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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 314 418
Rank change year-on-year -39 +104 -98
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 457 428 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.96% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.04% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 237 155 357
10th Percentile £43,649 £37,500 £37,839
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +21 390 £62,500 +4.17% 208
UK excluding London -64 279 £58,750 -2.08% 147
Work from Home +26 243 £67,500 +22.73% 98
London +11 135 £71,121 +18.54% 92
East of England +44 74 £62,500 +38.89% 27
North of England -18 72 £55,000 -19.71% 24
South East +4 60 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Yorkshire -15 32 £67,500 -20.82% 6
North West -4 25 £50,000 -27.01% 14
South West -58 22 £60,000 -12.44% 23
Midlands -22 20 £60,000 +4.35% 10
West Midlands -18 17 £57,500 -4.17% 7
North East -31 15 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Scotland -74 12 £54,500 +19.43% 14
Wales -41 11 £53,171 -21.88% 4
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -29 3 £60,000 +81.82% 3

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 (1.09%) Apache
1 5 (1.09%) CMS
1 5 (1.09%) Confluence
2 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.66%) WordPress
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 18 (3.94%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.19%) Sketch
3 7 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.31%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.31%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.09%) InDesign
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.66%) Fusion 360
6 3 (0.66%) Productboard
7 2 (0.44%) CATIA
7 2 (0.44%) InVision
7 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.44%) Trello
8 1 (0.22%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.66%) 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
1 114 (24.95%) Figma
2 83 (18.16%) Adobe Analytics
2 83 (18.16%) AWS
3 65 (14.22%) Azure
4 41 (8.97%) GCP
5 25 (5.47%) SaaS
6 20 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (4.38%) Amazon S3
6 20 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.16%) Serverless
8 18 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.06%) Vertex AI
12 13 (2.84%) Apigee
13 9 (1.97%) GitHub
13 9 (1.97%) Google Analytics
13 9 (1.97%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 93 (20.35%) Broadband
2 7 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.88%) WPA
4 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.66%) Wireless
5 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) Intranet
5 2 (0.44%) LTE
5 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.22%) AMQP
6 1 (0.22%) Modbus
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) RS-232
6 1 (0.22%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.50%) DynamoDB
2 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (1.97%) Redis
3 8 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.53%) Power BI
5 6 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.88%) Db2
7 4 (0.88%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.88%) QlikView
8 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (3.72%) GitLab
2 14 (3.06%) Git
2 14 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.84%) Cypress.io
3 13 (2.84%) JIRA
3 13 (2.84%) Maven
3 13 (2.84%) SonarQube
4 11 (2.41%) Axure RP
5 9 (1.97%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) Postman
6 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) Bower
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.22%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.04%) Finance
3 83 (18.16%) Games
4 67 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (14.66%) Public Sector
5 55 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (9.19%) Electronics
7 40 (8.75%) Law
8 35 (7.66%) Manufacturing
9 25 (5.47%) Marketing
10 22 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (4.38%) Legal
12 12 (2.63%) Banking
12 12 (2.63%) Retail
13 9 (1.97%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.31%) Back Office
15 6 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (22.98%) Designer
2 73 (15.97%) Lead
3 70 (15.32%) Senior
4 52 (11.38%) Developer
5 48 (10.50%) UX Designer
6 36 (7.88%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.13%) Architect
8 25 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
10 18 (3.94%) Interaction Designer
10 18 (3.94%) Product Manager
10 18 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.72%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 17 (3.72%) Analyst
11 17 (3.72%) Consultant
11 17 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (3.72%) Digital Designer
11 17 (3.72%) Product Designer
12 16 (3.50%) Senior Designer
13 14 (3.06%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.22%) HTML
2 30 (6.56%) React
3 29 (6.35%) CSS
4 22 (4.81%) AngularJS
5 20 (4.38%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.50%) .NET
6 16 (3.50%) REST
7 15 (3.28%) Node.js
8 14 (3.06%) Jest
9 13 (2.84%) Gherkin
10 12 (2.63%) LangChain
11 8 (1.75%) Spring
12 7 (1.53%) Vue
13 6 (1.31%) Framer.js
13 6 (1.31%) PyTorch
14 5 (1.09%) Django
14 5 (1.09%) Google JAX
14 5 (1.09%) JAX
14 5 (1.09%) JSON
14 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.72%) Social Media
2 34 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.06%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.84%) IoT
7 12 (2.63%) Robotics
8 11 (2.41%) FPGA
9 9 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.75%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.53%) Life Science
12 6 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
13 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.28%) Linux
2 8 (1.75%) Unix
3 3 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (49.23%) Agile
2 205 (44.86%) AI
3 161 (35.23%) User Research
4 134 (29.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 130 (28.45%) Analytics
6 127 (27.79%) Roadmaps
7 104 (22.76%) Customer Experience
8 102 (22.32%) Product Roadmap
9 97 (21.23%) User Experience
10 88 (19.26%) Storytelling
11 85 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (17.72%) Digital Customer Experience
13 78 (17.07%) Rapid Prototyping
14 76 (16.63%) UX Design
15 65 (14.22%) Software Engineering
16 64 (14.00%) Mentoring
17 63 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (13.79%) Workshop Facilitation
18 59 (12.91%) Validation
19 54 (11.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.60%) Python
2 50 (10.94%) Java
3 31 (6.78%) TypeScript
4 30 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.47%) SQL
6 23 (5.03%) C
6 23 (5.03%) C#
7 21 (4.60%) C++
8 16 (3.50%) Bash
9 15 (3.28%) Groovy
10 5 (1.09%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.66%) Julia
12 3 (0.66%) Pascal
12 3 (0.66%) PHP
13 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (23.41%) Degree
2 70 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.60%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.84%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.66%) HND
8 3 (0.66%) PhD
8 3 (0.66%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (29.76%) Accessibility
2 67 (14.66%) WCAG
3 7 (1.53%) GRC
3 7 (1.53%) QA
4 4 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.88%) DO-254
4 4 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.44%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (6.35%) Docker
2 16 (3.50%) Firmware
3 6 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.50%) Terraform
2 13 (2.84%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (24.95%) Adobe
2 32 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.13%) Google
4 11 (2.41%) EMC
4 11 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.53%) Foundry
7 4 (0.88%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.88%) Oracle
8 3 (0.66%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.66%) Databricks
8 3 (0.66%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.66%) Motorola
8 3 (0.66%) SAP
8 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.66%) Workday
9 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.22%) Xilinx