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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 323 400
Rank change year-on-year -34 +77 -77
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 451 385 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.97% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 234 158 367
10th Percentile £44,972 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +41 388 £65,258 +8.76% 252
UK excluding London -41 268 £57,500 -4.17% 152
Work from Home +30 237 £67,500 +22.73% 108
London +14 137 £73,750 +28.26% 134
East of England +37 75 £70,000 +55.56% 27
North of England -15 68 £57,500 -13.29% 32
South East +15 59 £61,250 +2.08% 38
Yorkshire -26 33 £67,500 -3.05% 4
North West -16 23 £52,500 -17.73% 23
Midlands -39 21 £53,750 -6.52% 12
West Midlands -39 19 £53,750 -10.42% 6
South West -66 19 £60,000 -12.44% 19
North East -35 12 £57,500 -14.42% 5
Scotland -84 11 £54,500 +19.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 10
Wales -34 7 £53,171 -16.68% 4
East Midlands -36 2 £101,250 +206.82% 6

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 5 (1.11%) CMS
1 5 (1.11%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) WordPress
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 23 (5.10%) Adobe XD
2 14 (3.10%) Sketch
3 7 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.89%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.67%) InVision
6 3 (0.67%) Productboard
7 2 (0.44%) CATIA
7 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (26.39%) Figma
2 84 (18.63%) Adobe Analytics
3 82 (18.18%) AWS
4 60 (13.30%) Azure
5 38 (8.43%) GCP
6 25 (5.54%) SaaS
7 21 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.43%) Amazon ECR
9 19 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.21%) Serverless
10 16 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.10%) Apigee
12 14 (3.10%) Vertex AI
13 11 (2.44%) Miro
14 9 (2.00%) Google Analytics
14 9 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.84%) Broadband
2 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.67%) Wireless
3 3 (0.67%) WPA
4 2 (0.44%) LTE
4 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) Modbus
5 1 (0.22%) MQTT
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.55%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.77%) Power BI
3 8 (1.77%) Redis
4 6 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.89%) DB2
6 4 (0.89%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.89%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.44%) Big Data
8 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (3.77%) GitLab
2 15 (3.33%) Axure RP
2 15 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.10%) Balsamiq
3 14 (3.10%) Cypress.io
3 14 (3.10%) Maven
3 14 (3.10%) SonarQube
4 11 (2.44%) JIRA
5 9 (2.00%) Git
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.63%) Games
3 82 (18.18%) Finance
4 66 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (12.64%) Public Sector
6 51 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (9.53%) Law
8 40 (8.87%) Electronics
9 35 (7.76%) Manufacturing
10 22 (4.88%) Marketing
11 21 (4.66%) Legal
12 19 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.66%) Banking
14 11 (2.44%) Retail
15 9 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.55%) Aerospace
17 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 108 (23.95%) Designer
2 75 (16.63%) Lead
3 64 (14.19%) Senior
4 47 (10.42%) Developer
4 47 (10.42%) UX Designer
5 37 (8.20%) Lead Designer
6 27 (5.99%) Architect
7 22 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Interaction Designer
9 20 (4.43%) Product Designer
10 19 (4.21%) Analyst
10 19 (4.21%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.99%) Consultant
12 17 (3.77%) Digital Designer
12 17 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.10%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 14 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
13 14 (3.10%) Lead UX Designer
13 14 (3.10%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.76%) HTML
2 31 (6.87%) CSS
3 28 (6.21%) React
4 23 (5.10%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.66%) Spring Boot
6 17 (3.77%) Node.js
7 16 (3.55%) .NET
7 16 (3.55%) REST
8 15 (3.33%) Jest
9 14 (3.10%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.22%) LangChain
11 8 (1.77%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.55%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.55%) JAX
12 7 (1.55%) Spring
12 7 (1.55%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.55%) Vue
13 5 (1.11%) Django
14 4 (0.89%) LangGraph
14 4 (0.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.18%) Social Media
2 30 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (2.66%) Robotics
7 11 (2.44%) FPGA
8 10 (2.22%) IoT
9 9 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.55%) CUDA
11 7 (1.55%) Life Science
12 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.10%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (51.00%) Agile
2 199 (44.12%) AI
3 160 (35.48%) User Research
4 145 (32.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 129 (28.60%) Analytics
6 128 (28.38%) Roadmaps
7 105 (23.28%) Customer Experience
8 104 (23.06%) Product Roadmap
9 103 (22.84%) User Experience
10 91 (20.18%) Storytelling
11 87 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (18.18%) Digital Customer Experience
13 81 (17.96%) UX Design
14 72 (15.96%) Rapid Prototyping
15 67 (14.86%) Workshop Facilitation
16 62 (13.75%) Mentoring
17 61 (13.53%) Software Engineering
18 60 (13.30%) Validation
19 59 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
20 52 (11.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (17.96%) Python
2 51 (11.31%) Java
3 32 (7.10%) TypeScript
4 31 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.66%) C#
5 21 (4.66%) SQL
6 20 (4.43%) C
7 17 (3.77%) Bash
7 17 (3.77%) C++
8 15 (3.33%) Groovy
9 5 (1.11%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.67%) Julia
10 3 (0.67%) Pascal
11 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) R
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (24.61%) Degree
2 68 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 52 (11.53%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.10%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.89%) PhD
9 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (31.26%) Accessibility
2 70 (15.52%) WCAG
3 8 (1.77%) QA
4 7 (1.55%) GRC
5 4 (0.89%) DO-254
5 4 (0.89%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.67%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (6.21%) Docker
2 14 (3.10%) Firmware
3 5 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.10%) HP Fortify
1 14 (3.10%) Terraform
2 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.11%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (26.16%) Adobe
2 31 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.99%) Google
4 10 (2.22%) EMC
5 9 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.77%) Foundry
6 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.89%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.67%) Motorola
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle
8 3 (0.67%) SAP
8 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.67%) Workday
9 2 (0.44%) Databricks
9 2 (0.44%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir
10 1 (0.22%) YouTube