Prototyping Job Trends in England

Prototyping
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 336 371
Rank change year-on-year -30 +35 -72
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 282 380 457
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.86% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.93% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 167 162 325
10th Percentile £46,344 £41,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -13.90%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £84,750 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,536 40,950 58,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.41% 92.48% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29,120 20,127 46,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in England

Prototyping
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in England

Prototyping
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
London +61 132 £75,000 +11.28% 90
South East -36 51 £55,000 -26.67% 62
North of England -53 41 £57,500 - 29
North West -30 21 £57,500 -4.17% 17
East of England -3 20 £81,575 +48.32% 29
South West -29 16 £79,750 +6.33% 17
Yorkshire -22 15 £67,500 +28.57% 7
Midlands +11 8 £47,500 -22.01% 24
West Midlands +14 7 £46,022 -24.44% 16
North East -8 5 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 8
Prototyping
UK

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (3.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) Strapi
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (12.77%) Adobe XD
2 18 (6.38%) Sketch
3 10 (3.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 10 (3.55%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.48%) Maya
5 6 (2.13%) InVision
6 5 (1.77%) Fusion 360
6 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.71%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.71%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.35%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.35%) CATIA
10 1 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.35%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.13%) SAP CO
1 6 (2.13%) SAP FI
1 6 (2.13%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (2.13%) SAP FSCM
1 6 (2.13%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.13%) SAP IS-U
1 6 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 112 (39.72%) Figma
2 60 (21.28%) AWS
3 49 (17.38%) Azure
4 38 (13.48%) Adobe Analytics
5 28 (9.93%) GCP
6 22 (7.80%) Miro
7 18 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (6.03%) SaaS
9 14 (4.96%) GitHub
10 12 (4.26%) Google Analytics
10 12 (4.26%) PaaS
11 10 (3.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.55%) dbt
11 10 (3.55%) Serverless
12 9 (3.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.19%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.16%) Broadband
2 11 (3.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.42%) Internet
3 4 (1.42%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.71%) 2G
4 2 (0.71%) 4G
4 2 (0.71%) 5G
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.71%) ICMP
5 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.35%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) LTE
5 1 (0.35%) RFID
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.90%) Redis
3 10 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.84%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.13%) SAP BW
7 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.42%) Power BI
7 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.35%) DB2
10 1 (0.35%) GIS
10 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (10.64%) Axure RP
2 24 (8.51%) Balsamiq
3 16 (5.67%) JIRA
4 12 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.90%) Git
6 10 (3.55%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.84%) GitLab
7 8 (2.84%) Maven
7 8 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.77%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 83 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (16.67%) Law
4 46 (16.31%) Finance
5 42 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (12.41%) Public Sector
7 28 (9.93%) Banking
8 26 (9.22%) Games
9 22 (7.80%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (4.96%) Retail
11 13 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.90%) Electronics
13 9 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 8 (2.84%) Marketing
15 7 (2.48%) Legal
16 6 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.77%) Back Office
17 5 (1.77%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 87 (30.85%) Designer
2 55 (19.50%) Senior
3 41 (14.54%) Lead
4 35 (12.41%) UX Designer
5 31 (10.99%) Developer
6 21 (7.45%) Product Designer
7 19 (6.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (6.74%) Strategy Manager
8 17 (6.03%) Senior Manager
9 16 (5.67%) Lead Designer
10 15 (5.32%) Interaction Designer
11 14 (4.96%) Consultant
11 14 (4.96%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.90%) Service Designer
13 10 (3.55%) Analyst
13 10 (3.55%) Architect
14 9 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.19%) UI Designer
14 9 (3.19%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.18%) CSS
1 40 (14.18%) HTML
2 30 (10.64%) React
3 26 (9.22%) Node.js
4 23 (8.16%) .NET
5 15 (5.32%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.96%) REST
7 11 (3.90%) Jest
7 11 (3.90%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.19%) Django
9 8 (2.84%) Gherkin
9 8 (2.84%) JSON
9 8 (2.84%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.84%) XML
10 7 (2.48%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.13%) LangChain
11 6 (2.13%) Next.js
11 6 (2.13%) RESTful
12 5 (1.77%) Vue
12 5 (1.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 30 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.09%) Social Media
4 13 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.48%) Life Science
7 6 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.77%) Animation
8 5 (1.77%) Blog
8 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.42%) CUDA
9 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.67%) Linux
2 9 (3.19%) Unix
3 6 (2.13%) Android
4 4 (1.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (60.64%) Agile
2 131 (46.45%) User Experience
3 86 (30.50%) Analytics
3 86 (30.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 86 (30.50%) UX Design
4 85 (30.14%) User Research
5 84 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (26.95%) Wireframes
7 65 (23.05%) AI
8 58 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (18.44%) Customer Experience
10 48 (17.02%) CI/CD
11 46 (16.31%) Usability Testing
12 45 (15.96%) Storytelling
13 41 (14.54%) Clean Code
13 41 (14.54%) Workshop Facilitation
14 40 (14.18%) Roadmaps
15 39 (13.83%) Mentoring
16 37 (13.12%) Journey Map
17 36 (12.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.50%) Python
2 50 (17.73%) JavaScript
3 39 (13.83%) Java
4 30 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 14 (4.96%) SQL
6 10 (3.55%) C#
6 10 (3.55%) C++
7 9 (3.19%) Bash
7 9 (3.19%) Groovy
8 6 (2.13%) C
9 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.71%) Bicep
10 2 (0.71%) Julia
10 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.71%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
11 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (33.33%) Degree
2 64 (22.70%) Security Cleared
3 53 (18.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.77%) HNC
7 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.42%) PhD
9 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.06%) HND
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (36.17%) Accessibility
2 40 (14.18%) WCAG
3 4 (1.42%) GRC
3 4 (1.42%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.06%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (8.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (4.61%) Terraform
2 9 (3.19%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (2.84%) HP Fortify
4 5 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 84 (29.79%) Adobe
2 35 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.87%) Google
4 19 (6.74%) Qualtrics
5 6 (2.13%) SAP
6 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.42%) Foundry
8 2 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.71%) EMC
8 2 (0.71%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.71%) Mercator
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.71%) UiPath
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Informatica
9 1 (0.35%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.35%) Planon
9 1 (0.35%) Siemens
9 1 (0.35%) VMware