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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 307 322
Rank change year-on-year -68 +15 -43
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 297 499 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.92% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.02% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 194 205 321
10th Percentile £46,172 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,400 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% +3.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £96,375 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £86,500 £97,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +20.37% -16.92%

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 48,544 49,000 48,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.18% 90.28% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28,525 24,011 36,948
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -56 262 £70,000 +7.69% 359
London +88 138 £75,000 +7.68% 68
UK excluding London -136 131 £55,000 -15.38% 330
Work from Home -84 84 £57,500 -17.04% 116
South East -70 44 £55,000 -26.67% 101
North of England -36 32 £57,500 -2.92% 59
North West -21 17 £57,500 -4.17% 28
East of England -3 13 £90,000 +63.64% 50
South West -25 13 £86,750 +15.67% 50
Yorkshire -11 12 £42,410 -21.10% 22
Midlands +9 9 £60,000 +5.76% 44
Wales -11 9 £61,651 -11.05% 13
Scotland -15 9 £54,500 -21.36% 16
West Midlands +15 7 £60,000 +2.63% 19
North East -1 3 £73,801 +26.23% 9
East Midlands +4 2 £60,000 +50.00% 24
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +6.48% 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 10 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (15.15%) Adobe XD
2 22 (7.41%) Sketch
3 10 (3.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 10 (3.37%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.03%) Maya
5 8 (2.69%) InVision
6 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (2.02%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (1.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (1.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (1.35%) Fusion 360
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (1.01%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.67%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.67%) Windchill
11 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.34%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (3.03%) SAP CO
1 9 (3.03%) SAP FI
1 9 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
1 9 (3.03%) SAP FSCM
1 9 (3.03%) SAP IBP
1 9 (3.03%) SAP IS-U
1 9 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.35%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 101 (34.01%) Figma
2 63 (21.21%) AWS
3 56 (18.86%) Azure
4 31 (10.44%) GCP
5 23 (7.74%) Miro
6 19 (6.40%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (5.39%) PaaS
8 15 (5.05%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (5.05%) SaaS
9 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (4.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (4.38%) dbt
10 13 (4.38%) GitHub
11 12 (4.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (4.04%) Google Analytics
11 12 (4.04%) Pulumi
11 12 (4.04%) Sentry
12 10 (3.37%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.68%) Bluetooth
2 5 (1.68%) Broadband
2 5 (1.68%) Firewall
3 4 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.35%) Modbus
3 4 (1.35%) Network Security
3 4 (1.35%) VLAN
3 4 (1.35%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.35%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.01%) Internet
5 2 (0.67%) 2G
5 2 (0.67%) 4G
5 2 (0.67%) 5G
5 2 (0.67%) DNS
5 2 (0.67%) HTTP
5 2 (0.67%) ICMP
5 2 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.34%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.38%) Redis
3 12 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.03%) SAP BW
5 7 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.36%) Power BI
6 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.67%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.34%) GIS
8 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.34%) Power Query
8 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (11.45%) Axure RP
2 27 (9.09%) Balsamiq
3 13 (4.38%) JIRA
4 12 (4.04%) Git
5 6 (2.02%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.68%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (1.35%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.35%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.67%) GitLab
8 2 (0.67%) Maven
8 2 (0.67%) MLflow
8 2 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (19.53%) Law
3 50 (16.84%) Finance
4 37 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (11.78%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (6.40%) Banking
8 17 (5.72%) Legal
9 15 (5.05%) Games
9 15 (5.05%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (4.04%) Electronics
12 9 (3.03%) Marketing
13 8 (2.69%) Retail
13 8 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.36%) Front Office
15 6 (2.02%) Financial Institution
15 6 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 78 (26.26%) Designer
2 64 (21.55%) Senior
3 35 (11.78%) Developer
4 30 (10.10%) UX Designer
5 28 (9.43%) Lead
6 19 (6.40%) Consultant
6 19 (6.40%) Product Designer
7 18 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (5.72%) Strategy Manager
9 15 (5.05%) Architect
9 15 (5.05%) Senior Manager
9 15 (5.05%) Service Designer
10 14 (4.71%) Interaction Designer
11 13 (4.38%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.03%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.03%) Senior Strategy Manager
13 9 (3.03%) UI Designer
13 9 (3.03%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.13%) CSS
2 38 (12.79%) HTML
3 28 (9.43%) React
4 26 (8.75%) Node.js
5 24 (8.08%) .NET
6 15 (5.05%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.05%) TensorFlow
7 12 (4.04%) Django
8 11 (3.70%) REST
9 9 (3.03%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.03%) JSON
9 9 (3.03%) XML
10 8 (2.69%) Google JAX
10 8 (2.69%) JAX
11 7 (2.36%) Kafka
11 7 (2.36%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.02%) Next.js
12 6 (2.02%) Pandas
13 5 (1.68%) LangChain
13 5 (1.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 31 (10.44%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.39%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.36%) CUDA
7 7 (2.36%) Equities
7 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.02%) IoT
9 5 (1.68%) Blog
9 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.68%) Graphic Design
9 5 (1.68%) Social Media
10 4 (1.35%) Robotics
10 4 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.74%) Linux
2 12 (4.04%) Android
2 12 (4.04%) Unix
3 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.35%) Kali Linux
3 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (49.16%) Agile
2 140 (47.14%) User Experience
3 90 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (27.95%) Analytics
5 79 (26.60%) UX Design
6 75 (25.25%) User Research
6 75 (25.25%) Wireframes
7 73 (24.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 66 (22.22%) AI
9 63 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (17.51%) CI/CD
11 51 (17.17%) Usability Testing
12 50 (16.84%) Computer Science
13 47 (15.82%) Machine Learning
14 46 (15.49%) Mentoring
15 41 (13.80%) Rapid Prototyping
16 39 (13.13%) Software Engineering
17 38 (12.79%) Journey Map
18 35 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
19 34 (11.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (25.25%) Python
2 51 (17.17%) JavaScript
3 35 (11.78%) Java
4 25 (8.42%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.40%) SQL
6 15 (5.05%) C#
6 15 (5.05%) C++
7 8 (2.69%) C
8 5 (1.68%) R
9 4 (1.35%) Delphi
9 4 (1.35%) PHP
9 4 (1.35%) Rust
10 3 (1.01%) Bash
10 3 (1.01%) Bicep
10 3 (1.01%) Go
10 3 (1.01%) Groovy
10 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (39.39%) Degree
2 76 (25.59%) Security Cleared
3 61 (20.54%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.70%) PhD
6 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.35%) HNC
7 4 (1.35%) MCP
7 4 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.01%) HND
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (29.29%) Accessibility
2 38 (12.79%) WCAG
3 4 (1.35%) ISO 13485
3 4 (1.35%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.01%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) QA
5 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Firmware
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.72%) Terraform
2 12 (4.04%) AWS Copilot
3 8 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.35%) Nessus
4 4 (1.35%) Nmap
5 2 (0.67%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.67%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 73 (24.58%) Adobe
2 38 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.45%) Google
4 21 (7.07%) Qualtrics
5 9 (3.03%) SAP
6 5 (1.68%) Foundry
7 4 (1.35%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.35%) Cisco
7 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.35%) Sage
7 4 (1.35%) Splunk
8 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.67%) Mercator
8 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.67%) PTC
8 2 (0.67%) UiPath
8 2 (0.67%) VMware
9 1 (0.34%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.34%) YouTube