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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 337 381
Rank change year-on-year -8 +44 -60
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 410 367 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.87% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.93% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 215 189 408
10th Percentile £46,100 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £53,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +29.29% -15.20%

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 59,378 39,636 75,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.65% 93.47% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35,975 22,340 56,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,830 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £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% -8.90%

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 22 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 22 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 +21 362 £67,490 +3.83% 255
UK excluding London -64 230 £57,500 -16.09% 168
Work from Home +24 201 £60,000 -13.43% 101
London +48 145 £73,151 +12.54% 116
South East -8 69 £55,000 -26.67% 51
East of England +12 55 £80,788 +61.58% 22
North of England -72 50 £57,500 -4.17% 58
North West -46 25 £57,500 -4.17% 27
South West -55 20 £79,750 +16.38% 12
Yorkshire -34 18 £67,500 +22.73% 21
Scotland -29 16 £54,500 -9.02% 14
Midlands -33 12 £50,000 -21.65% 13
West Midlands -2 10 £47,500 -25.56% 8
North East -28 7 £66,901 -3.47% 11
Wales -42 6 £73,801 +6.96% 4
Northern Ireland -36 2 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -39 2 £101,250 - 5

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 (2.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.24%) Strapi
3 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (8.29%) Adobe XD
2 16 (3.90%) Sketch
3 13 (3.17%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.22%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.98%) InVision
8 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.73%) Maya
9 1 (0.24%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.24%) Blender
9 1 (0.24%) CATIA
9 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.49%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.49%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.49%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.49%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.71%) Figma
2 88 (21.46%) AWS
3 87 (21.22%) Adobe Analytics
4 76 (18.54%) Azure
5 51 (12.44%) GCP
6 27 (6.59%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (5.37%) Miro
7 22 (5.37%) PaaS
8 18 (4.39%) dbt
9 17 (4.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 17 (4.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (4.15%) Pulumi
9 17 (4.15%) SaaS
9 17 (4.15%) Sentry
10 14 (3.41%) Google Analytics
11 13 (3.17%) Serverless
11 13 (3.17%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 80 (19.51%) Broadband
2 20 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.98%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.98%) Internet
3 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.73%) Wireless
5 2 (0.49%) 2G
5 2 (0.49%) 4G
5 2 (0.49%) 5G
5 2 (0.49%) DNS
5 2 (0.49%) Firewall
5 2 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.49%) ICMP
5 2 (0.49%) LTE
6 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.24%) Modbus
6 1 (0.24%) RFID
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.39%) Redis
3 17 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.95%) Power BI
6 6 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.98%) DB2
8 4 (0.98%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.98%) QlikView
9 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.49%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.49%) Tableau
11 1 (0.24%) GIS
11 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.56%) Axure RP
2 26 (6.34%) Balsamiq
3 18 (4.39%) JIRA
4 14 (3.41%) Git
4 14 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.44%) GitLab
6 10 (2.44%) Maven
6 10 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.22%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.24%) Mocha
9 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 88 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (17.07%) Games
4 69 (16.83%) Finance
5 55 (13.41%) Law
6 51 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (11.46%) Public Sector
8 29 (7.07%) Banking
9 26 (6.34%) Electronics
10 24 (5.85%) Manufacturing
11 21 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (4.15%) Legal
13 15 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.93%) Retail
15 10 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.22%) Back Office
17 5 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 101 (24.63%) Designer
2 74 (18.05%) Senior
3 62 (15.12%) Lead
4 44 (10.73%) UX Designer
5 31 (7.56%) Developer
6 27 (6.59%) Lead Designer
7 21 (5.12%) Senior Manager
8 20 (4.88%) Analyst
8 20 (4.88%) Consultant
9 19 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (4.63%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.63%) Strategy Manager
10 18 (4.39%) Architect
10 18 (4.39%) Product Designer
11 17 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.90%) Interaction Designer
13 15 (3.66%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.41%) Systems Manager
15 13 (3.17%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.00%) HTML
2 40 (9.76%) CSS
3 32 (7.80%) React
4 24 (5.85%) .NET
5 22 (5.37%) Node.js
6 17 (4.15%) Django
7 16 (3.90%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.41%) REST
8 14 (3.41%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.17%) Jest
10 10 (2.44%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.44%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.20%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.95%) LangChain
13 7 (1.71%) Google JAX
13 7 (1.71%) JAX
14 6 (1.46%) JSON
14 6 (1.46%) Next.js
14 6 (1.46%) WebSockets
14 6 (1.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.59%) Social Media
2 40 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 36 (8.78%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.12%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.95%) Life Science
7 8 (1.95%) Robotics
8 7 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.71%) CUDA
8 7 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (1.71%) IoT
8 7 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.46%) Arduino
9 6 (1.46%) Raspberry Pi
9 6 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.07%) Linux
2 18 (4.39%) Unix
3 6 (1.46%) Android
4 5 (1.22%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (58.78%) Agile
2 153 (37.32%) AI
3 140 (34.15%) User Experience
4 139 (33.90%) User Research
4 139 (33.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 136 (33.17%) Analytics
6 118 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (26.34%) Customer Experience
8 100 (24.39%) Roadmaps
9 96 (23.41%) UX Design
10 92 (22.44%) Storytelling
11 79 (19.27%) Product Roadmap
12 74 (18.05%) Wireframes
13 70 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (16.59%) Digital Customer Experience
15 61 (14.88%) Workshop Facilitation
16 58 (14.15%) Mentoring
17 56 (13.66%) CI/CD
17 56 (13.66%) Rapid Prototyping
18 55 (13.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.24%) Python
2 54 (13.17%) Java
3 50 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.80%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.39%) C
5 18 (4.39%) C++
6 16 (3.90%) C#
7 15 (3.66%) SQL
8 11 (2.68%) Bash
8 11 (2.68%) Groovy
9 3 (0.73%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.73%) Pascal
9 3 (0.73%) R
10 2 (0.49%) Julia
10 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.49%) PHP
10 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (27.56%) Degree
2 92 (22.44%) Security Cleared
3 74 (18.05%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.98%) PhD
9 3 (0.73%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) HNC
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (37.07%) Accessibility
2 72 (17.56%) WCAG
3 7 (1.71%) GDPR
3 7 (1.71%) GRC
4 4 (0.98%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.73%) QA
6 2 (0.49%) DO-254
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (8.29%) Docker
2 9 (2.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (5.61%) Terraform
2 17 (4.15%) AWS Copilot
3 10 (2.44%) HP Fortify
4 8 (1.95%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.49%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Nessus
6 1 (0.24%) Nmap
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 129 (31.46%) Adobe
2 46 (11.22%) Google
3 37 (9.02%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.88%) Qualtrics
5 9 (2.20%) Foundry
6 8 (1.95%) EMC
6 8 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.98%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.73%) Motorola
8 3 (0.73%) Workday
9 2 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.49%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.49%) Mercator
9 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) SAP
9 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.49%) VMware
10 1 (0.24%) Pega
10 1 (0.24%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.24%) Xilinx