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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 320 331
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 -68
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 328 542 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.99% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 197 247 334
10th Percentile £46,979 £42,500 £31,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -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 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

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 5 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 5 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 -21 288 £70,000 +7.69% 141
UK excluding London -103 151 £57,500 -8.00% 135
London +93 147 £75,000 +11.19% 46
Work from Home -88 85 £52,500 -19.23% 68
South East -43 61 £55,000 -26.67% 56
North of England -23 30 £49,500 -17.50% 16
North West -6 19 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Midlands +41 13 £60,000 +2.63% 19
Scotland +4 12 £64,151 -4.47% 9
East of England -2 12 £90,000 +63.64% 26
South West -10 12 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Wales -13 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
Yorkshire -11 8 £30,500 -46.24% 4
East Midlands +14 7 £60,000 +50.00% 3
West Midlands +22 6 £61,250 +4.76% 16
North East +3 3 £73,801 +19.55% 5
Northern Ireland -2 2 £73,801 +13.54%

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 (3.05%) Confluence
2 9 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (14.33%) Adobe XD
2 24 (7.32%) Sketch
3 12 (3.66%) Maya
4 8 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (2.44%) InVision
4 8 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.83%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (1.22%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.91%) Blender
7 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.91%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.61%) Windchill
9 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.30%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (3.35%) SAP CO
1 11 (3.35%) SAP FI
1 11 (3.35%) SAP FI/CO
1 11 (3.35%) SAP FSCM
1 11 (3.35%) SAP IBP
1 11 (3.35%) SAP IS-U
1 11 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.22%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 97 (29.57%) Figma
2 84 (25.61%) AWS
3 73 (22.26%) Azure
4 48 (14.63%) GCP
5 20 (6.10%) Miro
6 17 (5.18%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (4.88%) PaaS
8 15 (4.57%) Azure AI
8 15 (4.57%) Vertex AI
9 14 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.27%) dbt
10 13 (3.96%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (3.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.96%) GitHub
10 13 (3.96%) SaaS
10 13 (3.96%) Sentry
11 12 (3.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (3.66%) Google Analytics
11 12 (3.66%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.49%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.96%) Modbus
3 9 (2.74%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.74%) MQTT
4 5 (1.52%) 5G
4 5 (1.52%) Firewall
5 4 (1.22%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.22%) Network Security
5 4 (1.22%) VLAN
5 4 (1.22%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.22%) ZigBee
6 3 (0.91%) Broadband
6 3 (0.91%) Internet
6 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.61%) 4G
7 2 (0.61%) DNS
7 2 (0.61%) ICMP
7 2 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.96%) Redis
3 12 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.35%) SAP BW
5 10 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.83%) Power BI
7 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.91%) QGIS
9 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.30%) GIS
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (10.37%) Axure RP
2 26 (7.93%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.88%) Git
4 13 (3.96%) JIRA
5 6 (1.83%) MLflow
6 4 (1.22%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.22%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.22%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.22%) MSI
7 2 (0.61%) webpack
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 108 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.87%) Law
3 64 (19.51%) Finance
4 60 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (10.37%) Public Sector
7 27 (8.23%) Legal
8 22 (6.71%) Banking
8 22 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (6.10%) Manufacturing
10 16 (4.88%) Games
11 14 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (3.35%) Electronics
13 11 (3.35%) Retail
14 9 (2.74%) Marketing
15 7 (2.13%) Front Office
16 6 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.83%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (22.56%) Senior
2 72 (21.95%) Designer
3 33 (10.06%) Developer
3 33 (10.06%) Lead
4 25 (7.62%) Software Engineer
4 25 (7.62%) UX Designer
5 18 (5.49%) Architect
5 18 (5.49%) Consultant
6 17 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (5.18%) Product Manager
6 17 (5.18%) Service Designer
6 17 (5.18%) Strategy Manager
7 16 (4.88%) Product Designer
8 15 (4.57%) Product Delivery Manager
9 14 (4.27%) Interaction Designer
10 13 (3.96%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.50%) CSS
2 36 (10.98%) HTML
3 35 (10.67%) React
4 27 (8.23%) .NET
5 24 (7.32%) Node.js
6 17 (5.18%) Kafka
6 17 (5.18%) PyTorch
6 17 (5.18%) TensorFlow
7 13 (3.96%) Django
8 11 (3.35%) scikit-learn
9 10 (3.05%) REST
10 9 (2.74%) Google JAX
10 9 (2.74%) JAX
10 9 (2.74%) JSON
10 9 (2.74%) XML
11 8 (2.44%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.83%) Pandas
12 6 (1.83%) Spring
12 6 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.45%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.10%) AI Agents
4 19 (5.79%) IoT
5 16 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 16 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.96%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.96%) SCADA
7 13 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.74%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (2.74%) Industry 4.0
9 9 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.44%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (2.13%) Mobile App
11 7 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (1.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.32%) Linux
2 12 (3.66%) Unix
3 10 (3.05%) Android
4 6 (1.83%) Windows
5 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.22%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (50.91%) Agile
2 150 (45.73%) User Experience
3 88 (26.83%) Analytics
4 83 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (22.56%) AI
5 74 (22.56%) Wireframes
6 73 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (22.26%) User Research
6 73 (22.26%) UX Design
7 70 (21.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 64 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 58 (17.68%) Machine Learning
10 57 (17.38%) CI/CD
11 54 (16.46%) Software Engineering
12 51 (15.55%) Computer Science
13 50 (15.24%) Usability Testing
14 46 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (13.72%) Test Automation
16 43 (13.11%) DevOps
17 41 (12.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (26.52%) Python
2 60 (18.29%) JavaScript
3 39 (11.89%) Java
4 26 (7.93%) SQL
4 26 (7.93%) TypeScript
5 20 (6.10%) C#
6 17 (5.18%) C++
7 8 (2.44%) C
8 7 (2.13%) PHP
9 5 (1.52%) Go
9 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.52%) R
10 4 (1.22%) Delphi
10 4 (1.22%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.22%) Rust
11 3 (0.91%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) Bash
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.61%) Perl
13 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 129 (39.33%) Degree
2 80 (24.39%) Security Cleared
3 62 (18.90%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.27%) HNC
6 13 (3.96%) HND
7 12 (3.66%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.66%) PhD
8 9 (2.74%) Chartered Engineer
9 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.22%) MCP
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (25.30%) Accessibility
2 36 (10.98%) WCAG
3 4 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.91%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.30%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (8.54%) Docker
2 11 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.10%) Terraform
2 14 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.66%) AWS Copilot
4 9 (2.74%) Functional Safety
5 6 (1.83%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.52%) WMI
7 4 (1.22%) Nessus
7 4 (1.22%) Nmap
8 3 (0.91%) Ansible
9 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (21.65%) Adobe
2 48 (14.63%) Google
3 40 (12.20%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.40%) Qualtrics
5 17 (5.18%) Foundry
6 12 (3.66%) VMware
7 11 (3.35%) SAP
8 9 (2.74%) AVEVA
8 9 (2.74%) Rockwell
8 9 (2.74%) Siemens
9 5 (1.52%) Splunk
10 4 (1.22%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.22%) Cisco
10 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.22%) Sage
11 2 (0.61%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.61%) Facebook
11 2 (0.61%) Mercator
11 2 (0.61%) PTC