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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 320 373
Rank change year-on-year -46 +53 -75
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 340 438 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.98% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 191 194 367
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,152 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,182 £77,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -20.00%

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 54,541 44,858 66,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.08% 92.63% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,717 22,158 51,477
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
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 22 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 22 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 -29 292 £70,000 +7.69% 286
UK excluding London -121 169 £57,500 -11.54% 221
Work from Home -25 141 £63,740 -8.03% 177
London +76 131 £75,000 +15.38% 131
South East -43 53 £55,000 -26.67% 94
North of England -50 42 £57,500 -2.13% 29
East of England +8 29 £81,575 +48.32% 44
North West -39 21 £57,500 -4.17% 17
Yorkshire -23 16 £67,500 +28.57% 7
South West -48 16 £79,750 +11.13% 20
Wales -21 10 £73,801 +5.95% 5
Scotland -18 9 £54,500 +7.92% 10
Midlands +2 8 £47,500 -22.01% 24
West Midlands +15 7 £46,022 -24.44% 20
North East -15 5 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland -24 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 4

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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.59%) CMS
3 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Strapi
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (10.29%) Adobe XD
2 17 (5.00%) Sketch
3 13 (3.82%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.76%) Maya
6 5 (1.47%) Fusion 360
6 5 (1.47%) InVision
6 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.59%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.29%) Blender
10 1 (0.29%) CATIA
10 1 (0.29%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.29%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) SAP CO
1 5 (1.47%) SAP FI
1 5 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (1.47%) SAP FSCM
1 5 (1.47%) SAP IBP
1 5 (1.47%) SAP IS-U
1 5 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.88%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 121 (35.59%) Figma
2 78 (22.94%) AWS
3 66 (19.41%) Azure
4 45 (13.24%) Adobe Analytics
5 43 (12.65%) GCP
6 27 (7.94%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.47%) Miro
8 22 (6.47%) PaaS
9 19 (5.59%) SaaS
10 18 (5.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (5.29%) dbt
11 17 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (5.00%) Pulumi
11 17 (5.00%) Sentry
12 14 (4.12%) GitHub
13 13 (3.82%) Serverless
14 12 (3.53%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.53%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.12%) Broadband
2 23 (6.76%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.76%) Bluetooth
4 5 (1.47%) Firewall
5 4 (1.18%) Internet
5 4 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.18%) Modbus
5 4 (1.18%) Network Security
5 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.18%) VLAN
5 4 (1.18%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.18%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.59%) 2G
6 2 (0.59%) 4G
6 2 (0.59%) 5G
6 2 (0.59%) DNS
6 2 (0.59%) HTTP
6 2 (0.59%) ICMP
6 2 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.59%) Redis
3 18 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.76%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.47%) Power BI
7 5 (1.47%) SAP BW
8 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.59%) Tableau
10 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.29%) DB2 UDB
10 1 (0.29%) GIS
10 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.29%) QlikView
10 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.82%) Axure RP
2 24 (7.06%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.71%) JIRA
4 13 (3.82%) Git
4 13 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.24%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.65%) GitLab
6 9 (2.65%) Maven
6 9 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.47%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.18%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.18%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.29%) Mocha
General
1 99 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.35%) Finance
4 55 (16.18%) Law
5 46 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (12.06%) Public Sector
7 32 (9.41%) Games
8 28 (8.24%) Banking
9 22 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (5.00%) Electronics
10 17 (5.00%) Legal
10 17 (5.00%) Manufacturing
11 15 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (4.41%) Retail
12 10 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.35%) Marketing
14 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (27.65%) Designer
2 70 (20.59%) Senior
3 49 (14.41%) Lead
4 38 (11.18%) UX Designer
5 30 (8.82%) Developer
6 21 (6.18%) Product Designer
7 20 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (5.88%) Lead Designer
8 19 (5.59%) Strategy Manager
9 18 (5.29%) Consultant
10 17 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.00%) Senior Manager
10 17 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.71%) Analyst
11 16 (4.71%) Interaction Designer
11 16 (4.71%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.12%) Architect
13 12 (3.53%) Service Designer
14 11 (3.24%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.35%) HTML
2 41 (12.06%) CSS
3 32 (9.41%) React
4 25 (7.35%) Node.js
5 23 (6.76%) .NET
6 17 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.00%) Django
7 14 (4.12%) REST
8 13 (3.82%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.53%) Jest
10 9 (2.65%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.65%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.35%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.06%) JSON
12 7 (2.06%) Next.js
12 7 (2.06%) XML
13 6 (1.76%) LangChain
13 6 (1.76%) RESTful
13 6 (1.76%) Vue
14 5 (1.47%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.47%) Product Ownership
2 31 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.94%) Social Media
4 21 (6.18%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.65%) IoT
7 8 (2.35%) Life Science
7 8 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.76%) Blog
8 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.47%) Animation
9 5 (1.47%) CUDA
9 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) CAN bus
10 4 (1.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.53%) Linux
2 17 (5.00%) Unix
3 10 (2.94%) Android
4 5 (1.47%) Windows
5 4 (1.18%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (54.71%) Agile
2 141 (41.47%) User Experience
3 102 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (29.12%) Analytics
5 97 (28.53%) User Research
5 97 (28.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 94 (27.65%) AI
7 92 (27.06%) UX Design
8 79 (23.24%) Wireframes
9 63 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (17.94%) Customer Experience
11 59 (17.35%) CI/CD
12 55 (16.18%) Roadmaps
13 52 (15.29%) Clean Code
13 52 (15.29%) Storytelling
14 49 (14.41%) DevOps
15 48 (14.12%) Usability Testing
15 48 (14.12%) Workshop Facilitation
16 47 (13.82%) Mentoring
17 42 (12.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (21.47%) Python
2 50 (14.71%) JavaScript
3 47 (13.82%) Java
4 32 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.71%) C++
6 14 (4.12%) SQL
7 11 (3.24%) C#
8 10 (2.94%) Bash
8 10 (2.94%) Groovy
9 7 (2.06%) C
10 6 (1.76%) R
11 4 (1.18%) Rust
12 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.59%) Julia
13 2 (0.59%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.59%) PHP
13 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (30.29%) Degree
2 83 (24.41%) Security Cleared
3 67 (19.71%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.47%) HNC
9 5 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.88%) HND
11 3 (0.88%) PhD
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (32.94%) Accessibility
2 42 (12.35%) WCAG
3 7 (2.06%) GRC
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.88%) QA
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.76%) Terraform
2 17 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
3 9 (2.65%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.76%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.18%) Nessus
5 4 (1.18%) Nmap
6 2 (0.59%) Ansible
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) WMI
Vendors
1 92 (27.06%) Adobe
2 38 (11.18%) Google
3 37 (10.88%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.76%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.35%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.47%) EMC
6 5 (1.47%) Foundry
6 5 (1.47%) SAP
7 4 (1.18%) Cisco
7 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.18%) Splunk
8 3 (0.88%) Workday
9 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.59%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.59%) Mercator
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.59%) UiPath
9 2 (0.59%) VMware
10 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg