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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 307 418
Rank change year-on-year -63 +111 -111
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 512 454 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.92% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.03% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 293 184 274
10th Percentile £43,050 £37,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £62,875 £57,965
% change year-on-year -10.14% +8.47% -3.39%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -2 422 £60,000 -7.69% 349
UK excluding London -53 314 £56,500 -10.14% 160
Work from Home +12 266 £65,925 +19.86% 150
London -20 147 £70,561 +1.70% 215
North of England -3 76 £50,000 -23.08% 32
South East -22 75 £56,500 -7.00% 56
East of England +34 73 £63,750 +41.67% 30
North West +2 33 £48,750 -28.84% 22
Yorkshire -18 25 £65,000 +9.24% 4
South West -55 23 £60,000 -5.88% 23
Wales -43 21 £53,171 -22.38% 4
Midlands -47 20 £61,250 +4.26% 11
North East -38 18 £56,250 -13.46% 6
West Midlands -18 16 £68,665 +14.44% 10
Scotland -71 15 £52,250 -16.82% 6
Northern Ireland -55 11 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -32 4 £55,000 +66.67% 1

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 8 (1.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.17%) Apache
4 4 (0.78%) CMS
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.59%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.71%) Adobe XD
2 11 (2.15%) InDesign
2 11 (2.15%) Sketch
3 10 (1.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (1.95%) Photoshop
4 8 (1.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 6 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.98%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.78%) Solid Edge
8 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.59%) Productboard
9 2 (0.39%) InVision
9 2 (0.39%) Trello
9 2 (0.39%) Windchill
10 1 (0.20%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.20%) Mathcad
10 1 (0.20%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 111 (21.68%) Figma
2 88 (17.19%) AWS
3 74 (14.45%) Azure
4 72 (14.06%) Adobe Analytics
5 47 (9.18%) GCP
6 20 (3.91%) SaaS
7 19 (3.71%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.71%) Serverless
8 17 (3.32%) Amazon ECR
8 17 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (3.32%) dbt
9 16 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.93%) GitHub
11 12 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.95%) Apigee
13 10 (1.95%) Google Analytics
13 10 (1.95%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 84 (16.41%) Broadband
2 8 (1.56%) WPA
3 7 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.98%) Intranet
5 4 (0.78%) Wireless
6 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.39%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.39%) Internet
7 2 (0.39%) RS-485
7 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) Modbus
8 1 (0.20%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 14 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.34%) Redis
4 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.37%) Power BI
6 6 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.78%) Db2
8 4 (0.78%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.78%) QlikView
9 3 (0.59%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.39%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.39%) Big Data
10 2 (0.39%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (4.49%) Git
2 16 (3.13%) JIRA
3 14 (2.73%) GitLab
4 12 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.15%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.95%) Axure RP
6 10 (1.95%) Maven
6 10 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.56%) Balsamiq
7 8 (1.56%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.98%) Postman
9 4 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.59%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.39%) Bower
11 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.20%) MLflow
12 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 155 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.53%) Finance
3 89 (17.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (14.45%) Games
6 72 (14.06%) Public Sector
7 60 (11.72%) Electronics
8 47 (9.18%) Law
9 42 (8.20%) Manufacturing
10 25 (4.88%) Marketing
10 25 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (3.32%) Legal
12 16 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.93%) Aerospace
14 12 (2.34%) Retail
15 9 (1.76%) Banking
16 8 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (1.17%) Advertising
18 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (22.07%) Designer
2 100 (19.53%) Senior
3 69 (13.48%) Lead
4 62 (12.11%) Developer
5 49 (9.57%) UX Designer
6 38 (7.42%) Architect
7 33 (6.45%) Lead Designer
7 33 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.05%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (5.47%) Interaction Designer
10 23 (4.49%) Senior Designer
11 20 (3.91%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.91%) UI Designer
11 20 (3.91%) UI/UX Designer
12 19 (3.71%) Consultant
12 19 (3.71%) Product Manager
13 17 (3.32%) Senior Manager
13 17 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.01%) HTML
2 37 (7.23%) CSS
3 25 (4.88%) React
4 18 (3.52%) AngularJS
4 18 (3.52%) LangChain
5 16 (3.13%) .NET
6 14 (2.73%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.34%) REST
8 11 (2.15%) Jest
9 10 (1.95%) Gherkin
10 9 (1.76%) Web Services
11 8 (1.56%) JSON
12 7 (1.37%) Framer.js
12 7 (1.37%) Material Design
12 7 (1.37%) Node.js
12 7 (1.37%) RESTful
13 6 (1.17%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.17%) Django
13 6 (1.17%) XML
14 5 (0.98%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.06%) Social Media
2 40 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.30%) Embedded Systems
5 19 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.32%) FPGA
6 17 (3.32%) IoT
7 15 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.34%) Robotics
10 11 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.15%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.95%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.76%) Life Science
12 9 (1.76%) VHDL
13 8 (1.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.73%) Linux
2 8 (1.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (49.80%) Agile
2 226 (44.14%) AI
3 163 (31.84%) User Research
4 138 (26.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 133 (25.98%) Analytics
6 124 (24.22%) Roadmaps
7 104 (20.31%) User Experience
8 102 (19.92%) Rapid Prototyping
9 94 (18.36%) Customer Experience
10 90 (17.58%) Product Roadmap
11 87 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (16.80%) Mentoring
13 80 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (15.43%) Storytelling
15 78 (15.23%) UX Design
16 75 (14.65%) Software Engineering
17 72 (14.06%) Digital Customer Experience
18 65 (12.70%) Validation
19 59 (11.52%) Workshop Facilitation
20 56 (10.94%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 93 (18.16%) Python
2 44 (8.59%) Java
3 38 (7.42%) JavaScript
4 33 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.05%) SQL
6 28 (5.47%) C
7 26 (5.08%) C#
7 26 (5.08%) C++
8 12 (2.34%) Bash
8 12 (2.34%) MATLAB
9 11 (2.15%) Groovy
10 6 (1.17%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.98%) Go
11 5 (0.98%) PHP
12 3 (0.59%) Julia
12 3 (0.59%) Pascal
12 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.59%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 143 (27.93%) Degree
2 86 (16.80%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.09%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.08%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.34%) PhD
8 10 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.17%) HND
11 3 (0.59%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.39%) HNC
13 1 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (26.56%) Accessibility
2 72 (14.06%) WCAG
3 13 (2.54%) QA
4 7 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.78%) DO-254
5 4 (0.78%) GDPR
6 3 (0.59%) GRC
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (6.25%) Docker
2 18 (3.52%) Firmware
3 7 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.32%) Terraform
2 13 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.95%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (19.92%) Adobe
2 46 (8.98%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.64%) Google
4 23 (4.49%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.93%) EMC
6 11 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.37%) Foundry
8 5 (0.98%) Databricks
8 5 (0.98%) SAP
9 4 (0.78%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.78%) Oracle
9 4 (0.78%) Xilinx
10 3 (0.59%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.59%) Motorola
10 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.39%) Altera
11 2 (0.39%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.39%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.39%) Intel
11 2 (0.39%) Workday