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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 272 287
Rank change year-on-year -82 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 160 414 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.89% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.07% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 77 183 186
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,875 £69,800
90th Percentile £91,600 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

All Process and 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 30,732 38,652 27,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.11% 82.83% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,747 18,776 20,556
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -33 64 £55,000 -26.67% 89
North of England -39 31 £50,000 -16.67% 20
North West +1 21 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Scotland +2 15 £64,151 -4.47% 13
Midlands +61 14 £60,000 +2.63% 14
South West -8 13 £85,000 +13.33% 19
East of England +3 12 £86,250 +56.82% 28
Wales -9 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
East Midlands +29 8 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire +5 7 £30,500 -46.24% 4
West Midlands +49 6 £61,250 +4.76% 10
North East +5 3 £73,801 +19.55% 5
Northern Ireland -5 2 £73,801 +13.54%
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.25%) Adobe XD
2 8 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.13%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (2.50%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.50%) Sketch
5 2 (1.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.63%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.63%) Maya
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.75%) Azure
2 43 (26.88%) AWS
3 36 (22.50%) Figma
4 34 (21.25%) GCP
5 15 (9.38%) Azure AI
5 15 (9.38%) Vertex AI
6 11 (6.88%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (6.88%) PaaS
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.25%) dbt
7 10 (6.25%) Pulumi
7 10 (6.25%) Sentry
8 9 (5.63%) Miro
9 7 (4.38%) GitHub
10 6 (3.75%) SaaS
11 4 (2.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.63%) Modbus
2 16 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.13%) MQTT
4 12 (7.50%) Ethernet
5 5 (3.13%) Firewall
6 4 (2.50%) Bluetooth
6 4 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.50%) Network Security
6 4 (2.50%) VLAN
6 4 (2.50%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.50%) ZigBee
7 2 (1.25%) 2G
7 2 (1.25%) 4G
7 2 (1.25%) 5G
7 2 (1.25%) DNS
7 2 (1.25%) HTTP
7 2 (1.25%) ICMP
7 2 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.25%) Redis
2 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) GIS
5 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Git
2 12 (7.50%) Axure RP
3 8 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (3.75%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.13%) Balsamiq
6 4 (2.50%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.50%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (2.50%) Metasploit
6 4 (2.50%) MSI
6 4 (2.50%) webpack
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.88%) Law
3 28 (17.50%) Finance
4 24 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (14.38%) Manufacturing
6 17 (10.63%) Legal
7 16 (10.00%) Banking
8 15 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (8.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (6.88%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (6.88%) Public Sector
10 11 (6.88%) Retail
11 10 (6.25%) Electronics
12 6 (3.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.50%) Marketing
14 3 (1.88%) Aviation
14 3 (1.88%) Games
15 2 (1.25%) Digital Health
15 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (23.13%) Senior
2 22 (13.75%) Designer
2 22 (13.75%) Software Engineer
3 15 (9.38%) Product Delivery Manager
3 15 (9.38%) Product Manager
4 12 (7.50%) Architect
4 12 (7.50%) Developer
5 11 (6.88%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (6.88%) Strategy Manager
6 10 (6.25%) Lead
6 10 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.38%) UX Designer
10 6 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (3.75%) Product Designer
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.00%) CSS
2 16 (10.00%) HTML
3 13 (8.13%) React
4 10 (6.25%) Django
5 8 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.38%) .NET
7 6 (3.75%) Jest
7 6 (3.75%) JSON
7 6 (3.75%) REST
7 6 (3.75%) XML
8 5 (3.13%) OAuth
8 5 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.13%) OpenID
8 5 (3.13%) SAML
8 5 (3.13%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (2.50%) CSS3
9 4 (2.50%) Kafka
9 4 (2.50%) RxJS
9 4 (2.50%) Spring
9 4 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.00%) IoT
2 17 (10.63%) Operational Technology
2 17 (10.63%) SCADA
3 15 (9.38%) AI Agents
4 14 (8.75%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (8.13%) Biopharmaceutical
5 13 (8.13%) Industry 4.0
5 13 (8.13%) Renewable Energy
6 11 (6.88%) Data Centre
7 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 8 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.13%) CAN bus
9 5 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.50%) Wiki
11 3 (1.88%) Animation
11 3 (1.88%) CUDA
11 3 (1.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Unix
3 5 (3.13%) Android
3 5 (3.13%) Windows
4 4 (2.50%) Kali Linux
4 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.50%) Agile
2 64 (40.00%) User Experience
3 46 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (22.50%) Software Engineering
5 36 (22.50%) Wireframes
6 33 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (20.00%) AI
8 29 (18.13%) Machine Learning
9 26 (16.25%) Matrix Organization
9 26 (16.25%) Mentoring
9 26 (16.25%) UX Design
10 25 (15.63%) DevOps
11 24 (15.00%) Analytics
11 24 (15.00%) Data Science
12 23 (14.38%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (13.75%) Roadmaps
14 21 (13.13%) Strategic Thinking
15 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (11.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.13%) Python
2 21 (13.13%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.88%) C#
4 16 (10.00%) Java
5 14 (8.75%) C++
6 8 (5.00%) Go
6 8 (5.00%) PHP
6 8 (5.00%) SQL
7 7 (4.38%) C
7 7 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.50%) Delphi
8 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.50%) R
8 4 (2.50%) Rust
9 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.63%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.63%) Julia
9 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 45 (28.13%) Degree
2 43 (26.88%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.25%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.25%) HNC
5 17 (10.63%) HND
6 13 (8.13%) Chartered Engineer
6 13 (8.13%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) MCP
9 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.00%) WCAG
3 4 (2.50%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (10.63%) Docker
2 13 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.13%) Functional Safety
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 10 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (3.13%) WMI
5 4 (2.50%) Nessus
5 4 (2.50%) Nmap
6 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Google
2 24 (15.00%) Adobe
3 17 (10.63%) Foundry
4 15 (9.38%) Qualtrics
5 14 (8.75%) Microsoft
5 14 (8.75%) VMware
6 13 (8.13%) AVEVA
6 13 (8.13%) Rockwell
6 13 (8.13%) Siemens
7 5 (3.13%) Facebook
8 4 (2.50%) Autodesk
8 4 (2.50%) Cisco
8 4 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.50%) Sage
8 4 (2.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.63%) EMC
9 1 (0.63%) Palantir
9 1 (0.63%) Remedy