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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 350 379
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 -45
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 437 355 644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.82% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.88% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 229 170 397
10th Percentile £44,972 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,626 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £111,500 £88,000 £97,500
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 67,484 40,549 82,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.46% 93.37% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42,329 22,500 59,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +44 377 £67,124 +11.87% 204
UK excluding London -40 258 £57,500 -4.17% 140
Work from Home +52 237 £67,500 +22.73% 78
London +30 134 £75,000 +36.36% 91
East of England +36 69 £60,000 +33.33% 26
South East -7 63 £57,000 -15.56% 41
North of England -41 61 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Yorkshire -30 30 £67,500 +22.73% 4
North West -31 22 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Midlands -20 20 £52,500 -12.50% 19
South West -66 19 £60,000 -12.44% 16
West Midlands -19 18 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Scotland -67 11 £54,500 +19.43% 14
North East -32 9 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 1
Wales -34 7 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -29 2 £101,250 - 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 4 (0.92%) CMS
1 4 (0.92%) WordPress
2 3 (0.69%) Confluence
2 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 27 (6.18%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.75%) Sketch
3 8 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (1.14%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.69%) InVision
7 3 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.46%) CATIA
8 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.46%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.23%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.23%) Maya
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.23%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.69%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.23%) Maximo
2 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 119 (27.23%) Figma
2 84 (19.22%) Adobe Analytics
2 84 (19.22%) AWS
3 65 (14.87%) Azure
4 41 (9.38%) GCP
5 21 (4.81%) SaaS
6 19 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 19 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (4.35%) Serverless
7 18 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
9 15 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (3.20%) Apigee
10 14 (3.20%) Miro
10 14 (3.20%) Vertex AI
11 11 (2.52%) Google Analytics
12 10 (2.29%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (21.51%) Broadband
2 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.69%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.69%) Internet
3 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.69%) Wireless
4 2 (0.46%) LTE
4 2 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.23%) AMQP
5 1 (0.23%) Modbus
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) RFID
5 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.66%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.06%) Power BI
3 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.37%) Redis
5 6 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.92%) DB2
7 4 (0.92%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.92%) QlikView
8 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.46%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.46%) GIS
9 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.35%) Axure RP
1 19 (4.35%) Balsamiq
2 18 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.43%) GitLab
4 14 (3.20%) Cypress.io
4 14 (3.20%) Maven
4 14 (3.20%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.29%) JIRA
6 9 (2.06%) Git
7 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.23%) Mocha
8 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.22%) Games
3 81 (18.54%) Finance
4 67 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (13.50%) Public Sector
6 53 (12.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (11.67%) Law
8 34 (7.78%) Manufacturing
9 32 (7.32%) Electronics
10 22 (5.03%) Legal
11 20 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (3.20%) Marketing
13 13 (2.97%) Banking
14 10 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (2.29%) Retail
15 8 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.60%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
18 5 (1.14%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 108 (24.71%) Designer
2 74 (16.93%) Lead
3 63 (14.42%) Senior
4 46 (10.53%) Developer
5 44 (10.07%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.24%) Lead Designer
7 27 (6.18%) Architect
8 22 (5.03%) Interaction Designer
8 22 (5.03%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.58%) Analyst
10 19 (4.35%) Consultant
10 19 (4.35%) Product Manager
11 18 (4.12%) Product Designer
11 18 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (3.89%) Digital Designer
12 17 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.20%) Senior Manager
14 14 (3.20%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.47%) HTML
2 33 (7.55%) CSS
3 28 (6.41%) React
4 23 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 22 (5.03%) .NET
6 21 (4.81%) Spring Boot
7 19 (4.35%) Node.js
8 16 (3.66%) REST
9 15 (3.43%) Jest
10 14 (3.20%) Gherkin
11 9 (2.06%) LangChain
11 9 (2.06%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.83%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.60%) Google JAX
13 7 (1.60%) JAX
13 7 (1.60%) Spring
13 7 (1.60%) Vue
14 5 (1.14%) Django
15 4 (0.92%) LangGraph
15 4 (0.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.76%) Social Media
2 33 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.52%) Robotics
6 8 (1.83%) IoT
6 8 (1.83%) Life Science
6 8 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.60%) CUDA
8 6 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.37%) FPGA
8 6 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.52%) Linux
2 6 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (0.69%) Android
3 3 (0.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (54.00%) Agile
2 192 (43.94%) AI
3 162 (37.07%) User Research
4 151 (34.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 131 (29.98%) Analytics
6 120 (27.46%) Roadmaps
7 105 (24.03%) Customer Experience
7 105 (24.03%) User Experience
8 97 (22.20%) Product Roadmap
9 90 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (20.59%) Storytelling
10 82 (18.76%) Digital Customer Experience
11 80 (18.31%) UX Design
12 71 (16.25%) Rapid Prototyping
13 70 (16.02%) Workshop Facilitation
14 67 (15.33%) Mentoring
15 61 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (13.50%) Software Engineering
17 53 (12.13%) Inclusive Design
18 52 (11.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.48%) Python
2 55 (12.59%) Java
3 37 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.49%) C#
6 22 (5.03%) SQL
7 17 (3.89%) C
8 16 (3.66%) C++
9 15 (3.43%) Bash
9 15 (3.43%) Groovy
10 5 (1.14%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.69%) Julia
11 3 (0.69%) Pascal
12 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (25.63%) Degree
2 75 (17.16%) Security Cleared
3 60 (13.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.20%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.14%) PhD
8 4 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.69%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) HNC
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (32.95%) Accessibility
2 70 (16.02%) WCAG
3 8 (1.83%) QA
4 7 (1.60%) GRC
5 5 (1.14%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) DO-254
6 4 (0.92%) ISO 13485
7 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (5.49%) Docker
2 10 (2.29%) Firmware
3 2 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.20%) HP Fortify
2 12 (2.75%) Terraform
3 10 (2.29%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 122 (27.92%) Adobe
2 36 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.86%) Google
4 10 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.83%) EMC
5 8 (1.83%) Foundry
6 6 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.92%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.69%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.69%) Motorola
8 3 (0.69%) SAP
8 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.69%) Workday
9 2 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.46%) Databricks
9 2 (0.46%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.46%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir
10 1 (0.23%) Siemens