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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 316 424
Rank change year-on-year -47 +108 -110
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 495 451 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.92% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.02% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 276 180 298
10th Percentile £43,489 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,750 £57,965
% change year-on-year -7.00% +4.81% -3.39%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -7 407 £60,000 -7.69% 343
UK excluding London -58 304 £56,500 -7.00% 163
Work from Home +8 267 £67,481 +22.69% 144
London -15 141 £70,000 +0.89% 215
North of England -11 76 £50,000 -24.60% 29
East of England +43 74 £74,000 +64.44% 24
South East -8 71 £56,500 -7.00% 51
North West -5 33 £50,000 -27.94% 18
Yorkshire -16 26 £65,000 +9.24% 5
Midlands -41 19 £68,665 +16.88% 9
Wales -42 19 £53,171 -22.38% 6
South West -56 19 £60,000 -5.88% 32
North East -37 17 £56,250 -13.46% 6
West Midlands -30 16 £74,830 +24.72% 8
Scotland -68 15 £52,250 +14.50% 15
Northern Ireland -56 11 £80,000 -
East Midlands -36 3 £60,000 +81.82% 1

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 7 (1.41%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.41%) Confluence
2 6 (1.21%) Apache
3 4 (0.81%) CMS
4 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.61%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 15 (3.03%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (2.02%) InDesign
2 10 (2.02%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.02%) Sketch
3 6 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.01%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.61%) Productboard
7 2 (0.40%) CATIA
7 2 (0.40%) InVision
7 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) Windchill
8 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.20%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (22.63%) Figma
2 84 (16.97%) AWS
3 79 (15.96%) Adobe Analytics
4 73 (14.75%) Azure
5 46 (9.29%) GCP
6 19 (3.84%) SaaS
7 18 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (3.64%) Serverless
8 17 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (3.23%) dbt
10 15 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (2.63%) GitHub
12 12 (2.42%) Vertex AI
13 11 (2.22%) Apigee
13 11 (2.22%) Power Platform
14 10 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 91 (18.38%) Broadband
2 8 (1.62%) WPA
3 7 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.01%) Intranet
5 4 (0.81%) Wireless
6 3 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) RS-232
8 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.22%) Redis
4 8 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.41%) Power BI
5 7 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.81%) Db2
7 4 (0.81%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.81%) QlikView
7 4 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.61%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (4.44%) Git
2 16 (3.23%) JIRA
3 15 (3.03%) GitLab
4 13 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.22%) Maven
6 11 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.62%) Axure RP
7 8 (1.62%) LabVIEW
8 6 (1.21%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.81%) Postman
10 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.61%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.40%) Bower
11 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.20%) MLflow
12 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 141 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.99%) Finance
3 81 (16.36%) Games
4 79 (15.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.74%) Public Sector
7 53 (10.71%) Electronics
8 42 (8.48%) Law
9 37 (7.47%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.65%) Marketing
10 23 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.23%) Legal
11 16 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.42%) Retail
13 9 (1.82%) Banking
14 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.21%) Advertising
17 5 (1.01%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 112 (22.63%) Designer
2 93 (18.79%) Senior
3 74 (14.95%) Lead
4 60 (12.12%) Developer
5 48 (9.70%) UX Designer
6 38 (7.68%) Lead Designer
7 37 (7.47%) Architect
8 31 (6.26%) Systems Engineer
9 30 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.25%) Interaction Designer
11 21 (4.24%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.84%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.84%) Product Manager
12 19 (3.84%) UI Designer
12 19 (3.84%) UI/UX Designer
13 18 (3.64%) Consultant
14 17 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.23%) Digital Designer
15 16 (3.23%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.68%) HTML
2 34 (6.87%) CSS
3 22 (4.44%) React
4 18 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.03%) .NET
5 15 (3.03%) LangChain
5 15 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.42%) Jest
6 12 (2.42%) REST
7 11 (2.22%) Gherkin
8 8 (1.62%) JSON
8 8 (1.62%) Web Services
9 7 (1.41%) Framer.js
9 7 (1.41%) Material Design
9 7 (1.41%) Node.js
10 6 (1.21%) Django
10 6 (1.21%) RESTful
10 6 (1.21%) XML
11 5 (1.01%) jQuery
11 5 (1.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.96%) Social Media
2 36 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.43%) IoT
6 16 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.03%) FPGA
8 13 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.42%) Robotics
10 11 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.02%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.82%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.62%) Fibre Optics
13 8 (1.62%) Verilog
13 8 (1.62%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.83%) Linux
2 8 (1.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (50.71%) Agile
2 227 (45.86%) AI
3 165 (33.33%) User Research
4 143 (28.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 133 (26.87%) Analytics
6 131 (26.46%) Roadmaps
7 99 (20.00%) Customer Experience
7 99 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
8 98 (19.80%) Product Roadmap
9 96 (19.39%) User Experience
10 85 (17.17%) Storytelling
11 79 (15.96%) Digital Customer Experience
11 79 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (15.35%) Mentoring
13 73 (14.75%) Software Engineering
14 72 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (14.34%) UX Design
16 62 (12.53%) Validation
16 62 (12.53%) Workshop Facilitation
17 53 (10.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.38%) Python
2 43 (8.69%) Java
3 35 (7.07%) JavaScript
4 31 (6.26%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.66%) SQL
6 27 (5.45%) C
7 26 (5.25%) C++
8 25 (5.05%) C#
9 13 (2.63%) Bash
10 12 (2.42%) Groovy
10 12 (2.42%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.01%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.01%) PHP
12 3 (0.61%) Go
12 3 (0.61%) Julia
12 3 (0.61%) Pascal
12 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.61%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (26.26%) Degree
2 79 (15.96%) Security Cleared
3 63 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.05%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.42%) PhD
8 11 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.01%) HND
11 3 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.20%) HNC
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 70 (14.14%) WCAG
3 11 (2.22%) QA
4 6 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.01%) GRC
6 4 (0.81%) DO-254
6 4 (0.81%) GDPR
7 2 (0.40%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (6.26%) Docker
2 17 (3.43%) Firmware
3 7 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (3.03%) Terraform
2 11 (2.22%) HP Fortify
2 11 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (21.21%) Adobe
2 41 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.06%) Google
4 22 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.63%) EMC
6 11 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.41%) Foundry
8 4 (0.81%) Databricks
8 4 (0.81%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle
8 4 (0.81%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.61%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.61%) Motorola
9 3 (0.61%) SAP
9 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) Altera
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Intel
10 2 (0.40%) Revolut
10 2 (0.40%) Workday