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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 311 358
Rank change year-on-year -65 +47 -53
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 325 469 562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.96% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.04% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 191 188 379
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,182 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -21.71%

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 53,577 45,271 66,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.42% 92.38% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,051 21,953 51,270
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -51 278 £70,000 +7.69% 262
UK excluding London -131 155 £57,500 -11.54% 201
London +59 131 £75,000 +13.29% 123
Work from Home -47 127 £60,000 -13.43% 173
South East -61 51 £55,000 -26.67% 81
North of England -49 39 £57,500 +4.55% 29
East of England 0 20 £81,575 +48.32% 32
North West -30 20 £57,500 -4.17% 16
South West -36 16 £79,750 +6.33% 24
Yorkshire -35 14 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Wales -23 10 £73,801 +5.95% 5
Scotland -29 9 £54,500 -9.02% 10
Midlands +9 8 £47,500 -22.01% 27
West Midlands +16 7 £46,022 -24.44% 14
North East -8 5 £73,801 +32.01% 5
Northern Ireland -24 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 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 10 (3.08%) Confluence
2 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
4 1 (0.31%) Strapi
4 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (11.08%) Adobe XD
2 16 (4.92%) Sketch
3 13 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (2.15%) Maya
6 6 (1.85%) InVision
7 5 (1.54%) Fusion 360
7 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.62%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.31%) Blender
11 1 (0.31%) CATIA
11 1 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.31%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) SAP CO
1 6 (1.85%) SAP FI
1 6 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (1.85%) SAP FSCM
1 6 (1.85%) SAP IBP
1 6 (1.85%) SAP IS-U
1 6 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 112 (34.46%) Figma
2 77 (23.69%) AWS
3 64 (19.69%) Azure
4 40 (12.31%) GCP
5 38 (11.69%) Adobe Analytics
6 26 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
6 26 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.77%) Miro
8 22 (6.77%) PaaS
9 19 (5.85%) SaaS
10 18 (5.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (5.54%) dbt
11 17 (5.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (5.23%) Pulumi
11 17 (5.23%) Sentry
12 15 (4.62%) GitHub
13 12 (3.69%) Google Analytics
13 12 (3.69%) Serverless
14 11 (3.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.08%) TCP/IP
2 21 (6.46%) Broadband
3 5 (1.54%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.54%) Firewall
4 4 (1.23%) Internet
4 4 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.23%) Modbus
4 4 (1.23%) Network Security
4 4 (1.23%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.23%) VLAN
4 4 (1.23%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.23%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.62%) 2G
5 2 (0.62%) 4G
5 2 (0.62%) 5G
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) HTTP
5 2 (0.62%) ICMP
6 1 (0.31%) RFID
6 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.85%) Redis
3 18 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.46%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.85%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.54%) Power BI
8 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.23%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.62%) Tableau
10 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.31%) DB2 UDB
10 1 (0.31%) GIS
10 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.31%) QlikView
10 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (9.23%) Axure RP
2 24 (7.38%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.92%) JIRA
4 13 (4.00%) Git
5 12 (3.69%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.08%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.46%) GitLab
7 8 (2.46%) Maven
7 8 (2.46%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.54%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (1.23%) Burp Suite
9 4 (1.23%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.31%) Mocha
General
1 98 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (18.15%) Finance
4 55 (16.92%) Law
5 45 (13.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (12.00%) Public Sector
7 28 (8.62%) Banking
8 26 (8.00%) Games
9 24 (7.38%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.62%) Legal
10 15 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.31%) Electronics
11 14 (4.31%) Manufacturing
11 14 (4.31%) Retail
12 8 (2.46%) Marketing
13 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.54%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (27.08%) Designer
2 70 (21.54%) Senior
3 43 (13.23%) Lead
4 35 (10.77%) UX Designer
5 31 (9.54%) Developer
6 21 (6.46%) Product Designer
7 19 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (5.85%) Strategy Manager
8 18 (5.54%) Senior Manager
9 17 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (5.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 16 (4.92%) Consultant
10 16 (4.92%) Lead Designer
11 15 (4.62%) Analyst
11 15 (4.62%) Interaction Designer
11 15 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.31%) Architect
13 12 (3.69%) Service Designer
14 10 (3.08%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.77%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.62%) CSS
2 40 (12.31%) HTML
3 31 (9.54%) React
4 26 (8.00%) Node.js
5 23 (7.08%) .NET
6 17 (5.23%) Django
7 15 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 14 (4.31%) REST
9 11 (3.38%) Jest
9 11 (3.38%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.46%) Gherkin
10 8 (2.46%) JSON
10 8 (2.46%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.46%) XML
11 7 (2.15%) Next.js
11 7 (2.15%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.85%) RESTful
13 5 (1.54%) Vue
13 5 (1.54%) WebSockets
14 4 (1.23%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 32 (9.85%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.46%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (6.15%) Social Media
5 10 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.46%) IoT
7 8 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.15%) Life Science
9 6 (1.85%) Blog
10 5 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.54%) Animation
10 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.23%) CUDA
11 4 (1.23%) SCADA
11 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.92%) Linux
2 17 (5.23%) Unix
3 10 (3.08%) Android
4 4 (1.23%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (53.54%) Agile
2 137 (42.15%) User Experience
3 96 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (28.31%) Analytics
5 90 (27.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 89 (27.38%) User Research
7 87 (26.77%) UX Design
8 82 (25.23%) AI
9 77 (23.69%) Wireframes
10 64 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (18.15%) CI/CD
12 52 (16.00%) Customer Experience
13 48 (14.77%) DevOps
14 47 (14.46%) Clean Code
14 47 (14.46%) Usability Testing
15 46 (14.15%) Mentoring
15 46 (14.15%) Roadmaps
16 45 (13.85%) Storytelling
17 42 (12.92%) Workshop Facilitation
18 41 (12.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (21.54%) Python
2 51 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 43 (13.23%) Java
4 31 (9.54%) TypeScript
5 15 (4.62%) C++
5 15 (4.62%) SQL
6 10 (3.08%) C#
7 9 (2.77%) Bash
7 9 (2.77%) Groovy
8 7 (2.15%) C
9 6 (1.85%) R
10 4 (1.23%) Rust
11 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) Julia
12 2 (0.62%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (31.38%) Degree
2 82 (25.23%) Security Cleared
3 69 (21.23%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.54%) HNC
8 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.23%) PhD
10 3 (0.92%) HND
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (32.00%) Accessibility
2 39 (12.00%) WCAG
3 7 (2.15%) GRC
4 4 (1.23%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.92%) QA
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (10.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (7.08%) Terraform
2 17 (5.23%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (2.46%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.23%) Nessus
5 4 (1.23%) Nmap
6 2 (0.62%) Ansible
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 86 (26.46%) Adobe
2 35 (10.77%) Google
2 35 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.08%) Qualtrics
4 8 (2.46%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.85%) SAP
6 4 (1.23%) Cisco
6 4 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.23%) Splunk
7 3 (0.92%) EMC
8 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.62%) Foundry
8 2 (0.62%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.62%) Mercator
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.62%) UiPath
8 2 (0.62%) VMware
8 2 (0.62%) Workday
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube