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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 307 333
Rank change year-on-year -57 +26 -62
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 305 528 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.03% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 198 239 318
10th Percentile £47,047 £44,020 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -4.41%
75th Percentile £99,375 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,250 £95,462
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%

All Process and 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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -57 270 £71,250 +9.62% 150
London +87 141 £85,000 +22.03% 42
UK excluding London -134 135 £56,250 -13.46% 141
Work from Home -91 82 £57,500 -11.54% 69
South East -47 53 £55,000 -26.67% 48
North of England -39 30 £53,750 -9.26% 26
North West -16 17 £57,500 -4.17% 17
South West -22 12 £86,750 +15.67% 16
East of England -4 11 £90,000 +63.64% 26
Midlands +19 10 £60,000 +2.63% 15
Yorkshire -13 10 £30,500 -46.24% 6
Wales -17 9 £61,651 -11.05% 3
Scotland -13 8 £64,151 -4.47% 13
West Midlands +17 7 £60,000 +2.63% 13
East Midlands +5 3 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North East -2 3 £73,801 +19.55% 4
Northern Ireland -5 2 £73,801 +9.90%

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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 8 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (14.10%) Adobe XD
2 22 (7.21%) Sketch
3 11 (3.61%) Maya
4 8 (2.62%) InVision
4 8 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (1.97%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (1.31%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (1.31%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.98%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.98%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.66%) Windchill
10 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.33%) Blender
10 1 (0.33%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (3.61%) SAP CO
1 11 (3.61%) SAP FI
1 11 (3.61%) SAP FI/CO
1 11 (3.61%) SAP FSCM
1 11 (3.61%) SAP IBP
1 11 (3.61%) SAP IS-U
1 11 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.31%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 96 (31.48%) Figma
2 74 (24.26%) AWS
3 67 (21.97%) Azure
4 42 (13.77%) GCP
5 21 (6.89%) Miro
6 19 (6.23%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (5.25%) PaaS
8 15 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.59%) SaaS
10 13 (4.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (4.26%) dbt
10 13 (4.26%) GitHub
11 12 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (3.93%) Azure AI
11 12 (3.93%) Pulumi
11 12 (3.93%) Sentry
11 12 (3.93%) Vertex AI
12 10 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.90%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.64%) Bluetooth
2 5 (1.64%) Broadband
2 5 (1.64%) Firewall
3 4 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.31%) Modbus
3 4 (1.31%) Network Security
3 4 (1.31%) VLAN
3 4 (1.31%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.31%) ZigBee
4 3 (0.98%) 5G
4 3 (0.98%) Internet
5 2 (0.66%) 2G
5 2 (0.66%) 4G
5 2 (0.66%) DNS
5 2 (0.66%) HTTP
5 2 (0.66%) ICMP
5 2 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.66%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.26%) Redis
3 12 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.61%) SAP BW
5 8 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.30%) Power BI
6 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Tableau
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.33%) Power Query
9 1 (0.33%) QGIS
9 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (10.49%) Axure RP
2 25 (8.20%) Balsamiq
3 13 (4.26%) Git
4 12 (3.93%) JIRA
5 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.64%) MLflow
7 4 (1.31%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.31%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (1.31%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.31%) MSI
8 2 (0.66%) GitLab
8 2 (0.66%) Maven
8 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 101 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.64%) Law
3 57 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (15.74%) Finance
5 34 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (10.49%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.87%) Legal
8 22 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (6.56%) Banking
10 17 (5.57%) Games
11 14 (4.59%) Manufacturing
11 14 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.93%) Electronics
13 9 (2.95%) Retail
14 7 (2.30%) Front Office
14 7 (2.30%) Marketing
14 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.97%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 72 (23.61%) Designer
2 65 (21.31%) Senior
3 33 (10.82%) Developer
4 31 (10.16%) Lead
5 23 (7.54%) UX Designer
6 20 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (6.56%) Product Designer
7 19 (6.23%) Consultant
8 17 (5.57%) Strategy Manager
9 15 (4.92%) Architect
9 15 (4.92%) Product Manager
9 15 (4.92%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.92%) Service Designer
10 14 (4.59%) Interaction Designer
11 13 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Product Delivery Manager
12 12 (3.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Senior Consultant
14 9 (2.95%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.15%) CSS
2 33 (10.82%) HTML
3 28 (9.18%) React
4 26 (8.52%) .NET
4 26 (8.52%) Node.js
5 16 (5.25%) PyTorch
5 16 (5.25%) TensorFlow
6 12 (3.93%) Django
7 11 (3.61%) REST
8 10 (3.28%) Kafka
8 10 (3.28%) scikit-learn
9 9 (2.95%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.95%) Google JAX
9 9 (2.95%) JAX
9 9 (2.95%) JSON
9 9 (2.95%) XML
10 6 (1.97%) Next.js
10 6 (1.97%) Pandas
11 5 (1.64%) RESTful
11 5 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.16%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.90%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.25%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.62%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.30%) Equities
9 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.64%) Blog
10 5 (1.64%) CUDA
10 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.64%) IoT
10 5 (1.64%) Robotics
10 5 (1.64%) Social Media
11 4 (1.31%) CAN bus
11 4 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.87%) Linux
2 12 (3.93%) Unix
3 11 (3.61%) Android
4 6 (1.97%) Windows
5 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.31%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (51.48%) Agile
2 145 (47.54%) User Experience
3 87 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (27.87%) Analytics
5 73 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (23.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 72 (23.61%) AI
7 71 (23.28%) UX Design
7 71 (23.28%) Wireframes
8 70 (22.95%) User Research
9 55 (18.03%) CI/CD
10 53 (17.38%) Machine Learning
11 52 (17.05%) Computer Science
12 48 (15.74%) Mentoring
13 47 (15.41%) Usability Testing
14 42 (13.77%) Software Engineering
15 40 (13.11%) Roadmaps
16 39 (12.79%) Rapid Prototyping
17 38 (12.46%) Test Automation
18 37 (12.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 74 (24.26%) Python
2 51 (16.72%) JavaScript
3 37 (12.13%) Java
4 27 (8.85%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.21%) SQL
6 15 (4.92%) C++
7 14 (4.59%) C#
8 7 (2.30%) C
9 5 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.64%) R
10 4 (1.31%) Bash
10 4 (1.31%) Delphi
10 4 (1.31%) PHP
10 4 (1.31%) Rust
11 3 (0.98%) Bicep
11 3 (0.98%) Go
11 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.66%) Groovy
12 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (38.69%) Degree
2 77 (25.25%) Security Cleared
3 59 (19.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 12 (3.93%) PhD
7 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.31%) HNC
8 4 (1.31%) MCP
9 3 (0.98%) HND
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (27.21%) Accessibility
2 35 (11.48%) WCAG
3 4 (1.31%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 13485
4 3 (0.98%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (8.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.90%) Terraform
2 12 (3.93%) AWS Copilot
3 11 (3.61%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.64%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.64%) WMI
5 4 (1.31%) Nessus
5 4 (1.31%) Nmap
6 2 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 68 (22.30%) Adobe
2 41 (13.44%) Google
3 39 (12.79%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.89%) Qualtrics
5 14 (4.59%) Foundry
6 11 (3.61%) SAP
7 4 (1.31%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.31%) Cisco
7 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.31%) Sage
7 4 (1.31%) Splunk
7 4 (1.31%) VMware
8 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.66%) Mercator
8 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.66%) PTC
8 2 (0.66%) UiPath
9 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.33%) Remedy