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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 316 419
Rank change year-on-year -44 +103 -97
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 465 441 606
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.98% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.06% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 244 163 362
10th Percentile £43,497 £37,500 £38,068
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,760 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £62,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.14% +14.32% -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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +23 392 £60,000 - 183
UK excluding London -72 282 £56,500 -10.14% 130
Work from Home +20 245 £67,500 +25.00% 84
London -12 137 £71,121 +29.31% 84
North of England -6 74 £52,500 -24.33% 23
East of England +39 73 £62,500 +38.89% 25
South East -13 61 £57,500 -4.17% 36
Yorkshire -9 31 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West +1 27 £50,000 -27.94% 17
Midlands -41 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South West -60 20 £60,000 -12.44% 22
West Midlands -18 17 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East -42 16 £56,250 -13.46% 4
Wales -35 15 £53,085 -22.01% 3
Scotland -72 11 £54,500 +19.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -31 3 £60,000 +81.82% 2

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 6 (1.29%) Apache
1 6 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.08%) CMS
2 5 (1.08%) Confluence
3 3 (0.65%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.65%) WordPress
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (3.44%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.15%) Sketch
3 7 (1.51%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (1.51%) InDesign
3 7 (1.51%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.29%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.65%) Productboard
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.43%) CATIA
7 2 (0.43%) InVision
7 2 (0.43%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.43%) Trello
7 2 (0.43%) Windchill
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) Blender
8 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Maximo
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.30%) Figma
2 83 (17.85%) AWS
3 82 (17.63%) Adobe Analytics
4 67 (14.41%) Azure
5 41 (8.82%) GCP
6 24 (5.16%) SaaS
7 21 (4.52%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.30%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.30%) Serverless
9 18 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.01%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.80%) Apigee
14 10 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.15%) GitHub
15 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (1.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (19.78%) Broadband
2 7 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.08%) WPA
4 4 (0.86%) Intranet
5 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.65%) Wireless
6 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.43%) Internet
6 2 (0.43%) LTE
6 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.22%) AMQP
7 1 (0.22%) Modbus
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) RS-232
7 1 (0.22%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.66%) DynamoDB
2 10 (2.15%) Redis
3 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.29%) Power BI
5 6 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.86%) Db2
7 4 (0.86%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.86%) QlikView
7 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.65%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.43%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (3.66%) Git
1 17 (3.66%) GitLab
2 15 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.23%) JIRA
3 13 (2.80%) Cypress.io
3 13 (2.80%) Maven
3 13 (2.80%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.94%) Axure RP
5 7 (1.51%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.43%) Bower
6 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.43%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (0.43%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.43%) Postman
6 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.92%) Finance
3 82 (17.63%) Games
4 68 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (14.19%) Public Sector
6 59 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (9.03%) Electronics
8 39 (8.39%) Law
9 34 (7.31%) Manufacturing
10 26 (5.59%) Marketing
11 21 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (4.30%) Legal
13 12 (2.58%) Banking
13 12 (2.58%) Retail
14 9 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.29%) Advertising
17 6 (1.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 107 (23.01%) Designer
2 76 (16.34%) Senior
3 73 (15.70%) Lead
4 56 (12.04%) Developer
5 48 (10.32%) UX Designer
6 36 (7.74%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.02%) Architect
8 26 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
10 21 (4.52%) Interaction Designer
11 19 (4.09%) Consultant
12 18 (3.87%) Analyst
12 18 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.66%) Product Manager
13 17 (3.66%) Senior Designer
14 16 (3.44%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.44%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.44%) Digital Designer
15 15 (3.23%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.10%) HTML
2 29 (6.24%) CSS
3 28 (6.02%) React
4 21 (4.52%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.09%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.44%) .NET
7 15 (3.23%) REST
8 14 (3.01%) Jest
9 13 (2.80%) Gherkin
9 13 (2.80%) LangChain
9 13 (2.80%) Node.js
10 7 (1.51%) Framer.js
10 7 (1.51%) JSON
10 7 (1.51%) Spring
11 6 (1.29%) Vue
11 6 (1.29%) Web Services
12 5 (1.08%) Django
12 5 (1.08%) PyTorch
12 5 (1.08%) RESTful
12 5 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.20%) Social Media
2 33 (7.10%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.44%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (3.23%) IoT
6 14 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.58%) Robotics
8 11 (2.37%) FPGA
9 10 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.72%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.29%) Life Science
13 5 (1.08%) Verilog
13 5 (1.08%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.44%) Linux
2 8 (1.72%) Unix
3 3 (0.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (49.03%) Agile
2 210 (45.16%) AI
3 162 (34.84%) User Research
4 136 (29.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 132 (28.39%) Analytics
6 128 (27.53%) Roadmaps
7 103 (22.15%) Customer Experience
8 100 (21.51%) Product Roadmap
9 98 (21.08%) User Experience
10 86 (18.49%) Storytelling
11 80 (17.20%) Digital Customer Experience
12 79 (16.99%) Rapid Prototyping
13 78 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
14 76 (16.34%) UX Design
15 68 (14.62%) Mentoring
16 65 (13.98%) Software Engineering
17 62 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
18 57 (12.26%) Validation
19 55 (11.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (18.71%) Python
2 47 (10.11%) Java
3 31 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 30 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.02%) SQL
6 25 (5.38%) C
6 25 (5.38%) C#
7 23 (4.95%) C++
8 16 (3.44%) Bash
9 15 (3.23%) Groovy
10 6 (1.29%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.08%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.08%) PHP
12 3 (0.65%) Julia
12 3 (0.65%) Pascal
12 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (23.01%) Degree
2 66 (14.19%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.44%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 14 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.08%) PhD
9 4 (0.86%) HND
10 3 (0.65%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (28.60%) Accessibility
2 66 (14.19%) WCAG
3 8 (1.72%) GRC
4 7 (1.51%) QA
5 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.08%) GDPR
6 4 (0.86%) DO-254
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (6.67%) Docker
2 16 (3.44%) Firmware
3 6 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.66%) Terraform
2 13 (2.80%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.15%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 111 (23.87%) Adobe
2 33 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.02%) Google
4 12 (2.58%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.37%) EMC
5 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.51%) Foundry
7 4 (0.86%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.86%) Oracle
7 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.65%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.65%) Databricks
8 3 (0.65%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.65%) Motorola
8 3 (0.65%) SAP
8 3 (0.65%) Workday
9 2 (0.43%) Planon
9 2 (0.43%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.22%) Siemens