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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 304 424
Rank change year-on-year -55 +120 -109
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 499 450 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.01% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 276 176 312
10th Percentile £43,489 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%
75th Percentile £78,312 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £106,250 £99,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -12.31% +12.14% -3.39%

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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 20 July 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 July 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 +2 410 £60,000 -7.69% 237
UK excluding London -66 307 £57,000 -12.31% 123
Work from Home +20 269 £67,500 +22.73% 97
London -13 141 £75,000 +8.09% 141
North of England +3 76 £50,000 -26.06% 25
East of England +40 74 £74,000 +64.44% 17
South East -10 70 £56,500 -13.08% 38
North West -6 33 £48,750 -29.74% 16
Yorkshire -7 27 £65,000 - 2
South West -54 22 £60,000 -5.88% 20
Midlands -35 20 £62,500 +6.38% 10
Wales -42 19 £53,171 -21.88% 2
West Midlands -15 17 £68,665 +14.44% 8
North East -36 16 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Scotland -71 15 £52,250 +14.50% 13
Northern Ireland -50 11 £80,000 -
East Midlands -30 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 7 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (2.00%) InDesign
2 10 (2.00%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.00%) Sketch
3 6 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.60%) Productboard
7 2 (0.40%) CATIA
7 2 (0.40%) InVision
7 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) Windchill
8 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.20%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.85%) Figma
2 86 (17.23%) AWS
3 81 (16.23%) Adobe Analytics
4 74 (14.83%) Azure
5 46 (9.22%) GCP
6 20 (4.01%) SaaS
7 19 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
7 19 (3.81%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (3.81%) Serverless
8 17 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.21%) dbt
10 14 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (2.61%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.40%) Apigee
13 11 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.20%) GitHub
13 11 (2.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 91 (18.24%) Broadband
2 8 (1.60%) WPA
3 7 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.00%) Intranet
5 4 (0.80%) Wireless
6 3 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) RS-232
8 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.21%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.00%) Redis
4 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) Power BI
7 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Db2
8 4 (0.80%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.80%) QlikView
9 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.40%) Big Data
10 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (4.21%) Git
2 16 (3.21%) GitLab
2 16 (3.21%) JIRA
3 14 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.40%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.40%) Maven
4 12 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.60%) LabVIEW
6 7 (1.40%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.00%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.80%) Postman
9 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.60%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.40%) Bower
10 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 137 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.84%) Finance
3 81 (16.23%) Games
4 78 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.63%) Public Sector
7 52 (10.42%) Electronics
8 39 (7.82%) Law
9 36 (7.21%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.61%) Marketing
10 23 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.61%) Legal
12 15 (3.01%) Retail
13 14 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.20%) Banking
15 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.20%) Advertising
18 5 (1.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 112 (22.44%) Designer
2 94 (18.84%) Senior
3 74 (14.83%) Lead
4 61 (12.22%) Developer
5 46 (9.22%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.82%) Architect
7 38 (7.62%) Lead Designer
8 31 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
9 29 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.21%) Interaction Designer
11 21 (4.21%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.81%) Consultant
13 18 (3.61%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.61%) UI Designer
13 18 (3.61%) UI/UX Designer
14 17 (3.41%) Product Manager
15 16 (3.21%) Digital Designer
15 16 (3.21%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.81%) HTML
2 30 (6.01%) CSS
3 26 (5.21%) React
4 20 (4.01%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.41%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.21%) .NET
7 14 (2.81%) LangChain
8 13 (2.61%) REST
9 12 (2.40%) Gherkin
9 12 (2.40%) Jest
10 9 (1.80%) Node.js
11 8 (1.60%) JSON
11 8 (1.60%) Web Services
12 7 (1.40%) Framer.js
13 6 (1.20%) Django
13 6 (1.20%) RESTful
13 6 (1.20%) Spring
13 6 (1.20%) XML
14 5 (1.00%) Ajax
14 5 (1.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.83%) Social Media
2 37 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.41%) IoT
6 16 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.01%) FPGA
8 14 (2.81%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.40%) Robotics
11 11 (2.20%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 11 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.00%) Algorithms
12 10 (2.00%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.80%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.60%) Fibre Optics
14 8 (1.60%) Verilog
14 8 (1.60%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.81%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.10%) Agile
2 223 (44.69%) AI
3 163 (32.67%) User Research
4 142 (28.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 134 (26.85%) Analytics
6 133 (26.65%) Roadmaps
7 102 (20.44%) Customer Experience
8 98 (19.64%) Product Roadmap
9 97 (19.44%) Rapid Prototyping
10 96 (19.24%) User Experience
11 85 (17.03%) Storytelling
12 81 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (15.83%) Digital Customer Experience
14 75 (15.03%) Mentoring
15 73 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 72 (14.43%) Software Engineering
17 71 (14.23%) UX Design
18 65 (13.03%) Validation
19 61 (12.22%) Workshop Facilitation
20 55 (11.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 90 (18.04%) Python
2 46 (9.22%) Java
3 35 (7.01%) JavaScript
4 31 (6.21%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.61%) SQL
6 27 (5.41%) C
7 26 (5.21%) C#
7 26 (5.21%) C++
8 14 (2.81%) Bash
9 13 (2.61%) Groovy
10 12 (2.40%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.00%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.00%) PHP
12 3 (0.60%) Julia
12 3 (0.60%) Pascal
12 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.60%) Rust
13 2 (0.40%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 126 (25.25%) Degree
2 80 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 62 (12.42%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.01%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (2.40%) PhD
7 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.00%) HND
8 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) HNC
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (27.25%) Accessibility
2 67 (13.43%) WCAG
3 10 (2.00%) QA
4 7 (1.40%) GRC
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) DO-254
7 2 (0.40%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (6.21%) Docker
2 18 (3.61%) Firmware
3 7 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.21%) Terraform
2 12 (2.40%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 108 (21.64%) Adobe
2 42 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.41%) Google
4 22 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.61%) EMC
6 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.40%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle
8 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.80%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.60%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) Motorola
9 3 (0.60%) SAP
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
10 2 (0.40%) Altera
10 2 (0.40%) Intel
10 2 (0.40%) Planon
10 2 (0.40%) Qualtrics