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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 312 426
Rank change year-on-year -43 +114 -103
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 455 435 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.97% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.05% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 238 159 359
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,977 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -8.33%

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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +14 387 £63,750 +6.25% 166
UK excluding London -63 278 £58,750 -2.08% 133
Work from Home +19 240 £67,500 +22.73% 78
London -3 135 £73,061 +32.84% 67
East of England +42 74 £62,500 +38.89% 25
North of England -16 72 £53,750 -21.54% 21
South East -5 59 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Yorkshire -12 32 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West -2 24 £50,000 -27.01% 14
Midlands -30 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South West -63 20 £60,000 -12.44% 23
West Midlands -14 17 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East -38 16 £56,250 -13.46% 5
Wales -39 13 £53,171 -21.88% 3
Scotland -72 12 £54,500 +19.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 8
East Midlands -32 3 £60,000 +81.82% 2

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 5 (1.10%) Apache
1 5 (1.10%) CMS
1 5 (1.10%) Confluence
2 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.66%) WordPress
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 17 (3.74%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.20%) Sketch
3 7 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.32%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.32%) SOLIDWORKS
5 5 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.10%) InDesign
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.66%) Productboard
7 2 (0.44%) CATIA
7 2 (0.44%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.44%) InVision
7 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.44%) Trello
8 1 (0.22%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (24.62%) Figma
2 82 (18.02%) Adobe Analytics
3 81 (17.80%) AWS
4 66 (14.51%) Azure
5 41 (9.01%) GCP
6 25 (5.49%) SaaS
7 20 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 20 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.18%) Serverless
9 18 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.08%) Vertex AI
13 13 (2.86%) Apigee
14 9 (1.98%) GitHub
15 8 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
15 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (20.22%) Broadband
2 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.88%) WPA
4 3 (0.66%) Intranet
4 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.66%) Wireless
5 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) LTE
5 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.22%) AMQP
6 1 (0.22%) Modbus
6 1 (0.22%) MQTT
6 1 (0.22%) RS-232
6 1 (0.22%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.52%) DynamoDB
2 10 (2.20%) Redis
3 9 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.32%) Power BI
5 6 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.88%) Db2
7 4 (0.88%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.88%) QlikView
8 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (3.74%) GitLab
2 15 (3.30%) Git
3 14 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 13 (2.86%) JIRA
4 13 (2.86%) Maven
4 13 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.20%) Axure RP
6 8 (1.76%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.44%) Postman
7 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.22%) Bower
8 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.22%) Mocha
8 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.78%) Finance
3 82 (18.02%) Games
4 66 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (14.51%) Public Sector
5 55 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (9.01%) Electronics
7 40 (8.79%) Law
8 34 (7.47%) Manufacturing
9 25 (5.49%) Marketing
10 22 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (4.40%) Legal
12 12 (2.64%) Banking
12 12 (2.64%) Retail
13 9 (1.98%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.32%) Back Office
14 6 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 103 (22.64%) Designer
2 72 (15.82%) Lead
3 69 (15.16%) Senior
4 53 (11.65%) Developer
5 47 (10.33%) UX Designer
6 35 (7.69%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.15%) Architect
8 25 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.18%) Interaction Designer
11 18 (3.96%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.74%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 17 (3.74%) Analyst
12 17 (3.74%) Consultant
12 17 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.52%) Digital Designer
14 15 (3.30%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.30%) Product Designer
14 15 (3.30%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.25%) HTML
2 29 (6.37%) CSS
3 27 (5.93%) React
4 21 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.18%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.52%) .NET
7 15 (3.30%) REST
8 14 (3.08%) Jest
8 14 (3.08%) Node.js
9 13 (2.86%) Gherkin
10 12 (2.64%) LangChain
11 7 (1.54%) Spring
12 6 (1.32%) Framer.js
12 6 (1.32%) JSON
12 6 (1.32%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.32%) Vue
13 5 (1.10%) Django
13 5 (1.10%) Google JAX
13 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
13 5 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.58%) Social Media
2 34 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.30%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.86%) IoT
7 12 (2.64%) Robotics
8 11 (2.42%) FPGA
9 9 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.32%) Life Science
12 5 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.30%) Linux
2 8 (1.76%) Unix
3 3 (0.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (49.23%) Agile
2 205 (45.05%) AI
3 159 (34.95%) User Research
4 132 (29.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 130 (28.57%) Analytics
6 126 (27.69%) Roadmaps
7 103 (22.64%) Customer Experience
8 101 (22.20%) Product Roadmap
9 96 (21.10%) User Experience
10 86 (18.90%) Storytelling
11 82 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.58%) Digital Customer Experience
13 78 (17.14%) Rapid Prototyping
14 76 (16.70%) UX Design
15 64 (14.07%) Software Engineering
16 63 (13.85%) Mentoring
17 62 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (13.41%) Workshop Facilitation
19 57 (12.53%) Validation
20 54 (11.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.68%) Python
2 48 (10.55%) Java
3 30 (6.59%) JavaScript
3 30 (6.59%) TypeScript
4 25 (5.49%) SQL
5 24 (5.27%) C#
6 23 (5.05%) C
7 21 (4.62%) C++
8 16 (3.52%) Bash
9 15 (3.30%) Groovy
10 5 (1.10%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.88%) PHP
12 3 (0.66%) Julia
12 3 (0.66%) Pascal
13 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 105 (23.08%) Degree
2 68 (14.95%) Security Cleared
3 52 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.66%) HND
8 3 (0.66%) PhD
8 3 (0.66%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (29.23%) Accessibility
2 66 (14.51%) WCAG
3 7 (1.54%) GRC
3 7 (1.54%) QA
4 4 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.88%) DO-254
4 4 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (6.59%) Docker
2 16 (3.52%) Firmware
3 6 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.52%) Terraform
2 13 (2.86%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (24.62%) Adobe
2 31 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.93%) Google
4 11 (2.42%) EMC
4 11 (2.42%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.54%) Foundry
7 4 (0.88%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.88%) Oracle
8 3 (0.66%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.66%) Databricks
8 3 (0.66%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.66%) Motorola
8 3 (0.66%) SAP
8 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.66%) Workday
9 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.22%) Xilinx