30%) RS-232
6 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.03%) DynamoDB
2 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.89%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.89%) Power BI
5 3 (0.89%) Redis
5 3 (0.89%) Tableau
6 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) OLAP
7 1 (0.30%) OLTP
7 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.03%) Git
2 12 (3.55%) JIRA
3 11 (3.25%) GitLab
4 10 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.37%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.37%) LabVIEW
5 8 (2.37%) Maven
5 8 (2.37%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.78%) Postman
7 3 (0.89%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) Bower
8 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.30%) ERwin
9 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.41%) Electronics
3 53 (15.68%) Manufacturing
4 48 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (12.72%) Games
7 39 (11.54%) Finance
8 35 (10.36%) Public Sector
9 28 (8.28%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.85%) Legal
11 12 (3.55%) Marketing
12 11 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.66%) Automotive
14 8 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.48%) Law
17 4 (1.18%) Retail
17 4 (1.18%) Swedish Language
18 2 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (18.64%) Senior
2 54 (15.98%) Designer
3 51 (15.09%) Developer
4 37 (10.95%) Lead
5 27 (7.99%) Software Engineer
6 26 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (6.21%) Interaction Designer
8 19 (5.62%) Architect
9 18 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.33%) Lead Designer
10 15 (4.44%) Product Manager
11 13 (3.85%) Consultant
12 12 (3.55%) Systems Manager
12 12 (3.55%) UX Designer
13 11 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 11 (3.25%) Electronics Engineer
13 11 (3.25%) Senior Designer
13 11 (3.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.25%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.96%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.21%) React
2 16 (4.73%) .NET
3 14 (4.14%) AngularJS
4 13 (3.85%) CSS
4 13 (3.85%) HTML
5 11 (3.25%) LangChain
5 11 (3.25%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.25%) Terraform
6 10 (2.96%) Web Services
7 9 (2.66%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.66%) RESTful
8 8 (2.37%) Gherkin
8 8 (2.37%) Jest
9 7 (2.07%) Next.js
10 6 (1.78%) JSON
10 6 (1.78%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.78%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.78%) XML
11 5 (1.48%) Ajax
11 5 (1.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.72%) Social Media
2 26 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.40%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (5.33%) FPGA
5 16 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.55%) IoT
6 12 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.55%) Robotics
7 10 (2.96%) Analogue Electronics
7 10 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.96%) Life Science
8 8 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.37%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.37%) VHDL
9 7 (2.07%) Acoustics
9 7 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.07%) Verilog
10 6 (1.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.30%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (44.08%) Agile
2 141 (41.72%) AI
3 80 (23.67%) User Research
4 78 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 76 (22.49%) Roadmaps
6 73 (21.60%) Analytics
7 71 (21.01%) Rapid Prototyping
8 62 (18.34%) Validation
9 57 (16.86%) Customer Experience
9 57 (16.86%) Product Roadmap
10 56 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (16.27%) Mentoring
12 53 (15.68%) User Experience
13 49 (14.50%) Software Engineering
14 47 (13.91%) Storytelling
15 43 (12.72%) Digital Customer Experience
16 40 (11.83%) CI/CD
17 37 (10.95%) UX Design
18 36 (10.65%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.46%) Python
2 28 (8.28%) Java
3 25 (7.40%) C
3 25 (7.40%) TypeScript
4 22 (6.51%) C#
5 21 (6.21%) C++
6 18 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.73%) SQL
8 11 (3.25%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.66%) Bash
10 8 (2.37%) Groovy
11 6 (1.78%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.48%) PHP
13 3 (0.89%) Pascal
13 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.89%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Go
15 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.30%) Julia
Qualifications
1 101 (29.88%) Degree
2 62 (18.34%) Security Cleared
3 41 (12.13%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.62%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.55%) PhD
7 9 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.07%) HND
10 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) HNC
12 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.30%) OCP
13 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (24.56%) Accessibility
2 36 (10.65%) WCAG
3 9 (2.66%) QA
4 4 (1.18%) DO-254
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.89%) JTAG
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (6.21%) Firmware
2 20 (5.92%) Docker
3 8 (2.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.37%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 58 (17.16%) Adobe
2 27 (7.99%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.80%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.14%) Google
5 13 (3.85%) EMC
6 8 (2.37%) SAP
7 5 (1.48%) Foundry
8 3 (0.89%) Databricks
8 3 (0.89%) Motorola
8 3 (0.89%) Siemens
8 3 (0.89%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.59%) Altera
9 2 (0.59%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.59%) Intel
9 2 (0.59%) YouTube
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Sparx
10 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro