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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 321 320
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 602 407 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.93% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 408 174 196
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,675 £47,250
25th Percentile £46,938 £51,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £94,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,625 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.04% -2.00%

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 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 14 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 14 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 +36 521 £60,000 -14.29% 867
UK excluding London -15 413 £56,000 -6.67% 330
Work from Home -25 184 £65,000 +18.18% 402
London -41 149 £75,000 - 596
South East +15 115 £56,000 -10.93% 86
North of England +12 112 £55,000 -8.33% 82
East of England +22 67 £58,750 -28.79% 45
North West +7 63 £55,000 -17.79% 47
Midlands -25 45 £56,250 -4.26% 16
South West -36 37 £56,250 -33.82% 43
West Midlands -9 34 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -46 29 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Wales -53 25 £53,171 -2.88% 5
Yorkshire -21 20 £50,000 +63.93% 26
Scotland -64 13 £55,000 -25.48% 32
East Midlands -39 11 £45,000 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland -72 7 £77,415 +4.90% 24

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 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.99%) Apache
3 11 (1.83%) Confluence
4 10 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.83%) CMS
8 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (3.65%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (2.99%) Adobe Illustrator
2 18 (2.99%) Photoshop
3 17 (2.82%) Adobe XD
4 13 (2.16%) InDesign
5 12 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.33%) EPLAN
6 8 (1.33%) Sketch
7 7 (1.16%) Solid Edge
8 5 (0.83%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.83%) OrCAD
9 3 (0.50%) Productboard
9 3 (0.50%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.50%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.33%) InVision
10 2 (0.33%) Simulink
10 2 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.66%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.50%) 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 94 (15.61%) Figma
2 84 (13.95%) AWS
3 67 (11.13%) Azure
4 42 (6.98%) GCP
5 28 (4.65%) GitHub
6 19 (3.16%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 18 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (2.66%) SaaS
8 16 (2.66%) Serverless
9 15 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.33%) dbt
10 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.83%) Azure AI
11 11 (1.83%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
12 10 (1.66%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) Wireless
2 8 (1.33%) Broadband
2 8 (1.33%) WPA
3 6 (1.00%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.83%) Intranet
4 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.50%) RS-485
5 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.33%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.33%) RS-232
6 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) J1939
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.33%) DynamoDB
2 11 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.33%) Power BI
3 8 (1.33%) Redis
4 6 (1.00%) Metadata
4 6 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.66%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.50%) Tableau
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.33%) Big Data
7 2 (0.33%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (4.65%) Git
2 19 (3.16%) GitLab
2 19 (3.16%) JIRA
3 8 (1.33%) Axure RP
3 8 (1.33%) LabVIEW
4 7 (1.16%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.00%) Balsamiq
5 6 (1.00%) Postman
6 5 (0.83%) Maven
6 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.33%) Bower
8 2 (0.33%) MLflow
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.17%) ERwin
General
1 231 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 138 (22.92%) Electronics
3 122 (20.27%) Manufacturing
4 104 (17.28%) Finance
5 99 (16.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (14.95%) Public Sector
7 74 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (10.63%) Aerospace
9 54 (8.97%) Law
10 38 (6.31%) Marketing
11 34 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (5.32%) Automotive
13 24 (3.99%) Retail
14 20 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (2.49%) Legal
17 13 (2.16%) Games
17 13 (2.16%) Military
18 12 (1.99%) Banking
19 10 (1.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (24.92%) Senior
2 119 (19.77%) Designer
3 59 (9.80%) Developer
3 59 (9.80%) Electronics Engineer
4 49 (8.14%) Lead
5 46 (7.64%) Software Engineer
6 44 (7.31%) UX Designer
7 34 (5.65%) Design Engineer
7 34 (5.65%) Senior Designer
8 30 (4.98%) Interaction Designer
9 25 (4.15%) Architect
10 23 (3.82%) UI Designer
10 23 (3.82%) UI/UX Designer
11 22 (3.65%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.16%) Consultant
13 19 (3.16%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 19 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
14 18 (2.99%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.48%) HTML
2 44 (7.31%) CSS
3 37 (6.15%) React
4 25 (4.15%) .NET
5 18 (2.99%) LangChain
5 18 (2.99%) Terraform
6 17 (2.82%) REST
7 16 (2.66%) Spring Boot
8 15 (2.49%) Kafka
9 13 (2.16%) Web Services
10 12 (1.99%) Spring
11 11 (1.83%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.83%) FastAPI
12 10 (1.66%) JSON
12 10 (1.66%) RESTful
13 9 (1.50%) AWS CDK
14 8 (1.33%) Framer.js
14 8 (1.33%) LlamaIndex
14 8 (1.33%) Next.js
15 7 (1.16%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.31%) Cloud Native
1 44 (7.31%) Embedded Systems
2 32 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (4.98%) AI Agents
4 29 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.49%) Analogue Electronics
6 26 (4.32%) Robotics
7 23 (3.82%) IoT
8 21 (3.49%) FPGA
9 18 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.16%) Algorithms
11 13 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.99%) Life Science
13 10 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.50%) Acoustics
14 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.50%) Android
1 9 (1.50%) Linux
2 8 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) macOS
5 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (34.55%) AI
2 192 (31.89%) Agile
3 144 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 135 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (19.93%) Validation
6 117 (19.44%) User Experience
7 111 (18.44%) Mentoring
7 111 (18.44%) Rapid Prototyping
8 104 (17.28%) User Research
9 100 (16.61%) Software Engineering
10 86 (14.29%) Analytics
11 77 (12.79%) CI/CD
12 76 (12.62%) UX Design
13 75 (12.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 69 (11.46%) LLM
15 65 (10.80%) Service Design
16 57 (9.47%) Wireframes
17 55 (9.14%) Roadmaps
18 54 (8.97%) Workflow
19 51 (8.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 108 (17.94%) Python
2 48 (7.97%) TypeScript
3 46 (7.64%) JavaScript
4 42 (6.98%) SQL
5 38 (6.31%) Java
6 34 (5.65%) C
7 33 (5.48%) C++
8 29 (4.82%) C#
9 17 (2.82%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.66%) Embedded C
10 10 (1.66%) Rust
11 8 (1.33%) Bash
11 8 (1.33%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.00%) Go
12 6 (1.00%) Groovy
13 5 (0.83%) PHP
13 5 (0.83%) R
14 4 (0.66%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 217 (36.05%) Degree
2 121 (20.10%) Security Cleared
3 96 (15.95%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 23 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.49%) HND
7 17 (2.82%) PhD
8 15 (2.49%) HNC
9 12 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.99%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.50%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.17%) OCP
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.28%) Accessibility
2 41 (6.81%) WCAG
3 20 (3.32%) QA
4 12 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.16%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.00%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) JTAG
7 3 (0.50%) MISRA
8 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) DO-254
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) ARP4754
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) DO-160
9 1 (0.17%) IASME
System Software
1 42 (6.98%) Docker
2 40 (6.64%) Firmware
3 16 (2.66%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.00%) Grafana
3 5 (0.83%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 57 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.48%) Adobe
3 42 (6.98%) EMC
4 33 (5.48%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.16%) Google
6 12 (1.99%) Databricks
7 11 (1.83%) SAP
8 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.33%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.16%) Thales
11 6 (1.00%) Foundry
12 5 (0.83%) Siemens
13 3 (0.50%) Apple
13 3 (0.50%) DocuSign
13 3 (0.50%) HighQ
13 3 (0.50%) Legora
13 3 (0.50%) Oracle
13 3 (0.50%) Xilinx
14 2 (0.33%) IBM
14 2 (0.33%) Intel