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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 312 369
Rank change year-on-year -60 +57 -36
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 529 439 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 341 177 202
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.99%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -11 444 £60,000 -14.29% 1,443
UK excluding London -45 339 £57,500 -4.17% 694
Work from Home -28 206 £65,000 +18.18% 578
London -35 144 £75,000 - 866
North of England -4 89 £52,500 -12.50% 113
South East -11 85 £58,250 -13.70% 161
East of England +11 58 £60,000 +33.33% 118
North West -4 42 £50,000 -25.93% 69
Midlands -37 34 £57,500 -4.17% 55
South West -58 31 £60,000 -29.41% 127
West Midlands -22 27 £57,500 -4.17% 40
North East -40 25 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Yorkshire -29 22 £65,000 +113.11% 29
Wales -58 22 £53,171 -2.88% 18
Northern Ireland -67 11 £80,000 - 30
Scotland -79 11 £55,000 - 79
East Midlands -33 7 £45,000 +36.36% 15

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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 8 (1.51%) Apache
2 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.95%) CMS
3 5 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.57%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 20 (3.78%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.40%) Adobe XD
3 15 (2.84%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (2.84%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.65%) InDesign
5 10 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.70%) Sketch
7 8 (1.51%) Solid Edge
8 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.95%) EPLAN
9 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.57%) Productboard
10 3 (0.57%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.57%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.38%) InVision
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.38%) Trello
11 2 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.57%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (18.53%) Figma
2 83 (15.69%) AWS
3 64 (12.10%) Azure
4 36 (6.81%) GCP
5 25 (4.73%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.97%) GitHub
7 20 (3.78%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.78%) Serverless
8 19 (3.59%) SaaS
9 18 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.21%) Anthropic Claude
10 17 (3.21%) Power Platform
11 16 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.65%) dbt
13 13 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.73%) Broadband
2 8 (1.51%) WPA
3 5 (0.95%) Intranet
4 3 (0.57%) RS-485
4 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.57%) Wireless
5 2 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.38%) RS-232
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) AMQP
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) Modbus
6 1 (0.19%) MQTT
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.21%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.51%) Power BI
3 8 (1.51%) Redis
4 7 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.57%) Tableau
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.38%) Big Data
9 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (3.97%) Git
2 17 (3.21%) JIRA
3 12 (2.27%) GitLab
4 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.51%) Axure RP
6 8 (1.51%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.51%) Maven
6 8 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.13%) Balsamiq
8 6 (1.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.38%) Bower
10 2 (0.38%) MLflow
10 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 195 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.66%) Finance
3 96 (18.15%) Electronics
4 92 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (14.56%) Manufacturing
6 74 (13.99%) Public Sector
7 69 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (9.26%) Law
9 39 (7.37%) Aerospace
10 37 (6.99%) Marketing
11 31 (5.86%) Games
12 29 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (3.21%) Retail
14 15 (2.84%) Automotive
15 14 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.46%) Legal
17 11 (2.08%) Military
18 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (1.51%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 113 (21.36%) Senior
2 105 (19.85%) Designer
3 66 (12.48%) Developer
4 52 (9.83%) Lead
5 42 (7.94%) UX Designer
6 38 (7.18%) Architect
6 38 (7.18%) Software Engineer
7 28 (5.29%) Senior Designer
8 27 (5.10%) Interaction Designer
9 25 (4.73%) Electronics Engineer
10 24 (4.54%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (4.35%) Lead Designer
12 21 (3.97%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.97%) UI Designer
12 21 (3.97%) UI/UX Designer
13 20 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.40%) Consultant
15 17 (3.21%) Senior Manager
16 16 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.75%) HTML
2 39 (7.37%) CSS
3 33 (6.24%) React
4 21 (3.97%) .NET
5 17 (3.21%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.02%) LangChain
6 16 (3.02%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.84%) Terraform
8 11 (2.08%) REST
9 10 (1.89%) Kafka
9 10 (1.89%) Web Services
10 9 (1.70%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.70%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.70%) Jest
10 9 (1.70%) Node.js
10 9 (1.70%) RESTful
10 9 (1.70%) Spring
11 8 (1.51%) Gherkin
11 8 (1.51%) Next.js
12 7 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.05%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (4.73%) Social Media
6 24 (4.54%) Robotics
7 23 (4.35%) AI Agents
8 18 (3.40%) IoT
9 17 (3.21%) FPGA
9 17 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.65%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.46%) Algorithms
12 12 (2.27%) Analogue Electronics
13 11 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (2.08%) Low-Code
13 11 (2.08%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.89%) Life Science
14 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.70%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.89%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Android
3 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (37.62%) AI
2 195 (36.86%) Agile
3 116 (21.93%) User Research
4 113 (21.36%) Rapid Prototyping
5 110 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 107 (20.23%) User Experience
7 97 (18.34%) Analytics
8 95 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (17.20%) Mentoring
10 86 (16.26%) Software Engineering
10 86 (16.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 83 (15.69%) Validation
12 76 (14.37%) Roadmaps
13 75 (14.18%) UX Design
14 60 (11.34%) CI/CD
15 59 (11.15%) LLM
16 53 (10.02%) Service Design
17 49 (9.26%) Wireframes
18 45 (8.51%) Community of Practice
18 45 (8.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (16.64%) Python
2 42 (7.94%) JavaScript
3 41 (7.75%) TypeScript
4 36 (6.81%) Java
5 31 (5.86%) SQL
6 30 (5.67%) C
7 29 (5.48%) C++
8 27 (5.10%) C#
9 14 (2.65%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.89%) Bash
11 9 (1.70%) Groovy
12 8 (1.51%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.32%) Go
14 5 (0.95%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.95%) PHP
15 4 (0.76%) Rust
16 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.38%) Pascal
17 2 (0.38%) Ruby
18 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (32.89%) Degree
2 107 (20.23%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.84%) PhD
7 12 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.27%) HND
8 8 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.51%) HNC
8 8 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) OCP
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (18.90%) Accessibility
2 44 (8.32%) WCAG
3 20 (3.78%) QA
4 10 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) GDPR
6 4 (0.76%) DO-254
7 3 (0.57%) JTAG
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) GRC
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.19%) MISRA
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (5.29%) Firmware
2 26 (4.91%) Docker
3 8 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.51%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 61 (11.53%) Adobe
2 51 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.86%) OpenAI
4 24 (4.54%) EMC
5 18 (3.40%) Google
6 11 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.08%) SAP
7 10 (1.89%) Databricks
8 5 (0.95%) Autodesk
9 4 (0.76%) Oracle
10 3 (0.57%) Apple
10 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.57%) Foundry
10 3 (0.57%) Siemens
10 3 (0.57%) Thales
10 3 (0.57%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.38%) Altera
11 2 (0.38%) Revolut
11 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.38%) YouTube