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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 300 378
Rank change year-on-year -73 +78 -49
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 530 445 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.02% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 325 184 216
10th Percentile £43,100 £38,250 £45,465
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.04% -5.92%

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 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -11 446 £60,000 -13.52% 807
UK excluding London -66 337 £57,500 -4.17% 407
Work from Home -19 227 £65,000 +20.37% 310
London -39 150 £75,000 - 484
South East -7 87 £59,000 -14.80% 97
North of England -14 86 £55,000 -12.00% 67
East of England +1 58 £60,000 +33.33% 61
North West +5 40 £50,000 -25.93% 42
Midlands -32 30 £57,500 -4.17% 41
South West -57 30 £60,000 -29.41% 84
West Midlands -24 23 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Yorkshire -34 23 £66,250 +56.80% 14
North East -43 23 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Wales -49 21 £53,171 -2.88% 11
Scotland -76 15 £55,000 -12.44% 42
Northern Ireland -72 10 £80,000 - 14
East Midlands -38 7 £47,500 +43.94% 13

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 12 (2.26%) Confluence
2 8 (1.51%) Apache
2 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.94%) CMS
3 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.57%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 19 (3.58%) Adobe XD
2 18 (3.40%) SOLIDWORKS
3 14 (2.64%) InDesign
4 13 (2.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 13 (2.45%) Photoshop
5 9 (1.70%) Sketch
6 8 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.51%) Solid Edge
7 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.75%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.57%) Productboard
10 3 (0.57%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.57%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.38%) InVision
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.38%) Trello
11 2 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.57%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (19.62%) Figma
2 90 (16.98%) AWS
3 73 (13.77%) Azure
4 40 (7.55%) GCP
5 39 (7.36%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.96%) GitHub
6 21 (3.96%) SaaS
7 20 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.77%) Serverless
8 18 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.21%) Anthropic Claude
9 17 (3.21%) Power Platform
10 15 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (2.64%) dbt
12 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (2.26%) Azure AI
14 11 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.08%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.87%) Broadband
2 8 (1.51%) WPA
3 5 (0.94%) Intranet
4 4 (0.75%) Wireless
5 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.38%) RS-485
6 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) AMQP
7 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.19%) Internet
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Modbus
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.21%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.51%) Power BI
3 8 (1.51%) Redis
4 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.13%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.57%) Tableau
8 2 (0.38%) Big Data
8 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.38%) Metadata
8 2 (0.38%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (4.34%) Git
2 19 (3.58%) JIRA
3 12 (2.26%) GitLab
4 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.70%) Axure RP
5 9 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.51%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.51%) Maven
6 8 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.32%) Balsamiq
7 7 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.38%) Bower
10 2 (0.38%) MLflow
10 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 185 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.81%) Finance
3 91 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (14.34%) Electronics
5 75 (14.15%) Public Sector
6 74 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (11.32%) Manufacturing
8 50 (9.43%) Law
9 43 (8.11%) Games
10 35 (6.60%) Marketing
11 30 (5.66%) Aerospace
12 26 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.64%) Legal
14 13 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.26%) Retail
16 10 (1.89%) Automotive
17 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.70%) Military
18 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (1.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (20.57%) Senior
2 108 (20.38%) Designer
3 67 (12.64%) Developer
4 57 (10.75%) Lead
5 45 (8.49%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.36%) Architect
6 39 (7.36%) Software Engineer
7 27 (5.09%) Interaction Designer
7 27 (5.09%) Lead Designer
7 27 (5.09%) Senior Designer
8 26 (4.91%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (3.96%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.96%) UI Designer
9 21 (3.96%) UI/UX Designer
10 20 (3.77%) Consultant
10 20 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (3.40%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 18 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.36%) HTML
2 37 (6.98%) CSS
3 33 (6.23%) React
4 20 (3.77%) .NET
5 19 (3.58%) LangChain
6 16 (3.02%) AngularJS
7 15 (2.83%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.83%) Terraform
8 13 (2.45%) REST
9 10 (1.89%) Web Services
10 9 (1.70%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.70%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.70%) Jest
10 9 (1.70%) Kafka
10 9 (1.70%) Node.js
10 9 (1.70%) RESTful
11 8 (1.51%) Gherkin
11 8 (1.51%) JSON
11 8 (1.51%) Next.js
11 8 (1.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.36%) Social Media
3 29 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.09%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 22 (4.15%) Robotics
7 21 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 16 (3.02%) FPGA
10 15 (2.83%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.83%) IoT
11 12 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.26%) Onboarding
12 11 (2.08%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.89%) Analogue Electronics
13 10 (1.89%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.89%) Life Science
13 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.13%) Android
3 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (41.70%) Agile
2 220 (41.51%) AI
3 132 (24.91%) User Research
4 115 (21.70%) Rapid Prototyping
5 111 (20.94%) User Experience
6 109 (20.57%) Analytics
6 109 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (19.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 96 (18.11%) Mentoring
9 89 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (16.79%) Roadmaps
10 88 (16.60%) Software Engineering
11 79 (14.91%) UX Design
11 79 (14.91%) Validation
12 68 (12.83%) LLM
13 67 (12.64%) Customer Experience
14 58 (10.94%) CI/CD
15 57 (10.75%) Product Roadmap
16 55 (10.38%) Machine Learning
17 53 (10.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.92%) Python
2 43 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 42 (7.92%) Java
4 39 (7.36%) TypeScript
5 30 (5.66%) C
5 30 (5.66%) SQL
6 26 (4.91%) C#
7 24 (4.53%) C++
8 11 (2.08%) MATLAB
9 10 (1.89%) Bash
10 9 (1.70%) Groovy
11 7 (1.32%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.32%) Go
12 5 (0.94%) PHP
13 3 (0.57%) Pascal
13 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.57%) Rust
14 2 (0.38%) Ruby
15 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 164 (30.94%) Degree
2 105 (19.81%) Security Cleared
3 78 (14.72%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.72%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.83%) PhD
8 12 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.70%) HND
10 8 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.75%) HNC
13 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.19%) OCP
14 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (21.89%) Accessibility
2 54 (10.19%) WCAG
3 18 (3.40%) QA
4 10 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.13%) GDPR
6 5 (0.94%) DO-254
7 3 (0.57%) JTAG
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) GRC
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (5.09%) Docker
2 25 (4.72%) Firmware
3 8 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.51%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 74 (13.96%) Adobe
2 50 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.85%) OpenAI
4 27 (5.09%) Google
5 17 (3.21%) EMC
6 11 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.08%) SAP
7 10 (1.89%) Databricks
8 6 (1.13%) Foundry
9 4 (0.75%) Autodesk
9 4 (0.75%) Oracle
10 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.57%) Motorola
10 3 (0.57%) Siemens
10 3 (0.57%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.38%) Altera
11 2 (0.38%) Intel
11 2 (0.38%) Revolut
11 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.38%) YouTube