Prototyping Job Trends

Prototyping
UK

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 329 376
Rank change year-on-year -30 +47 -62
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 389 360 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.84% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.90% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 209 187 405
10th Percentile £45,800 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £52,750
% change year-on-year -16.09% +29.91% -15.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the UK

Prototyping
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the UK over the 6 months to 18 March 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
England +8 342 £67,240 +3.45% 251
UK excluding London -73 213 £57,500 -16.09% 174
Work from Home +10 186 £60,000 -13.43% 120
London +58 142 £73,151 +12.54% 122
South East +2 63 £55,000 -26.67% 75
East of England +4 51 £80,788 +61.58% 27
North of England -65 47 £57,500 -4.17% 33
North West -42 24 £57,500 -4.17% 17
South West -56 18 £79,750 +16.38% 13
Yorkshire -38 17 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Scotland -26 16 £54,500 -9.02% 8
Midlands -22 10 £47,500 -25.56% 17
West Midlands -3 9 £46,022 -27.88% 12
North East -21 6 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Wales -40 6 £73,801 +6.96% 5
Northern Ireland -31 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -36 1 £50,000 - 5

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (2.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.26%) SAS
3 1 (0.26%) Strapi
3 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (8.74%) Adobe XD
2 16 (4.11%) Sketch
3 14 (3.60%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.29%) Fusion 360
7 4 (1.03%) InVision
8 3 (0.77%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.77%) Maya
9 1 (0.26%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.26%) Blender
9 1 (0.26%) CATIA
9 1 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.51%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 124 (31.88%) Figma
2 87 (22.37%) AWS
3 76 (19.54%) Adobe Analytics
3 76 (19.54%) Azure
4 51 (13.11%) GCP
5 27 (6.94%) Amazon ECR
5 27 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (5.91%) Miro
8 22 (5.66%) PaaS
9 18 (4.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 18 (4.63%) dbt
10 17 (4.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (4.37%) Pulumi
10 17 (4.37%) SaaS
10 17 (4.37%) Sentry
11 14 (3.60%) Google Analytics
12 13 (3.34%) GitHub
12 13 (3.34%) Vertex AI
13 12 (3.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (17.74%) Broadband
2 20 (5.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.03%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.03%) Internet
3 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.77%) Wireless
5 2 (0.51%) 2G
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) DNS
5 2 (0.51%) Firewall
5 2 (0.51%) HTTP
5 2 (0.51%) ICMP
5 2 (0.51%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.26%) Modbus
6 1 (0.26%) RFID
6 1 (0.26%) VLAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (4.88%) Redis
3 18 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.06%) Power BI
7 6 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.29%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.03%) DB2
9 4 (1.03%) DB2 UDB
9 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.03%) QlikView
10 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.51%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.51%) Tableau
11 1 (0.26%) GIS
11 1 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (8.23%) Axure RP
2 26 (6.68%) Balsamiq
3 18 (4.63%) JIRA
4 15 (3.86%) Git
5 13 (3.34%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.31%) GitLab
7 9 (2.31%) Maven
7 9 (2.31%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.29%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.26%) Mocha
10 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (17.22%) Finance
4 59 (15.17%) Games
5 55 (14.14%) Law
6 52 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (12.08%) Public Sector
8 29 (7.46%) Banking
9 21 (5.40%) Electronics
9 21 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (5.14%) Manufacturing
11 17 (4.37%) Legal
12 15 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.34%) Retail
14 10 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.29%) Back Office
16 5 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 98 (25.19%) Designer
2 73 (18.77%) Senior
3 56 (14.40%) Lead
4 42 (10.80%) UX Designer
5 31 (7.97%) Developer
6 23 (5.91%) Lead Designer
7 20 (5.14%) Consultant
7 20 (5.14%) Senior Manager
8 19 (4.88%) Analyst
8 19 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 19 (4.88%) Product Designer
8 19 (4.88%) Strategy Manager
9 18 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.37%) Architect
10 17 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.37%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.11%) Interaction Designer
12 15 (3.86%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.80%) CSS
1 42 (10.80%) HTML
2 32 (8.23%) React
3 23 (5.91%) Node.js
4 22 (5.66%) .NET
5 17 (4.37%) Django
6 15 (3.86%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.86%) REST
7 13 (3.34%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.08%) Jest
9 10 (2.57%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.31%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.31%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.06%) LangChain
12 7 (1.80%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.80%) JAX
12 7 (1.80%) JSON
12 7 (1.80%) Next.js
12 7 (1.80%) XML
13 6 (1.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.65%) Social Media
2 40 (10.28%) Product Ownership
3 36 (9.25%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.40%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.06%) Life Science
6 8 (2.06%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.80%) CUDA
7 7 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.80%) IoT
7 7 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.54%) Blog
8 6 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.29%) Animation
9 5 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.29%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.20%) Linux
2 18 (4.63%) Unix
3 7 (1.80%) Android
4 5 (1.29%) Windows
5 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (59.13%) Agile
2 140 (35.99%) User Experience
3 138 (35.48%) AI
4 128 (32.90%) User Research
5 127 (32.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 125 (32.13%) Analytics
7 115 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (24.94%) Customer Experience
9 95 (24.42%) UX Design
10 87 (22.37%) Roadmaps
11 81 (20.82%) Storytelling
12 76 (19.54%) Wireframes
13 69 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (17.48%) Product Roadmap
15 58 (14.91%) Mentoring
16 57 (14.65%) Digital Customer Experience
17 55 (14.14%) CI/CD
17 55 (14.14%) Workshop Facilitation
18 54 (13.88%) Clean Code
19 51 (13.11%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.57%) Python
2 53 (13.62%) Java
3 51 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 32 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.37%) C++
6 15 (3.86%) C
6 15 (3.86%) SQL
7 14 (3.60%) C#
8 10 (2.57%) Bash
8 10 (2.57%) Groovy
9 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.77%) R
10 2 (0.51%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.51%) Julia
10 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.51%) Pascal
10 2 (0.51%) PHP
10 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
11 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (28.28%) Degree
2 87 (22.37%) Security Cleared
3 70 (17.99%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.57%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.03%) PhD
9 3 (0.77%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) HNC
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (36.50%) Accessibility
2 68 (17.48%) WCAG
3 7 (1.80%) GRC
4 6 (1.54%) GDPR
5 4 (1.03%) ISO 13485
6 3 (0.77%) QA
7 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.26%) DO-254
7 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (8.48%) Docker
2 8 (2.06%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (5.91%) Terraform
2 17 (4.37%) AWS Copilot
3 9 (2.31%) HP Fortify
4 8 (2.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Nmap
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 118 (30.33%) Adobe
2 46 (11.83%) Google
3 36 (9.25%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.14%) Qualtrics
5 9 (2.31%) Foundry
6 8 (2.06%) EMC
6 8 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.03%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.77%) Workday
9 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.51%) Mercator
9 2 (0.51%) Motorola
9 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.51%) SAP
9 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.51%) VMware
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco
10 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.26%) Siemens