Prototyping Job Trends

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 338 363
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -47
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 415 354 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.86% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.92% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 219 190 405
10th Percentile £46,200 £39,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,513 £53,000
% change year-on-year -16.07% +29.27% -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 59,591 38,445 75,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.47% 93.42% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,208 22,191 57,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +2 362 £67,500 +3.85% 237
UK excluding London -64 232 £57,500 -16.07% 166
Work from Home +22 203 £67,481 -2.64% 89
London +43 143 £73,151 +12.54% 110
South East -10 69 £56,500 -24.67% 50
East of England +9 55 £80,788 +61.58% 22
North of England -68 50 £57,500 -4.17% 44
North West -50 24 £57,500 -4.17% 22
South West -65 21 £79,750 +16.38% 14
Yorkshire -32 19 £67,500 +22.73% 14
Scotland -27 16 £54,500 -9.02% 21
Midlands -36 13 £51,250 -19.69% 14
West Midlands -3 11 £50,000 -21.65% 9
North East -25 7 £66,901 -3.47% 9
Wales -37 6 £73,801 +6.96% 6
Northern Ireland -33 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -42 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 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.24%) Strapi
3 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (8.19%) Adobe XD
2 16 (3.86%) Sketch
3 12 (2.89%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.20%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.96%) InVision
8 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.72%) Maya
9 1 (0.24%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.24%) Blender
9 1 (0.24%) CATIA
9 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.48%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.48%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 126 (30.36%) Figma
2 89 (21.45%) AWS
3 84 (20.24%) Adobe Analytics
4 76 (18.31%) Azure
5 51 (12.29%) GCP
6 28 (6.75%) Amazon ECR
6 28 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (5.30%) PaaS
8 21 (5.06%) Miro
9 18 (4.34%) dbt
10 17 (4.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 17 (4.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (4.10%) Pulumi
10 17 (4.10%) SaaS
10 17 (4.10%) Sentry
11 14 (3.37%) Google Analytics
11 14 (3.37%) Serverless
12 13 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 80 (19.28%) Broadband
2 20 (4.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.96%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.96%) Internet
3 4 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.72%) Wireless
5 2 (0.48%) 2G
5 2 (0.48%) 4G
5 2 (0.48%) 5G
5 2 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.48%) Firewall
5 2 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.48%) ICMP
5 2 (0.48%) LTE
6 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.24%) Modbus
6 1 (0.24%) RFID
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.34%) Redis
3 17 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.65%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.93%) Power BI
6 6 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.20%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.96%) DB2
8 4 (0.96%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.96%) QlikView
9 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.48%) Tableau
11 1 (0.24%) GIS
11 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (7.23%) Axure RP
2 26 (6.27%) Balsamiq
3 18 (4.34%) JIRA
4 15 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 13 (3.13%) Git
6 11 (2.65%) GitLab
6 11 (2.65%) Maven
6 11 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.20%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.24%) Mocha
9 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (16.87%) Games
4 69 (16.63%) Finance
5 56 (13.49%) Law
6 51 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (11.33%) Public Sector
8 26 (6.27%) Banking
8 26 (6.27%) Electronics
9 24 (5.78%) Manufacturing
10 18 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (4.10%) Legal
12 15 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.89%) Retail
14 10 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.20%) Back Office
16 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 100 (24.10%) Designer
2 74 (17.83%) Senior
3 63 (15.18%) Lead
4 44 (10.60%) UX Designer
5 31 (7.47%) Developer
6 27 (6.51%) Lead Designer
7 21 (5.06%) Senior Manager
7 21 (5.06%) Software Engineer
8 20 (4.82%) Analyst
8 20 (4.82%) Architect
8 20 (4.82%) Consultant
9 19 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Product Designer
10 17 (4.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) Interaction Designer
11 16 (3.86%) Strategy Manager
12 15 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 14 (3.37%) Systems Manager
14 13 (3.13%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.64%) HTML
2 39 (9.40%) CSS
3 31 (7.47%) React
4 24 (5.78%) .NET
5 22 (5.30%) Node.js
6 17 (4.10%) AngularJS
6 17 (4.10%) Django
7 15 (3.61%) Spring Boot
8 14 (3.37%) Jest
9 13 (3.13%) REST
10 11 (2.65%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.41%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.17%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.93%) LangChain
14 7 (1.69%) Google JAX
14 7 (1.69%) JAX
15 6 (1.45%) Next.js
16 5 (1.20%) JSON
16 5 (1.20%) Vue
16 5 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.39%) Social Media
2 40 (9.64%) Product Ownership
3 37 (8.92%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.93%) Life Science
7 8 (1.93%) Robotics
8 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.69%) CUDA
8 7 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (1.69%) IoT
8 7 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.45%) Arduino
9 6 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
9 6 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.99%) Linux
2 18 (4.34%) Unix
3 6 (1.45%) Android
4 5 (1.20%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (57.83%) Agile
2 156 (37.59%) AI
3 139 (33.49%) User Research
3 139 (33.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 134 (32.29%) User Experience
5 132 (31.81%) Analytics
6 116 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (25.30%) Customer Experience
8 100 (24.10%) Roadmaps
9 92 (22.17%) UX Design
10 89 (21.45%) Storytelling
11 79 (19.04%) Product Roadmap
12 69 (16.63%) Wireframes
13 68 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 68 (16.39%) Digital Customer Experience
14 61 (14.70%) Rapid Prototyping
15 60 (14.46%) Workshop Facilitation
16 58 (13.98%) Mentoring
17 57 (13.73%) CI/CD
17 57 (13.73%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (20.24%) Python
2 55 (13.25%) Java
3 48 (11.57%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.71%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.58%) C++
6 18 (4.34%) C
7 17 (4.10%) C#
8 16 (3.86%) SQL
9 12 (2.89%) Bash
9 12 (2.89%) Groovy
10 3 (0.72%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.72%) Julia
10 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.72%) Pascal
10 3 (0.72%) R
11 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
11 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 114 (27.47%) Degree
2 92 (22.17%) Security Cleared
3 74 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.20%) PhD
9 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.72%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.24%) HNC
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (35.66%) Accessibility
2 72 (17.35%) WCAG
3 7 (1.69%) GDPR
3 7 (1.69%) GRC
4 4 (0.96%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.72%) QA
6 2 (0.48%) DO-254
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (8.43%) Docker
2 9 (2.17%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (5.54%) Terraform
2 17 (4.10%) AWS Copilot
3 11 (2.65%) HP Fortify
4 9 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Nessus
6 1 (0.24%) Nmap
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 126 (30.36%) Adobe
2 46 (11.08%) Google
3 37 (8.92%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.10%) Qualtrics
5 9 (2.17%) Foundry
6 8 (1.93%) EMC
6 8 (1.93%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.96%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.72%) Motorola
8 3 (0.72%) Workday
9 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.48%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.48%) Mercator
9 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.48%) SAP
9 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.48%) VMware
10 1 (0.24%) Pega
10 1 (0.24%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.24%) Xilinx