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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 307 355
Rank change year-on-year -63 +48 -49
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 314 491 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.97% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.05% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 187 191 395
10th Percentile £45,600 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% -12.21%
75th Percentile £90,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% -21.71%

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 51,976 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.87% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -64 272 £70,000 +7.69% 238
UK excluding London -140 147 £57,500 -14.81% 167
London +73 133 £75,000 +11.28% 119
Work from Home -79 108 £57,500 -17.04% 120
South East -79 47 £55,000 -26.67% 52
North of England -46 38 £57,500 +2.22% 27
North West -15 19 £57,500 -4.17% 18
East of England -1 17 £90,000 +63.64% 22
South West -32 16 £79,750 +6.33% 23
Yorkshire -20 15 £58,250 +10.95% 7
Scotland -28 10 £54,500 -21.36% 11
Midlands +10 9 £50,000 -27.86% 28
Wales -12 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
West Midlands +25 8 £47,500 -31.46% 18
North East -6 4 £73,801 +32.01% 2
Northern Ireland -21 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 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 10 (3.18%) Confluence
2 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Strapi
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (12.42%) Adobe XD
2 17 (5.41%) Sketch
3 13 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (2.87%) Maya
6 6 (1.91%) InVision
7 5 (1.59%) Fusion 360
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.96%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.64%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.32%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.32%) CATIA
10 1 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.32%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (2.55%) SAP CO
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FI
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FI/CO
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FSCM
1 8 (2.55%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.55%) SAP IS-U
1 8 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 106 (33.76%) Figma
2 72 (22.93%) AWS
3 59 (18.79%) Azure
4 35 (11.15%) GCP
5 30 (9.55%) Adobe Analytics
6 23 (7.32%) Miro
7 21 (6.69%) Amazon ECR
7 21 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (5.73%) SaaS
10 16 (5.10%) PaaS
11 14 (4.46%) GitHub
12 13 (4.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (4.14%) dbt
13 12 (3.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.82%) Google Analytics
13 12 (3.82%) Pulumi
13 12 (3.82%) Sentry
13 12 (3.82%) Serverless
14 10 (3.18%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.73%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.46%) Broadband
3 5 (1.59%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.59%) Firewall
4 4 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.27%) Modbus
4 4 (1.27%) Network Security
4 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.27%) VLAN
4 4 (1.27%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.27%) ZigBee
5 3 (0.96%) Internet
6 2 (0.64%) 2G
6 2 (0.64%) 4G
6 2 (0.64%) 5G
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) HTTP
6 2 (0.64%) ICMP
7 1 (0.32%) LTE
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.46%) Redis
3 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.55%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.55%) SAP BW
6 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.91%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.59%) Power BI
9 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.64%) Tableau
12 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.32%) DB2
12 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.32%) QlikView
12 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.87%) Axure RP
2 25 (7.96%) Balsamiq
3 15 (4.78%) JIRA
4 12 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.50%) Git
6 10 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.55%) GitLab
7 8 (2.55%) Maven
7 8 (2.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (1.27%) Burp Suite
9 4 (1.27%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 97 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (18.47%) Finance
4 55 (17.52%) Law
5 41 (13.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (12.10%) Public Sector
7 26 (8.28%) Banking
8 24 (7.64%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (6.69%) Games
10 16 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.46%) Legal
11 14 (4.46%) Manufacturing
12 12 (3.82%) Electronics
12 12 (3.82%) Retail
13 8 (2.55%) Marketing
14 7 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.59%) Financial Institution
17 4 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 82 (26.11%) Designer
2 64 (20.38%) Senior
3 37 (11.78%) Lead
4 36 (11.46%) Developer
5 35 (11.15%) UX Designer
6 20 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (6.05%) Strategy Manager
8 18 (5.73%) Product Designer
9 17 (5.41%) Consultant
10 16 (5.10%) Senior Manager
11 14 (4.46%) Analyst
11 14 (4.46%) Architect
11 14 (4.46%) Interaction Designer
11 14 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.14%) Service Designer
13 12 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.18%) Lead Designer
16 9 (2.87%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.74%) CSS
2 38 (12.10%) HTML
3 34 (10.83%) React
4 27 (8.60%) Node.js
5 24 (7.64%) .NET
6 17 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.78%) REST
8 12 (3.82%) Django
9 11 (3.50%) Jest
9 11 (3.50%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.87%) JSON
10 9 (2.87%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.87%) XML
11 8 (2.55%) Gherkin
11 8 (2.55%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.23%) Next.js
12 7 (2.23%) Vue
13 6 (1.91%) RESTful
14 5 (1.59%) scikit-learn
14 5 (1.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.78%) Product Ownership
2 34 (10.83%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.10%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (3.82%) Social Media
5 10 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.23%) IoT
7 7 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.91%) Life Science
9 5 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.59%) Animation
9 5 (1.59%) Blog
9 5 (1.59%) CUDA
9 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.64%) Linux
2 12 (3.82%) Unix
3 10 (3.18%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (51.59%) Agile
2 139 (44.27%) User Experience
3 97 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (27.07%) Analytics
4 85 (27.07%) UX Design
5 83 (26.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 81 (25.80%) User Research
7 77 (24.52%) Wireframes
8 74 (23.57%) AI
9 63 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (17.83%) CI/CD
11 49 (15.61%) Usability Testing
12 45 (14.33%) Customer Experience
12 45 (14.33%) Mentoring
13 43 (13.69%) Clean Code
14 42 (13.38%) Computer Science
15 41 (13.06%) DevOps
15 41 (13.06%) Software Engineering
16 40 (12.74%) Rapid Prototyping
17 39 (12.42%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 69 (21.97%) Python
2 52 (16.56%) JavaScript
3 42 (13.38%) Java
4 32 (10.19%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.10%) C++
5 16 (5.10%) SQL
6 11 (3.50%) C#
7 9 (2.87%) Bash
7 9 (2.87%) Groovy
8 7 (2.23%) C
9 5 (1.59%) R
10 4 (1.27%) Rust
11 3 (0.96%) Bicep
11 3 (0.96%) Go
11 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (34.08%) Degree
2 80 (25.48%) Security Cleared
3 65 (20.70%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.27%) HNC
10 4 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.27%) PhD
11 3 (0.96%) HND
12 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (30.89%) Accessibility
2 40 (12.74%) WCAG
3 7 (2.23%) GRC
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.96%) QA
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (8.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.41%) Terraform
2 12 (3.82%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (2.55%) HP Fortify
4 5 (1.59%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.27%) Nessus
5 4 (1.27%) Nmap
6 2 (0.64%) Ansible
7 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 81 (25.80%) Adobe
2 37 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.87%) Google
4 23 (7.32%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.55%) SAP
6 4 (1.27%) Cisco
6 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.27%) Splunk
7 2 (0.64%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.64%) Foundry
7 2 (0.64%) Mercator
7 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.64%) UiPath
7 2 (0.64%) VMware
8 1 (0.32%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.32%) Workday
8 1 (0.32%) YouTube