Prototyping Jobs

Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 366 332
Rank change year-on-year -39 -34 -126
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 318 709 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.72% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.84% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 173 402 589
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £43,526
25th Percentile £45,628 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +12.97%

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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prototyping.

Salary trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -34 256 £60,000 +4.35% 430
UK excluding London -27 211 £60,000 +9.09% 255
Work from Home +165 151 £55,000 - 255
London +83 92 £55,000 -21.43% 228
North of England -16 50 £55,000 - 45
South East +42 39 £75,000 +41.51% 83
South West +83 38 £68,525 +19.17% 35
North West -27 34 £53,750 -7.27% 26
Scotland +72 32 £45,635 -13.08% 23
East of England +28 19 £45,000 -30.77% 56
Wales +52 15 £55,000 -6.46% 7
Midlands +34 15 £60,000 +41.18% 17
West Midlands +19 13 £60,000 +41.18% 6
Yorkshire +43 10 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North East +36 6 £67,192 +24.47% 9
Isle of Man - 4 - -
East Midlands +33 2 - - 8

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.52%) CMS
2 6 (1.89%) Confluence
3 5 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.26%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.63%) Apache
5 2 (0.63%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (6.60%) Adobe XD
2 19 (5.97%) Sketch
3 6 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (1.89%) InVision
3 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.94%) GNU Octave
4 3 (0.94%) Notion
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.63%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.63%) CATIA
5 2 (0.63%) InDesign
5 2 (0.63%) Maya
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.63%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.31%) Blender
6 1 (0.31%) Simulink
6 1 (0.31%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Shopify
2 2 (0.63%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.63%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (19.18%) AWS
2 48 (15.09%) Figma
3 39 (12.26%) Azure
4 23 (7.23%) GitHub
5 18 (5.66%) GCP
6 16 (5.03%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (5.03%) SaaS
7 11 (3.46%) Amazon ECR
7 11 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (3.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 11 (3.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 11 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.46%) AWS CodeBuild
7 11 (3.46%) dbt
7 11 (3.46%) Pulumi
8 9 (2.83%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.83%) Sentry
9 6 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.89%) RS-485
3 3 (0.94%) GPRS
3 3 (0.94%) GSM
3 3 (0.94%) Internet
4 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.31%) 5G
5 1 (0.31%) Broadband
5 1 (0.31%) Intranet
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) RS-232
5 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.31%) VSAN
5 1 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Wideband
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.46%) Redis
4 9 (2.83%) MySQL
4 9 (2.83%) Power BI
5 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.26%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.26%) Biml
7 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.26%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (5.97%) Git
2 18 (5.66%) JIRA
3 11 (3.46%) Visual Studio
4 8 (2.52%) Axure RP
5 7 (2.20%) GitLab
6 4 (1.26%) Balsamiq
6 4 (1.26%) Subversion
7 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.63%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.63%) MSI
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.31%) Babel
8 1 (0.31%) Carbide.c++
8 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.31%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 115 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.33%) Finance
3 53 (16.67%) Electronics
4 36 (11.32%) Banking
5 34 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (7.86%) Manufacturing
9 18 (5.66%) Law
10 17 (5.35%) Marketing
11 14 (4.40%) Games
11 14 (4.40%) Public Sector
12 10 (3.14%) Retail
13 9 (2.83%) Aerospace
14 7 (2.20%) Aviation
15 6 (1.89%) Automotive
16 5 (1.57%) Advertising
17 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 4 (1.26%) Local Government
17 4 (1.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (27.99%) Senior
2 67 (21.07%) Developer
3 48 (15.09%) Designer
4 37 (11.64%) Electronics Engineer
5 35 (11.01%) Software Engineer
6 31 (9.75%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 30 (9.43%) Design Engineer
8 28 (8.81%) UX Designer
9 26 (8.18%) UX Developer
10 24 (7.55%) Electronics Design Engineer
11 20 (6.29%) Senior Design Engineer
11 20 (6.29%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
12 19 (5.97%) Architect
13 17 (5.35%) Senior Developer
14 14 (4.40%) Product Manager
15 13 (4.09%) Lead
16 12 (3.77%) FPGA Engineer
17 11 (3.46%) Android Developer
17 11 (3.46%) Senior UX Developer
17 11 (3.46%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.86%) React
2 23 (7.23%) CSS
3 21 (6.60%) .NET
3 21 (6.60%) HTML
4 16 (5.03%) Django
5 15 (4.72%) Node.js
6 12 (3.77%) Next.js
7 11 (3.46%) .NET Framework
8 10 (3.14%) RESTful
9 8 (2.52%) Express.js
9 8 (2.52%) JSON
9 8 (2.52%) REST
10 6 (1.89%) Spring
10 6 (1.89%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.89%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.57%) Kafka
11 5 (1.57%) XML
12 4 (1.26%) Flask
12 4 (1.26%) NumPy
12 4 (1.26%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.32%) FPGA
2 21 (6.60%) Optoelectronics
3 20 (6.29%) Mobile App
3 20 (6.29%) VHDL
4 19 (5.97%) Analogue Electronics
4 19 (5.97%) Verilog
5 17 (5.35%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.77%) Educational Technology
8 10 (3.14%) Life Science
8 10 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.14%) Mobile Games
9 8 (2.52%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.20%) CPLD
11 6 (1.89%) Hackathon
11 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.26%) N-Tier
12 4 (1.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.55%) Linux
2 14 (4.40%) Apple iOS
3 13 (4.09%) Android
4 11 (3.46%) Unix
5 10 (3.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (43.08%) Agile
2 103 (32.39%) User Experience
3 70 (22.01%) User Research
4 63 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (19.81%) Wireframes
5 62 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (19.50%) UX Design
6 53 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 52 (16.35%) Software Engineering
8 43 (13.52%) Requirements Analysis
9 42 (13.21%) DevOps
10 41 (12.89%) CI/CD
11 40 (12.58%) Project Management
11 40 (12.58%) Validation
12 38 (11.95%) Usability Testing
13 36 (11.32%) Journey Map
14 35 (11.01%) Rapid Prototyping
14 35 (11.01%) Roadmaps
15 34 (10.69%) Schematic Capture
16 33 (10.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.61%) Python
2 39 (12.26%) C#
3 30 (9.43%) JavaScript
4 29 (9.12%) Java
5 27 (8.49%) C
6 26 (8.18%) C++
7 24 (7.55%) SQL
8 23 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.09%) MATLAB
10 10 (3.14%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.14%) Objective-C
10 10 (3.14%) Swift
11 6 (1.89%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.89%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.63%) R
14 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 79 (24.84%) Degree
2 33 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.72%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.83%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.26%) PhD
8 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.94%) HND
8 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.35%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.60%) QA
3 10 (3.14%) WCAG
4 3 (0.94%) GDPR
4 3 (0.94%) SEPA
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.31%) DO-254
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (13.84%) Firmware
2 26 (8.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 20 (6.29%) Docker
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (7.23%) Terraform
2 12 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.46%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (1.89%) Grafana
5 2 (0.63%) WMI
6 1 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.49%) Adobe
3 21 (6.60%) EMC
4 13 (4.09%) Google
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle
6 4 (1.26%) Agilent
6 4 (1.26%) Aruba
6 4 (1.26%) Cisco
6 4 (1.26%) Databricks
6 4 (1.26%) HP
7 3 (0.94%) SAP
8 2 (0.63%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.63%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.31%) Altera
9 1 (0.31%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube