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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 314 416
Rank change year-on-year -36 +102 -96
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 455 424 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.96% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.03% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 236 153 361
10th Percentile £43,623 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,207 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +28 389 £65,000 +8.33% 225
UK excluding London -41 277 £58,750 -2.08% 162
Work from Home +20 242 £67,500 +22.73% 122
London +6 135 £75,000 +36.36% 99
East of England +44 75 £62,500 +38.89% 24
North of England -8 72 £55,000 -19.71% 28
South East -3 58 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Yorkshire -18 32 £67,500 -20.82% 6
North West -2 25 £50,000 -27.01% 18
South West -52 22 £60,000 -12.44% 24
Midlands -23 20 £60,000 +4.35% 13
West Midlands -17 17 £57,500 -4.17% 9
North East -35 15 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Scotland -70 12 £54,500 +19.43% 16
Wales -38 10 £53,085 -22.01% 6
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -30 3 £60,000 +81.82% 4

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 5 (1.10%) Apache
1 5 (1.10%) CMS
1 5 (1.10%) Confluence
2 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.66%) WordPress
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Adobe XD
2 11 (2.42%) Sketch
3 8 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.10%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.88%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.88%) InDesign
7 3 (0.66%) Productboard
8 2 (0.44%) CATIA
8 2 (0.44%) InVision
8 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
8 2 (0.44%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.22%) Maya
9 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.66%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.84%) Figma
2 83 (18.24%) Adobe Analytics
3 81 (17.80%) AWS
4 63 (13.85%) Azure
5 39 (8.57%) GCP
6 26 (5.71%) SaaS
7 20 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 20 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.18%) Serverless
9 18 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.08%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.86%) Apigee
14 9 (1.98%) GitHub
14 9 (1.98%) Google Analytics
14 9 (1.98%) Miro
15 8 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 93 (20.44%) Broadband
2 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.88%) WPA
4 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.66%) Wireless
5 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) Intranet
5 2 (0.44%) LTE
5 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.22%) AMQP
6 1 (0.22%) Modbus
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) RS-232
6 1 (0.22%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.52%) DynamoDB
2 9 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (1.98%) Redis
3 8 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.54%) Power BI
5 6 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.88%) Db2
7 4 (0.88%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.88%) QlikView
8 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (3.74%) GitLab
2 14 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 13 (2.86%) Git
3 13 (2.86%) JIRA
3 13 (2.86%) Maven
3 13 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 12 (2.64%) Axure RP
5 10 (2.20%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) Bower
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.12%) Finance
3 83 (18.24%) Games
4 65 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (14.07%) Public Sector
6 55 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (9.45%) Electronics
8 41 (9.01%) Law
9 35 (7.69%) Manufacturing
10 25 (5.49%) Marketing
11 21 (4.62%) Legal
11 21 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.64%) Banking
12 12 (2.64%) Retail
13 9 (1.98%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.32%) Back Office
15 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.10%) Polish Language
16 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (22.86%) Designer
2 73 (16.04%) Lead
3 68 (14.95%) Senior
4 49 (10.77%) Developer
5 47 (10.33%) UX Designer
6 36 (7.91%) Lead Designer
7 27 (5.93%) Architect
8 24 (5.27%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.18%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.96%) Consultant
12 17 (3.74%) Analyst
12 17 (3.74%) Digital Designer
12 17 (3.74%) Interaction Designer
12 17 (3.74%) Product Designer
12 17 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (3.08%) Senior Designer
14 14 (3.08%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.25%) HTML
2 29 (6.37%) CSS
2 29 (6.37%) React
3 22 (4.84%) AngularJS
4 20 (4.40%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.52%) REST
6 15 (3.30%) .NET
6 15 (3.30%) Node.js
7 14 (3.08%) Jest
8 13 (2.86%) Gherkin
9 12 (2.64%) LangChain
10 7 (1.54%) PyTorch
10 7 (1.54%) Spring
10 7 (1.54%) Vue
11 6 (1.32%) Google JAX
11 6 (1.32%) JAX
11 6 (1.32%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.10%) Django
12 5 (1.10%) Framer.js
12 5 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.80%) Social Media
2 33 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
4 14 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.64%) IoT
6 12 (2.64%) Robotics
7 11 (2.42%) FPGA
8 9 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.76%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.54%) Life Science
11 6 (1.32%) CUDA
11 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.30%) Linux
2 8 (1.76%) Unix
3 3 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (49.01%) Agile
2 206 (45.27%) AI
3 160 (35.16%) User Research
4 133 (29.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 131 (28.79%) Analytics
6 129 (28.35%) Roadmaps
7 104 (22.86%) Customer Experience
8 103 (22.64%) Product Roadmap
9 97 (21.32%) User Experience
10 88 (19.34%) Storytelling
11 84 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (17.80%) Digital Customer Experience
13 78 (17.14%) Rapid Prototyping
14 77 (16.92%) UX Design
15 63 (13.85%) Software Engineering
15 63 (13.85%) Workshop Facilitation
16 62 (13.63%) Mentoring
16 62 (13.63%) Validation
17 60 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (11.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.68%) Python
2 48 (10.55%) Java
3 31 (6.81%) TypeScript
4 29 (6.37%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.27%) SQL
6 22 (4.84%) C#
7 21 (4.62%) C
8 19 (4.18%) C++
9 16 (3.52%) Bash
10 14 (3.08%) Groovy
11 5 (1.10%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.66%) Julia
13 3 (0.66%) Pascal
13 3 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (23.74%) Degree
2 67 (14.73%) Security Cleared
3 51 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.66%) PhD
8 3 (0.66%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.44%) HND
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (29.89%) Accessibility
2 69 (15.16%) WCAG
3 7 (1.54%) GRC
4 6 (1.32%) QA
5 4 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.88%) DO-254
5 4 (0.88%) GDPR
6 3 (0.66%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (6.37%) Docker
2 16 (3.52%) Firmware
3 6 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.52%) Terraform
2 13 (2.86%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (25.05%) Adobe
2 32 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.93%) Google
4 11 (2.42%) EMC
4 11 (2.42%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.54%) Foundry
7 4 (0.88%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.88%) Oracle
8 3 (0.66%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.66%) Databricks
8 3 (0.66%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.66%) Motorola
8 3 (0.66%) SAP
8 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.66%) Workday
9 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.22%) Xilinx