Prototyping Jobs in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 324 340
Rank change year-on-year +32 +16 -59
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 332 565 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.78% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.94% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 95 270 263
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,700 £41,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,622 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 36,192 60,254 56,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.80% 83.03% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,146 41,534 28,921
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Prototyping in the UK excluding London

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 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 24 May 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
Scotland +162 116 £45,635 -13.08% 109
South East -3 57 £60,000 +13.21% 494
North of England -59 53 £65,000 +18.18% 373
East of England +21 40 £45,000 -30.77% 268
North West -55 37 £55,000 -5.11% 178
South West +77 30 £68,525 +24.59% 215
Midlands +20 24 £57,500 +35.29% 292
West Midlands +29 16 £60,000 +41.18% 149
Wales +39 9 £63,813 +8.53% 45
Yorkshire +27 9 £69,626 +63.83% 148
East Midlands +14 8 £33,000 -32.65% 126
North East +33 7 £67,192 +24.47% 47
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.81%) Confluence
2 4 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 3 (0.90%) IIS
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Sketch
2 5 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.20%) GNU Octave
4 3 (0.90%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.60%) Simulink
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.30%) InDesign
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.75%) AWS
2 24 (7.23%) Azure
3 20 (6.02%) Figma
4 19 (5.72%) GCP
5 11 (3.31%) GitHub
6 8 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (2.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 8 (2.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 8 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.41%) AWS CodeBuild
6 8 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (2.41%) dbt
6 8 (2.41%) Pulumi
7 7 (2.11%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.81%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.81%) Sentry
9 4 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (19.58%) Broadband
2 8 (2.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.90%) DNS
3 3 (0.90%) GPRS
3 3 (0.90%) GSM
3 3 (0.90%) Internet
3 3 (0.90%) RS-485
3 3 (0.90%) SMTP
4 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.30%) Intranet
5 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.30%) MQTT
5 1 (0.30%) RS-232
5 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.30%) VSAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wideband
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.41%) Redis
4 7 (2.11%) Power BI
5 6 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.20%) Biml
6 4 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.90%) MySQL
8 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.52%) Git
1 15 (4.52%) JIRA
2 8 (2.41%) GitLab
3 4 (1.20%) Subversion
3 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.90%) MSI
5 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (40.36%) Finance
2 105 (31.63%) Banking
3 67 (20.18%) Games
4 55 (16.57%) Social Skills
5 31 (9.34%) Electronics
6 18 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.12%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.71%) Law
10 7 (2.11%) Aviation
10 7 (2.11%) Retail
11 5 (1.51%) Marketing
12 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.90%) Advertising
13 3 (0.90%) Automotive
14 2 (0.60%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 203 (61.14%) Senior
2 102 (30.72%) Designer
3 87 (26.20%) UX Designer
4 85 (25.60%) Senior Designer
5 84 (25.30%) Senior UX Designer
6 39 (11.75%) Developer
7 29 (8.73%) Software Engineer
8 23 (6.93%) Electronics Engineer
9 21 (6.33%) UX Developer
10 19 (5.72%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) Design Engineer
12 14 (4.22%) Lead
12 14 (4.22%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.92%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 13 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) Senior Design Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) Senior UX Developer
15 9 (2.71%) FPGA Engineer
16 7 (2.11%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (20.18%) GraphQL
2 66 (19.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 65 (19.58%) WebGL
4 15 (4.52%) React
5 11 (3.31%) .NET
6 10 (3.01%) CSS
7 8 (2.41%) Django
8 7 (2.11%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.81%) Kafka
9 6 (1.81%) Node.js
9 6 (1.81%) REST
9 6 (1.81%) Spring
9 6 (1.81%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.51%) RESTful
11 4 (1.20%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.20%) Express.js
11 4 (1.20%) HTML
11 4 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (1.20%) Next.js
11 4 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.58%) Animation
2 23 (6.93%) FPGA
3 12 (3.61%) Optoelectronics
3 12 (3.61%) Verilog
4 11 (3.31%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.31%) VHDL
5 10 (3.01%) Analogue Electronics
5 10 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.11%) CPLD
7 7 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.20%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.20%) Wiki
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Life Science
9 3 (0.90%) PKI
9 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.92%) Linux
2 8 (2.41%) Unix
3 3 (0.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) CentOS
4 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (49.70%) Agile
2 132 (39.76%) User Experience
3 125 (37.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 118 (35.54%) User Research
5 117 (35.24%) UX Design
6 114 (34.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 114 (34.34%) Wireframes
7 113 (34.04%) Project Management
8 106 (31.93%) Usability Testing
9 104 (31.33%) Journey Map
10 102 (30.72%) UX Research
11 100 (30.12%) Design Thinking
12 93 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (24.10%) Rapid Prototyping
14 73 (21.99%) Artificial Intelligence
15 68 (20.48%) Storytelling
16 65 (19.58%) 3D Animation
16 65 (19.58%) Visual Effects
17 46 (13.86%) Software Engineering
18 31 (9.34%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.58%) HLSL
2 34 (10.24%) Python
3 23 (6.93%) C#
4 19 (5.72%) C
5 17 (5.12%) SQL
6 15 (4.52%) Java
7 14 (4.22%) C++
7 14 (4.22%) MATLAB
8 13 (3.92%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.01%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.20%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.20%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.60%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Go
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (12.35%) Degree
2 20 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.90%) HNC
6 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (33.43%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.41%) QA
3 5 (1.51%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.90%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.90%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) COBIT
5 2 (0.60%) SEPA
5 2 (0.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) DO-254
6 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 28 (8.43%) Firmware
2 20 (6.02%) Docker
3 17 (5.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.12%) Terraform
2 13 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.41%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (1.81%) Ansible
5 4 (1.20%) Grafana
6 3 (0.90%) WMI
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (3.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.01%) Google
3 9 (2.71%) EMC
4 8 (2.41%) Adobe
5 5 (1.51%) VMware
6 4 (1.20%) Agilent
6 4 (1.20%) IBM
7 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.60%) Databricks
8 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.30%) Cadence
9 1 (0.30%) Facebook
9 1 (0.30%) Pega
9 1 (0.30%) SAP
9 1 (0.30%) Xilinx