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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 313 366
Rank change year-on-year -46 +53 -19
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 552 443 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.01% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 358 180 204
10th Percentile £42,415 £41,125 £46,139
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +1 463 £60,000 -14.29% 1,262
UK excluding London -52 361 £57,500 -4.17% 614
Work from Home -32 206 £65,000 +18.18% 465
London -64 142 £75,000 - 739
North of England -10 97 £53,750 -10.42% 110
South East -15 89 £58,250 -13.70% 155
East of England +17 62 £60,000 +33.33% 108
North West +2 46 £50,000 -25.93% 61
Midlands -29 40 £57,500 -4.17% 47
West Midlands -24 31 £57,500 -4.17% 36
South West -52 31 £60,000 -29.41% 108
North East -45 27 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Yorkshire -26 24 £65,000 +113.11% 31
Wales -58 22 £53,171 -2.88% 14
Scotland -76 12 £55,000 - 57
Northern Ireland -62 11 £80,000 - 17
East Midlands -39 9 £52,500 +59.09% 11

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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 9 (1.63%) Apache
2 9 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
6 4 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) WordPress
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 22 (3.99%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.26%) Adobe XD
3 15 (2.72%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (2.72%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.54%) InDesign
5 10 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.63%) Sketch
7 8 (1.45%) Solid Edge
8 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (1.09%) EPLAN
10 5 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.54%) Productboard
11 3 (0.54%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.54%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.36%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.36%) Simulink
12 2 (0.36%) Trello
12 2 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.72%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.54%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.36%) 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
1 101 (18.30%) Figma
2 86 (15.58%) AWS
3 65 (11.78%) Azure
4 37 (6.70%) GCP
5 25 (4.53%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.80%) GitHub
6 21 (3.80%) Serverless
7 20 (3.62%) SaaS
8 19 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
9 17 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.54%) dbt
11 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.99%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (1.99%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.53%) Broadband
2 8 (1.45%) WPA
3 5 (0.91%) Intranet
4 4 (0.72%) Wireless
5 3 (0.54%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.54%) RS-485
5 3 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.36%) RS-232
6 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) AMQP
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) Modbus
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.26%) DynamoDB
2 11 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.45%) Redis
3 8 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.27%) Power BI
5 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.54%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.54%) Tableau
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.36%) Big Data
9 2 (0.36%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.36%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.36%) Metadata
9 2 (0.36%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 22 (3.99%) Git
2 17 (3.08%) JIRA
3 14 (2.54%) GitLab
4 11 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.63%) Maven
6 9 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.45%) Axure RP
7 8 (1.45%) LabVIEW
8 7 (1.27%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.09%) Balsamiq
9 6 (1.09%) Postman
10 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.54%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.36%) Bower
11 2 (0.36%) MLflow
11 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 205 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.84%) Finance
3 103 (18.66%) Electronics
4 94 (17.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (16.30%) Manufacturing
6 78 (14.13%) Public Sector
7 72 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (9.42%) Law
9 43 (7.79%) Aerospace
10 38 (6.88%) Marketing
11 31 (5.62%) Games
11 31 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (3.44%) Automotive
13 18 (3.26%) Retail
14 16 (2.90%) Legal
14 16 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.99%) Military
16 10 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.63%) Banking
18 8 (1.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 122 (22.10%) Senior
2 108 (19.57%) Designer
3 68 (12.32%) Developer
4 52 (9.42%) Lead
5 44 (7.97%) UX Designer
6 40 (7.25%) Software Engineer
7 36 (6.52%) Architect
8 30 (5.43%) Senior Designer
9 29 (5.25%) Electronics Engineer
10 27 (4.89%) Interaction Designer
11 23 (4.17%) Lead Designer
11 23 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (4.17%) UI Designer
11 23 (4.17%) UI/UX Designer
12 22 (3.99%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.26%) Consultant
14 18 (3.26%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.43%) HTML
2 39 (7.07%) CSS
3 36 (6.52%) React
4 23 (4.17%) .NET
5 18 (3.26%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.26%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.90%) LangChain
6 16 (2.90%) Terraform
7 13 (2.36%) REST
8 11 (1.99%) Kafka
8 11 (1.99%) Web Services
9 10 (1.81%) Jest
9 10 (1.81%) Spring
10 9 (1.63%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.63%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.63%) Gherkin
10 9 (1.63%) Node.js
10 9 (1.63%) RESTful
11 8 (1.45%) Next.js
12 7 (1.27%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.80%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.71%) Social Media
5 24 (4.35%) Robotics
6 23 (4.17%) AI Agents
7 20 (3.62%) IoT
8 17 (3.08%) FPGA
9 15 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.54%) Analogue Electronics
10 14 (2.54%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.36%) Algorithms
12 12 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.99%) Life Science
13 11 (1.99%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.99%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.81%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.63%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.63%) Linux
2 8 (1.45%) Android
3 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (36.96%) AI
2 201 (36.41%) Agile
3 121 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 119 (21.56%) User Research
5 110 (19.93%) User Experience
6 109 (19.75%) Rapid Prototyping
7 104 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (17.93%) Analytics
9 96 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 91 (16.49%) Validation
11 89 (16.12%) Software Engineering
12 88 (15.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 79 (14.31%) Roadmaps
14 76 (13.77%) UX Design
15 65 (11.78%) CI/CD
16 59 (10.69%) LLM
17 55 (9.96%) Service Design
18 51 (9.24%) Wireframes
19 48 (8.70%) DevOps
20 46 (8.33%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 90 (16.30%) Python
2 44 (7.97%) TypeScript
3 43 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 38 (6.88%) Java
5 32 (5.80%) SQL
6 28 (5.07%) C#
7 26 (4.71%) C
8 25 (4.53%) C++
9 14 (2.54%) MATLAB
10 11 (1.99%) Bash
11 10 (1.81%) Groovy
12 8 (1.45%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.27%) Go
14 5 (0.91%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.91%) PHP
15 4 (0.72%) Rust
16 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.36%) Ruby
17 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 182 (32.97%) Degree
2 111 (20.11%) Security Cleared
3 84 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.89%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.90%) PhD
7 14 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.54%) HND
8 10 (1.81%) HNC
9 9 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
11 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.91%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.36%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (18.30%) Accessibility
2 44 (7.97%) WCAG
3 20 (3.62%) QA
4 10 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.72%) DO-254
5 4 (0.72%) GDPR
6 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.54%) JTAG
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) GRC
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) GxP
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.18%) MISRA
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (5.25%) Docker
2 27 (4.89%) Firmware
3 8 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.63%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 61 (11.05%) Adobe
2 52 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.62%) OpenAI
4 23 (4.17%) EMC
5 19 (3.44%) Google
6 11 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.99%) SAP
7 10 (1.81%) Databricks
8 6 (1.09%) Autodesk
9 4 (0.72%) Oracle
10 3 (0.54%) Apple
10 3 (0.54%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.54%) Foundry
10 3 (0.54%) Siemens
10 3 (0.54%) Thales
10 3 (0.54%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.36%) Altera
11 2 (0.36%) DocuSign
11 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.36%) YouTube