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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 301 425
Rank change year-on-year -59 +124 -110
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 456 432 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.97% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.05% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 238 158 357
10th Percentile £43,674 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,977 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.62% +9.77% -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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
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 17 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 17 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 +11 388 £63,750 +6.25% 442
UK excluding London -66 277 £60,000 -0.62% 428
Work from Home +16 240 £67,500 +22.73% 385
London -13 137 £71,121 +29.31% 120
East of England +45 74 £62,500 +38.89% 74
North of England -12 71 £55,000 -19.71% 84
South East 0 59 £65,000 +8.33% 86
Yorkshire -18 32 £67,500 -20.82% 23
North West -13 24 £50,000 -27.01% 45
Midlands -24 20 £60,000 +4.35% 47
South West -57 20 £60,000 -12.44% 43
West Midlands -13 17 £57,500 -4.17% 25
North East -39 15 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Wales -36 13 £53,171 -21.88% 25
Scotland -76 12 £54,500 +19.43% 46
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 27
East Midlands -37 3 £60,000 +81.82% 22

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 (1.10%) Apache
1 5 (1.10%) CMS
1 5 (1.10%) 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 (3.95%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.19%) Sketch
3 7 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.32%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.10%) InDesign
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.66%) Productboard
7 2 (0.44%) CATIA
7 2 (0.44%) Fusion 360
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
1 113 (24.78%) Figma
2 82 (17.98%) Adobe Analytics
3 81 (17.76%) AWS
4 65 (14.25%) Azure
5 41 (8.99%) GCP
6 25 (5.48%) SaaS
7 20 (4.39%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (4.39%) Amazon S3
7 20 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.17%) Serverless
9 18 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.07%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.85%) Apigee
14 9 (1.97%) GitHub
14 9 (1.97%) Google Analytics
15 8 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (20.18%) Broadband
2 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.88%) WPA
4 3 (0.66%) Intranet
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%) 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 (3.51%) DynamoDB
2 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (1.97%) Redis
3 8 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.32%) Power BI
4 6 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.88%) Db2
6 4 (0.88%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.88%) QlikView
7 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
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%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (3.73%) GitLab
2 15 (3.29%) Git
3 14 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.85%) Cypress.io
4 13 (2.85%) JIRA
4 13 (2.85%) Maven
4 13 (2.85%) SonarQube
5 11 (2.41%) Axure RP
6 9 (1.97%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.44%) Postman
7 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.22%) Bower
8 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.22%) Mocha
8 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.52%) Finance
3 82 (17.98%) Games
4 67 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (14.69%) Public Sector
5 56 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (8.99%) Electronics
6 41 (8.99%) Law
7 34 (7.46%) Manufacturing
8 25 (5.48%) Marketing
9 22 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (4.39%) Legal
11 12 (2.63%) Banking
11 12 (2.63%) Retail
12 9 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.32%) Back Office
13 6 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (23.03%) Designer
2 72 (15.79%) Lead
3 70 (15.35%) Senior
4 53 (11.62%) Developer
5 49 (10.75%) UX Designer
6 35 (7.68%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.14%) Architect
8 24 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.17%) Interaction Designer
11 18 (3.95%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 17 (3.73%) Analyst
12 17 (3.73%) Consultant
12 17 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.51%) Digital Designer
13 16 (3.51%) Senior Designer
14 15 (3.29%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.29%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.46%) HTML
2 30 (6.58%) CSS
3 27 (5.92%) React
4 21 (4.61%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.29%) .NET
6 15 (3.29%) REST
7 14 (3.07%) Jest
7 14 (3.07%) Node.js
8 13 (2.85%) Gherkin
9 12 (2.63%) LangChain
10 7 (1.54%) Spring
11 6 (1.32%) Framer.js
11 6 (1.32%) JSON
11 6 (1.32%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.32%) Vue
12 5 (1.10%) Django
12 5 (1.10%) Google JAX
12 5 (1.10%) JAX
12 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.54%) Social Media
2 33 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.29%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.85%) 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 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.32%) Life Science
13 5 (1.10%) CUDA
13 5 (1.10%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.29%) 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 (49.34%) Agile
2 204 (44.74%) AI
3 161 (35.31%) User Research
4 133 (29.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 131 (28.73%) Analytics
6 126 (27.63%) Roadmaps
7 103 (22.59%) Customer Experience
8 101 (22.15%) Product Roadmap
9 98 (21.49%) User Experience
10 86 (18.86%) Storytelling
11 82 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.54%) Digital Customer Experience
13 79 (17.32%) Rapid Prototyping
14 78 (17.11%) UX Design
15 64 (14.04%) Mentoring
16 63 (13.82%) Software Engineering
17 62 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (13.60%) Workshop Facilitation
18 58 (12.72%) Validation
19 54 (11.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.64%) Python
2 48 (10.53%) Java
3 30 (6.58%) JavaScript
4 29 (6.36%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.48%) SQL
6 23 (5.04%) C
6 23 (5.04%) C#
7 21 (4.61%) C++
8 16 (3.51%) Bash
9 15 (3.29%) Groovy
10 5 (1.10%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.88%) PHP
12 3 (0.66%) Julia
12 3 (0.66%) Pascal
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
1 106 (23.25%) Degree
2 69 (15.13%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (2.85%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.10%) 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
1 134 (29.39%) Accessibility
2 67 (14.69%) WCAG
3 7 (1.54%) GRC
3 7 (1.54%) QA
4 4 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.88%) DO-254
4 4 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (6.36%) Docker
2 16 (3.51%) Firmware
3 6 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.51%) Terraform
2 13 (2.85%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (24.78%) Adobe
2 32 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.14%) Google
4 11 (2.41%) EMC
4 11 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.54%) 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