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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 332 328
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 -87
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 346 515 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.76% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.91% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 191 221 364
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £96,375 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -13.46%

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 45,350 56,347 49,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 83.11% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27,263 29,385 38,254
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £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 £79,600 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -15 297 £70,000 +7.69% 334
UK excluding London -73 167 £62,500 -3.85% 180
London +89 151 £75,000 +11.28% 177
Work from Home -76 88 £54,500 -16.15% 177
South East -48 62 £55,000 -26.67% 55
North of England -14 36 £54,000 -10.00% 34
North West +4 24 £73,801 +23.00% 21
Scotland -6 18 £73,801 +6.48% 16
Midlands +59 16 £60,000 +2.63% 10
East of England -5 12 £86,250 +56.82% 41
South West +11 11 £85,000 +9.68% 26
East Midlands +35 10 £60,000 +50.00% 7
Wales -4 10 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +6 8 £39,750 -32.01% 9
West Midlands +47 6 £61,250 +4.76% 3
North East +4 4 £69,401 +6.77% 4
Northern Ireland +1 2 £73,801 +13.54% 1

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 14 (4.05%) Confluence
2 9 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) IIS
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 45 (13.01%) Adobe XD
2 27 (7.80%) Sketch
3 12 (3.47%) Maya
4 8 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.73%) InVision
5 6 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.73%) SOLIDWORKS
6 5 (1.45%) Blender
6 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (1.16%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (1.16%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.87%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.58%) Windchill
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.29%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (3.18%) SAP CO
1 11 (3.18%) SAP FI
1 11 (3.18%) SAP FI/CO
1 11 (3.18%) SAP FSCM
1 11 (3.18%) SAP IBP
1 11 (3.18%) SAP IS-U
1 11 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.16%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.88%) AWS
2 92 (26.59%) Figma
3 74 (21.39%) Azure
4 52 (15.03%) GCP
5 17 (4.91%) Adobe Analytics
5 17 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (4.91%) GitHub
5 17 (4.91%) Miro
6 16 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.34%) Azure AI
7 15 (4.34%) PaaS
7 15 (4.34%) Vertex AI
8 14 (4.05%) dbt
8 14 (4.05%) SaaS
9 13 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (3.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 13 (3.76%) Sentry
10 12 (3.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (3.47%) Pulumi
11 11 (3.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.91%) Modbus
3 13 (3.76%) MQTT
4 12 (3.47%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.02%) 5G
6 5 (1.45%) DNS
6 5 (1.45%) Firewall
6 5 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.45%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.45%) WAN
7 4 (1.16%) Bluetooth
7 4 (1.16%) Network Security
7 4 (1.16%) VLAN
7 4 (1.16%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.16%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.87%) Broadband
8 3 (0.87%) SMTP
9 2 (0.58%) 4G
9 2 (0.58%) HTTP
9 2 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.76%) Redis
4 12 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.18%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.18%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.45%) Power BI
7 5 (1.45%) QGIS
8 4 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.58%) MySQL
11 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.29%) Power Query
11 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.67%) Axure RP
2 21 (6.07%) Balsamiq
3 17 (4.91%) Git
4 16 (4.62%) JIRA
5 6 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.73%) MLflow
6 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.45%) MSI
7 4 (1.16%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.16%) GitLab
7 4 (1.16%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (1.16%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.16%) Selenium
7 4 (1.16%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.16%) webpack
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 116 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.83%) Finance
3 78 (22.54%) Law
4 61 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (8.67%) Public Sector
7 27 (7.80%) Legal
8 26 (7.51%) Banking
9 23 (6.65%) Manufacturing
10 21 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (4.91%) Marketing
12 16 (4.62%) Games
13 15 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (4.05%) Retail
15 10 (2.89%) Electronics
16 7 (2.02%) Front Office
17 6 (1.73%) Aerospace
17 6 (1.73%) Financial Institution
18 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (21.39%) Senior
2 67 (19.36%) Designer
3 39 (11.27%) Software Engineer
4 37 (10.69%) Lead
5 33 (9.54%) Developer
6 27 (7.80%) UX Designer
7 21 (6.07%) Architect
8 18 (5.20%) Consultant
8 18 (5.20%) Service Designer
9 17 (4.91%) Product Manager
9 17 (4.91%) Strategy Manager
10 15 (4.34%) Product Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.34%) Product Designer
11 14 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Java Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.27%) CSS
2 37 (10.69%) React
3 31 (8.96%) HTML
4 24 (6.94%) .NET
5 21 (6.07%) Kafka
6 18 (5.20%) Node.js
7 16 (4.62%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.62%) TensorFlow
8 13 (3.76%) Django
9 11 (3.18%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.89%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.89%) REST
10 10 (2.89%) Spring
10 10 (2.89%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.60%) JSON
11 9 (2.60%) XML
12 8 (2.31%) Google JAX
12 8 (2.31%) JAX
12 8 (2.31%) Vue
13 6 (1.73%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.94%) IoT
4 20 (5.78%) AI Agents
4 20 (5.78%) Algorithms
5 17 (4.91%) Operational Technology
5 17 (4.91%) SCADA
6 16 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (3.76%) Biopharmaceutical
9 13 (3.76%) Industry 4.0
9 13 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (3.18%) Data Centre
12 8 (2.31%) Wiki
13 7 (2.02%) Mobile App
13 7 (2.02%) Onboarding
13 7 (2.02%) Robotics
14 6 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.51%) Linux
2 12 (3.47%) Unix
3 11 (3.18%) Android
4 7 (2.02%) Windows
5 6 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.16%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (48.27%) Agile
2 148 (42.77%) User Experience
3 85 (24.57%) Analytics
4 82 (23.70%) AI
4 82 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (21.97%) UX Design
6 73 (21.10%) Wireframes
7 72 (20.81%) Software Engineering
8 70 (20.23%) User Research
9 69 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (18.21%) CI/CD
10 63 (18.21%) Machine Learning
10 63 (18.21%) Mentoring
11 61 (17.63%) DevOps
12 58 (16.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 52 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (14.45%) Computer Science
14 50 (14.45%) Test Automation
15 49 (14.16%) Data Science
16 48 (13.87%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 97 (28.03%) Python
2 57 (16.47%) JavaScript
3 46 (13.29%) Java
4 27 (7.80%) SQL
5 26 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.07%) C#
7 20 (5.78%) C++
8 9 (2.60%) C
8 9 (2.60%) Go
8 9 (2.60%) PHP
8 9 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.02%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.73%) R
11 4 (1.16%) Delphi
11 4 (1.16%) Rust
12 3 (0.87%) Bicep
13 2 (0.58%) Bash
13 2 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 123 (35.55%) Degree
2 74 (21.39%) Security Cleared
3 52 (15.03%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.49%) HNC
6 18 (5.20%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.91%) HND
8 13 (3.76%) Chartered Engineer
9 12 (3.47%) PhD
10 11 (3.18%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.16%) MCP
13 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (21.68%) Accessibility
2 31 (8.96%) WCAG
3 5 (1.45%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) QA
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (11.85%) Docker
2 16 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.18%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (8.09%) Terraform
2 25 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.76%) Functional Safety
4 12 (3.47%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (2.89%) Ansible
6 6 (1.73%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.73%) WMI
7 5 (1.45%) Grafana
8 4 (1.16%) Nessus
8 4 (1.16%) Nmap
8 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (19.94%) Adobe
2 50 (14.45%) Google
3 38 (10.98%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.07%) Qualtrics
5 19 (5.49%) VMware
6 16 (4.62%) Foundry
7 13 (3.76%) AVEVA
7 13 (3.76%) Rockwell
7 13 (3.76%) Siemens
8 11 (3.18%) SAP
9 8 (2.31%) Splunk
10 6 (1.73%) Facebook
11 4 (1.16%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.16%) Cisco
11 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.16%) Sage
12 2 (0.58%) IBM
12 2 (0.58%) Mercator
12 2 (0.58%) PTC
12 2 (0.58%) UiPath