Prototyping Job Trends in the City of London

Prototyping
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 144 139
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +38
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 15 19 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.72% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.75% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 24
10th Percentile £53,250 £61,250 £55,685
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,438 £61,282
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £113,750 £94,375 £75,625
90th Percentile - £95,000 £109,500
Central London median annual salary £120,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +54.84% +14.81% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,949 2,527 2,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.28% 95.61% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 1,615 2,410
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Prototyping relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the City of London

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the City of London

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) InDesign
1 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Figma
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Canva
3 1 (6.67%) ClickUp
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) n8n
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 5 (33.33%) Front Office
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Multimedia
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Designer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Creative Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
3 1 (6.67%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Graphic Design
3 1 (6.67%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (6.67%) Smart City
3 1 (6.67%) Social Media
3 1 (6.67%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 5 (33.33%) API Design
2 5 (33.33%) Applied Mathematics
2 5 (33.33%) Complexity Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (33.33%) High-Frequency Trading
2 5 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 5 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 5 (33.33%) Order Management
2 5 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
2 5 (33.33%) Quantitative Trading
2 5 (33.33%) Statistics
2 5 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
3 4 (26.67%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 5 (33.33%) PhD
3 1 (6.67%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Hotjar
2 1 (6.67%) UiPath