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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 306 358
Rank change year-on-year -67 +52 -45
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 323 476 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.04% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 195 187 387
10th Percentile £46,229 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.88%
75th Percentile £89,375 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -20.87%

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 53,358 45,796 65,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.56% 92.23% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,921 22,329 51,135
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 February 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 14 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
England -47 276 £70,000 +7.69% 186
UK excluding London -135 154 £57,500 -11.54% 151
London +66 131 £75,000 +13.29% 67
Work from Home -70 120 £60,000 -13.43% 100
South East -80 47 £55,000 -26.67% 51
North of England -34 39 £57,500 +4.55% 26
East of England 0 21 £85,788 +55.98% 20
North West -24 20 £57,500 -4.17% 15
South West -46 16 £79,750 +6.33% 18
Yorkshire -25 14 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Wales -14 11 £71,151 +2.15% 6
Midlands +9 9 £50,000 -17.90% 21
Scotland -22 9 £54,500 -9.02% 12
West Midlands +18 8 £47,500 -22.01% 13
North East -9 5 £73,801 +32.01% 3
Northern Ireland -19 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 8

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 10 (3.10%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
4 1 (0.31%) Strapi
4 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (11.46%) Adobe XD
2 16 (4.95%) Sketch
3 13 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (2.17%) Maya
6 6 (1.86%) InVision
7 5 (1.55%) Fusion 360
7 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.62%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.31%) Blender
11 1 (0.31%) CATIA
11 1 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.31%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (1.86%) SAP CO
1 6 (1.86%) SAP FI
1 6 (1.86%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (1.86%) SAP FSCM
1 6 (1.86%) SAP IBP
1 6 (1.86%) SAP IS-U
1 6 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 107 (33.13%) Figma
2 77 (23.84%) AWS
3 65 (20.12%) Azure
4 40 (12.38%) GCP
5 31 (9.60%) Adobe Analytics
6 26 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
6 26 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.81%) Miro
8 22 (6.81%) PaaS
9 19 (5.88%) SaaS
10 18 (5.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (5.57%) dbt
11 17 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (5.26%) Pulumi
11 17 (5.26%) Sentry
12 14 (4.33%) GitHub
13 13 (4.02%) Serverless
14 12 (3.72%) Google Analytics
15 11 (3.41%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.12%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.33%) Broadband
3 5 (1.55%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.55%) Firewall
4 4 (1.24%) Internet
4 4 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.24%) Modbus
4 4 (1.24%) Network Security
4 4 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.24%) VLAN
4 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.24%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.62%) 2G
5 2 (0.62%) 4G
5 2 (0.62%) 5G
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) HTTP
5 2 (0.62%) ICMP
6 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.88%) Redis
3 18 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.86%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.55%) Power BI
8 4 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.62%) Tableau
10 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.31%) DB2 UDB
10 1 (0.31%) GIS
10 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.31%) QlikView
10 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (9.29%) Axure RP
2 24 (7.43%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.95%) JIRA
4 12 (3.72%) Git
4 12 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.10%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.48%) GitLab
6 8 (2.48%) Maven
6 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.55%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.24%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.24%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.31%) Mocha
General
1 99 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (18.58%) Finance
4 55 (17.03%) Law
5 46 (14.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (12.07%) Public Sector
7 28 (8.67%) Banking
8 24 (7.43%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (5.88%) Games
10 16 (4.95%) Legal
11 15 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (4.33%) Manufacturing
12 14 (4.33%) Retail
13 13 (4.02%) Electronics
14 8 (2.48%) Marketing
15 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.55%) Aerospace
17 5 (1.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 85 (26.32%) Designer
2 70 (21.67%) Senior
3 37 (11.46%) Lead
4 34 (10.53%) UX Designer
5 33 (10.22%) Developer
6 20 (6.19%) Product Designer
7 19 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (5.88%) Strategy Manager
8 18 (5.57%) Senior Manager
9 17 (5.26%) Consultant
9 17 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Interaction Designer
11 15 (4.64%) Analyst
11 15 (4.64%) Architect
11 15 (4.64%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.72%) Service Designer
13 11 (3.41%) Lead Designer
14 10 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.10%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.69%) CSS
2 40 (12.38%) HTML
3 32 (9.91%) React
4 26 (8.05%) Node.js
5 23 (7.12%) .NET
6 17 (5.26%) Django
7 16 (4.95%) AngularJS
8 14 (4.33%) REST
9 11 (3.41%) Jest
9 11 (3.41%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.79%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.48%) Gherkin
11 8 (2.48%) JSON
11 8 (2.48%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.48%) XML
12 7 (2.17%) Next.js
13 6 (1.86%) RESTful
13 6 (1.86%) Vue
14 5 (1.55%) Google JAX
14 5 (1.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 32 (9.91%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.50%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (4.02%) Social Media
5 10 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.79%) IoT
7 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.17%) Life Science
9 6 (1.86%) Blog
10 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.55%) Animation
10 5 (1.55%) CUDA
10 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.24%) CAN bus
11 4 (1.24%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.98%) Linux
2 17 (5.26%) Unix
3 10 (3.10%) Android
4 4 (1.24%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (52.32%) Agile
2 137 (42.41%) User Experience
3 97 (30.03%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (26.63%) Analytics
4 86 (26.63%) UX Design
5 84 (26.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 83 (25.70%) User Research
7 78 (24.15%) Wireframes
8 76 (23.53%) AI
9 64 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (18.58%) CI/CD
11 48 (14.86%) DevOps
11 48 (14.86%) Usability Testing
12 47 (14.55%) Clean Code
12 47 (14.55%) Mentoring
13 45 (13.93%) Customer Experience
14 42 (13.00%) Software Engineering
15 39 (12.07%) Rapid Prototyping
15 39 (12.07%) Roadmaps
16 38 (11.76%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.60%) Python
2 51 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 44 (13.62%) Java
4 31 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.95%) C++
6 15 (4.64%) SQL
7 11 (3.41%) C#
8 9 (2.79%) Bash
8 9 (2.79%) Groovy
9 7 (2.17%) C
10 6 (1.86%) R
11 4 (1.24%) Rust
12 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.93%) PHP
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) Go
13 2 (0.62%) Julia
13 2 (0.62%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (32.20%) Degree
2 84 (26.01%) Security Cleared
3 69 (21.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.55%) HNC
9 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.24%) PhD
11 3 (0.93%) HND
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (30.34%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.76%) WCAG
3 7 (2.17%) GRC
4 4 (1.24%) GDPR
4 4 (1.24%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.93%) QA
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (10.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (7.12%) Terraform
2 17 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (2.48%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.86%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.24%) Nessus
5 4 (1.24%) Nmap
6 2 (0.62%) Ansible
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 80 (24.77%) Adobe
2 35 (10.84%) Google
2 35 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.12%) Qualtrics
4 8 (2.48%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.86%) SAP
6 4 (1.24%) Cisco
6 4 (1.24%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.24%) Splunk
7 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.62%) EMC
7 2 (0.62%) Foundry
7 2 (0.62%) Hotjar
7 2 (0.62%) Mercator
7 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.62%) UiPath
7 2 (0.62%) VMware
7 2 (0.62%) Workday
8 1 (0.31%) Informatica