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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 338 377
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 -52
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 438 341 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.90% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 231 185 411
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +22.64% -15.20%

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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +31 383 £67,500 +3.85% 237
UK excluding London -57 248 £57,500 -11.54% 166
Work from Home +49 223 £67,500 +3.85% 89
London +42 147 £75,000 +20.00% 110
South East -10 67 £56,500 -24.67% 50
East of England +20 63 £80,000 +60.00% 22
North of England -67 56 £57,500 -2.13% 44
North West -41 24 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Yorkshire -46 24 £67,500 +22.73% 14
South West -52 23 £77,000 +12.37% 14
Midlands -41 16 £52,500 -17.73% 14
Scotland -34 15 £54,500 -9.02% 21
West Midlands -22 14 £52,500 -17.73% 9
North East -30 8 £60,000 -13.48% 9
Wales -45 5 £73,801 +7.74% 6
Northern Ireland -37 3 £77,500 +11.82% 1
East Midlands -53 2 £101,250 - 5

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 11 (2.51%) Confluence
2 3 (0.68%) CMS
2 3 (0.68%) WordPress
3 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 33 (7.53%) Adobe XD
2 16 (3.65%) Sketch
3 10 (2.28%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.14%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.91%) InVision
8 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.46%) CATIA
9 2 (0.46%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.23%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.23%) Blender
10 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.23%) Maya
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.23%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.23%) Maximo
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 124 (28.31%) Figma
2 90 (20.55%) AWS
3 83 (18.95%) Adobe Analytics
4 75 (17.12%) Azure
5 47 (10.73%) GCP
6 23 (5.25%) Amazon ECR
6 23 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (4.79%) SaaS
8 17 (3.88%) Miro
9 16 (3.65%) Serverless
10 15 (3.42%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.20%) Google Analytics
11 14 (3.20%) PaaS
11 14 (3.20%) Vertex AI
12 13 (2.97%) Apigee
12 13 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 84 (19.18%) Broadband
2 13 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.91%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.91%) Internet
3 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.68%) Wireless
5 2 (0.46%) 2G
5 2 (0.46%) 4G
5 2 (0.46%) 5G
5 2 (0.46%) DNS
5 2 (0.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.46%) ICMP
5 2 (0.46%) LTE
5 2 (0.46%) Modbus
6 1 (0.23%) AMQP
6 1 (0.23%) Firewall
6 1 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.23%) MQTT
6 1 (0.23%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.97%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.51%) Redis
4 8 (1.83%) Power BI
5 6 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.91%) DB2
7 4 (0.91%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.91%) QlikView
8 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.46%) GIS
9 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.46%) Tableau
10 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (5.94%) Axure RP
2 24 (5.48%) Balsamiq
3 18 (4.11%) JIRA
4 17 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.42%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.97%) GitLab
6 13 (2.97%) Maven
6 13 (2.97%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.74%) Git
8 5 (1.14%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.23%) Mocha
10 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 109 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (17.35%) Finance
4 74 (16.89%) Games
5 55 (12.56%) Law
6 51 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (10.73%) Public Sector
8 33 (7.53%) Manufacturing
9 32 (7.31%) Electronics
10 21 (4.79%) Banking
11 19 (4.34%) Legal
12 14 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.51%) Retail
14 10 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.83%) Marketing
15 8 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.14%) Back Office
17 5 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 101 (23.06%) Designer
2 69 (15.75%) Senior
3 65 (14.84%) Lead
4 44 (10.05%) UX Designer
5 38 (8.68%) Developer
6 30 (6.85%) Architect
6 30 (6.85%) Lead Designer
7 24 (5.48%) Software Engineer
8 22 (5.02%) Senior Manager
9 20 (4.57%) Analyst
9 20 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 19 (4.34%) Consultant
11 18 (4.11%) Product Designer
11 18 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.88%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.65%) Interaction Designer
14 15 (3.42%) Business Analyst
15 14 (3.20%) Digital Architect
15 14 (3.20%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.36%) HTML
2 40 (9.13%) CSS
3 33 (7.53%) React
4 26 (5.94%) .NET
5 23 (5.25%) Node.js
6 21 (4.79%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.11%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.65%) Jest
8 16 (3.65%) REST
9 13 (2.97%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.28%) Django
10 10 (2.28%) LangChain
10 10 (2.28%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.05%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.60%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.60%) JAX
12 7 (1.60%) Next.js
13 6 (1.37%) Vue
14 5 (1.14%) RESTful
14 5 (1.14%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.44%) Social Media
2 40 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 37 (8.45%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.51%) Robotics
7 10 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.83%) IoT
8 8 (1.83%) Life Science
9 7 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.60%) CUDA
9 7 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.37%) Arduino
10 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.37%) Raspberry Pi
10 6 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.02%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Unix
3 6 (1.37%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Windows
5 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (55.48%) Agile
2 171 (39.04%) AI
3 144 (32.88%) User Research
3 144 (32.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 129 (29.45%) Analytics
5 128 (29.22%) User Experience
6 113 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (25.11%) Roadmaps
8 105 (23.97%) Customer Experience
9 90 (20.55%) UX Design
10 88 (20.09%) Storytelling
11 86 (19.63%) Product Roadmap
12 72 (16.44%) Digital Customer Experience
13 69 (15.75%) Rapid Prototyping
14 68 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (15.07%) Workshop Facilitation
16 65 (14.84%) Wireframes
17 62 (14.16%) Software Engineering
18 60 (13.70%) Mentoring
19 56 (12.79%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.72%) Python
2 59 (13.47%) Java
3 49 (11.19%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.22%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.02%) C#
5 22 (5.02%) C++
6 21 (4.79%) C
7 19 (4.34%) SQL
8 14 (3.20%) Bash
8 14 (3.20%) Groovy
9 5 (1.14%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.68%) Julia
10 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.68%) Pascal
10 3 (0.68%) R
11 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (26.71%) Degree
2 88 (20.09%) Security Cleared
3 70 (15.98%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.14%) PhD
9 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.68%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) HNC
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (33.11%) Accessibility
2 71 (16.21%) WCAG
3 7 (1.60%) GDPR
3 7 (1.60%) GRC
4 4 (0.91%) DO-254
4 4 (0.91%) ISO 13485
4 4 (0.91%) QA
5 2 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 30 (6.85%) Docker
2 9 (2.05%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.65%) Terraform
2 13 (2.97%) HP Fortify
3 11 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.28%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Nessus
6 1 (0.23%) Nmap
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 124 (28.31%) Adobe
2 40 (9.13%) Google
2 40 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.74%) Qualtrics
4 9 (2.05%) Foundry
4 9 (2.05%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.83%) EMC
6 4 (0.91%) JD Edwards
6 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.68%) Cognizant
7 3 (0.68%) Motorola
7 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.68%) Workday
8 2 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.46%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.23%) Informatica
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.23%) Siemens