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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 360 402
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 -75
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 440 335 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.78% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.84% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 232 173 394
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,124 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% +4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £80,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,375 £91,500 £97,500
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 67,342 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.57% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41,961 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +41 378 £67,249 +12.08% 273
UK excluding London -24 256 £57,500 -4.17% 171
Work from Home +54 241 £67,500 +22.73% 138
London +44 137 £75,000 +36.36% 125
East of England +33 69 £60,000 +33.33% 29
South East -7 63 £57,000 -24.00% 38
North of England -49 59 £57,500 +4.55% 48
Yorkshire -38 29 £67,500 +22.73% 17
North West -38 21 £52,500 -4.55% 29
Midlands -31 19 £53,750 -10.42% 23
South West -66 19 £60,000 -12.44% 19
West Midlands -9 17 £53,750 -10.42% 14
Scotland -63 11 £54,500 +19.43% 16
North East -34 9 £52,500 -19.23% 2
Wales -36 8 £53,171 -3.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -44 2 £101,250 - 9

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 (0.91%) CMS
1 4 (0.91%) WordPress
2 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 30 (6.82%) Adobe XD
2 12 (2.73%) Sketch
3 8 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (1.14%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.91%) InVision
8 2 (0.45%) CATIA
8 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.45%) Siemens NX
8 2 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.23%) Productboard
9 1 (0.23%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.68%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.23%) Maximo
2 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 121 (27.50%) Figma
2 87 (19.77%) AWS
3 84 (19.09%) Adobe Analytics
4 67 (15.23%) Azure
5 43 (9.77%) GCP
6 21 (4.77%) SaaS
7 19 (4.32%) Amazon ECR
7 19 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.32%) Serverless
8 18 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.18%) Apigee
11 14 (3.18%) Miro
11 14 (3.18%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.73%) Google Analytics
13 10 (2.27%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 94 (21.36%) Broadband
2 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.68%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.68%) Internet
3 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.68%) Wireless
4 2 (0.45%) LTE
4 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.23%) AMQP
5 1 (0.23%) Modbus
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) RFID
5 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.64%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.05%) Power BI
3 8 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.36%) Redis
5 6 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.91%) DB2
7 4 (0.91%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.91%) QlikView
8 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.45%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.45%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.45%) GIS
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (4.77%) Axure RP
1 21 (4.77%) Balsamiq
2 18 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.41%) GitLab
4 14 (3.18%) Cypress.io
4 14 (3.18%) Maven
4 14 (3.18%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.05%) JIRA
6 8 (1.82%) Git
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.23%) Mocha
8 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.09%) Games
3 83 (18.86%) Finance
4 70 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (13.86%) Public Sector
6 55 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (12.50%) Law
7 34 (7.73%) Manufacturing
8 31 (7.05%) Electronics
9 24 (5.45%) Legal
10 20 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.18%) Marketing
12 13 (2.95%) Banking
13 10 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.27%) Retail
14 8 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (25.00%) Designer
2 75 (17.05%) Lead
3 63 (14.32%) Senior
4 45 (10.23%) Developer
5 44 (10.00%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.18%) Lead Designer
7 29 (6.59%) Architect
8 23 (5.23%) Interaction Designer
9 22 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.55%) Analyst
11 19 (4.32%) Consultant
11 19 (4.32%) Product Manager
12 18 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (4.09%) Product Designer
13 17 (3.86%) Digital Designer
13 17 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.64%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (3.18%) Senior Manager
15 14 (3.18%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.64%) HTML
2 34 (7.73%) CSS
3 29 (6.59%) React
4 23 (5.23%) .NET
4 23 (5.23%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.77%) Node.js
5 21 (4.77%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.64%) REST
7 15 (3.41%) Jest
8 14 (3.18%) Gherkin
9 9 (2.05%) LangChain
9 9 (2.05%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.82%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.59%) Google JAX
11 7 (1.59%) JAX
11 7 (1.59%) Spring
11 7 (1.59%) Vue
12 5 (1.14%) Django
13 4 (0.91%) Next.js
13 4 (0.91%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.64%) Social Media
2 35 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 33 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.50%) Robotics
6 8 (1.82%) IoT
6 8 (1.82%) Life Science
6 8 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.59%) CUDA
8 6 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.50%) Linux
2 6 (1.36%) Unix
3 3 (0.68%) Android
3 3 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (54.55%) Agile
2 193 (43.86%) AI
3 164 (37.27%) User Research
4 154 (35.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 132 (30.00%) Analytics
6 122 (27.73%) Roadmaps
7 107 (24.32%) User Experience
8 105 (23.86%) Customer Experience
9 97 (22.05%) Product Roadmap
10 91 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (20.45%) Storytelling
12 82 (18.64%) Digital Customer Experience
13 80 (18.18%) UX Design
14 74 (16.82%) Rapid Prototyping
15 72 (16.36%) Workshop Facilitation
16 71 (16.14%) Mentoring
17 63 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (13.41%) Software Engineering
19 54 (12.27%) Inclusive Design
20 52 (11.82%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.36%) Python
2 56 (12.73%) Java
3 40 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 33 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.45%) C#
6 22 (5.00%) SQL
7 16 (3.64%) C
7 16 (3.64%) C++
8 15 (3.41%) Bash
8 15 (3.41%) Groovy
9 5 (1.14%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.68%) Julia
10 3 (0.68%) Pascal
11 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) Go
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (25.68%) Degree
2 80 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 65 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.14%) PhD
8 4 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.68%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) HNC
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (32.95%) Accessibility
2 72 (16.36%) WCAG
3 8 (1.82%) QA
4 7 (1.59%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) GRC
5 4 (0.91%) DO-254
5 4 (0.91%) ISO 13485
6 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (5.45%) Docker
2 9 (2.05%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.18%) HP Fortify
2 12 (2.73%) Terraform
3 10 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 124 (28.18%) Adobe
2 38 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 31 (7.05%) Google
4 10 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.82%) EMC
5 8 (1.82%) Foundry
6 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.91%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.68%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.68%) Motorola
8 3 (0.68%) SAP
8 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.68%) Workday
9 2 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.45%) Databricks
9 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.45%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir
10 1 (0.23%) Siemens