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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 327 405
Rank change year-on-year -35 +78 -76
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 446 401 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.91% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.98% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 230 174 370
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,875 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -9.09%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +43 383 £67,124 +11.87% 196
UK excluding London -55 264 £57,500 -4.17% 136
Work from Home +42 237 £67,500 +22.73% 77
London +8 136 £75,000 +25.00% 90
East of England +42 73 £60,000 +33.33% 24
North of England -22 65 £57,500 -8.00% 27
South East +5 59 £65,000 +8.33% 43
Yorkshire -18 32 £67,500 +22.73% 4
North West -8 23 £51,250 -6.82% 19
Midlands -26 21 £53,750 -6.52% 11
South West -65 20 £60,000 -12.44% 18
West Midlands -35 19 £53,750 -10.42% 5
Scotland -81 11 £54,500 +19.43% 9
North East -35 10 £55,000 -18.14% 4
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
Wales -36 7 £53,171 -7.53% 3
East Midlands -26 2 £101,250 +206.82% 6

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 5 (1.12%) CMS
2 4 (0.90%) Confluence
2 4 (0.90%) WordPress
3 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 23 (5.16%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.91%) Sketch
3 7 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.12%) Fusion 360
5 5 (1.12%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.67%) Productboard
7 2 (0.45%) CATIA
7 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.45%) InVision
7 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.45%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.22%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
8 1 (0.22%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (26.23%) Figma
2 84 (18.83%) Adobe Analytics
3 83 (18.61%) AWS
4 61 (13.68%) Azure
5 39 (8.74%) GCP
6 24 (5.38%) SaaS
7 21 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
8 19 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (4.26%) Serverless
9 18 (4.04%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.59%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.14%) Apigee
12 14 (3.14%) Vertex AI
13 11 (2.47%) Miro
14 10 (2.24%) Google Analytics
15 9 (2.02%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 94 (21.08%) Broadband
2 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.67%) Wireless
3 3 (0.67%) WPA
4 2 (0.45%) LTE
4 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) Modbus
5 1 (0.22%) MQTT
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.59%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.79%) Power BI
3 8 (1.79%) Redis
4 6 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.90%) DB2
6 4 (0.90%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.90%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.45%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.45%) Tableau
8 2 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (3.59%) GitLab
2 15 (3.36%) Axure RP
2 15 (3.36%) Balsamiq
2 15 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.14%) Cypress.io
3 14 (3.14%) Maven
3 14 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 9 (2.02%) JIRA
5 8 (1.79%) Git
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.83%) Finance
2 84 (18.83%) Games
3 64 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 51 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (10.09%) Law
7 37 (8.30%) Electronics
8 35 (7.85%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.71%) Legal
9 21 (4.71%) Marketing
10 20 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.69%) Banking
12 11 (2.47%) Retail
13 10 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.57%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.12%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 105 (23.54%) Designer
2 76 (17.04%) Lead
3 64 (14.35%) Senior
4 47 (10.54%) Developer
5 46 (10.31%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.07%) Lead Designer
7 27 (6.05%) Architect
8 20 (4.48%) Interaction Designer
8 20 (4.48%) Software Engineer
8 20 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (4.26%) Product Designer
9 19 (4.26%) Product Manager
10 18 (4.04%) Analyst
10 18 (4.04%) Consultant
11 17 (3.81%) Digital Designer
11 17 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (3.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 15 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (3.14%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.62%) HTML
2 30 (6.73%) CSS
2 30 (6.73%) React
3 23 (5.16%) AngularJS
4 21 (4.71%) Spring Boot
5 19 (4.26%) Node.js
6 18 (4.04%) .NET
7 16 (3.59%) REST
8 15 (3.36%) Jest
9 14 (3.14%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.24%) LangChain
11 8 (1.79%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.57%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.57%) JAX
12 7 (1.57%) Spring
12 7 (1.57%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.57%) Vue
13 5 (1.12%) Django
14 4 (0.90%) Semantic Kernel
14 4 (0.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.39%) Social Media
2 32 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.47%) Robotics
7 10 (2.24%) FPGA
8 9 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (2.02%) IoT
9 8 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.79%) Life Science
10 7 (1.57%) CUDA
10 7 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.12%) Blog
12 5 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.35%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (51.79%) Agile
2 197 (44.17%) AI
3 159 (35.65%) User Research
4 144 (32.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 129 (28.92%) Analytics
6 126 (28.25%) Roadmaps
7 105 (23.54%) Customer Experience
8 103 (23.09%) Product Roadmap
9 102 (22.87%) User Experience
10 91 (20.40%) Storytelling
11 88 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (18.39%) Digital Customer Experience
13 80 (17.94%) UX Design
14 70 (15.70%) Rapid Prototyping
15 68 (15.25%) Workshop Facilitation
16 64 (14.35%) Mentoring
17 61 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (13.23%) Software Engineering
19 58 (13.00%) Validation
20 52 (11.66%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.71%) Python
2 53 (11.88%) Java
3 34 (7.62%) JavaScript
3 34 (7.62%) TypeScript
4 21 (4.71%) C#
5 20 (4.48%) SQL
6 19 (4.26%) C
7 17 (3.81%) Bash
8 16 (3.59%) C++
9 15 (3.36%) Groovy
10 5 (1.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.67%) Julia
11 3 (0.67%) Pascal
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (25.11%) Degree
2 69 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.90%) PhD
8 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.22%) HNC
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
9 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (31.17%) Accessibility
2 69 (15.47%) WCAG
3 8 (1.79%) QA
4 7 (1.57%) GRC
5 4 (0.90%) DO-254
5 4 (0.90%) GDPR
5 4 (0.90%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (6.05%) Docker
2 12 (2.69%) Firmware
3 4 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.14%) HP Fortify
2 13 (2.91%) Terraform
3 11 (2.47%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.12%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (26.46%) Adobe
2 32 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.28%) Google
4 9 (2.02%) EMC
4 9 (2.02%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.79%) Foundry
5 8 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.90%) JD Edwards
7 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
7 3 (0.67%) Motorola
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle
7 3 (0.67%) SAP
7 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.67%) Workday
8 2 (0.45%) Databricks
8 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.45%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir
9 1 (0.22%) YouTube