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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 303 347
Rank change year-on-year -11 +44 -106
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 406 568 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.84% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.01% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 184 212 368
10th Percentile £46,776 £47,000 £41,133
25th Percentile £51,813 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.38% +0.38%
75th Percentile £96,281 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -6.06%

All Process and 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 43,892 56,113 50,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.48% 82.56% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,743 29,547 38,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,717 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.89% +2.86% -

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 -55 295 £70,000 +7.69% 379
UK excluding London -53 230 £62,500 -3.85% 292
London +107 145 £75,000 +11.28% 180
Work from Home -42 145 £55,000 -15.38% 200
Scotland +56 79 £73,801 +6.48% 15
South East -70 62 £55,000 -26.67% 147
North of England -39 37 £59,500 -0.83% 35
North West -36 26 £73,801 +13.54% 18
Midlands +34 19 £58,750 +0.49% 11
East Midlands +29 12 £33,000 -17.50% 5
South West +22 11 £85,000 +9.68% 43
East of England -9 11 £82,500 +50.00% 36
Wales -3 9 £60,000 -14.29% 10
West Midlands +31 7 £60,000 +2.63% 6
Yorkshire +10 7 £30,500 -47.83% 15
North East +1 4 £69,401 +6.77% 2
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +13.54%

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 14 (3.45%) Confluence
2 7 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) IIS
4 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 41 (10.10%) Adobe XD
2 29 (7.14%) Sketch
3 13 (3.20%) Maya
4 10 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (1.72%) Blender
6 6 (1.48%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 6 (1.48%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (1.23%) InVision
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
8 4 (0.99%) Autodesk Inventor
9 3 (0.74%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.49%) Windchill
11 1 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.25%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (2.96%) SAP CO
1 12 (2.96%) SAP FI
1 12 (2.96%) SAP FI/CO
1 12 (2.96%) SAP FSCM
1 12 (2.96%) SAP IBP
1 12 (2.96%) SAP IS-U
1 12 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.99%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.41%) Figma
2 89 (21.92%) AWS
3 70 (17.24%) Azure
4 50 (12.32%) GCP
5 17 (4.19%) Adobe Analytics
5 17 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (3.69%) Azure AI
7 15 (3.69%) GitHub
7 15 (3.69%) SaaS
7 15 (3.69%) Vertex AI
8 14 (3.45%) Miro
8 14 (3.45%) PaaS
9 13 (3.20%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (3.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 13 (3.20%) dbt
9 13 (3.20%) Sentry
10 12 (2.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.96%) Pulumi
11 11 (2.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.43%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.19%) Modbus
3 13 (3.20%) MQTT
4 12 (2.96%) Ethernet
5 9 (2.22%) 5G
6 7 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.72%) WAN
7 5 (1.23%) Broadband
7 5 (1.23%) DNS
7 5 (1.23%) Firewall
7 5 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.99%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.99%) Network Security
8 4 (0.99%) VLAN
8 4 (0.99%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.99%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.74%) SMTP
10 2 (0.49%) 2G
10 2 (0.49%) HTTP
10 2 (0.49%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.20%) Redis
4 12 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (2.96%) SAP BW
5 11 (2.71%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.72%) QGIS
7 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.99%) Power BI
9 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (6.40%) Axure RP
2 17 (4.19%) Balsamiq
3 16 (3.94%) Git
4 15 (3.69%) JIRA
5 6 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.48%) MLflow
6 5 (1.23%) MSI
7 4 (0.99%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.99%) GitLab
7 4 (0.99%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.99%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.99%) Selenium
7 4 (0.99%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.99%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 138 (33.99%) Finance
2 120 (29.56%) Social Skills
3 83 (20.44%) Banking
4 72 (17.73%) Law
5 64 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.16%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.91%) Legal
9 23 (5.67%) Manufacturing
10 21 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (4.68%) Games
12 17 (4.19%) Marketing
13 16 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (3.20%) Retail
15 11 (2.71%) Electronics
16 6 (1.48%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.48%) Front Office
17 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (32.76%) Senior
2 125 (30.79%) Designer
3 85 (20.94%) UX Designer
4 64 (15.76%) Senior Designer
5 60 (14.78%) Senior UX Designer
6 38 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 36 (8.87%) Lead
8 32 (7.88%) Developer
9 18 (4.43%) Consultant
10 17 (4.19%) Product Designer
10 17 (4.19%) Product Manager
10 17 (4.19%) Service Designer
10 17 (4.19%) Strategy Manager
10 17 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (3.94%) Architect
12 15 (3.69%) Product Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.96%) Java Engineer
13 12 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.96%) Senior Consultant
13 12 (2.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.87%) CSS
2 35 (8.62%) React
3 28 (6.90%) HTML
4 21 (5.17%) .NET
4 21 (5.17%) Kafka
5 15 (3.69%) Node.js
5 15 (3.69%) PyTorch
5 15 (3.69%) TensorFlow
6 13 (3.20%) Django
7 10 (2.46%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.46%) REST
7 10 (2.46%) scikit-learn
7 10 (2.46%) Spring
7 10 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.22%) JSON
8 9 (2.22%) XML
9 8 (1.97%) Google JAX
9 8 (1.97%) JAX
9 8 (1.97%) Vue
10 6 (1.48%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.91%) IoT
4 22 (5.42%) Algorithms
5 20 (4.93%) AI Agents
6 17 (4.19%) Operational Technology
6 17 (4.19%) SCADA
6 17 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (3.20%) Biopharmaceutical
9 13 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (3.20%) Industry 4.0
9 13 (3.20%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.97%) Wiki
13 7 (1.72%) GNSS
13 7 (1.72%) Robotics
13 7 (1.72%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.40%) Linux
2 12 (2.96%) Unix
3 11 (2.71%) Android
4 7 (1.72%) Windows
5 6 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.99%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (54.68%) Agile
2 209 (51.48%) User Experience
3 137 (33.74%) UX Design
4 132 (32.51%) Wireframes
5 129 (31.77%) User Research
6 114 (28.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 112 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 105 (25.86%) Usability Testing
9 93 (22.91%) Journey Map
10 90 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (19.70%) Design Thinking
12 79 (19.46%) AI
12 79 (19.46%) Analytics
13 77 (18.97%) UX Research
14 73 (17.98%) Project Management
15 72 (17.73%) Software Engineering
16 65 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (15.02%) DevOps
17 61 (15.02%) Machine Learning
18 59 (14.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.14%) Python
2 54 (13.30%) JavaScript
3 45 (11.08%) Java
4 24 (5.91%) SQL
5 23 (5.67%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.42%) C++
7 19 (4.68%) C#
8 10 (2.46%) C
8 10 (2.46%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.22%) Go
10 8 (1.97%) PHP
10 8 (1.97%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.48%) R
12 4 (0.99%) Delphi
12 4 (0.99%) Rust
13 3 (0.74%) Bicep
14 2 (0.49%) Bash
14 2 (0.49%) HLSL
14 2 (0.49%) Perl
15 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (28.82%) Degree
2 66 (16.26%) Security Cleared
3 44 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.17%) HNC
5 20 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.19%) HND
8 13 (3.20%) Chartered Engineer
9 11 (2.71%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.71%) PhD
10 7 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.99%) MCP
12 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (32.51%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.65%) WCAG
3 7 (1.72%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.49%) COBIT
5 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (10.10%) Docker
2 16 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (6.65%) Terraform
2 25 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.20%) Functional Safety
4 12 (2.96%) AWS Copilot
5 9 (2.22%) Ansible
6 6 (1.48%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.48%) WMI
7 5 (1.23%) Grafana
8 4 (0.99%) Nessus
8 4 (0.99%) Nmap
8 4 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (16.50%) Adobe
2 48 (11.82%) Google
3 34 (8.37%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.17%) Qualtrics
5 19 (4.68%) VMware
6 16 (3.94%) Foundry
7 13 (3.20%) AVEVA
7 13 (3.20%) Rockwell
7 13 (3.20%) Siemens
8 12 (2.96%) SAP
9 8 (1.97%) Splunk
10 6 (1.48%) Facebook
11 4 (0.99%) Autodesk
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco
11 4 (0.99%) IBM
11 4 (0.99%) Mercator
11 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.99%) Sage
12 2 (0.49%) Pega
12 2 (0.49%) PTC