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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 305 415
Rank change year-on-year -55 +110 -92
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 460 435 606
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 239 158 358
10th Percentile £43,699 £37,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,915 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.77% -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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
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 £92,000
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 19 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 19 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 +12 392 £62,500 +4.17% 187
UK excluding London -62 281 £57,500 -4.76% 137
Work from Home +21 244 £67,500 +23.85% 92
London -12 137 £73,061 +32.84% 84
North of England -3 75 £52,500 -24.33% 20
East of England +40 74 £62,500 +38.89% 25
South East -12 60 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Yorkshire -16 32 £67,500 -20.82% 2
North West -5 27 £50,000 -27.94% 14
Midlands -23 20 £60,000 +4.35% 10
South West -59 19 £60,000 -12.44% 23
West Midlands -9 17 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -33 16 £56,250 -13.46% 4
Wales -39 14 £53,171 -21.88% 3
Scotland -72 11 £54,500 +19.43% 13
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 4
East Midlands -33 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 6 (1.30%) Apache
2 5 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.09%) CMS
2 5 (1.09%) Confluence
3 3 (0.65%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.65%) WordPress
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 17 (3.70%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.17%) Sketch
3 8 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.52%) Photoshop
5 6 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (1.30%) InDesign
5 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.30%) SOLIDWORKS
6 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.65%) Productboard
9 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.43%) CATIA
9 2 (0.43%) InVision
9 2 (0.43%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.43%) Trello
9 2 (0.43%) Windchill
10 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.65%) 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
1 113 (24.57%) Figma
2 82 (17.83%) Adobe Analytics
2 82 (17.83%) AWS
3 66 (14.35%) Azure
4 41 (8.91%) GCP
5 25 (5.43%) SaaS
6 20 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 20 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.13%) Serverless
8 18 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.04%) Vertex AI
12 13 (2.83%) Apigee
13 9 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.96%) GitHub
13 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (20.00%) Broadband
2 7 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.09%) WPA
4 4 (0.87%) Intranet
5 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.65%) Wireless
6 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.43%) Internet
6 2 (0.43%) LTE
6 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.22%) AMQP
7 1 (0.22%) Modbus
7 1 (0.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) RS-232
7 1 (0.22%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.48%) DynamoDB
2 10 (2.17%) Redis
3 9 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.30%) Power BI
5 6 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.87%) Db2
7 4 (0.87%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.87%) QlikView
7 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.65%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.43%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.43%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (3.70%) GitLab
2 16 (3.48%) Git
3 15 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.04%) JIRA
5 13 (2.83%) Cypress.io
5 13 (2.83%) Maven
5 13 (2.83%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.17%) Axure RP
7 8 (1.74%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.43%) Bower
8 2 (0.43%) Postman
8 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.22%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.22%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.22%) Mocha
9 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.35%) Finance
3 82 (17.83%) Games
4 67 (14.57%) Public Sector
5 65 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (8.91%) Electronics
8 40 (8.70%) Law
9 33 (7.17%) Manufacturing
10 25 (5.43%) Marketing
11 22 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (4.35%) Legal
13 12 (2.61%) Banking
13 12 (2.61%) Retail
14 9 (1.96%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.30%) Back Office
16 6 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.09%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 105 (22.83%) Designer
2 73 (15.87%) Lead
3 69 (15.00%) Senior
4 55 (11.96%) Developer
5 47 (10.22%) UX Designer
6 35 (7.61%) Lead Designer
7 28 (6.09%) Architect
8 25 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.13%) Consultant
10 19 (4.13%) Interaction Designer
11 18 (3.91%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 17 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.48%) Digital Designer
14 15 (3.26%) Analyst
14 15 (3.26%) Product Designer
14 15 (3.26%) Senior Designer
15 14 (3.04%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.39%) HTML
2 30 (6.52%) CSS
3 28 (6.09%) React
4 21 (4.57%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.13%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.48%) .NET
7 15 (3.26%) REST
8 14 (3.04%) Jest
8 14 (3.04%) Node.js
9 13 (2.83%) Gherkin
10 12 (2.61%) LangChain
11 7 (1.52%) JSON
11 7 (1.52%) Spring
12 6 (1.30%) Framer.js
12 6 (1.30%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.30%) Vue
12 6 (1.30%) Web Services
13 5 (1.09%) Google JAX
13 5 (1.09%) JAX
13 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.39%) Social Media
2 34 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.48%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (3.26%) IoT
6 14 (3.04%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.61%) Robotics
8 11 (2.39%) FPGA
8 11 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.74%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.09%) CUDA
12 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.48%) Linux
2 8 (1.74%) Unix
3 3 (0.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (48.91%) Agile
2 208 (45.22%) AI
3 160 (34.78%) User Research
4 132 (28.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 131 (28.48%) Analytics
6 127 (27.61%) Roadmaps
7 103 (22.39%) Customer Experience
8 101 (21.96%) Product Roadmap
9 98 (21.30%) User Experience
10 86 (18.70%) Storytelling
11 80 (17.39%) Digital Customer Experience
11 80 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (16.96%) Rapid Prototyping
13 76 (16.52%) UX Design
14 66 (14.35%) Mentoring
15 64 (13.91%) Software Engineering
16 62 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (13.26%) Workshop Facilitation
18 57 (12.39%) Validation
19 54 (11.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (18.91%) Python
2 48 (10.43%) Java
3 32 (6.96%) JavaScript
4 30 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.87%) SQL
6 24 (5.22%) C
6 24 (5.22%) C#
7 22 (4.78%) C++
8 16 (3.48%) Bash
9 15 (3.26%) Groovy
10 5 (1.09%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.09%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.09%) PHP
11 3 (0.65%) Julia
11 3 (0.65%) Pascal
11 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) R
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 108 (23.48%) Degree
2 68 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 52 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.04%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.87%) HND
9 4 (0.87%) PhD
10 3 (0.65%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.22%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (29.13%) Accessibility
2 67 (14.57%) WCAG
3 7 (1.52%) GRC
3 7 (1.52%) QA
4 4 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.87%) DO-254
4 4 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (6.74%) Docker
2 16 (3.48%) Firmware
3 6 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.48%) Terraform
2 13 (2.83%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (24.57%) Adobe
2 33 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.87%) Google
4 11 (2.39%) EMC
4 11 (2.39%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.52%) Foundry
7 4 (0.87%) JD Edwards
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle
8 3 (0.65%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.65%) Databricks
8 3 (0.65%) Hotjar
8 3 (0.65%) Motorola
8 3 (0.65%) SAP
8 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.65%) Workday
9 2 (0.43%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.22%) Planon