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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 329 374
Rank change year-on-year -33 +45 -76
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 360 402 561
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.88% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.94% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 197 194 377
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,450 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.07% +22.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £87,463 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,626 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +35.25% -20.00%

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 56,435 42,676 68,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.59% 93.36% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33,915 21,866 52,740
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,329
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,463 £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% -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 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 16 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 March 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 -22 311 £67,500 +3.85% 340
UK excluding London -91 184 £57,500 -14.97% 255
Work from Home +4 161 £60,000 -13.43% 182
London +70 139 £74,401 +14.46% 146
South East -24 56 £55,000 -26.67% 104
North of England -58 44 £57,500 -4.17% 42
East of England +7 37 £81,575 +48.32% 49
North West -45 23 £57,500 -4.17% 27
South West -47 17 £79,750 +16.38% 21
Yorkshire -33 16 £67,500 +28.57% 10
Scotland -25 12 £54,500 -9.02% 16
Wales -30 9 £73,801 +6.48% 6
West Midlands +1 7 £46,022 -31.95% 16
Midlands -6 7 £46,022 -31.95% 22
North East -17 5 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Northern Ireland -31 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2

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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Strapi
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (9.72%) Adobe XD
2 17 (4.72%) Sketch
3 14 (3.89%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.39%) Fusion 360
7 4 (1.11%) InVision
7 4 (1.11%) Maya
8 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.56%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.28%) Blender
10 1 (0.28%) CATIA
10 1 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.28%) InDesign
10 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Elite 3E
1 3 (0.83%) SAP CO
1 3 (0.83%) SAP FI
1 3 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (0.83%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (0.83%) SAP IBP
1 3 (0.83%) SAP IS-U
1 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 120 (33.33%) Figma
2 80 (22.22%) AWS
3 68 (18.89%) Azure
4 61 (16.94%) Adobe Analytics
5 46 (12.78%) GCP
6 27 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (6.39%) Miro
9 22 (6.11%) PaaS
10 18 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (5.00%) dbt
11 17 (4.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (4.72%) Pulumi
11 17 (4.72%) SaaS
11 17 (4.72%) Sentry
12 13 (3.61%) GitHub
12 13 (3.61%) Google Analytics
12 13 (3.61%) Serverless
13 12 (3.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.33%) Broadband
2 23 (6.39%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.67%) Bluetooth
4 5 (1.39%) Firewall
5 4 (1.11%) Internet
5 4 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.11%) Modbus
5 4 (1.11%) Network Security
5 4 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.11%) VLAN
5 4 (1.11%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.11%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.56%) 2G
6 2 (0.56%) 4G
6 2 (0.56%) 5G
6 2 (0.56%) DNS
6 2 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.56%) ICMP
6 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.28%) Redis
3 18 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.94%) Power BI
7 6 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.83%) DB2
10 3 (0.83%) DB2 UDB
10 3 (0.83%) QlikView
10 3 (0.83%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.56%) Tableau
12 1 (0.28%) GIS
12 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (8.61%) Axure RP
2 25 (6.94%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.44%) JIRA
4 13 (3.61%) Git
4 13 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.06%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.50%) GitLab
6 9 (2.50%) Maven
6 9 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.11%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.11%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 97 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (17.22%) Finance
4 56 (15.56%) Law
5 49 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (12.78%) Games
7 44 (12.22%) Public Sector
8 29 (8.06%) Banking
9 21 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (5.00%) Manufacturing
11 17 (4.72%) Electronics
11 17 (4.72%) Legal
12 15 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.61%) Retail
14 11 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.67%) Marketing
15 6 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.39%) Back Office
16 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (26.39%) Designer
2 73 (20.28%) Senior
3 50 (13.89%) Lead
4 40 (11.11%) UX Designer
5 28 (7.78%) Developer
6 21 (5.83%) Product Designer
7 20 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (5.56%) Lead Designer
8 19 (5.28%) Analyst
8 19 (5.28%) Consultant
8 19 (5.28%) Senior Manager
8 19 (5.28%) Strategy Manager
9 17 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 16 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.17%) Interaction Designer
12 14 (3.89%) Architect
12 14 (3.89%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.33%) Service Designer
14 10 (2.78%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.67%) HTML
2 41 (11.39%) CSS
3 31 (8.61%) React
4 24 (6.67%) Node.js
5 23 (6.39%) .NET
6 17 (4.72%) Django
7 16 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 13 (3.61%) REST
8 13 (3.61%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.33%) Jest
10 10 (2.78%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.50%) Gherkin
11 9 (2.50%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.94%) Next.js
13 6 (1.67%) Google JAX
13 6 (1.67%) JAX
13 6 (1.67%) JSON
13 6 (1.67%) LangChain
13 6 (1.67%) RESTful
13 6 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.94%) Social Media
2 40 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.83%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.50%) IoT
6 9 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.22%) Life Science
7 8 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.67%) Blog
9 6 (1.67%) CUDA
9 6 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.39%) Animation
10 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.39%) FPGA
11 4 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.78%) Linux
2 17 (4.72%) Unix
3 10 (2.78%) Android
4 5 (1.39%) Windows
5 4 (1.11%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (56.67%) Agile
2 142 (39.44%) User Experience
3 115 (31.94%) AI
4 113 (31.39%) Analytics
4 113 (31.39%) User Research
5 112 (31.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 107 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (26.11%) UX Design
8 77 (21.39%) Wireframes
9 75 (20.83%) Customer Experience
10 72 (20.00%) Roadmaps
11 66 (18.33%) Storytelling
12 64 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (15.83%) CI/CD
14 53 (14.72%) Clean Code
15 52 (14.44%) Product Roadmap
16 51 (14.17%) Mentoring
17 48 (13.33%) DevOps
17 48 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
18 47 (13.06%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.11%) Python
2 50 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 47 (13.06%) Java
4 32 (8.89%) TypeScript
5 15 (4.17%) C++
5 15 (4.17%) SQL
6 13 (3.61%) C#
7 10 (2.78%) Bash
7 10 (2.78%) Groovy
8 6 (1.67%) C
8 6 (1.67%) R
9 4 (1.11%) Rust
10 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.56%) Julia
11 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.56%) PHP
11 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (29.44%) Degree
2 84 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 68 (18.89%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) HNC
9 4 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.83%) HND
10 3 (0.83%) PhD
11 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (35.28%) Accessibility
2 59 (16.39%) WCAG
3 7 (1.94%) GRC
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
4 4 (1.11%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.83%) QA
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (9.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.83%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.39%) Terraform
2 17 (4.72%) AWS Copilot
3 9 (2.50%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.11%) Nessus
5 4 (1.11%) Nmap
6 2 (0.56%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 105 (29.17%) Adobe
2 40 (11.11%) Google
3 39 (10.83%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.39%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.67%) Foundry
7 5 (1.39%) EMC
8 4 (1.11%) Cisco
8 4 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.11%) Splunk
9 3 (0.83%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.83%) SAP
9 3 (0.83%) Workday
10 2 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.56%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.56%) Mercator
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.56%) UiPath
10 2 (0.56%) VMware