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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 310 394
Rank change year-on-year -57 +84 -91
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 532 457 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.92% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.03% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 309 184 254
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £74,144
90th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,375 £58,465
% change year-on-year -6.42% +3.27% -6.46%

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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -1 447 £60,000 -7.69% 234
UK excluding London -57 340 £56,500 -6.42% 177
Work from Home +5 249 £65,000 +18.18% 118
London -37 150 £75,000 +7.14% 87
South East -9 86 £57,500 -8.55% 47
North of England +4 83 £51,250 -21.15% 26
East of England +27 69 £62,500 +38.89% 39
North West -3 39 £50,000 -26.06% 11
South West -52 30 £60,000 -5.88% 33
Midlands -28 24 £60,000 - 23
Yorkshire -22 22 £65,000 +20.37% 6
North East -42 22 £58,750 -9.62% 9
Wales -48 21 £53,171 -21.88% 4
West Midlands -23 18 £61,250 +2.08% 13
Scotland -77 17 £52,250 -34.69% 11
Northern Ireland -71 10 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -33 6 £50,000 +51.52% 10

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 11 (2.07%) Confluence
2 8 (1.50%) Apache
2 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 19 (3.57%) Adobe XD
2 14 (2.63%) SOLIDWORKS
3 13 (2.44%) InDesign
4 12 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (2.26%) Photoshop
5 9 (1.69%) Sketch
6 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.50%) Solid Edge
7 7 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (0.56%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.56%) Productboard
11 3 (0.56%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.38%) InVision
12 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.38%) Trello
12 2 (0.38%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 108 (20.30%) Figma
2 87 (16.35%) AWS
3 70 (13.16%) Azure
4 63 (11.84%) Adobe Analytics
5 40 (7.52%) GCP
6 21 (3.95%) SaaS
7 20 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.76%) Serverless
8 19 (3.57%) GitHub
9 18 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (2.63%) dbt
12 13 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.07%) Google Analytics
13 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.88%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.53%) Broadband
2 8 (1.50%) WPA
3 5 (0.94%) Intranet
4 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.56%) Wireless
5 2 (0.38%) RS-485
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) AMQP
6 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Modbus
6 1 (0.19%) MQTT
6 1 (0.19%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.20%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.69%) Power BI
4 8 (1.50%) Redis
5 7 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.56%) Db2
9 3 (0.56%) DB2 UDB
9 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.56%) QlikView
9 3 (0.56%) Tableau
10 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (4.32%) Git
2 18 (3.38%) JIRA
3 12 (2.26%) GitLab
4 10 (1.88%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.50%) Balsamiq
6 8 (1.50%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.50%) Maven
6 8 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.13%) Postman
8 5 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.38%) Bower
10 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.19%) MLflow
11 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 173 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.36%) Finance
3 91 (17.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (13.72%) Public Sector
6 69 (12.97%) Electronics
7 66 (12.41%) Games
8 52 (9.77%) Manufacturing
9 48 (9.02%) Law
10 32 (6.02%) Marketing
11 27 (5.08%) Aerospace
12 24 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.63%) Legal
13 14 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.26%) Retail
15 9 (1.69%) Automotive
16 8 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.32%) Banking
17 7 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (20.30%) Senior
2 107 (20.11%) Designer
3 67 (12.59%) Developer
4 61 (11.47%) Lead
5 45 (8.46%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.33%) Architect
7 35 (6.58%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.45%) Lead Designer
9 27 (5.08%) Interaction Designer
9 27 (5.08%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (4.70%) Senior Designer
11 24 (4.51%) Consultant
12 20 (3.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.76%) Product Manager
13 19 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.57%) UI Designer
13 19 (3.57%) UI/UX Designer
14 18 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.20%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.14%) HTML
2 37 (6.95%) CSS
3 29 (5.45%) React
4 19 (3.57%) LangChain
5 18 (3.38%) .NET
6 15 (2.82%) AngularJS
6 15 (2.82%) Terraform
7 11 (2.07%) REST
7 11 (2.07%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.88%) Web Services
9 9 (1.69%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.69%) Jest
9 9 (1.69%) Node.js
9 9 (1.69%) RESTful
10 8 (1.50%) Framer.js
10 8 (1.50%) Gherkin
10 8 (1.50%) JSON
10 8 (1.50%) Next.js
11 7 (1.32%) Material Design
11 7 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.84%) Social Media
2 46 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.89%) Embedded Systems
3 26 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.38%) FPGA
6 18 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.01%) Robotics
8 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.44%) IoT
9 12 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.07%) Life Science
10 11 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.88%) Analogue Electronics
11 10 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.88%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (0.56%) Unix
3 2 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (44.92%) Agile
2 238 (44.74%) AI
3 151 (28.38%) User Research
4 130 (24.44%) Analytics
5 125 (23.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 112 (21.05%) Rapid Prototyping
6 112 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 107 (20.11%) User Experience
8 95 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 94 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
11 88 (16.54%) Customer Experience
12 81 (15.23%) Product Roadmap
13 80 (15.04%) Software Engineering
14 78 (14.66%) UX Design
15 74 (13.91%) Validation
16 71 (13.35%) Storytelling
17 66 (12.41%) LLM
18 63 (11.84%) Digital Customer Experience
19 56 (10.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (17.67%) Python
2 42 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 38 (7.14%) Java
4 35 (6.58%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.02%) SQL
6 29 (5.45%) C
7 26 (4.89%) C#
8 24 (4.51%) C++
9 11 (2.07%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.88%) Bash
11 9 (1.69%) Groovy
12 7 (1.32%) Go
13 6 (1.13%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.94%) PHP
15 3 (0.56%) Pascal
15 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.56%) Rust
16 2 (0.38%) Ruby
17 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 156 (29.32%) Degree
2 97 (18.23%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.70%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.44%) PhD
8 12 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.50%) HND
9 8 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (0.56%) HNC
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.56%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.19%) OCP
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (25.56%) Accessibility
2 68 (12.78%) WCAG
3 15 (2.82%) QA
4 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.13%) GDPR
6 4 (0.75%) DO-254
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) JTAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (5.08%) Docker
2 22 (4.14%) Firmware
3 7 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 96 (18.05%) Adobe
2 49 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.64%) OpenAI
4 28 (5.26%) Google
5 15 (2.82%) EMC
6 11 (2.07%) SAP
7 10 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.69%) Databricks
9 6 (1.13%) Foundry
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle
11 3 (0.56%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.56%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.56%) Motorola
11 3 (0.56%) Siemens
11 3 (0.56%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.38%) Altera
12 2 (0.38%) Revolut
12 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.38%) YouTube