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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 304 358
Rank change year-on-year -63 +54 -25
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 552 435 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.89% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.00% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 369 172 197
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,375 £46,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,344 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%

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 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 29 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 29 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 -2 467 £60,000 -14.29% 1,254
UK excluding London -53 361 £56,000 -6.67% 622
Work from Home -40 190 £65,000 +19.27% 451
London -50 146 £75,000 - 690
North of England -12 96 £55,000 -4.35% 113
South East -18 90 £56,000 -13.85% 150
East of England +15 63 £60,000 +14.29% 105
North West +1 51 £52,500 -12.50% 68
Midlands -33 42 £57,500 -4.17% 59
West Midlands -23 32 £57,500 -4.17% 46
South West -60 29 £58,750 -30.88% 118
North East -46 26 £58,750 -9.62% 17
Wales -55 22 £53,171 +7.42% 12
Yorkshire -21 19 £50,000 +63.93% 29
Scotland -75 12 £55,000 - 44
Northern Ireland -75 11 £80,000 - 19
East Midlands -44 10 £45,000 +36.36% 13

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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 10 (1.81%) Apache
2 10 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
5 5 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.54%) WordPress
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 23 (4.17%) SOLIDWORKS
2 17 (3.08%) Adobe XD
3 16 (2.90%) Adobe Illustrator
3 16 (2.90%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.54%) InDesign
5 11 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (1.45%) Sketch
7 8 (1.45%) Solid Edge
8 7 (1.27%) EPLAN
9 5 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.54%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.54%) Productboard
10 3 (0.54%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.54%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.36%) InVision
11 2 (0.36%) Trello
11 2 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.72%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.54%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (17.39%) Figma
2 88 (15.94%) AWS
3 69 (12.50%) Azure
4 40 (7.25%) GCP
5 23 (4.17%) GitHub
6 18 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.26%) SaaS
7 17 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.08%) Serverless
8 15 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.54%) Adobe Analytics
9 14 (2.54%) dbt
10 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.99%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.81%) Copilot Studio
12 10 (1.81%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.63%) Amazon Bedrock
13 9 (1.63%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.72%) Broadband
2 8 (1.45%) WPA
3 5 (0.91%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.91%) Intranet
3 5 (0.91%) Wireless
4 4 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.54%) RS-485
6 2 (0.36%) Internet
6 2 (0.36%) RS-232
6 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) AMQP
7 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Modbus
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.54%) DynamoDB
2 11 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.81%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.45%) Power BI
4 8 (1.45%) Redis
5 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.54%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.54%) Metadata
8 3 (0.54%) Tableau
9 2 (0.36%) Big Data
9 2 (0.36%) Power Query
9 2 (0.36%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.36%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 24 (4.35%) Git
2 18 (3.26%) JIRA
3 13 (2.36%) GitLab
4 8 (1.45%) Axure RP
4 8 (1.45%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.27%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.09%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.09%) Postman
7 5 (0.91%) Maven
7 5 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.54%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.36%) Bower
9 2 (0.36%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 216 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.20%) Electronics
3 102 (18.48%) Finance
4 96 (17.39%) Manufacturing
5 94 (17.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (14.49%) Public Sector
7 69 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 53 (9.60%) Law
9 48 (8.70%) Aerospace
10 38 (6.88%) Marketing
11 32 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (4.17%) Automotive
13 20 (3.62%) Games
13 20 (3.62%) Retail
14 17 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.72%) Legal
16 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (2.17%) Military
17 10 (1.81%) Banking
17 10 (1.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (23.91%) Senior
2 112 (20.29%) Designer
3 63 (11.41%) Developer
4 48 (8.70%) Lead
5 46 (8.33%) UX Designer
6 43 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 36 (6.52%) Electronics Engineer
8 34 (6.16%) Architect
9 33 (5.98%) Senior Designer
10 28 (5.07%) Interaction Designer
11 24 (4.35%) UI Designer
11 24 (4.35%) UI/UX Designer
12 22 (3.99%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.62%) Design Engineer
13 20 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.44%) Lead Designer
14 19 (3.44%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.61%) HTML
2 40 (7.25%) CSS
2 40 (7.25%) React
3 25 (4.53%) .NET
4 17 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 16 (2.90%) LangChain
5 16 (2.90%) Terraform
6 14 (2.54%) AngularJS
6 14 (2.54%) Kafka
6 14 (2.54%) REST
7 13 (2.36%) Spring
8 12 (2.17%) Web Services
9 9 (1.63%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.63%) Framer.js
9 9 (1.63%) Node.js
9 9 (1.63%) RESTful
10 8 (1.45%) JSON
10 8 (1.45%) Next.js
11 7 (1.27%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.27%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.98%) Embedded Systems
3 30 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 24 (4.35%) Robotics
7 22 (3.99%) IoT
8 18 (3.26%) FPGA
9 17 (3.08%) Analogue Electronics
10 15 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.72%) Social Media
11 14 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.36%) Algorithms
13 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
13 12 (2.17%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.99%) Life Science
15 10 (1.81%) Management Information System
16 9 (1.63%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.63%) Low-Code
17 8 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Android
1 8 (1.45%) Linux
2 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (35.69%) AI
2 190 (34.42%) Agile
3 130 (23.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (20.47%) User Experience
6 108 (19.57%) User Research
7 102 (18.48%) Rapid Prototyping
8 101 (18.30%) Mentoring
9 95 (17.21%) Validation
10 92 (16.67%) Analytics
11 89 (16.12%) Software Engineering
12 78 (14.13%) UX Design
13 75 (13.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 70 (12.68%) CI/CD
15 64 (11.59%) Roadmaps
16 59 (10.69%) LLM
17 58 (10.51%) Service Design
18 55 (9.96%) Wireframes
19 49 (8.88%) DevOps
20 47 (8.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 96 (17.39%) Python
2 46 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 45 (8.15%) JavaScript
4 37 (6.70%) Java
5 36 (6.52%) SQL
6 29 (5.25%) C#
7 26 (4.71%) C++
8 25 (4.53%) C
9 16 (2.90%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.27%) Bash
10 7 (1.27%) Rust
11 6 (1.09%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.09%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) Groovy
12 5 (0.91%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.91%) PHP
13 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.54%) R
13 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 189 (34.24%) Degree
2 110 (19.93%) Security Cleared
3 84 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.89%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.08%) HND
8 15 (2.72%) PhD
9 13 (2.36%) HNC
10 11 (1.99%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
12 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.36%) Postgraduate
17 1 (0.18%) OCP
17 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 40 (7.25%) WCAG
3 20 (3.62%) QA
4 10 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.91%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.54%) GDPR
6 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.54%) JTAG
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) DO-254
7 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) IASME
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.18%) MISRA
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (5.43%) Docker
1 30 (5.43%) Firmware
2 9 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 55 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.24%) Adobe
3 31 (5.62%) OpenAI
4 28 (5.07%) EMC
5 19 (3.44%) Google
6 11 (1.99%) Databricks
6 11 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.99%) SAP
7 7 (1.27%) Autodesk
8 5 (0.91%) Thales
9 4 (0.72%) Oracle
10 3 (0.54%) Apple
10 3 (0.54%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.54%) DocuSign
10 3 (0.54%) Foundry
10 3 (0.54%) HighQ
10 3 (0.54%) Legora
10 3 (0.54%) Siemens
10 3 (0.54%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow