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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 294 365
Rank change year-on-year -50 +71 -40
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 272 277 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.93% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.02% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 133 88 265
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,095 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,600 £80,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 46,698 27,127 61,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.00% 91.55% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31,705 13,533 42,896
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,318
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 7 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 7 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
East of England +41 75 £70,000 +55.56% 33
North of England -15 70 £55,000 -19.71% 58
South East +3 59 £65,000 +8.33% 55
Yorkshire -19 33 £67,500 -20.82% 16
North West -30 23 £50,000 -27.01% 37
Midlands -35 21 £57,500 - 20
South West -57 20 £60,000 -12.44% 35
West Midlands -18 18 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East -35 14 £58,750 -9.62% 5
Scotland -78 12 £54,500 +19.43% 20
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 5
Wales -40 7 £53,171 -21.88% 5
East Midlands -30 3 £60,000 +81.82% 7
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 2 (0.74%) Apache
1 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.74%) Confluence
1 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Sketch
2 6 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.21%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (1.84%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.47%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.74%) CATIA
5 2 (0.74%) InVision
5 2 (0.74%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.74%) Trello
6 1 (0.37%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.37%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.37%) Maya
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.37%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.63%) Adobe Analytics
2 64 (23.53%) Figma
3 37 (13.60%) AWS
4 20 (7.35%) Amazon ECR
4 20 (7.35%) Azure
5 18 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (6.62%) Amazon S3
5 18 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 16 (5.88%) Serverless
7 15 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (5.15%) Apigee
8 14 (5.15%) SaaS
9 13 (4.78%) GCP
10 5 (1.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (27.21%) Broadband
2 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.74%) LTE
3 2 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.74%) Wireless
4 1 (0.37%) RFID
4 1 (0.37%) RS-232
4 1 (0.37%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.47%) Redis
4 3 (1.10%) ClickHouse
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Big Data
6 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (6.25%) GitLab
2 14 (5.15%) Cypress.io
2 14 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.15%) Maven
2 14 (5.15%) SonarQube
3 7 (2.57%) Git
4 6 (2.21%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (24.26%) Games
2 48 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.60%) Electronics
4 36 (13.24%) Finance
5 32 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (11.03%) Manufacturing
7 25 (9.19%) Public Sector
8 18 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.41%) Marketing
10 11 (4.04%) Legal
11 9 (3.31%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Law
13 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Swedish Language
14 2 (0.74%) Retail
14 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (21.32%) Designer
2 54 (19.85%) Lead
3 36 (13.24%) Senior
4 34 (12.50%) Developer
4 34 (12.50%) Lead Designer
5 20 (7.35%) UX Designer
6 19 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.88%) Product Manager
9 15 (5.51%) Digital Designer
10 14 (5.15%) Lead UX Designer
11 13 (4.78%) Interaction Designer
11 13 (4.78%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Systems Manager
13 11 (4.04%) Consultant
14 10 (3.68%) Integration Engineer
15 9 (3.31%) Hardware Engineer
15 9 (3.31%) Product Designer
16 8 (2.94%) Analyst
16 8 (2.94%) Lead Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.72%) AngularJS
2 20 (7.35%) Spring Boot
3 14 (5.15%) Gherkin
3 14 (5.15%) Jest
4 12 (4.41%) React
5 9 (3.31%) REST
6 7 (2.57%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.21%) .NET
7 6 (2.21%) Google JAX
7 6 (2.21%) HTML
7 6 (2.21%) JAX
7 6 (2.21%) Spring
7 6 (2.21%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.21%) Vue
8 5 (1.84%) LangChain
8 5 (1.84%) Node.js
9 4 (1.47%) CSS
9 4 (1.47%) Django
10 3 (1.10%) Semantic Kernel
11 2 (0.74%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.26%) Social Media
2 13 (4.78%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (3.68%) FPGA
5 9 (3.31%) Robotics
6 8 (2.94%) IoT
6 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.57%) Life Science
8 6 (2.21%) CUDA
9 5 (1.84%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.47%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.47%) Verilog
10 4 (1.47%) VHDL
11 3 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.68%) Linux
2 7 (2.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.37%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (49.63%) Agile
2 128 (47.06%) AI
3 99 (36.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 97 (35.66%) User Research
5 95 (34.93%) Roadmaps
6 84 (30.88%) Product Roadmap
7 80 (29.41%) Customer Experience
8 79 (29.04%) Analytics
9 71 (26.10%) Storytelling
10 66 (24.26%) Digital Customer Experience
11 51 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (16.18%) Customer Insight
13 43 (15.81%) Workshop Facilitation
14 42 (15.44%) DevOps
15 41 (15.07%) Rapid Prototyping
15 41 (15.07%) User Experience
16 39 (14.34%) Validation
17 38 (13.97%) UX Design
18 35 (12.87%) Software Engineering
19 33 (12.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.12%) Python
2 35 (12.87%) Java
3 17 (6.25%) C
3 17 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 15 (5.51%) Bash
5 14 (5.15%) C#
5 14 (5.15%) C++
5 14 (5.15%) Groovy
6 9 (3.31%) SQL
7 5 (1.84%) Embedded C
8 3 (1.10%) Pascal
9 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.74%) Julia
9 2 (0.74%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (22.06%) Degree
2 35 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (5.15%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.10%) PhD
8 3 (1.10%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.74%) HND
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) HNC
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (34.19%) Accessibility
2 39 (14.34%) WCAG
3 4 (1.47%) DO-254
3 4 (1.47%) GDPR
4 3 (1.10%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.10%) QA
5 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (8.09%) Docker
2 10 (3.68%) Firmware
3 5 (1.84%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.15%) HP Fortify
2 7 (2.57%) Terraform
3 4 (1.47%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (27.57%) Adobe
2 13 (4.78%) Google
3 8 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.84%) EMC
5 4 (1.47%) Foundry
6 3 (1.10%) Motorola
7 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.37%) Planon
8 1 (0.37%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.37%) Siemens