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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 309 381
Rank change year-on-year -58 +72 -43
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 540 439 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.00% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 338 177 210
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,750 £46,556
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £76,125
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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £76,250
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 14 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 14 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 +21 452 £60,000 -14.29% 1,168
UK excluding London -41 351 £57,500 -4.17% 562
Work from Home -16 221 £65,000 +18.18% 688
London -44 143 £75,000 - 713
North of England -5 90 £53,750 -10.42% 107
South East -6 87 £59,000 -12.59% 125
East of England +19 64 £62,500 +38.89% 81
North West 0 42 £50,000 -25.93% 64
Midlands -34 35 £57,500 -4.17% 48
South West -56 30 £60,000 -29.41% 99
West Midlands -18 28 £57,500 -4.17% 34
North East -40 25 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -14 23 £66,250 +117.21% 29
Wales -58 22 £53,171 -2.88% 17
Scotland -77 14 £55,000 - 68
Northern Ireland -71 11 £80,000 - 24
East Midlands -36 7 £45,000 +36.36% 14

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 12 (2.22%) Confluence
2 8 (1.48%) Apache
2 8 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
3 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 20 (3.70%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.33%) Adobe XD
3 14 (2.59%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (2.59%) InDesign
3 14 (2.59%) Photoshop
4 9 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (1.67%) Sketch
5 8 (1.48%) Solid Edge
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.93%) EPLAN
7 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.56%) Productboard
8 3 (0.56%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.56%) Zeplin
9 2 (0.37%) InVision
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.37%) Simulink
9 2 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.74%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.37%) 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 97 (17.96%) Figma
2 87 (16.11%) AWS
3 70 (12.96%) Azure
4 39 (7.22%) GCP
5 33 (6.11%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.89%) GitHub
6 21 (3.89%) SaaS
7 20 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 20 (3.70%) Serverless
8 18 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.15%) Anthropic Claude
9 17 (3.15%) Power Platform
10 16 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (2.59%) dbt
12 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (2.22%) Azure AI
14 11 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.85%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.41%) Broadband
2 8 (1.48%) WPA
3 5 (0.93%) Intranet
4 3 (0.56%) RS-485
4 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.56%) Wireless
5 2 (0.37%) RS-232
5 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) AMQP
6 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
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 (3.15%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.48%) Power BI
3 8 (1.48%) Redis
4 7 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.56%) Tableau
9 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.37%) Big Data
9 2 (0.37%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Metadata
9 2 (0.37%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 22 (4.07%) Git
2 18 (3.33%) JIRA
3 12 (2.22%) GitLab
4 10 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.48%) Axure RP
6 8 (1.48%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.48%) Maven
6 8 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.11%) Balsamiq
8 6 (1.11%) Postman
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.37%) Bower
10 2 (0.37%) MLflow
10 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 197 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.44%) Finance
3 93 (17.22%) Electronics
4 91 (16.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (13.89%) Manufacturing
6 73 (13.52%) Public Sector
7 72 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (8.89%) Law
9 39 (7.22%) Games
10 38 (7.04%) Aerospace
11 36 (6.67%) Marketing
12 29 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.96%) Retail
14 14 (2.59%) Automotive
14 14 (2.59%) Legal
14 14 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.04%) Military
16 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 113 (20.93%) Senior
2 103 (19.07%) Designer
3 67 (12.41%) Developer
4 54 (10.00%) Lead
5 42 (7.78%) UX Designer
6 38 (7.04%) Architect
6 38 (7.04%) Software Engineer
7 27 (5.00%) Senior Designer
8 26 (4.81%) Interaction Designer
9 25 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (4.44%) Electronics Engineer
11 23 (4.26%) Lead Designer
12 21 (3.89%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.89%) UI Designer
12 21 (3.89%) UI/UX Designer
13 20 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.33%) Consultant
15 17 (3.15%) Product Manager
15 17 (3.15%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.41%) HTML
2 38 (7.04%) CSS
3 34 (6.30%) React
4 21 (3.89%) .NET
5 19 (3.52%) LangChain
6 17 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 16 (2.96%) Spring Boot
8 15 (2.78%) Terraform
9 12 (2.22%) REST
10 10 (1.85%) Kafka
10 10 (1.85%) Web Services
11 9 (1.67%) AWS CDK
11 9 (1.67%) Framer.js
11 9 (1.67%) Jest
11 9 (1.67%) Node.js
11 9 (1.67%) RESTful
11 9 (1.67%) Spring
12 8 (1.48%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.48%) JSON
12 8 (1.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.11%) Social Media
3 31 (5.74%) Embedded Systems
4 28 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 27 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.44%) Robotics
7 23 (4.26%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.15%) FPGA
8 17 (3.15%) IoT
8 17 (3.15%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.59%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.59%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.22%) Analogue Electronics
11 11 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.04%) Low-Code
11 11 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.85%) Life Science
12 10 (1.85%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.85%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Android
3 7 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (39.63%) AI
2 211 (39.07%) Agile
3 124 (22.96%) User Research
4 112 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 112 (20.74%) Rapid Prototyping
5 108 (20.00%) User Experience
6 104 (19.26%) Analytics
7 97 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (17.59%) Mentoring
9 93 (17.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 89 (16.48%) Software Engineering
11 86 (15.93%) Roadmaps
12 85 (15.74%) Validation
13 76 (14.07%) UX Design
14 66 (12.22%) LLM
15 61 (11.30%) CI/CD
16 59 (10.93%) Customer Experience
17 53 (9.81%) Machine Learning
17 53 (9.81%) Product Roadmap
17 53 (9.81%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 94 (17.41%) Python
2 44 (8.15%) Java
3 43 (7.96%) JavaScript
4 41 (7.59%) TypeScript
5 31 (5.74%) SQL
6 30 (5.56%) C
7 28 (5.19%) C++
8 27 (5.00%) C#
9 14 (2.59%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.85%) Bash
11 9 (1.67%) Groovy
12 8 (1.48%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.30%) Go
14 5 (0.93%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.93%) PHP
15 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.56%) Rust
16 2 (0.37%) Pascal
16 2 (0.37%) Ruby
17 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (32.22%) Degree
2 107 (19.81%) Security Cleared
3 80 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.78%) PhD
8 12 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.22%) HND
9 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (1.30%) HNC
11 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.19%) OCP
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 52 (9.63%) WCAG
3 19 (3.52%) QA
4 10 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.93%) GDPR
6 4 (0.74%) DO-254
7 3 (0.56%) JTAG
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.37%) 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 27 (5.00%) Docker
1 27 (5.00%) Firmware
2 7 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.48%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 68 (12.59%) Adobe
2 51 (9.44%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.74%) OpenAI
4 25 (4.63%) Google
5 24 (4.44%) EMC
6 11 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.04%) SAP
7 10 (1.85%) Databricks
8 6 (1.11%) Foundry
9 5 (0.93%) Autodesk
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle
11 3 (0.56%) Apple
11 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.56%) Siemens
11 3 (0.56%) Thales
11 3 (0.56%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.37%) Altera
12 2 (0.37%) Revolut
12 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.37%) YouTube