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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 331 357
Rank change year-on-year -33 +26 -24
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 571 411 536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.83% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.93% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 382 172 193
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £119,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%

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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +17 486 £60,000 -14.29% 1,551
UK excluding London -25 381 £56,000 -6.67% 959
Work from Home -29 185 £65,000 +18.18% 823
London -51 147 £75,000 - 838
North of England +5 103 £55,000 -4.35% 157
South East -9 98 £56,000 -10.93% 209
East of England +16 66 £60,000 - 135
North West +11 56 £53,750 -10.42% 82
Midlands -23 41 £57,500 -4.17% 79
West Midlands -16 31 £57,500 -4.17% 54
South West -47 31 £58,250 -31.47% 127
North East -36 28 £58,750 -9.62% 36
Wales -54 24 £53,171 +7.42% 70
Yorkshire -31 19 £50,000 +63.93% 41
Scotland -64 13 £55,000 - 139
East Midlands -47 10 £45,000 +36.36% 25
Northern Ireland -71 10 £80,000 - 47

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 12 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.93%) Apache
2 11 (1.93%) Confluence
3 9 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.05%) CMS
5 6 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.70%) WordPress
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (3.85%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 18 (3.15%) Photoshop
3 17 (2.98%) Adobe XD
4 14 (2.45%) InDesign
5 12 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (1.40%) Sketch
8 7 (1.23%) EPLAN
8 7 (1.23%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.70%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.53%) Productboard
11 3 (0.53%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.53%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.35%) InVision
12 2 (0.35%) Trello
12 2 (0.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.70%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (17.34%) Figma
2 85 (14.89%) AWS
3 67 (11.73%) Azure
4 41 (7.18%) GCP
5 27 (4.73%) GitHub
6 18 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.15%) SaaS
7 17 (2.98%) Amazon S3
7 17 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.98%) Serverless
8 15 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
9 14 (2.45%) dbt
10 13 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.93%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.75%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.58%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (1.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.63%) Broadband
2 8 (1.40%) WPA
3 7 (1.23%) Wireless
4 5 (0.88%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.88%) Intranet
4 5 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.53%) RS-485
6 2 (0.35%) Internet
6 2 (0.35%) RS-232
6 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) AMQP
7 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.18%) J1939
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Modbus
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.45%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.40%) Power BI
4 8 (1.40%) Redis
5 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.70%) Metadata
7 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.53%) Tableau
8 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.35%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 26 (4.55%) Git
2 18 (3.15%) JIRA
3 16 (2.80%) GitLab
4 8 (1.40%) Axure RP
4 8 (1.40%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.23%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.05%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.05%) Postman
7 5 (0.88%) Maven
7 5 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.35%) Bower
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 222 (38.88%) Social Skills
2 117 (20.49%) Electronics
3 106 (18.56%) Manufacturing
4 104 (18.21%) Finance
5 96 (16.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (14.89%) Public Sector
7 71 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (9.46%) Aerospace
9 53 (9.28%) Law
10 40 (7.01%) Marketing
11 33 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (4.90%) Automotive
13 22 (3.85%) Retail
14 19 (3.33%) Games
15 18 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (2.45%) Legal
17 13 (2.28%) Military
18 11 (1.93%) Banking
19 10 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 145 (25.39%) Senior
2 118 (20.67%) Designer
3 62 (10.86%) Developer
4 52 (9.11%) Lead
5 46 (8.06%) UX Designer
6 45 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 43 (7.53%) Electronics Engineer
8 34 (5.95%) Senior Designer
9 29 (5.08%) Interaction Designer
10 28 (4.90%) Architect
11 24 (4.20%) Design Engineer
11 24 (4.20%) UI Designer
11 24 (4.20%) UI/UX Designer
12 22 (3.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.68%) Lead Designer
14 20 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.33%) Consultant
15 19 (3.33%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.71%) HTML
2 43 (7.53%) CSS
3 39 (6.83%) React
4 25 (4.38%) .NET
5 17 (2.98%) LangChain
5 17 (2.98%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.98%) Terraform
6 15 (2.63%) Kafka
6 15 (2.63%) REST
7 13 (2.28%) Spring
8 12 (2.10%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.10%) Web Services
9 10 (1.75%) FastAPI
9 10 (1.75%) RESTful
10 9 (1.58%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.58%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.58%) JSON
10 9 (1.58%) Next.js
11 8 (1.40%) Node.js
12 7 (1.23%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.13%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.55%) AI Agents
6 25 (4.38%) Robotics
7 22 (3.85%) IoT
8 18 (3.15%) FPGA
9 17 (2.98%) Analogue Electronics
10 16 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.63%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.63%) Social Media
12 13 (2.28%) Algorithms
12 13 (2.28%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.93%) Life Science
14 10 (1.75%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.58%) Public Cloud
16 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.58%) Android
1 9 (1.58%) Linux
2 8 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.55%) AI
2 192 (33.63%) Agile
3 137 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (20.49%) User Experience
6 109 (19.09%) User Research
7 107 (18.74%) Rapid Prototyping
8 105 (18.39%) Mentoring
9 104 (18.21%) Validation
10 94 (16.46%) Analytics
10 94 (16.46%) Software Engineering
11 78 (13.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 78 (13.66%) UX Design
12 73 (12.78%) CI/CD
13 64 (11.21%) LLM
14 63 (11.03%) Roadmaps
15 60 (10.51%) Service Design
16 56 (9.81%) Wireframes
17 50 (8.76%) DevOps
17 50 (8.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (18.04%) Python
2 47 (8.23%) JavaScript
2 47 (8.23%) TypeScript
3 39 (6.83%) SQL
4 37 (6.48%) Java
5 30 (5.25%) C#
6 28 (4.90%) C++
7 27 (4.73%) C
8 16 (2.80%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.40%) Bash
9 8 (1.40%) Rust
10 6 (1.05%) Embedded C
10 6 (1.05%) Go
10 6 (1.05%) Groovy
11 5 (0.88%) Embedded C++
11 5 (0.88%) PHP
12 4 (0.70%) R
13 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (35.03%) Degree
2 116 (20.32%) Security Cleared
3 90 (15.76%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.15%) HND
8 15 (2.63%) PhD
9 13 (2.28%) HNC
10 12 (2.10%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.35%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (16.46%) Accessibility
2 41 (7.18%) WCAG
3 19 (3.33%) QA
4 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.70%) GDPR
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) JTAG
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) DO-254
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) MISRA
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) IASME
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (6.30%) Docker
2 33 (5.78%) Firmware
3 11 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 55 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.28%) Adobe
3 32 (5.60%) EMC
3 32 (5.60%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.33%) Google
5 12 (2.10%) SAP
6 11 (1.93%) Databricks
7 10 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.23%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.05%) Thales
10 5 (0.88%) Foundry
11 4 (0.70%) Oracle
11 4 (0.70%) Siemens
12 3 (0.53%) Apple
12 3 (0.53%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.53%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.53%) HighQ
12 3 (0.53%) Legora
12 3 (0.53%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.35%) ServiceNow