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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 312 375
Rank change year-on-year -58 +63 -31
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 545 443 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 344 181 214
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £46,139
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £76,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -5.99%

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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +1 457 £60,000 -12.33% 756
UK excluding London -48 353 £57,500 -4.17% 373
Work from Home -11 225 £65,000 +19.27% 425
London -49 146 £75,000 - 444
North of England +10 89 £53,750 -10.42% 64
South East -10 89 £59,000 -14.80% 93
East of England +16 65 £61,250 +36.11% 51
North West -7 41 £50,000 -25.93% 32
Midlands -35 35 £57,500 -4.17% 36
South West -55 30 £60,000 -29.41% 78
West Midlands -14 28 £57,500 -4.17% 26
North East -35 25 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -31 23 £66,250 +117.21% 18
Wales -52 22 £53,171 -2.88% 11
Scotland -73 14 £55,000 - 34
Northern Ireland -66 11 £80,000 - 10
East Midlands -38 7 £47,500 +43.94% 10

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 12 (2.20%) Confluence
2 8 (1.47%) Apache
2 8 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
3 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.55%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 19 (3.49%) Adobe XD
1 19 (3.49%) SOLIDWORKS
2 14 (2.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 14 (2.57%) InDesign
2 14 (2.57%) Photoshop
3 9 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (1.65%) Sketch
4 8 (1.47%) Solid Edge
5 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.92%) EPLAN
6 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.55%) Productboard
7 3 (0.55%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.55%) Zeplin
8 2 (0.37%) InVision
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.37%) Simulink
8 2 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.73%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.55%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.37%) 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 98 (17.98%) Figma
2 88 (16.15%) AWS
3 72 (13.21%) Azure
4 40 (7.34%) GCP
5 33 (6.06%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.85%) GitHub
6 21 (3.85%) SaaS
7 20 (3.67%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.67%) Serverless
8 18 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 17 (3.12%) Power Platform
10 16 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (2.57%) dbt
12 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (2.20%) Azure AI
14 11 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.02%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.52%) Broadband
2 8 (1.47%) WPA
3 5 (0.92%) Intranet
4 4 (0.73%) Wireless
5 3 (0.55%) RS-485
5 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.37%) RS-232
6 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) AMQP
7 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Modbus
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.12%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.47%) Power BI
3 8 (1.47%) Redis
4 7 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.55%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.55%) Tableau
9 2 (0.37%) Big Data
9 2 (0.37%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Metadata
9 2 (0.37%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (4.22%) Git
2 19 (3.49%) JIRA
3 12 (2.20%) GitLab
4 10 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.65%) Axure RP
5 9 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.47%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.47%) Maven
6 8 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.28%) Balsamiq
7 7 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.10%) Postman
9 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.37%) Bower
10 2 (0.37%) MLflow
10 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 197 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.27%) Finance
3 93 (17.06%) Electronics
4 92 (16.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (13.94%) Manufacturing
6 74 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (13.58%) Public Sector
7 50 (9.17%) Law
8 39 (7.16%) Games
9 38 (6.97%) Aerospace
10 36 (6.61%) Marketing
11 29 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.94%) Retail
13 14 (2.57%) Automotive
13 14 (2.57%) Legal
13 14 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.02%) Military
15 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.47%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 111 (20.37%) Senior
2 104 (19.08%) Designer
3 68 (12.48%) Developer
4 54 (9.91%) Lead
5 43 (7.89%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.16%) Architect
7 38 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 27 (4.95%) Senior Designer
9 26 (4.77%) Interaction Designer
10 25 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
11 24 (4.40%) Electronics Engineer
12 23 (4.22%) Lead Designer
13 21 (3.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.85%) UI Designer
13 21 (3.85%) UI/UX Designer
14 20 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (3.30%) Consultant
16 17 (3.12%) Senior Manager
16 17 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.52%) HTML
2 39 (7.16%) CSS
3 33 (6.06%) React
4 21 (3.85%) .NET
5 19 (3.49%) LangChain
6 17 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 15 (2.75%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.75%) Terraform
8 12 (2.20%) REST
9 10 (1.83%) Web Services
10 9 (1.65%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.65%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.65%) Jest
10 9 (1.65%) Kafka
10 9 (1.65%) Node.js
10 9 (1.65%) RESTful
11 8 (1.47%) Gherkin
11 8 (1.47%) JSON
11 8 (1.47%) Next.js
11 8 (1.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
2 33 (6.06%) Social Media
3 29 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (4.40%) Robotics
6 23 (4.22%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.30%) IoT
8 17 (3.12%) FPGA
8 17 (3.12%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.57%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.57%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.02%) Analogue Electronics
10 11 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.02%) Low-Code
10 11 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.83%) Life Science
11 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.47%) Android
3 7 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (39.45%) AI
2 214 (39.27%) Agile
3 125 (22.94%) User Research
4 113 (20.73%) Rapid Prototyping
5 112 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (20.00%) User Experience
7 105 (19.27%) Analytics
8 99 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (17.61%) Mentoring
10 94 (17.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 90 (16.51%) Software Engineering
12 87 (15.96%) Validation
13 86 (15.78%) Roadmaps
14 77 (14.13%) UX Design
15 67 (12.29%) LLM
16 60 (11.01%) CI/CD
16 60 (11.01%) Customer Experience
17 54 (9.91%) Machine Learning
18 53 (9.72%) Product Roadmap
18 53 (9.72%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 96 (17.61%) Python
2 44 (8.07%) Java
2 44 (8.07%) JavaScript
3 40 (7.34%) TypeScript
4 33 (6.06%) C
5 31 (5.69%) SQL
6 28 (5.14%) C++
7 27 (4.95%) C#
8 14 (2.57%) MATLAB
9 10 (1.83%) Bash
10 9 (1.65%) Embedded C
10 9 (1.65%) Groovy
11 7 (1.28%) Go
12 5 (0.92%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.92%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) Pascal
13 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.55%) Rust
14 2 (0.37%) Ruby
15 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 176 (32.29%) Degree
2 109 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 82 (15.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.95%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.94%) PhD
8 12 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.02%) HND
10 8 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
11 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.10%) HNC
13 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 53 (9.72%) WCAG
3 19 (3.49%) QA
4 10 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.10%) GDPR
6 4 (0.73%) DO-254
7 3 (0.55%) JTAG
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) MISRA
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (5.14%) Firmware
2 27 (4.95%) Docker
3 8 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.47%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 69 (12.66%) Adobe
2 52 (9.54%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.69%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.95%) Google
5 24 (4.40%) EMC
6 11 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.02%) SAP
7 10 (1.83%) Databricks
8 6 (1.10%) Foundry
9 5 (0.92%) Autodesk
10 4 (0.73%) Oracle
11 3 (0.55%) Apple
11 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.55%) Motorola
11 3 (0.55%) Siemens
11 3 (0.55%) Thales
11 3 (0.55%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.37%) Altera
12 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.37%) YouTube