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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 308 417
Rank change year-on-year -50 +109 -111
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 548 462 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.93% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.04% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 311 186 260
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,900
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.36% -9.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,938 £74,144
90th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £60,375 £58,465
% change year-on-year -6.42% +3.27% -2.56%

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -2 455 £60,000 -7.69% 466
UK excluding London -48 344 £56,500 -6.42% 211
Work from Home +15 266 £65,925 +19.86% 170
London -40 152 £75,000 +7.14% 282
South East +6 87 £56,500 -7.00% 58
North of England -10 83 £52,500 -19.23% 47
East of England +30 72 £63,750 +41.67% 41
North West +7 38 £50,000 -27.94% 27
South West -39 30 £60,000 -5.88% 33
Yorkshire -12 24 £65,000 +20.37% 7
Midlands -40 23 £60,000 - 17
Wales -44 22 £53,171 -22.38% 5
North East -41 21 £57,500 -11.54% 13
West Midlands -21 18 £61,250 +2.08% 13
Scotland -66 16 £52,250 -16.82% 16
Northern Ireland -61 11 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -36 5 £50,000 +51.52% 4

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 10 (1.82%) Confluence
2 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.55%) WordPress
7 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.47%) Adobe XD
2 14 (2.55%) SOLIDWORKS
3 13 (2.37%) InDesign
4 11 (2.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 11 (2.01%) Photoshop
4 11 (2.01%) Sketch
5 8 (1.46%) Solid Edge
6 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
10 3 (0.55%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.55%) Productboard
10 3 (0.55%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.36%) InVision
11 2 (0.36%) Trello
11 2 (0.36%) Windchill
12 1 (0.18%) CATIA
12 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.36%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (21.17%) Figma
2 93 (16.97%) AWS
3 78 (14.23%) Azure
4 70 (12.77%) Adobe Analytics
5 48 (8.76%) GCP
6 21 (3.83%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.83%) SaaS
6 21 (3.83%) Serverless
7 18 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (3.28%) dbt
7 18 (3.28%) GitHub
8 17 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (2.92%) Amazon ECR
10 15 (2.74%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (14.96%) Broadband
2 8 (1.46%) WPA
3 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.91%) Intranet
5 4 (0.73%) Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.36%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.36%) Internet
7 2 (0.36%) RS-485
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
8 1 (0.18%) Modbus
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.10%) DynamoDB
2 15 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.37%) Redis
4 9 (1.64%) Power BI
5 8 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.55%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.55%) Db2
9 3 (0.55%) DB2 UDB
9 3 (0.55%) QlikView
9 3 (0.55%) Tableau
10 2 (0.36%) Big Data
10 2 (0.36%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 25 (4.56%) Git
2 17 (3.10%) JIRA
3 13 (2.37%) GitLab
4 11 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.82%) Axure RP
5 10 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.64%) Maven
6 9 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.46%) Balsamiq
7 8 (1.46%) LabVIEW
8 6 (1.09%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.36%) Bower
11 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.18%) ERwin
12 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 172 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.34%) Finance
3 96 (17.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (13.87%) Public Sector
6 72 (13.14%) Games
7 71 (12.96%) Electronics
8 53 (9.67%) Manufacturing
9 49 (8.94%) Law
10 30 (5.47%) Marketing
11 27 (4.93%) Aerospace
12 25 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (3.28%) Legal
14 17 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.19%) Retail
16 9 (1.64%) Automotive
16 9 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.28%) Banking
17 7 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (21.35%) Senior
2 114 (20.80%) Designer
3 66 (12.04%) Developer
4 65 (11.86%) Lead
5 48 (8.76%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.12%) Architect
7 34 (6.20%) Software Engineer
8 31 (5.66%) Lead Designer
8 31 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
9 29 (5.29%) Interaction Designer
10 27 (4.93%) Senior Designer
11 25 (4.56%) Consultant
12 20 (3.65%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.65%) Product Manager
13 19 (3.47%) UI Designer
13 19 (3.47%) UI/UX Designer
14 18 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.10%) Senior Manager
15 17 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.30%) HTML
2 36 (6.57%) CSS
3 28 (5.11%) React
4 20 (3.65%) LangChain
5 17 (3.10%) .NET
5 17 (3.10%) AngularJS
6 13 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.19%) REST
8 10 (1.82%) Jest
8 10 (1.82%) Web Services
9 9 (1.64%) Gherkin
9 9 (1.64%) RESTful
10 8 (1.46%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.46%) Django
10 8 (1.46%) Framer.js
10 8 (1.46%) JSON
10 8 (1.46%) Node.js
11 7 (1.28%) Material Design
11 7 (1.28%) Next.js
12 6 (1.09%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.77%) Social Media
2 45 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.93%) Embedded Systems
3 27 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.47%) FPGA
5 19 (3.47%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.92%) Robotics
7 15 (2.74%) IoT
8 12 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.19%) Life Science
8 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.64%) Analogue Electronics
10 9 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.64%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.55%) Linux
2 8 (1.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (47.45%) Agile
2 240 (43.80%) AI
3 161 (29.38%) User Research
4 139 (25.36%) Analytics
5 135 (24.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 124 (22.63%) Roadmaps
7 111 (20.26%) User Experience
8 109 (19.89%) Rapid Prototyping
9 99 (18.07%) Mentoring
10 97 (17.70%) Customer Experience
11 95 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (16.06%) Product Roadmap
13 82 (14.96%) UX Design
14 78 (14.23%) Software Engineering
15 77 (14.05%) Storytelling
16 74 (13.50%) Validation
17 70 (12.77%) Digital Customer Experience
18 62 (11.31%) LLM
19 59 (10.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 98 (17.88%) Python
2 46 (8.39%) Java
3 39 (7.12%) JavaScript
4 35 (6.39%) TypeScript
5 32 (5.84%) SQL
6 29 (5.29%) C
7 26 (4.74%) C#
8 25 (4.56%) C++
9 12 (2.19%) MATLAB
10 11 (2.01%) Bash
11 10 (1.82%) Groovy
12 7 (1.28%) Go
13 6 (1.09%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.91%) PHP
15 3 (0.55%) Pascal
15 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.55%) Rust
16 2 (0.36%) Julia
16 2 (0.36%) Ruby
17 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 157 (28.65%) Degree
2 102 (18.61%) Security Cleared
3 74 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.19%) PhD
9 10 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.46%) HND
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.55%) HNC
13 3 (0.55%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.18%) OCP
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (25.91%) Accessibility
2 71 (12.96%) WCAG
3 14 (2.55%) QA
4 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.91%) GDPR
6 4 (0.73%) DO-254
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) JTAG
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) GxP
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (6.02%) Docker
2 22 (4.01%) Firmware
3 7 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (3.47%) Terraform
2 14 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.64%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 102 (18.61%) Adobe
2 49 (8.94%) Microsoft
3 35 (6.39%) Google
4 27 (4.93%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.10%) EMC
6 10 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.64%) Databricks
7 9 (1.64%) Foundry
7 9 (1.64%) SAP
8 4 (0.73%) Oracle
8 4 (0.73%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.55%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.55%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.55%) Motorola
9 3 (0.55%) Siemens
10 2 (0.36%) Altera
10 2 (0.36%) Revolut
10 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.36%) Workday