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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 309 373
Rank change year-on-year -62 +64 -43
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 531 441 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.01% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 339 178 204
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,139
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £77,500
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% - -4.00%

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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £77,500
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 17 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 17 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 -3 445 £60,000 -14.29% 1,263
UK excluding London -58 344 £57,500 -4.17% 597
Work from Home -28 205 £65,000 +19.27% 451
London -47 141 £75,000 - 746
North of England +2 94 £53,750 -10.42% 93
South East -23 84 £59,000 -12.59% 150
East of England +9 59 £60,000 +33.33% 114
North West -4 46 £50,000 -25.93% 52
Midlands -32 33 £57,500 -4.17% 51
South West -51 31 £60,000 -29.41% 106
West Midlands -20 26 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North East -43 25 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Yorkshire -25 23 £65,000 +113.11% 23
Wales -58 22 £53,171 -2.88% 15
Scotland -79 12 £55,000 - 55
Northern Ireland -64 11 £80,000 - 17
East Midlands -46 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 11 (2.07%) Confluence
2 8 (1.51%) Apache
2 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.94%) CMS
3 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 20 (3.77%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.39%) Adobe XD
3 15 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (2.82%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.64%) InDesign
5 10 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.69%) Sketch
7 8 (1.51%) Solid Edge
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.94%) EPLAN
9 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.56%) Productboard
10 3 (0.56%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.56%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.38%) InVision
11 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.38%) Simulink
11 2 (0.38%) Trello
11 2 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.38%) 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
1 101 (19.02%) Figma
2 85 (16.01%) AWS
3 64 (12.05%) Azure
4 36 (6.78%) GCP
5 25 (4.71%) Adobe Analytics
6 21 (3.95%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.95%) GitHub
6 21 (3.95%) Serverless
7 20 (3.77%) SaaS
8 19 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
10 16 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (3.01%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.64%) dbt
12 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.07%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.71%) Broadband
2 8 (1.51%) WPA
3 5 (0.94%) Intranet
4 3 (0.56%) RS-485
4 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.56%) Wireless
5 2 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.38%) RS-232
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) AMQP
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 18 (3.39%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.51%) Redis
3 8 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.32%) Power BI
5 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.56%) Tableau
9 2 (0.38%) Big Data
9 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Metadata
9 2 (0.38%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 21 (3.95%) Git
2 17 (3.20%) JIRA
3 13 (2.45%) GitLab
4 11 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.69%) Maven
6 9 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.51%) Axure RP
7 8 (1.51%) LabVIEW
8 7 (1.32%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.13%) Balsamiq
9 6 (1.13%) Postman
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.38%) Bower
11 2 (0.38%) MLflow
11 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 196 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.40%) Finance
3 93 (17.51%) Electronics
3 93 (17.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (14.50%) Manufacturing
5 75 (14.12%) Public Sector
6 69 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (9.23%) Law
8 39 (7.34%) Aerospace
9 37 (6.97%) Marketing
10 31 (5.84%) Games
11 29 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (3.20%) Retail
13 15 (2.82%) Automotive
14 14 (2.64%) Legal
14 14 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.07%) Military
16 9 (1.69%) Banking
16 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (22.03%) Senior
2 108 (20.34%) Designer
3 66 (12.43%) Developer
4 52 (9.79%) Lead
5 44 (8.29%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 37 (6.97%) Architect
8 30 (5.65%) Senior Designer
9 27 (5.08%) Interaction Designer
10 23 (4.33%) Electronics Engineer
10 23 (4.33%) Lead Designer
10 23 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
10 23 (4.33%) UI Designer
10 23 (4.33%) UI/UX Designer
11 21 (3.95%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.39%) Consultant
14 17 (3.20%) Senior Manager
14 17 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.72%) HTML
2 39 (7.34%) CSS
3 35 (6.59%) React
4 22 (4.14%) .NET
5 18 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.01%) LangChain
7 15 (2.82%) Terraform
8 11 (2.07%) Kafka
8 11 (2.07%) REST
9 10 (1.88%) Jest
9 10 (1.88%) Spring
9 10 (1.88%) Web Services
10 9 (1.69%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.69%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.69%) Gherkin
10 9 (1.69%) Node.js
10 9 (1.69%) RESTful
11 8 (1.51%) Next.js
12 7 (1.32%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.84%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (4.71%) Social Media
6 23 (4.33%) AI Agents
7 22 (4.14%) Robotics
8 18 (3.39%) IoT
9 17 (3.20%) FPGA
10 16 (3.01%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.82%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.45%) Algorithms
13 12 (2.26%) Analogue Electronics
14 11 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (2.07%) Low-Code
14 11 (2.07%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.88%) Life Science
15 10 (1.88%) Management Information System
16 9 (1.69%) Data Structures
17 8 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.69%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Android
3 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (38.04%) AI
2 197 (37.10%) Agile
3 118 (22.22%) User Research
4 111 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (20.72%) User Experience
6 109 (20.53%) Rapid Prototyping
7 98 (18.46%) Analytics
8 94 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (17.14%) Mentoring
10 88 (16.57%) Software Engineering
11 87 (16.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 82 (15.44%) Validation
13 77 (14.50%) Roadmaps
14 76 (14.31%) UX Design
15 63 (11.86%) CI/CD
16 59 (11.11%) LLM
17 54 (10.17%) Service Design
18 51 (9.60%) Wireframes
19 46 (8.66%) DevOps
19 46 (8.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 89 (16.76%) Python
2 43 (8.10%) JavaScript
2 43 (8.10%) TypeScript
3 38 (7.16%) Java
4 31 (5.84%) SQL
5 28 (5.27%) C#
6 26 (4.90%) C
6 26 (4.90%) C++
7 14 (2.64%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.07%) Bash
9 10 (1.88%) Groovy
10 8 (1.51%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.32%) Go
12 5 (0.94%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.94%) PHP
13 4 (0.75%) Rust
14 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.38%) Ruby
15 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.19%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 174 (32.77%) Degree
2 107 (20.15%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.82%) PhD
8 13 (2.45%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.26%) HND
10 9 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.51%) HNC
12 7 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
13 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.94%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
17 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.19%) OCP
17 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (19.02%) Accessibility
2 44 (8.29%) WCAG
3 20 (3.77%) QA
4 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.75%) DO-254
5 4 (0.75%) GDPR
6 3 (0.56%) JTAG
7 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) MISRA
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (5.08%) Docker
2 25 (4.71%) Firmware
3 8 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.69%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 61 (11.49%) Adobe
2 51 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.84%) OpenAI
4 21 (3.95%) EMC
5 18 (3.39%) Google
6 11 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.07%) SAP
7 10 (1.88%) Databricks
8 5 (0.94%) Autodesk
9 4 (0.75%) Oracle
10 3 (0.56%) Apple
10 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.56%) Foundry
10 3 (0.56%) Siemens
10 3 (0.56%) Thales
10 3 (0.56%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.38%) Altera
11 2 (0.38%) Revolut
11 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.38%) YouTube