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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 302 354
Rank change year-on-year -72 +52 -45
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 314 488 560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.96% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.04% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 188 188 382
10th Percentile £45,700 £42,425 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +14.21% -10.16%
75th Percentile £91,063 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £93,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +37.05% -20.87%

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 51,688 46,838 64,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.04% 91.77% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30,626 22,631 50,390
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £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 £75,900 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 4 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 4 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 -54 272 £70,000 +3.86% 217
UK excluding London -146 146 £57,500 -16.09% 170
London +74 134 £75,000 +8.21% 93
Work from Home -85 104 £57,500 -17.04% 100
South East -77 46 £55,000 -26.67% 55
North of England -42 37 £57,500 - 32
North West -27 19 £57,500 -4.17% 20
East of England -5 17 £90,000 +63.64% 23
South West -28 16 £79,750 +6.33% 26
Yorkshire -12 14 £58,250 +10.95% 7
Midlands +12 10 £52,500 -24.25% 28
Scotland -36 10 £54,500 -21.36% 8
West Midlands +31 9 £50,000 -27.86% 19
Wales -22 9 £61,651 -11.05% 3
North East -8 4 £73,801 +32.01% 5
Northern Ireland -17 1 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 9

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 (3.18%) Confluence
2 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Strapi
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (12.10%) Adobe XD
2 17 (5.41%) Sketch
3 13 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (2.87%) Maya
6 6 (1.91%) InVision
7 5 (1.59%) Fusion 360
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
8 4 (1.27%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.64%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.64%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.32%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.32%) Blender
11 1 (0.32%) CATIA
11 1 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.55%) SAP CO
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FI
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FI/CO
1 8 (2.55%) SAP FSCM
1 8 (2.55%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.55%) SAP IS-U
1 8 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 105 (33.44%) Figma
2 69 (21.97%) AWS
3 57 (18.15%) Azure
4 33 (10.51%) GCP
5 29 (9.24%) Adobe Analytics
6 23 (7.32%) Miro
7 20 (6.37%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (5.73%) SaaS
10 16 (5.10%) PaaS
11 14 (4.46%) GitHub
12 13 (4.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (4.14%) dbt
13 12 (3.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.82%) Pulumi
13 12 (3.82%) Sentry
14 11 (3.50%) Google Analytics
14 11 (3.50%) Serverless
15 9 (2.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.73%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.14%) Broadband
3 5 (1.59%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.59%) Firewall
4 4 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.27%) Modbus
4 4 (1.27%) Network Security
4 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.27%) VLAN
4 4 (1.27%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.27%) ZigBee
5 3 (0.96%) Internet
6 2 (0.64%) 2G
6 2 (0.64%) 4G
6 2 (0.64%) 5G
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) HTTP
6 2 (0.64%) ICMP
7 1 (0.32%) RFID
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.46%) Redis
3 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.55%) SAP BW
6 7 (2.23%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.59%) Power BI
7 5 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.64%) Tableau
11 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.32%) DB2 UDB
11 1 (0.32%) GIS
11 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.32%) QlikView
11 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (9.55%) Axure RP
2 24 (7.64%) Balsamiq
3 15 (4.78%) JIRA
4 11 (3.50%) Git
4 11 (3.50%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.23%) GitLab
6 7 (2.23%) Maven
6 7 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.27%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.27%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 96 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (18.47%) Finance
4 53 (16.88%) Law
5 40 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (11.46%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.96%) Banking
8 24 (7.64%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (6.37%) Games
10 15 (4.78%) Manufacturing
10 15 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.46%) Legal
12 12 (3.82%) Electronics
12 12 (3.82%) Retail
13 8 (2.55%) Marketing
14 7 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 81 (25.80%) Designer
2 63 (20.06%) Senior
3 37 (11.78%) Developer
4 35 (11.15%) Lead
5 34 (10.83%) UX Designer
6 20 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (6.05%) Strategy Manager
8 18 (5.73%) Product Designer
9 17 (5.41%) Consultant
10 15 (4.78%) Senior Manager
11 14 (4.46%) Analyst
11 14 (4.46%) Interaction Designer
11 14 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.14%) Architect
12 13 (4.14%) Service Designer
13 12 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (2.87%) Senior Designer
15 9 (2.87%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.42%) CSS
2 37 (11.78%) HTML
3 34 (10.83%) React
4 27 (8.60%) Node.js
5 24 (7.64%) .NET
6 16 (5.10%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.78%) REST
8 12 (3.82%) Django
9 10 (3.18%) Jest
9 10 (3.18%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.18%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.87%) JSON
10 9 (2.87%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.87%) XML
11 7 (2.23%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.23%) Next.js
11 7 (2.23%) Vue
12 6 (1.91%) Google JAX
12 6 (1.91%) JAX
12 6 (1.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.46%) Product Ownership
2 33 (10.51%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.10%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (3.82%) Social Media
5 10 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.23%) IoT
7 7 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.91%) CUDA
9 5 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.59%) Animation
9 5 (1.59%) Blog
9 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.59%) Life Science
10 4 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.64%) Linux
2 12 (3.82%) Unix
3 10 (3.18%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (50.32%) Agile
2 139 (44.27%) User Experience
3 97 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (27.07%) Analytics
4 85 (27.07%) UX Design
5 80 (25.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 79 (25.16%) User Research
7 77 (24.52%) Wireframes
8 73 (23.25%) AI
9 62 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (17.83%) CI/CD
11 48 (15.29%) Usability Testing
12 44 (14.01%) Computer Science
12 44 (14.01%) Customer Experience
13 43 (13.69%) Mentoring
14 42 (13.38%) Clean Code
15 41 (13.06%) Rapid Prototyping
15 41 (13.06%) Software Engineering
16 40 (12.74%) DevOps
17 39 (12.42%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.61%) Python
2 51 (16.24%) JavaScript
3 42 (13.38%) Java
4 31 (9.87%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.10%) C++
5 16 (5.10%) SQL
6 11 (3.50%) C#
7 8 (2.55%) Bash
7 8 (2.55%) Groovy
8 7 (2.23%) C
9 5 (1.59%) R
10 4 (1.27%) Rust
11 3 (0.96%) Bicep
11 3 (0.96%) Go
11 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.32%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 109 (34.71%) Degree
2 79 (25.16%) Security Cleared
3 63 (20.06%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.59%) PhD
10 4 (1.27%) HNC
10 4 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.96%) HND
12 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (30.25%) Accessibility
2 38 (12.10%) WCAG
3 6 (1.91%) GRC
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.96%) QA
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (8.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.41%) Terraform
2 12 (3.82%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (2.23%) HP Fortify
4 5 (1.59%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.27%) Nessus
5 4 (1.27%) Nmap
6 2 (0.64%) Ansible
7 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 79 (25.16%) Adobe
2 36 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.55%) Google
4 23 (7.32%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.55%) SAP
6 7 (2.23%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.27%) Cisco
7 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.27%) Splunk
8 2 (0.64%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.64%) Foundry
8 2 (0.64%) Mercator
8 2 (0.64%) UiPath
8 2 (0.64%) VMware
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) PTC
9 1 (0.32%) Remedy
9 1 (0.32%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.32%) YouTube