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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 301 388
Rank change year-on-year -67 +87 -73
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 536 464 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.93% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.04% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 310 190 255
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,438 £74,144
90th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.63% -6.46%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +4 449 £60,000 -7.69% 641
UK excluding London -56 341 £56,500 -5.83% 370
Work from Home +2 250 £65,000 +20.37% 325
London -29 150 £75,000 +7.14% 354
South East -2 87 £57,500 -5.35% 93
North of England -1 82 £52,500 -19.23% 71
East of England +21 71 £61,250 +36.11% 62
North West +8 37 £48,750 -31.64% 46
South West -49 30 £60,000 -5.88% 54
Yorkshire -19 23 £65,000 +20.37% 8
Midlands -36 23 £60,000 - 30
North East -43 22 £58,750 -9.62% 17
Wales -48 21 £53,171 -21.88% 10
West Midlands -19 18 £61,250 +2.08% 17
Scotland -79 17 £52,250 -16.82% 43
Northern Ireland -70 10 £80,000 - 18
East Midlands -31 5 £50,000 +51.52% 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 11 (2.05%) Confluence
2 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.31%) Apache
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.56%) CMS
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.56%) WordPress
6 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (3.54%) Adobe XD
2 14 (2.61%) SOLIDWORKS
3 13 (2.43%) InDesign
4 12 (2.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 9 (1.68%) Sketch
6 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.49%) Solid Edge
7 7 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (1.12%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (0.56%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.56%) Productboard
11 3 (0.56%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.37%) InVision
12 2 (0.37%) Trello
12 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.37%) Windchill
13 1 (0.19%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
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
1 108 (20.15%) Figma
2 88 (16.42%) AWS
3 71 (13.25%) Azure
4 63 (11.75%) Adobe Analytics
5 41 (7.65%) GCP
6 21 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.92%) Serverless
7 20 (3.73%) SaaS
8 19 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (3.54%) GitHub
9 17 (3.17%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (2.43%) dbt
11 13 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (2.05%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (2.05%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 73 (13.62%) Broadband
2 8 (1.49%) WPA
3 5 (0.93%) Intranet
4 4 (0.75%) Wireless
5 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.37%) RS-485
6 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) AMQP
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 18 (3.36%) DynamoDB
2 10 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.68%) Power BI
4 8 (1.49%) Redis
5 7 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.56%) Db2
9 3 (0.56%) DB2 UDB
9 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.56%) QlikView
9 3 (0.56%) Tableau
10 2 (0.37%) Big Data
10 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.37%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (4.29%) Git
2 18 (3.36%) JIRA
3 13 (2.43%) GitLab
4 11 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.87%) Axure RP
5 10 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.68%) Maven
6 9 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.49%) Balsamiq
7 8 (1.49%) LabVIEW
8 6 (1.12%) Postman
9 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.37%) Bower
11 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.19%) MLflow
12 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 173 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.59%) Finance
3 92 (17.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (13.81%) Public Sector
6 71 (13.25%) Electronics
7 66 (12.31%) Games
8 54 (10.07%) Manufacturing
9 49 (9.14%) Law
10 32 (5.97%) Marketing
11 27 (5.04%) Aerospace
12 25 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.99%) Legal
14 15 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.43%) Retail
16 9 (1.68%) Automotive
16 9 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (1.31%) Banking
18 7 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (20.15%) Senior
2 106 (19.78%) Designer
3 68 (12.69%) Developer
4 61 (11.38%) Lead
5 45 (8.40%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.28%) Architect
7 35 (6.53%) Software Engineer
8 30 (5.60%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (5.22%) Lead Designer
10 26 (4.85%) Interaction Designer
11 25 (4.66%) Consultant
11 25 (4.66%) Senior Designer
12 20 (3.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.73%) Product Manager
13 19 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.54%) UI Designer
13 19 (3.54%) UI/UX Designer
14 18 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.09%) HTML
2 37 (6.90%) CSS
3 30 (5.60%) React
4 20 (3.73%) LangChain
5 18 (3.36%) .NET
6 17 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 13 (2.43%) Spring Boot
8 12 (2.24%) REST
9 10 (1.87%) Jest
9 10 (1.87%) Web Services
10 9 (1.68%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.68%) Gherkin
10 9 (1.68%) Node.js
10 9 (1.68%) RESTful
11 8 (1.49%) Framer.js
11 8 (1.49%) JSON
11 8 (1.49%) Next.js
12 7 (1.31%) Material Design
12 7 (1.31%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.75%) Social Media
2 46 (8.58%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.04%) Embedded Systems
4 26 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.29%) AI Agents
6 19 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.36%) FPGA
8 16 (2.99%) Robotics
9 14 (2.61%) IoT
10 13 (2.43%) Algorithms
11 12 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (2.05%) Life Science
12 11 (2.05%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.05%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.87%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.68%) Analogue Electronics
14 9 (1.68%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.68%) Linux
2 3 (0.56%) Unix
3 2 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.15%) Agile
2 239 (44.59%) AI
3 152 (28.36%) User Research
4 131 (24.44%) Analytics
5 125 (23.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 114 (21.27%) Roadmaps
7 113 (21.08%) Rapid Prototyping
8 108 (20.15%) User Experience
9 96 (17.91%) Mentoring
10 94 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (16.60%) Customer Experience
13 81 (15.11%) Product Roadmap
14 80 (14.93%) Software Engineering
15 78 (14.55%) UX Design
16 73 (13.62%) Validation
17 71 (13.25%) Storytelling
18 66 (12.31%) LLM
19 63 (11.75%) Digital Customer Experience
20 59 (11.01%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (17.54%) Python
2 41 (7.65%) JavaScript
3 40 (7.46%) Java
4 36 (6.72%) TypeScript
5 31 (5.78%) SQL
6 29 (5.41%) C
7 27 (5.04%) C#
8 25 (4.66%) C++
9 11 (2.05%) Bash
9 11 (2.05%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.87%) Groovy
11 7 (1.31%) Go
12 6 (1.12%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.93%) PHP
14 3 (0.56%) Pascal
14 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.56%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) Ruby
16 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 158 (29.48%) Degree
2 99 (18.47%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.85%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.43%) PhD
8 9 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.49%) HND
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.56%) HNC
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.56%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (25.19%) Accessibility
2 68 (12.69%) WCAG
3 14 (2.61%) QA
4 9 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.12%) GDPR
6 4 (0.75%) DO-254
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) JTAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (5.22%) Docker
2 21 (3.92%) Firmware
3 7 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.80%) Terraform
2 14 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.68%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 96 (17.91%) Adobe
2 49 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.60%) OpenAI
4 29 (5.41%) Google
5 16 (2.99%) EMC
6 11 (2.05%) SAP
7 10 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.68%) Databricks
9 7 (1.31%) Foundry
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle
11 3 (0.56%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.56%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.56%) Motorola
11 3 (0.56%) Siemens
11 3 (0.56%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.37%) Altera
12 2 (0.37%) Intel
12 2 (0.37%) Revolut
12 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow