Prototyping Job Trends

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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 354 371
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -51
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 369 370 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.85% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.91% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 204 189 405
10th Percentile £45,300 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,490 £67,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +17.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.09% +30.52% -14.29%

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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -12 324 £67,000 +3.08% 294
UK excluding London -74 195 £57,500 -16.09% 200
Work from Home +16 168 £60,000 -13.43% 169
London +61 139 £73,801 +13.54% 161
South East -5 60 £55,000 -26.67% 90
North of England -70 46 £57,500 -4.17% 27
East of England +16 42 £80,788 +61.58% 34
North West -38 24 £57,500 -4.17% 14
South West -59 18 £79,750 +16.38% 21
Yorkshire -37 16 £67,500 +22.73% 8
Scotland -20 13 £54,500 -9.02% 8
Midlands -25 8 £47,500 -25.56% 22
West Midlands +1 7 £46,022 -27.88% 14
North East -21 6 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Wales -28 6 £73,801 +6.96% 6
Northern Ireland -29 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -33 1 £50,000 - 8

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 10 (2.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
3 1 (0.27%) Strapi
3 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (9.76%) Adobe XD
2 17 (4.61%) Sketch
3 14 (3.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.36%) Fusion 360
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.08%) InVision
7 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.81%) Maya
8 2 (0.54%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.27%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.27%) CATIA
9 1 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.54%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.54%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.54%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.54%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 126 (34.15%) Figma
2 82 (22.22%) AWS
3 69 (18.70%) Azure
4 68 (18.43%) Adobe Analytics
5 47 (12.74%) GCP
6 27 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (6.23%) Miro
9 22 (5.96%) PaaS
10 18 (4.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (4.88%) dbt
11 17 (4.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (4.61%) Pulumi
11 17 (4.61%) Sentry
12 16 (4.34%) SaaS
13 14 (3.79%) Google Analytics
14 13 (3.52%) GitHub
15 12 (3.25%) Amazon S3
15 12 (3.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (14.63%) Broadband
2 20 (5.42%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.08%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.08%) Internet
3 4 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.81%) Wireless
5 2 (0.54%) 2G
5 2 (0.54%) 4G
5 2 (0.54%) 5G
5 2 (0.54%) DNS
5 2 (0.54%) Firewall
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) ICMP
5 2 (0.54%) LTE
6 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.27%) Modbus
6 1 (0.27%) RFID
6 1 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.15%) Redis
3 18 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.90%) Power BI
7 6 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.81%) DB2
10 3 (0.81%) DB2 UDB
10 3 (0.81%) QlikView
11 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.54%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.54%) Tableau
12 1 (0.27%) GIS
12 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (8.67%) Axure RP
2 26 (7.05%) Balsamiq
3 17 (4.61%) JIRA
4 14 (3.79%) Git
5 13 (3.52%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.44%) GitLab
7 9 (2.44%) Maven
7 9 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.36%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.27%) Mocha
10 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (17.07%) Finance
4 55 (14.91%) Law
5 52 (14.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (13.82%) Games
7 47 (12.74%) Public Sector
8 29 (7.86%) Banking
9 21 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (4.88%) Electronics
10 18 (4.88%) Manufacturing
11 16 (4.34%) Legal
12 15 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.52%) Retail
14 11 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.63%) Marketing
15 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.36%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (27.10%) Designer
2 72 (19.51%) Senior
3 54 (14.63%) Lead
4 43 (11.65%) UX Designer
5 29 (7.86%) Developer
6 23 (6.23%) Lead Designer
7 20 (5.42%) Consultant
7 20 (5.42%) Product Designer
7 20 (5.42%) Senior Manager
8 19 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 19 (5.15%) Strategy Manager
9 18 (4.88%) Analyst
10 17 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.34%) Interaction Designer
12 15 (4.07%) Architect
13 14 (3.79%) Business Analyst
14 12 (3.25%) Service Designer
15 11 (2.98%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.38%) CSS
1 42 (11.38%) HTML
2 31 (8.40%) React
3 23 (6.23%) Node.js
4 22 (5.96%) .NET
5 17 (4.61%) Django
6 15 (4.07%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.79%) REST
8 13 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.25%) Jest
10 10 (2.71%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.44%) Gherkin
11 9 (2.44%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.90%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.90%) JAX
12 7 (1.90%) Next.js
13 6 (1.63%) JSON
13 6 (1.63%) LangChain
13 6 (1.63%) WebSockets
13 6 (1.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.55%) Social Media
2 40 (10.84%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.17%) Life Science
6 8 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.90%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.90%) CUDA
7 7 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.90%) IoT
7 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) Blog
8 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.36%) Animation
9 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.36%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.32%) Linux
2 18 (4.88%) Unix
3 7 (1.90%) Android
4 5 (1.36%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.27%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (58.54%) Agile
2 139 (37.67%) User Experience
3 122 (33.06%) AI
4 121 (32.79%) User Research
5 120 (32.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 117 (31.71%) Analytics
7 108 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (25.47%) UX Design
9 83 (22.49%) Customer Experience
10 77 (20.87%) Roadmaps
10 77 (20.87%) Wireframes
11 73 (19.78%) Storytelling
12 66 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (15.99%) Product Roadmap
14 55 (14.91%) Workshop Facilitation
15 54 (14.63%) CI/CD
15 54 (14.63%) Clean Code
16 53 (14.36%) Mentoring
17 49 (13.28%) Digital Customer Experience
18 48 (13.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.78%) Python
2 51 (13.82%) JavaScript
3 45 (12.20%) Java
4 31 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.79%) SQL
6 13 (3.52%) C#
6 13 (3.52%) C++
7 11 (2.98%) C
8 10 (2.71%) Bash
8 10 (2.71%) Groovy
9 3 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.81%) R
10 2 (0.54%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.54%) Julia
10 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) Pascal
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (29.00%) Degree
2 86 (23.31%) Security Cleared
3 69 (18.70%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.71%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.08%) PhD
9 3 (0.81%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.54%) HNC
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) HND
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (36.59%) Accessibility
2 61 (16.53%) WCAG
3 7 (1.90%) GRC
4 5 (1.36%) GDPR
5 4 (1.08%) ISO 13485
6 3 (0.81%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.27%) DO-254
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (8.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.23%) Terraform
2 17 (4.61%) AWS Copilot
3 9 (2.44%) HP Fortify
4 7 (1.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Nessus
6 1 (0.27%) Nmap
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 112 (30.35%) Adobe
2 39 (10.57%) Google
3 37 (10.03%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.42%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.17%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.63%) Foundry
7 5 (1.36%) EMC
8 3 (0.81%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.81%) Workday
9 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.54%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.54%) Mercator
9 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.54%) SAP
9 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.54%) UiPath
9 2 (0.54%) VMware
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco
10 1 (0.27%) Informatica
10 1 (0.27%) Motorola