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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 359 394
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 -59
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 450 325 618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.83% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 239 172 402
10th Percentile £44,972 £37,500 £33,188
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,626 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £87,250 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +45 389 £67,124 +11.87% 165
UK excluding London -27 258 £57,500 -4.17% 125
Work from Home +82 241 £67,500 +22.73% 60
London +35 144 £75,000 +25.00% 62
East of England +15 69 £70,000 +47.37% 23
South East -12 65 £57,000 -24.00% 42
North of England -52 58 £57,500 +4.55% 21
Yorkshire -35 27 £67,500 +22.73% 5
North West -35 23 £52,500 -4.55% 13
South West -68 21 £60,000 -12.44% 12
Midlands -32 18 £55,000 -8.33% 20
West Midlands -21 16 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Scotland -40 13 £52,250 +14.50% 7
North East -42 8 £47,500 -29.31% 3
Wales -33 7 £53,171 -3.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -48 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 4 (0.89%) CMS
1 4 (0.89%) WordPress
2 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) SAS
4 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 33 (7.33%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.89%) Sketch
3 8 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (1.11%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.89%) InVision
8 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.44%) CATIA
9 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.22%) Blender
10 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 126 (28.00%) Figma
2 89 (19.78%) AWS
3 84 (18.67%) Adobe Analytics
4 70 (15.56%) Azure
5 43 (9.56%) GCP
6 21 (4.67%) SaaS
7 20 (4.44%) Serverless
8 19 (4.22%) Amazon ECR
8 19 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.33%) Miro
12 14 (3.11%) Apigee
12 14 (3.11%) Google Analytics
12 14 (3.11%) Vertex AI
13 10 (2.22%) GitHub
13 10 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.89%) Broadband
2 6 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.11%) Internet
4 4 (0.89%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.67%) Wireless
6 2 (0.44%) LTE
6 2 (0.44%) Modbus
6 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.22%) AMQP
7 1 (0.22%) Firewall
7 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) RFID
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.22%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.56%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.00%) Power BI
3 7 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.33%) Redis
4 6 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.89%) DB2
6 4 (0.89%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.89%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.44%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.33%) Axure RP
1 24 (5.33%) Balsamiq
2 18 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 14 (3.11%) GitLab
4 14 (3.11%) Maven
4 14 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.22%) Git
6 9 (2.00%) JIRA
7 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.22%) Mocha
8 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 111 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.67%) Games
3 83 (18.44%) Finance
4 70 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (13.11%) Public Sector
6 58 (12.89%) Law
7 54 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (7.56%) Manufacturing
9 32 (7.11%) Electronics
10 22 (4.89%) Legal
11 18 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.89%) Banking
13 12 (2.67%) Marketing
14 10 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (2.00%) Retail
16 8 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 112 (24.89%) Designer
2 75 (16.67%) Lead
3 65 (14.44%) Senior
4 46 (10.22%) UX Designer
5 44 (9.78%) Developer
6 36 (8.00%) Lead Designer
7 32 (7.11%) Architect
8 25 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.89%) Interaction Designer
10 21 (4.67%) Analyst
10 21 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (4.22%) Consultant
11 19 (4.22%) Product Manager
12 18 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.78%) Digital Designer
13 17 (3.78%) Product Designer
13 17 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.56%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.33%) Senior Manager
16 14 (3.11%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.11%) HTML
2 38 (8.44%) CSS
3 34 (7.56%) React
4 25 (5.56%) .NET
5 24 (5.33%) AngularJS
5 24 (5.33%) Node.js
6 21 (4.67%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.56%) Jest
7 16 (3.56%) REST
8 14 (3.11%) Gherkin
9 10 (2.22%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.00%) LangChain
10 9 (2.00%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.78%) Vue
12 7 (1.56%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.56%) JAX
12 7 (1.56%) Spring
13 6 (1.33%) Next.js
14 5 (1.11%) Semantic Kernel
14 5 (1.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.22%) Social Media
2 40 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 38 (8.44%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.44%) Robotics
6 9 (2.00%) IoT
7 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.78%) Life Science
7 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.56%) Blog
8 7 (1.56%) CUDA
8 7 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Android
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (55.33%) Agile
2 192 (42.67%) AI
3 164 (36.44%) User Research
4 157 (34.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 134 (29.78%) Analytics
6 121 (26.89%) Roadmaps
7 118 (26.22%) User Experience
8 105 (23.33%) Customer Experience
9 97 (21.56%) Product Roadmap
10 94 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (20.00%) Storytelling
12 85 (18.89%) UX Design
13 82 (18.22%) Digital Customer Experience
14 75 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
15 73 (16.22%) Rapid Prototyping
16 68 (15.11%) Mentoring
17 65 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (14.22%) Software Engineering
19 57 (12.67%) Inclusive Design
20 54 (12.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.67%) Python
2 61 (13.56%) Java
3 47 (10.44%) JavaScript
4 38 (8.44%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.11%) C#
6 21 (4.67%) SQL
7 18 (4.00%) C++
8 17 (3.78%) C
9 15 (3.33%) Bash
9 15 (3.33%) Groovy
10 5 (1.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.67%) Julia
11 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.67%) Pascal
11 3 (0.67%) R
12 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.44%) PHP
12 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (26.67%) Degree
2 83 (18.44%) Security Cleared
3 67 (14.89%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 14 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 14 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.11%) PhD
9 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) HNC
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 75 (16.67%) WCAG
3 7 (1.56%) GDPR
3 7 (1.56%) GRC
3 7 (1.56%) QA
4 4 (0.89%) DO-254
4 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (5.56%) Docker
2 9 (2.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.11%) HP Fortify
2 11 (2.44%) Terraform
3 10 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.11%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Nessus
6 1 (0.22%) Nmap
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (28.22%) Adobe
2 43 (9.56%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.78%) Google
4 9 (2.00%) Foundry
4 9 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.78%) EMC
6 4 (0.89%) JD Edwards
6 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
7 3 (0.67%) Motorola
7 3 (0.67%) Qualtrics
7 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.67%) Workday
8 2 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.44%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.44%) SAP
9 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.22%) Siemens