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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 317 351
Rank change year-on-year -35 +34 -26
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 581 408 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.82% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.92% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 392 169 196
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.52% +6.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £96,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% -

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 October 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 October 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 +30 498 £60,000 -14.29% 1,453
UK excluding London -7 391 £56,000 -6.67% 680
Work from Home -22 186 £65,000 +19.27% 545
London -54 148 £75,000 - 848
North of England +4 107 £55,000 -4.35% 123
South East -6 103 £56,000 -13.85% 187
East of England +19 65 £60,000 -15.79% 120
North West +13 60 £53,750 -10.42% 66
Midlands -16 43 £56,250 -2.17% 58
West Midlands -13 33 £57,500 -2.13% 42
South West -45 33 £57,500 -32.35% 95
North East -35 29 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Wales -57 24 £53,171 +7.42% 18
Yorkshire -23 18 £50,000 +63.93% 30
Scotland -69 13 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands -33 10 £45,000 +36.36% 16
Northern Ireland -70 9 £80,000 - 23

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 13 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.07%) Apache
3 11 (1.89%) Confluence
4 9 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.86%) CMS
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.34%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (3.79%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.10%) Adobe Illustrator
2 18 (3.10%) Photoshop
3 17 (2.93%) Adobe XD
4 14 (2.41%) InDesign
5 11 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (1.38%) Sketch
8 7 (1.20%) EPLAN
8 7 (1.20%) Solid Edge
9 5 (0.86%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.86%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.86%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.52%) Productboard
10 3 (0.52%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.52%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.34%) InVision
11 2 (0.34%) Trello
11 2 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.69%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.52%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (17.21%) Figma
2 84 (14.46%) AWS
3 65 (11.19%) Azure
4 42 (7.23%) GCP
5 28 (4.82%) GitHub
6 18 (3.10%) Amazon S3
6 18 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.93%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.93%) SaaS
8 16 (2.75%) Serverless
9 15 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.41%) Adobe Analytics
10 14 (2.41%) dbt
11 13 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.89%) Google Analytics
13 10 (1.72%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.72%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.58%) Broadband
2 8 (1.38%) Wireless
2 8 (1.38%) WPA
3 6 (1.03%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.86%) Intranet
4 5 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.52%) RS-485
5 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.34%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.34%) Internet
6 2 (0.34%) RS-232
6 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) J1939
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.41%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.38%) Redis
5 7 (1.20%) Power BI
6 6 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.69%) Metadata
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) Tableau
9 2 (0.34%) Big Data
9 2 (0.34%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.34%) Power Query
9 2 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (4.48%) Git
2 19 (3.27%) GitLab
3 18 (3.10%) JIRA
4 8 (1.38%) Axure RP
4 8 (1.38%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.20%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.03%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.03%) Postman
7 5 (0.86%) Maven
7 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.34%) Bower
9 2 (0.34%) MLflow
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
General
1 222 (38.21%) Social Skills
2 121 (20.83%) Electronics
3 109 (18.76%) Manufacturing
4 105 (18.07%) Finance
5 97 (16.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 88 (15.15%) Public Sector
7 70 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
8 58 (9.98%) Aerospace
9 52 (8.95%) Law
10 38 (6.54%) Marketing
11 33 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (5.34%) Automotive
13 22 (3.79%) Retail
14 18 (3.10%) Games
14 18 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (2.41%) Legal
16 13 (2.24%) Military
17 11 (1.89%) Banking
18 10 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (25.65%) Senior
2 120 (20.65%) Designer
3 61 (10.50%) Developer
4 53 (9.12%) Lead
5 48 (8.26%) Electronics Engineer
6 47 (8.09%) UX Designer
7 45 (7.75%) Software Engineer
8 36 (6.20%) Senior Designer
9 30 (5.16%) Interaction Designer
10 25 (4.30%) Architect
10 25 (4.30%) Design Engineer
11 24 (4.13%) UI Designer
11 24 (4.13%) UI/UX Designer
12 22 (3.79%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.61%) Lead Designer
14 20 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.27%) Consultant
16 18 (3.10%) Software Developer
16 18 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.23%) CSS
1 42 (7.23%) HTML
2 39 (6.71%) React
3 25 (4.30%) .NET
4 18 (3.10%) Terraform
5 17 (2.93%) LangChain
5 17 (2.93%) REST
5 17 (2.93%) Spring Boot
6 15 (2.58%) Kafka
7 13 (2.24%) Spring
7 13 (2.24%) Web Services
8 12 (2.07%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.72%) FastAPI
9 10 (1.72%) RESTful
10 9 (1.55%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.55%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.55%) JSON
10 9 (1.55%) Next.js
11 8 (1.38%) Node.js
12 7 (1.20%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.71%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.48%) AI Agents
6 25 (4.30%) Robotics
7 22 (3.79%) IoT
8 20 (3.44%) FPGA
9 19 (3.27%) Analogue Electronics
10 18 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.58%) Social Media
12 13 (2.24%) Algorithms
12 13 (2.24%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.89%) Life Science
14 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 8 (1.38%) Fibre Optics
16 8 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.55%) Android
1 9 (1.55%) Linux
2 8 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (35.80%) AI
2 193 (33.22%) Agile
3 134 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (20.65%) User Experience
6 110 (18.93%) User Research
7 109 (18.76%) Validation
8 108 (18.59%) Rapid Prototyping
9 107 (18.42%) Mentoring
10 95 (16.35%) Software Engineering
11 92 (15.83%) Analytics
12 81 (13.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 79 (13.60%) UX Design
14 75 (12.91%) CI/CD
15 66 (11.36%) LLM
16 62 (10.67%) Roadmaps
17 61 (10.50%) Service Design
18 56 (9.64%) Wireframes
19 52 (8.95%) Workflow
20 51 (8.78%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 105 (18.07%) Python
2 48 (8.26%) TypeScript
3 47 (8.09%) JavaScript
4 41 (7.06%) SQL
5 39 (6.71%) Java
6 29 (4.99%) C
6 29 (4.99%) C#
6 29 (4.99%) C++
7 16 (2.75%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.55%) Rust
9 8 (1.38%) Bash
10 7 (1.20%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.03%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.03%) Go
11 6 (1.03%) Groovy
12 5 (0.86%) PHP
13 4 (0.69%) R
14 3 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 206 (35.46%) Degree
2 117 (20.14%) Security Cleared
3 91 (15.66%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.27%) HND
8 16 (2.75%) PhD
9 14 (2.41%) HNC
10 12 (2.07%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.69%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.34%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.17%) OCP
15 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (16.52%) Accessibility
2 41 (7.06%) WCAG
3 20 (3.44%) QA
4 11 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.69%) GDPR
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.52%) JTAG
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) IASME
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (6.88%) Docker
2 36 (6.20%) Firmware
3 13 (2.24%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.03%) Grafana
3 5 (0.86%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 53 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.95%) Adobe
3 35 (6.02%) EMC
4 32 (5.51%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.27%) Google
6 11 (1.89%) Databricks
6 11 (1.89%) SAP
7 9 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.20%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.03%) Thales
10 5 (0.86%) Foundry
11 4 (0.69%) Siemens
12 3 (0.52%) Apple
12 3 (0.52%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.52%) HighQ
12 3 (0.52%) Legora
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle
12 3 (0.52%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.34%) Altera
13 2 (0.34%) Revolut