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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 275 378
Rank change year-on-year -63 +103 -64
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 285 297 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.97% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.07% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 145 89 257
10th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,785 £81,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 47,964 27,634 62,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.12% 90.71% 80.10%
Number of salaries quoted 33,682 14,144 43,500
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £77,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -13 74 £52,500 -24.33% 25
East of England +44 73 £62,500 +38.89% 25
South East -19 62 £57,000 -5.00% 35
Yorkshire -8 31 £67,500 -20.82% 1
North West -10 27 £50,000 -27.94% 19
South West -58 21 £60,000 -12.44% 23
Midlands -26 20 £60,000 +4.35% 9
West Midlands -14 17 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Wales -37 16 £53,085 -22.01% 2
North East -37 16 £56,250 -13.46% 5
Scotland -76 11 £54,500 +19.43% 15
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -39 3 £60,000 +81.82% 4
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 4 (1.40%) Apache
2 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.70%) Confluence
2 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Adobe XD
1 6 (2.11%) Sketch
1 6 (2.11%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.70%) CATIA
4 2 (0.70%) InDesign
4 2 (0.70%) InVision
4 2 (0.70%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.70%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.70%) Trello
4 2 (0.70%) Windchill
5 1 (0.35%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.35%) Maya
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (23.86%) Figma
2 65 (22.81%) Adobe Analytics
3 39 (13.68%) AWS
4 23 (8.07%) Azure
5 20 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
5 20 (7.02%) Amazon S3
6 18 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (6.32%) Serverless
7 16 (5.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (4.91%) Apigee
8 14 (4.91%) GCP
9 13 (4.56%) SaaS
10 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.40%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.40%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 72 (25.26%) Broadband
2 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.75%) Intranet
4 2 (0.70%) LTE
4 2 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.70%) Wireless
4 2 (0.70%) WPA
5 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.35%) RS-232
5 1 (0.35%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.32%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.11%) Redis
4 5 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.05%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (5.96%) GitLab
2 16 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.91%) Cypress.io
3 14 (4.91%) Git
3 14 (4.91%) Maven
3 14 (4.91%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.81%) JIRA
5 3 (1.05%) LabVIEW
5 3 (1.05%) Postman
6 2 (0.70%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.70%) Bower
6 2 (0.70%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.70%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (22.46%) Games
2 55 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.33%) Electronics
4 36 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (11.93%) Finance
6 30 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 29 (10.18%) Public Sector
8 24 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.56%) Legal
10 11 (3.86%) Marketing
11 9 (3.16%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Swedish Language
15 3 (1.05%) Law
16 2 (0.70%) Retail
17 1 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 63 (22.11%) Designer
2 52 (18.25%) Lead
3 45 (15.79%) Developer
4 43 (15.09%) Senior
5 32 (11.23%) Lead Designer
6 21 (7.37%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (7.02%) UX Designer
8 17 (5.96%) Interaction Designer
9 15 (5.26%) Product Manager
10 14 (4.91%) Digital Designer
10 14 (4.91%) Lead UX Designer
11 13 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.21%) Systems Manager
13 10 (3.51%) Consultant
13 10 (3.51%) Hardware Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Senior Designer
14 9 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.37%) AngularJS
2 19 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 16 (5.61%) React
4 14 (4.91%) Gherkin
4 14 (4.91%) Jest
5 12 (4.21%) HTML
6 10 (3.51%) .NET
6 10 (3.51%) CSS
7 8 (2.81%) REST
8 7 (2.46%) LangChain
8 7 (2.46%) Web Services
9 6 (2.11%) JSON
9 6 (2.11%) XML
10 5 (1.75%) Ajax
10 5 (1.75%) jQuery
10 5 (1.75%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.75%) RESTful
10 5 (1.75%) Spring
10 5 (1.75%) Vue
11 4 (1.40%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.46%) Social Media
2 16 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.91%) Embedded Systems
4 11 (3.86%) IoT
5 10 (3.51%) FPGA
6 9 (3.16%) Robotics
7 8 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.11%) Life Science
8 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.75%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.40%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.21%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.35%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (49.82%) Agile
2 132 (46.32%) AI
3 100 (35.09%) User Research
3 100 (35.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 94 (32.98%) Roadmaps
5 82 (28.77%) Analytics
6 80 (28.07%) Product Roadmap
7 78 (27.37%) Customer Experience
8 68 (23.86%) Storytelling
9 64 (22.46%) Digital Customer Experience
10 48 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (16.14%) User Experience
12 43 (15.09%) Customer Insight
12 43 (15.09%) DevOps
13 42 (14.74%) Workshop Facilitation
14 40 (14.04%) Rapid Prototyping
14 40 (14.04%) Validation
15 39 (13.68%) CI/CD
16 37 (12.98%) Software Engineering
16 37 (12.98%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.95%) Python
2 37 (12.98%) Java
3 21 (7.37%) C
3 21 (7.37%) TypeScript
4 19 (6.67%) C#
5 18 (6.32%) C++
6 15 (5.26%) Bash
7 14 (4.91%) Groovy
8 13 (4.56%) SQL
9 12 (4.21%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.11%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.11%) PHP
11 5 (1.75%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.05%) Pascal
13 2 (0.70%) Julia
13 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 64 (22.46%) Degree
2 33 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.91%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (4.91%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.11%) PhD
8 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.40%) HND
10 3 (1.05%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.35%) HNC
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (32.98%) Accessibility
2 40 (14.04%) WCAG
3 4 (1.40%) DO-254
3 4 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (9.12%) Docker
2 11 (3.86%) Firmware
3 6 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (4.91%) HP Fortify
2 9 (3.16%) Terraform
3 4 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (26.32%) Adobe
2 15 (5.26%) Google
3 11 (3.86%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.11%) EMC
5 4 (1.40%) Foundry
6 3 (1.05%) Motorola
6 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks
8 1 (0.35%) Planon
8 1 (0.35%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Siemens