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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 302 426
Rank change year-on-year -59 +124 -119
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 546 463 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.04% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 310 186 254
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,168 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.54% -9.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,938 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,375 £58,465
% change year-on-year -6.42% +3.27% -2.56%

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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +15 454 £60,000 -7.69% 902
UK excluding London -53 342 £56,500 -6.42% 428
Work from Home +13 267 £65,925 +19.86% 391
London -33 152 £75,000 +7.14% 550
South East -8 86 £56,500 -7.00% 106
North of England -17 83 £52,500 -19.23% 95
East of England +22 72 £63,750 +41.67% 75
North West -12 38 £50,000 -27.94% 62
South West -45 30 £60,000 -5.88% 60
Yorkshire -15 24 £65,000 +20.37% 11
Midlands -23 23 £60,000 - 27
Wales -39 22 £53,171 -22.38% 12
North East -40 21 £57,500 -11.54% 22
West Midlands -16 18 £61,250 +2.08% 19
Scotland -69 15 £52,250 -16.82% 48
Northern Ireland -59 11 £80,000 - 16
East Midlands -28 5 £50,000 +51.52% 8

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 (1.83%) Confluence
2 8 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.55%) WordPress
7 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.48%) Adobe XD
2 14 (2.56%) SOLIDWORKS
3 13 (2.38%) InDesign
4 11 (2.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (2.01%) Photoshop
4 11 (2.01%) Sketch
5 8 (1.47%) Solid Edge
6 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
10 3 (0.55%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.55%) Productboard
10 3 (0.55%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.37%) InVision
11 2 (0.37%) Trello
11 2 (0.37%) Windchill
12 1 (0.18%) CATIA
12 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.37%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (21.25%) Figma
2 91 (16.67%) AWS
3 78 (14.29%) Azure
4 70 (12.82%) Adobe Analytics
5 48 (8.79%) GCP
6 21 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.85%) SaaS
6 21 (3.85%) Serverless
7 18 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (3.30%) dbt
7 18 (3.30%) GitHub
8 17 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (2.93%) Amazon ECR
10 15 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (15.02%) Broadband
2 8 (1.47%) WPA
3 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.92%) Intranet
5 4 (0.73%) Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.37%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.37%) Internet
7 2 (0.37%) RS-485
7 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
8 1 (0.18%) Modbus
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.11%) DynamoDB
2 15 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.38%) Redis
4 9 (1.65%) Power BI
5 8 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.55%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.55%) Db2
9 3 (0.55%) DB2 UDB
9 3 (0.55%) QlikView
9 3 (0.55%) Tableau
10 2 (0.37%) Big Data
10 2 (0.37%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 24 (4.40%) Git
2 17 (3.11%) JIRA
3 13 (2.38%) GitLab
4 11 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.83%) Axure RP
5 10 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.65%) Maven
6 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.47%) Balsamiq
7 8 (1.47%) LabVIEW
8 6 (1.10%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.37%) Bower
11 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.18%) MLflow
12 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 173 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.60%) Finance
3 96 (17.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (13.74%) Public Sector
6 72 (13.19%) Games
7 71 (13.00%) Electronics
8 52 (9.52%) Manufacturing
9 49 (8.97%) Law
10 30 (5.49%) Marketing
11 27 (4.95%) Aerospace
12 25 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (3.30%) Legal
14 17 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.20%) Retail
16 9 (1.65%) Automotive
16 9 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.28%) Banking
17 7 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (21.43%) Senior
2 114 (20.88%) Designer
3 65 (11.90%) Developer
3 65 (11.90%) Lead
4 48 (8.79%) UX Designer
5 39 (7.14%) Architect
6 33 (6.04%) Software Engineer
7 31 (5.68%) Lead Designer
7 31 (5.68%) Systems Engineer
8 29 (5.31%) Interaction Designer
9 27 (4.95%) Senior Designer
10 25 (4.58%) Consultant
11 20 (3.66%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.66%) Product Manager
12 19 (3.48%) UI Designer
12 19 (3.48%) UI/UX Designer
13 18 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.11%) Analyst
14 17 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.33%) HTML
2 36 (6.59%) CSS
3 28 (5.13%) React
4 20 (3.66%) LangChain
5 17 (3.11%) .NET
5 17 (3.11%) AngularJS
6 13 (2.38%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.20%) REST
8 10 (1.83%) Jest
8 10 (1.83%) Web Services
9 9 (1.65%) Gherkin
9 9 (1.65%) RESTful
10 8 (1.47%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.47%) Django
10 8 (1.47%) Framer.js
10 8 (1.47%) JSON
10 8 (1.47%) Node.js
11 7 (1.28%) Material Design
11 7 (1.28%) Next.js
12 6 (1.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.82%) Social Media
2 45 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.95%) Embedded Systems
3 27 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.48%) FPGA
5 19 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.93%) Robotics
8 15 (2.75%) IoT
9 12 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.20%) Life Science
9 12 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.01%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.83%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.65%) Analogue Electronics
12 9 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.56%) Linux
2 8 (1.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (47.44%) Agile
2 239 (43.77%) AI
3 161 (29.49%) User Research
4 140 (25.64%) Analytics
5 135 (24.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 124 (22.71%) Roadmaps
7 111 (20.33%) User Experience
8 108 (19.78%) Rapid Prototyping
9 100 (18.32%) Mentoring
10 96 (17.58%) Customer Experience
11 95 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (16.12%) Product Roadmap
13 82 (15.02%) UX Design
14 78 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 77 (14.10%) Storytelling
16 74 (13.55%) Validation
17 70 (12.82%) Digital Customer Experience
18 62 (11.36%) LLM
19 59 (10.81%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.77%) Python
2 45 (8.24%) Java
3 38 (6.96%) JavaScript
4 35 (6.41%) TypeScript
5 32 (5.86%) SQL
6 28 (5.13%) C
7 26 (4.76%) C#
8 25 (4.58%) C++
9 12 (2.20%) MATLAB
10 11 (2.01%) Bash
11 10 (1.83%) Groovy
12 6 (1.10%) Embedded C
12 6 (1.10%) Go
13 5 (0.92%) PHP
14 3 (0.55%) Pascal
14 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.55%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) Julia
16 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 157 (28.75%) Degree
2 101 (18.50%) Security Cleared
3 73 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.20%) PhD
9 10 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.47%) HND
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.55%) HNC
13 3 (0.55%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (26.01%) Accessibility
2 71 (13.00%) WCAG
3 14 (2.56%) QA
4 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.92%) GDPR
6 4 (0.73%) DO-254
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) JTAG
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) GxP
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (6.04%) Docker
2 22 (4.03%) Firmware
3 7 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (3.66%) Terraform
2 15 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.65%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (18.68%) Adobe
2 49 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 35 (6.41%) Google
4 27 (4.95%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.11%) EMC
6 10 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.65%) Databricks
7 9 (1.65%) Foundry
7 9 (1.65%) SAP
8 4 (0.73%) Oracle
8 4 (0.73%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.55%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.55%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.55%) Motorola
9 3 (0.55%) Siemens
10 2 (0.37%) Altera
10 2 (0.37%) Revolut
10 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.37%) Workday