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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 305 427
Rank change year-on-year -51 +122 -122
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 502 451 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.92% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.02% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 277 174 326
10th Percentile £43,490 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%
75th Percentile £78,312 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,300 £102,750 £99,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -13.08% +12.14% -3.39%

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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +3 412 £60,000 -7.69% 195
UK excluding London -58 311 £56,500 -13.08% 111
Work from Home +20 270 £67,500 +22.73% 86
London -8 140 £75,000 +15.38% 107
North of England 0 77 £50,000 -27.01% 20
East of England +45 74 £74,000 +64.44% 19
South East -10 72 £56,500 -13.08% 34
North West -6 33 £48,750 -29.74% 11
Yorkshire -16 28 £65,000 -6.64% 3
South West -48 22 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Midlands -37 20 £62,500 +6.38% 10
Wales -39 19 £53,171 -21.88% 2
West Midlands -16 17 £68,665 +14.44% 8
North East -48 16 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland -73 16 £54,500 +19.43% 9
Northern Ireland - 11 £80,000 -
East Midlands -23 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 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Adobe XD
2 10 (1.99%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (1.99%) InDesign
2 10 (1.99%) Photoshop
2 10 (1.99%) Sketch
3 6 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.60%) Productboard
7 2 (0.40%) CATIA
7 2 (0.40%) InVision
7 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) Windchill
8 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.20%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.71%) Figma
2 87 (17.33%) AWS
3 82 (16.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 74 (14.74%) Azure
5 46 (9.16%) GCP
6 20 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (3.98%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (3.98%) SaaS
6 20 (3.98%) Serverless
7 18 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.19%) dbt
10 15 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (2.59%) Apigee
11 13 (2.59%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.19%) GitHub
13 11 (2.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (18.33%) Broadband
2 8 (1.59%) WPA
3 7 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.00%) Intranet
5 4 (0.80%) Wireless
6 3 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) RS-232
8 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.39%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.99%) Redis
4 8 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) Power BI
7 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Db2
8 4 (0.80%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.80%) QlikView
9 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (4.18%) Git
2 17 (3.39%) GitLab
3 16 (3.19%) JIRA
4 15 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 13 (2.59%) Maven
5 13 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.59%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.39%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.00%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.80%) Postman
10 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.60%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.40%) Bower
11 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 139 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 95 (18.92%) Finance
3 82 (16.33%) Games
4 78 (15.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.55%) Public Sector
7 52 (10.36%) Electronics
8 39 (7.77%) Law
9 36 (7.17%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.58%) Marketing
10 23 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.59%) Legal
12 15 (2.99%) Retail
13 14 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.19%) Banking
15 9 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.59%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.20%) Advertising
18 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (22.51%) Designer
2 95 (18.92%) Senior
3 75 (14.94%) Lead
4 62 (12.35%) Developer
5 46 (9.16%) UX Designer
6 40 (7.97%) Architect
7 39 (7.77%) Lead Designer
8 31 (6.18%) Systems Engineer
9 29 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.18%) Interaction Designer
11 21 (4.18%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.78%) Consultant
12 19 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.59%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.59%) Analyst
13 18 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.59%) UI Designer
13 18 (3.59%) UI/UX Designer
14 17 (3.39%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.39%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.77%) HTML
2 30 (5.98%) CSS
3 26 (5.18%) React
4 21 (4.18%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.59%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.19%) .NET
7 13 (2.59%) Gherkin
7 13 (2.59%) Jest
7 13 (2.59%) LangChain
7 13 (2.59%) REST
8 9 (1.79%) Node.js
9 8 (1.59%) JSON
9 8 (1.59%) Web Services
10 7 (1.39%) Framer.js
11 6 (1.20%) Django
11 6 (1.20%) RESTful
11 6 (1.20%) Spring
11 6 (1.20%) XML
12 5 (1.00%) Ajax
12 5 (1.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.94%) Social Media
2 38 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.59%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.39%) IoT
6 16 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.79%) FPGA
7 14 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.39%) Robotics
10 11 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.99%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (1.59%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.39%) Life Science
13 7 (1.39%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.79%) Linux
2 8 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (51.00%) Agile
2 223 (44.42%) AI
3 164 (32.67%) User Research
4 144 (28.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 135 (26.89%) Analytics
6 134 (26.69%) Roadmaps
7 103 (20.52%) Customer Experience
8 99 (19.72%) Product Roadmap
9 96 (19.12%) Rapid Prototyping
9 96 (19.12%) User Experience
10 86 (17.13%) Storytelling
11 82 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (15.94%) Digital Customer Experience
13 75 (14.94%) Mentoring
14 73 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (14.14%) Software Engineering
15 71 (14.14%) UX Design
16 65 (12.95%) Validation
17 60 (11.95%) Workshop Facilitation
18 57 (11.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 90 (17.93%) Python
2 47 (9.36%) Java
3 35 (6.97%) JavaScript
4 32 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.58%) SQL
6 27 (5.38%) C
6 27 (5.38%) C#
7 26 (5.18%) C++
8 15 (2.99%) Bash
9 14 (2.79%) Groovy
10 12 (2.39%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.20%) PHP
12 5 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.60%) Julia
13 3 (0.60%) Pascal
13 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 2 (0.40%) Go
15 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (24.90%) Degree
2 80 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 62 (12.35%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.98%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.39%) PhD
9 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.00%) HND
10 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.20%) HNC
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (27.29%) Accessibility
2 68 (13.55%) WCAG
3 10 (1.99%) QA
4 7 (1.39%) GRC
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) DO-254
7 2 (0.40%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (6.37%) Docker
2 18 (3.59%) Firmware
3 7 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.19%) Terraform
2 13 (2.59%) HP Fortify
3 10 (1.99%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (21.71%) Adobe
2 41 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.38%) Google
4 22 (4.38%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.59%) EMC
6 12 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.39%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle
8 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.60%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) Motorola
9 3 (0.60%) SAP
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
9 3 (0.60%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Planon
10 2 (0.40%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.20%) NVIDIA