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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 322 405
Rank change year-on-year -31 +83 -81
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 449 402 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.91% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.98% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 234 173 372
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,875 £92,500 £98,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +47 386 £66,258 +10.43% 262
UK excluding London -47 265 £57,500 -4.17% 170
Work from Home +48 239 £67,500 +22.73% 207
London +24 136 £75,000 +36.36% 124
East of England +37 73 £60,000 +33.33% 26
North of England -27 66 £57,500 -4.17% 43
South East +10 60 £65,000 +8.33% 46
Yorkshire -20 32 £67,500 +22.73% 14
North West -4 24 £52,500 -4.55% 27
Midlands -28 20 £52,500 -12.50% 17
South West -71 20 £60,000 -12.44% 21
West Midlands -15 18 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Scotland -88 11 £54,500 +19.43% 13
North East -33 10 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
Wales -32 7 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -35 2 £101,250 +206.82% 6

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 5 (1.11%) CMS
2 4 (0.89%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) WordPress
3 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 26 (5.79%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.12%) Sketch
3 7 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.11%) Fusion 360
5 5 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.67%) InVision
6 3 (0.67%) Productboard
7 2 (0.45%) CATIA
7 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.45%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (26.95%) Figma
2 84 (18.71%) Adobe Analytics
2 84 (18.71%) AWS
3 63 (14.03%) Azure
4 39 (8.69%) GCP
5 24 (5.35%) SaaS
6 21 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
7 19 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (4.23%) Serverless
8 18 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.12%) Apigee
11 14 (3.12%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.67%) Miro
13 10 (2.23%) Google Analytics
14 9 (2.00%) GitHub
14 9 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.94%) Broadband
2 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.67%) Wireless
3 3 (0.67%) WPA
4 2 (0.45%) LTE
4 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) Modbus
5 1 (0.22%) MQTT
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.56%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (1.78%) Power BI
2 8 (1.78%) Redis
3 7 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
4 6 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.89%) DB2
6 4 (0.89%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.89%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.45%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (3.79%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.56%) Axure RP
2 16 (3.56%) Balsamiq
2 16 (3.56%) GitLab
3 14 (3.12%) Cypress.io
3 14 (3.12%) Maven
3 14 (3.12%) SonarQube
4 10 (2.23%) JIRA
5 8 (1.78%) Git
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.93%) Finance
3 84 (18.71%) Games
4 64 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (13.14%) Public Sector
6 52 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (10.47%) Law
8 36 (8.02%) Electronics
9 35 (7.80%) Manufacturing
10 21 (4.68%) Legal
11 20 (4.45%) Marketing
11 20 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.67%) Banking
13 11 (2.45%) Retail
14 10 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (24.50%) Designer
2 75 (16.70%) Lead
3 63 (14.03%) Senior
4 47 (10.47%) Developer
5 46 (10.24%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.02%) Lead Designer
7 27 (6.01%) Architect
8 22 (4.90%) Interaction Designer
9 21 (4.68%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.45%) Product Designer
10 20 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (4.23%) Product Manager
12 18 (4.01%) Analyst
12 18 (4.01%) Consultant
13 17 (3.79%) Digital Designer
13 17 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.34%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 15 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
16 14 (3.12%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.02%) HTML
2 32 (7.13%) CSS
3 29 (6.46%) React
4 23 (5.12%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.68%) Spring Boot
6 20 (4.45%) .NET
6 20 (4.45%) Node.js
7 16 (3.56%) REST
8 15 (3.34%) Jest
9 14 (3.12%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.00%) LangChain
11 8 (1.78%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.56%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.56%) JAX
12 7 (1.56%) Spring
12 7 (1.56%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.56%) Vue
13 5 (1.11%) Django
14 4 (0.89%) Next.js
14 4 (0.89%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.26%) Social Media
2 32 (7.13%) Cloud Native
3 30 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.12%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.45%) Robotics
7 9 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (2.00%) FPGA
7 9 (2.00%) IoT
8 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.78%) Life Science
9 7 (1.56%) CUDA
9 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (52.78%) Agile
2 197 (43.88%) AI
3 164 (36.53%) User Research
4 149 (33.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 130 (28.95%) Analytics
6 124 (27.62%) Roadmaps
7 107 (23.83%) Customer Experience
8 106 (23.61%) User Experience
9 102 (22.72%) Product Roadmap
10 92 (20.49%) Storytelling
11 89 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (18.26%) Digital Customer Experience
13 81 (18.04%) UX Design
14 69 (15.37%) Rapid Prototyping
14 69 (15.37%) Workshop Facilitation
15 65 (14.48%) Mentoring
16 61 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (13.36%) Software Engineering
18 56 (12.47%) Validation
19 52 (11.58%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 76 (16.93%) Python
2 53 (11.80%) Java
3 36 (8.02%) JavaScript
4 33 (7.35%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.12%) C#
6 19 (4.23%) C
6 19 (4.23%) SQL
7 17 (3.79%) Bash
8 16 (3.56%) C++
9 15 (3.34%) Groovy
10 5 (1.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.67%) Julia
11 3 (0.67%) Pascal
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (24.72%) Degree
2 73 (16.26%) Security Cleared
3 57 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.12%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.89%) PhD
9 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (31.85%) Accessibility
2 70 (15.59%) WCAG
3 8 (1.78%) QA
4 7 (1.56%) GRC
5 4 (0.89%) DO-254
5 4 (0.89%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (6.24%) Docker
2 12 (2.67%) Firmware
3 4 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.12%) HP Fortify
1 14 (3.12%) Terraform
2 12 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.11%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.22%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 121 (26.95%) Adobe
2 33 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.24%) Google
4 9 (2.00%) EMC
4 9 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.78%) Foundry
5 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.89%) JD Edwards
7 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
7 3 (0.67%) Motorola
7 3 (0.67%) SAP
7 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.67%) Workday
8 2 (0.45%) Databricks
8 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle
8 2 (0.45%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.22%) Planon
9 1 (0.22%) YouTube