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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 306 422
Rank change year-on-year -61 +116 -104
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 470 441 599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.98% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.06% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 247 163 355
10th Percentile £43,497 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £50,734 £47,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,125 £74,629 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £92,500 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% +10.45% -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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +8 395 £60,000 - 212
UK excluding London -47 285 £56,500 -7.00% 132
Work from Home +25 248 £67,500 +25.00% 100
London -4 138 £71,121 +29.31% 111
North of England -12 74 £52,500 -24.33% 23
East of England +38 73 £62,500 +38.89% 24
South East -11 62 £57,000 -5.00% 35
Yorkshire -20 31 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West -10 27 £50,000 -27.94% 16
South West -64 21 £60,000 -12.44% 23
Midlands -26 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
West Midlands -8 17 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East -33 16 £56,250 -13.46% 5
Wales -37 16 £53,085 -22.01% 2
Scotland -77 11 £54,500 +19.43% 14
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 5
East Midlands -35 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 6 (1.28%) Apache
1 6 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.06%) CMS
2 5 (1.06%) Confluence
3 3 (0.64%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.64%) WordPress
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (3.40%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.13%) Sketch
3 7 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (1.49%) InDesign
3 7 (1.49%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.64%) Productboard
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.43%) CATIA
7 2 (0.43%) InVision
7 2 (0.43%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.43%) Trello
7 2 (0.43%) Windchill
8 1 (0.21%) Blender
8 1 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.21%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.64%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Maximo
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (24.47%) Figma
2 83 (17.66%) AWS
3 82 (17.45%) Adobe Analytics
4 67 (14.26%) Azure
5 41 (8.72%) GCP
6 24 (5.11%) SaaS
7 21 (4.47%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.26%) Serverless
9 18 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (2.98%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.77%) Apigee
14 10 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.13%) GitHub
15 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (1.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (19.57%) Broadband
2 7 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.06%) Intranet
3 5 (1.06%) WPA
4 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.64%) Wireless
5 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.43%) Internet
5 2 (0.43%) LTE
5 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.21%) AMQP
6 1 (0.21%) Modbus
6 1 (0.21%) MQTT
6 1 (0.21%) RS-232
6 1 (0.21%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.62%) DynamoDB
2 10 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.13%) Redis
3 8 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.28%) Power BI
4 6 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
4 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.85%) Db2
6 4 (0.85%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.85%) QlikView
7 3 (0.64%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.43%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (3.83%) Git
2 17 (3.62%) GitLab
3 15 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.19%) JIRA
4 13 (2.77%) Cypress.io
4 13 (2.77%) Maven
4 13 (2.77%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.91%) Axure RP
6 7 (1.49%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.64%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.64%) Postman
8 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.43%) Bower
8 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.43%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.21%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.21%) Mocha
9 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 109 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.72%) Finance
3 82 (17.45%) Games
4 69 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (14.04%) Public Sector
6 60 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (9.15%) Electronics
8 39 (8.30%) Law
9 34 (7.23%) Manufacturing
10 26 (5.53%) Marketing
11 21 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (4.26%) Legal
13 13 (2.77%) Retail
14 12 (2.55%) Banking
15 9 (1.91%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (1.28%) Advertising
18 6 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 109 (23.19%) Designer
2 78 (16.60%) Senior
3 74 (15.74%) Lead
4 58 (12.34%) Developer
5 49 (10.43%) UX Designer
6 37 (7.87%) Lead Designer
7 28 (5.96%) Architect
8 26 (5.53%) Software Engineer
9 24 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
10 22 (4.68%) Interaction Designer
11 19 (4.04%) Consultant
12 18 (3.83%) Analyst
12 18 (3.83%) Senior Designer
12 18 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.62%) Product Manager
14 16 (3.40%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.40%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.40%) Digital Designer
15 15 (3.19%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.66%) HTML
2 32 (6.81%) CSS
3 29 (6.17%) React
4 22 (4.68%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.04%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.40%) .NET
7 15 (3.19%) REST
8 14 (2.98%) Jest
9 13 (2.77%) Gherkin
9 13 (2.77%) LangChain
9 13 (2.77%) Node.js
10 8 (1.70%) JSON
11 7 (1.49%) Framer.js
11 7 (1.49%) Spring
11 7 (1.49%) Web Services
12 6 (1.28%) RESTful
12 6 (1.28%) Vue
12 6 (1.28%) XML
13 5 (1.06%) Ajax
13 5 (1.06%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.02%) Social Media
2 33 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.40%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (3.19%) IoT
6 14 (2.98%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.55%) Robotics
8 11 (2.34%) FPGA
8 11 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.70%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.28%) Life Science
12 5 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.40%) Linux
2 8 (1.70%) Unix
3 3 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (49.36%) Agile
2 210 (44.68%) AI
3 162 (34.47%) User Research
4 138 (29.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 133 (28.30%) Analytics
6 129 (27.45%) Roadmaps
7 103 (21.91%) Customer Experience
8 100 (21.28%) Product Roadmap
9 99 (21.06%) User Experience
10 86 (18.30%) Storytelling
11 80 (17.02%) Digital Customer Experience
12 79 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (16.81%) Rapid Prototyping
13 77 (16.38%) UX Design
14 69 (14.68%) Mentoring
15 65 (13.83%) Software Engineering
16 62 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (13.19%) Workshop Facilitation
17 59 (12.55%) Validation
18 55 (11.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.72%) Python
2 48 (10.21%) Java
3 34 (7.23%) JavaScript
4 30 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.17%) SQL
6 26 (5.53%) C#
7 25 (5.32%) C
8 23 (4.89%) C++
9 16 (3.40%) Bash
10 15 (3.19%) Groovy
11 7 (1.49%) MATLAB
12 6 (1.28%) PHP
13 5 (1.06%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.64%) Julia
14 3 (0.64%) Pascal
14 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.21%) Go
15 1 (0.21%) R
15 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 108 (22.98%) Degree
2 66 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.62%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.77%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.28%) PhD
9 5 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) HND
11 3 (0.64%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.21%) HNC
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (28.51%) Accessibility
2 67 (14.26%) WCAG
3 8 (1.70%) GRC
4 7 (1.49%) QA
5 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.06%) GDPR
6 4 (0.85%) DO-254
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (6.60%) Docker
2 16 (3.40%) Firmware
3 6 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.62%) Terraform
2 13 (2.77%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 111 (23.62%) Adobe
2 33 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.96%) Google
4 12 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.34%) EMC
5 11 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.49%) Foundry
7 4 (0.85%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.85%) Oracle
7 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.64%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.64%) Databricks
8 3 (0.64%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.64%) Motorola
8 3 (0.64%) SAP
8 3 (0.64%) Workday
9 2 (0.43%) Planon
9 2 (0.43%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.21%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.21%) Siemens