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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 319 353
Rank change year-on-year -47 +34 -21
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 562 432 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.87% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.98% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 375 171 196
10th Percentile £41,636 £42,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +18 478 £60,000 -14.29% 1,321
UK excluding London -54 366 £56,000 -6.67% 681
Work from Home -39 192 £65,925 +19.86% 518
London -39 151 £75,000 - 723
North of England -12 98 £55,000 -4.35% 115
South East -24 93 £56,000 -13.85% 170
East of England +19 63 £60,000 - 115
North West -2 53 £52,500 -12.50% 71
Midlands -25 43 £57,500 -4.17% 55
West Midlands -24 33 £57,500 -4.17% 41
South West -55 29 £59,000 -30.59% 128
North East -44 26 £58,750 -9.62% 16
Wales -56 22 £53,171 +7.42% 21
Yorkshire -22 19 £50,000 +63.93% 29
Scotland -70 12 £55,000 - 54
East Midlands -36 10 £45,000 +36.36% 14
Northern Ireland -76 10 £80,000 - 21

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 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 11 (1.96%) Confluence
2 10 (1.78%) Apache
3 9 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.89%) CMS
5 5 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.53%) WordPress
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 23 (4.09%) SOLIDWORKS
2 17 (3.02%) Adobe Illustrator
2 17 (3.02%) Adobe XD
2 17 (3.02%) Photoshop
3 14 (2.49%) InDesign
4 12 (2.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.42%) Sketch
6 8 (1.42%) Solid Edge
7 7 (1.25%) EPLAN
8 5 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.53%) OrCAD
9 3 (0.53%) Productboard
9 3 (0.53%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.53%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.36%) InVision
10 2 (0.36%) Trello
10 2 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.71%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (17.26%) Figma
2 87 (15.48%) AWS
3 71 (12.63%) Azure
4 43 (7.65%) GCP
5 27 (4.80%) GitHub
6 18 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.20%) SaaS
7 17 (3.02%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.02%) Serverless
8 15 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.49%) Adobe Analytics
9 14 (2.49%) dbt
10 13 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.96%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.78%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.78%) Copilot Studio
12 10 (1.78%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.67%) Broadband
2 8 (1.42%) WPA
3 5 (0.89%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.89%) Intranet
3 5 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (0.89%) Wireless
4 3 (0.53%) RS-485
5 2 (0.36%) Internet
5 2 (0.36%) RS-232
5 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.18%) AMQP
6 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.18%) J1939
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Modbus
6 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.49%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.42%) Power BI
4 8 (1.42%) Redis
5 6 (1.07%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.71%) Metadata
7 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.53%) Tableau
8 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.36%) Big Data
8 2 (0.36%) Power Query
8 2 (0.36%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 24 (4.27%) Git
2 18 (3.20%) JIRA
3 15 (2.67%) GitLab
4 8 (1.42%) Axure RP
4 8 (1.42%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.25%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.07%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.07%) Postman
7 5 (0.89%) Maven
7 5 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.36%) Bower
9 2 (0.36%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 220 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 108 (19.22%) Electronics
3 105 (18.68%) Finance
4 98 (17.44%) Manufacturing
5 96 (17.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (14.77%) Public Sector
7 69 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (9.61%) Law
9 50 (8.90%) Aerospace
10 39 (6.94%) Marketing
11 33 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (4.27%) Automotive
13 22 (3.91%) Retail
14 20 (3.56%) Games
15 17 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (2.67%) Legal
17 13 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (2.14%) Military
19 11 (1.96%) Banking
20 10 (1.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (24.73%) Senior
2 114 (20.28%) Designer
3 63 (11.21%) Developer
4 49 (8.72%) Lead
5 46 (8.19%) UX Designer
6 44 (7.83%) Software Engineer
7 36 (6.41%) Electronics Engineer
8 34 (6.05%) Senior Designer
9 33 (5.87%) Architect
10 29 (5.16%) Interaction Designer
11 24 (4.27%) UI Designer
11 24 (4.27%) UI/UX Designer
12 23 (4.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 23 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.56%) Design Engineer
13 20 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.38%) Consultant
14 19 (3.38%) Lead Designer
15 18 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.65%) HTML
2 42 (7.47%) CSS
3 41 (7.30%) React
4 26 (4.63%) .NET
5 18 (3.20%) LangChain
6 17 (3.02%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.85%) REST
7 16 (2.85%) Terraform
8 15 (2.67%) Kafka
9 13 (2.31%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.31%) Spring
10 12 (2.14%) Web Services
11 10 (1.78%) FastAPI
11 10 (1.78%) RESTful
12 9 (1.60%) AWS CDK
12 9 (1.60%) Framer.js
12 9 (1.60%) JSON
12 9 (1.60%) Next.js
12 9 (1.60%) Node.js
13 8 (1.42%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.87%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.80%) AI Agents
4 27 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.27%) Robotics
6 22 (3.91%) IoT
7 18 (3.20%) FPGA
8 17 (3.02%) Analogue Electronics
9 16 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.67%) Social Media
11 13 (2.31%) Algorithms
12 12 (2.14%) Mobile App
12 12 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.96%) Life Science
14 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.60%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.60%) Low-Code
16 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.60%) Linux
2 8 (1.42%) Android
3 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (36.12%) AI
2 190 (33.81%) Agile
3 134 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 117 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (20.82%) User Experience
5 109 (19.40%) User Research
6 106 (18.86%) Mentoring
6 106 (18.86%) Rapid Prototyping
7 99 (17.62%) Validation
8 94 (16.73%) Analytics
8 94 (16.73%) Software Engineering
9 79 (14.06%) UX Design
10 76 (13.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 73 (12.99%) CI/CD
12 64 (11.39%) LLM
12 64 (11.39%) Roadmaps
13 59 (10.50%) Service Design
14 55 (9.79%) Wireframes
15 50 (8.90%) DevOps
16 49 (8.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 102 (18.15%) Python
2 48 (8.54%) TypeScript
3 47 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 40 (7.12%) SQL
5 37 (6.58%) Java
6 31 (5.52%) C#
7 27 (4.80%) C++
8 26 (4.63%) C
9 16 (2.85%) MATLAB
10 8 (1.42%) Bash
10 8 (1.42%) Rust
11 6 (1.07%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.07%) Go
11 6 (1.07%) Groovy
12 5 (0.89%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.89%) PHP
13 4 (0.71%) R
14 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 196 (34.88%) Degree
2 113 (20.11%) Security Cleared
3 87 (15.48%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.80%) Master's Degree
5 21 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.20%) HND
7 15 (2.67%) PhD
8 13 (2.31%) HNC
9 11 (1.96%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.78%) Chartered Engineer
11 6 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.71%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.36%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.37%) Accessibility
2 40 (7.12%) WCAG
3 19 (3.38%) QA
4 10 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.53%) GDPR
6 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.53%) JTAG
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) DO-254
7 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) IASME
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.18%) MISRA
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (6.23%) Docker
2 30 (5.34%) Firmware
3 9 (1.60%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.89%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 56 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.25%) Adobe
3 33 (5.87%) OpenAI
4 29 (5.16%) EMC
5 20 (3.56%) Google
6 12 (2.14%) SAP
7 11 (1.96%) Databricks
7 11 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.25%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.07%) Thales
10 5 (0.89%) Foundry
11 4 (0.71%) Oracle
11 4 (0.71%) Siemens
12 3 (0.53%) Apple
12 3 (0.53%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.53%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.53%) HighQ
12 3 (0.53%) Legora
12 3 (0.53%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.36%) Revolut