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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 302 325
Rank change year-on-year -68 +23 -54
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 304 527 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.03% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 201 238 323
10th Percentile £47,250 £43,830 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £47,348
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -4.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £87,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -15.38%

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 48,781 51,056 45,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.30% 89.04% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,561 26,014 35,209
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,074
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.51%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -36 270 £70,000 +7.69% 148
London +75 142 £82,500 +19.03% 52
UK excluding London -138 134 £57,500 -9.80% 137
Work from Home -96 81 £57,500 -11.54% 76
South East -53 53 £55,000 -26.67% 43
North of England -41 30 £53,750 -9.26% 31
North West -28 17 £57,500 -4.17% 20
East of England -8 12 £90,000 +63.64% 24
Midlands +18 10 £60,000 +2.63% 13
South West -12 10 £86,750 +15.67% 12
Yorkshire -14 10 £30,500 -46.24% 6
Wales -21 9 £61,651 -11.05% 3
Scotland -11 8 £64,151 -4.47% 13
West Midlands +14 7 £60,000 +2.63% 12
East Midlands +2 3 £60,000 +50.00% 1
North East -4 3 £73,801 +19.55% 6
Northern Ireland -8 2 £73,801 +13.54% 3

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 10 (3.29%) Confluence
2 8 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (14.14%) Adobe XD
2 22 (7.24%) Sketch
3 11 (3.62%) Maya
4 8 (2.63%) InVision
4 8 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (1.97%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (1.32%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.99%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.66%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.66%) Windchill
10 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.33%) InDesign
10 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (3.62%) SAP CO
1 11 (3.62%) SAP FI
1 11 (3.62%) SAP FI/CO
1 11 (3.62%) SAP FSCM
1 11 (3.62%) SAP IBP
1 11 (3.62%) SAP IS-U
1 11 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.25%) Figma
2 74 (24.34%) AWS
3 68 (22.37%) Azure
4 42 (13.82%) GCP
5 21 (6.91%) Miro
6 18 (5.92%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (5.26%) PaaS
8 15 (4.93%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.61%) dbt
9 14 (4.61%) SaaS
10 13 (4.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (4.28%) GitHub
10 13 (4.28%) Sentry
11 12 (3.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (3.95%) Azure AI
11 12 (3.95%) Pulumi
11 12 (3.95%) Vertex AI
12 10 (3.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.92%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.64%) Bluetooth
2 5 (1.64%) Firewall
3 4 (1.32%) Broadband
3 4 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.32%) Modbus
3 4 (1.32%) Network Security
3 4 (1.32%) VLAN
3 4 (1.32%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.32%) ZigBee
4 3 (0.99%) 5G
4 3 (0.99%) Internet
5 2 (0.66%) 2G
5 2 (0.66%) 4G
5 2 (0.66%) DNS
5 2 (0.66%) HTTP
5 2 (0.66%) ICMP
5 2 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.66%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.28%) Redis
4 12 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.62%) SAP BW
6 8 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.97%) Power BI
9 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.33%) GIS
11 1 (0.33%) MySQL
11 1 (0.33%) Power Query
11 1 (0.33%) QGIS
11 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (10.53%) Axure RP
2 25 (8.22%) Balsamiq
3 13 (4.28%) Git
3 13 (4.28%) JIRA
4 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.64%) MLflow
6 4 (1.32%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.32%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (1.32%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.32%) MSI
7 2 (0.66%) GitLab
7 2 (0.66%) Maven
7 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 101 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.71%) Law
3 57 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (15.79%) Finance
5 35 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (10.53%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.89%) Legal
8 22 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (6.58%) Banking
10 16 (5.26%) Games
11 14 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (4.28%) Manufacturing
13 12 (3.95%) Electronics
14 9 (2.96%) Retail
15 7 (2.30%) Front Office
15 7 (2.30%) Marketing
15 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.97%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.64%) Aerospace
18 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (23.36%) Designer
2 67 (22.04%) Senior
3 34 (11.18%) Developer
4 30 (9.87%) Lead
5 23 (7.57%) UX Designer
6 19 (6.25%) Consultant
6 19 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 19 (6.25%) Product Designer
7 17 (5.59%) Strategy Manager
8 16 (5.26%) Architect
9 15 (4.93%) Product Manager
9 15 (4.93%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.93%) Service Designer
10 14 (4.61%) Interaction Designer
11 12 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.95%) Product Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.95%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.18%) CSS
2 33 (10.86%) HTML
3 27 (8.88%) React
4 26 (8.55%) .NET
4 26 (8.55%) Node.js
5 16 (5.26%) PyTorch
5 16 (5.26%) TensorFlow
6 13 (4.28%) Django
7 10 (3.29%) Kafka
7 10 (3.29%) REST
7 10 (3.29%) scikit-learn
8 9 (2.96%) Google JAX
8 9 (2.96%) JAX
8 9 (2.96%) JSON
8 9 (2.96%) XML
9 8 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.97%) Next.js
10 6 (1.97%) Pandas
11 5 (1.64%) Flask
11 5 (1.64%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.20%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.92%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (4.28%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.30%) Equities
9 7 (2.30%) IoT
9 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.64%) Blog
10 5 (1.64%) CAN bus
10 5 (1.64%) CUDA
10 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.64%) Robotics
11 4 (1.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.89%) Linux
2 12 (3.95%) Unix
3 11 (3.62%) Android
4 6 (1.97%) Windows
5 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.32%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (51.64%) Agile
2 145 (47.70%) User Experience
3 85 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (27.63%) Analytics
5 73 (24.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (23.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 71 (23.36%) UX Design
7 71 (23.36%) Wireframes
8 69 (22.70%) AI
9 68 (22.37%) User Research
10 55 (18.09%) CI/CD
11 52 (17.11%) Computer Science
11 52 (17.11%) Machine Learning
12 49 (16.12%) Mentoring
13 47 (15.46%) Usability Testing
14 41 (13.49%) Software Engineering
15 39 (12.83%) Roadmaps
16 38 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
16 38 (12.50%) Test Automation
17 37 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (25.00%) Python
2 52 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 36 (11.84%) Java
4 26 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.57%) SQL
6 15 (4.93%) C#
6 15 (4.93%) C++
7 7 (2.30%) C
8 5 (1.64%) PHP
8 5 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.64%) R
9 4 (1.32%) Bash
9 4 (1.32%) Delphi
9 4 (1.32%) Rust
10 3 (0.99%) Bicep
10 3 (0.99%) Go
10 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.66%) Groovy
11 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (38.82%) Degree
2 77 (25.33%) Security Cleared
3 60 (19.74%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 12 (3.95%) PhD
7 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.64%) HNC
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.32%) HND
9 4 (1.32%) MCP
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (26.97%) Accessibility
2 35 (11.51%) WCAG
3 4 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) QA
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (8.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.92%) Terraform
2 12 (3.95%) AWS Copilot
3 11 (3.62%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.64%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.64%) WMI
5 4 (1.32%) Nessus
5 4 (1.32%) Nmap
6 2 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 67 (22.04%) Adobe
2 41 (13.49%) Google
3 39 (12.83%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.91%) Qualtrics
5 14 (4.61%) Foundry
6 11 (3.62%) SAP
7 4 (1.32%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.32%) Cisco
7 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.32%) Sage
7 4 (1.32%) Splunk
7 4 (1.32%) VMware
8 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.66%) Mercator
8 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.66%) PTC
8 2 (0.66%) UiPath
9 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.33%) YouTube