Prototyping Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 322 329
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 -69
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 337 539 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.95% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 194 244 342
10th Percentile £46,776 £42,500 £38,775
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £96,375 £77,500 £78,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £86,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

All Process and 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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -10 293 £70,000 +7.69% 185
UK excluding London -94 158 £57,500 -11.54% 180
London +97 148 £75,000 +11.28% 81
Work from Home -88 85 £52,500 -19.23% 76
South East -33 64 £55,000 -26.67% 90
North of England -13 31 £50,000 -16.67% 21
North West +8 20 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Midlands +54 14 £60,000 +2.63% 13
Scotland -7 14 £64,151 -4.47% 12
East of England +4 12 £86,250 +56.82% 25
South West -2 12 £85,000 +13.33% 20
Wales -11 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
East Midlands +33 8 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire -8 8 £30,500 -46.24% 5
West Midlands +48 6 £61,250 +4.76% 9
North East +7 3 £73,801 +19.55% 6
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +13.54%

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 (2.97%) Confluence
2 9 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (13.65%) Adobe XD
2 24 (7.12%) Sketch
3 12 (3.56%) Maya
4 8 (2.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.08%) InVision
6 6 (1.78%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
8 4 (1.19%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (1.19%) Blender
9 3 (0.89%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
10 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.59%) Windchill
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.30%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.30%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (3.26%) SAP CO
1 11 (3.26%) SAP FI
1 11 (3.26%) SAP FI/CO
1 11 (3.26%) SAP FSCM
1 11 (3.26%) SAP IBP
1 11 (3.26%) SAP IS-U
1 11 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 95 (28.19%) Figma
2 90 (26.71%) AWS
3 75 (22.26%) Azure
4 50 (14.84%) GCP
5 19 (5.64%) Miro
6 17 (5.04%) Adobe Analytics
7 16 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (4.75%) PaaS
8 15 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.45%) Azure AI
8 15 (4.45%) Vertex AI
9 14 (4.15%) dbt
10 13 (3.86%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (3.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 13 (3.86%) SaaS
10 13 (3.86%) Sentry
11 12 (3.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (3.56%) GitHub
11 12 (3.56%) Pulumi
12 11 (3.26%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.34%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.04%) Modbus
3 13 (3.86%) MQTT
4 12 (3.56%) Ethernet
5 6 (1.78%) 5G
6 5 (1.48%) Firewall
7 4 (1.19%) Bluetooth
7 4 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.19%) Network Security
7 4 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.19%) VLAN
7 4 (1.19%) WAN
7 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.19%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.89%) Broadband
8 3 (0.89%) Internet
9 2 (0.59%) 4G
9 2 (0.59%) DNS
9 2 (0.59%) HTTP
9 2 (0.59%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.86%) Redis
3 12 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.26%) SAP BW
5 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.78%) Power BI
6 6 (1.78%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.19%) QGIS
8 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.30%) GIS
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (9.50%) Axure RP
2 24 (7.12%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.75%) Git
4 13 (3.86%) JIRA
5 6 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.78%) MLflow
6 4 (1.19%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.19%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (1.19%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.19%) MSI
7 3 (0.89%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.59%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 78 (23.15%) Law
3 69 (20.47%) Finance
4 60 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (9.50%) Public Sector
7 27 (8.01%) Legal
8 24 (7.12%) Banking
8 24 (7.12%) Manufacturing
9 22 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (4.75%) Games
10 16 (4.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.86%) Marketing
12 13 (3.86%) Retail
13 11 (3.26%) Electronics
14 7 (2.08%) Front Office
15 6 (1.78%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (22.26%) Senior
2 71 (21.07%) Designer
3 36 (10.68%) Lead
4 33 (9.79%) Developer
5 31 (9.20%) Software Engineer
6 25 (7.42%) UX Designer
7 19 (5.64%) Architect
8 17 (5.04%) Consultant
8 17 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (5.04%) Product Manager
8 17 (5.04%) Service Designer
8 17 (5.04%) Strategy Manager
9 16 (4.75%) Product Designer
10 15 (4.45%) Product Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.86%) Interaction Designer
11 13 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.17%) CSS
2 39 (11.57%) React
3 34 (10.09%) HTML
4 29 (8.61%) .NET
5 23 (6.82%) Node.js
6 17 (5.04%) Kafka
7 16 (4.75%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.75%) TensorFlow
8 13 (3.86%) Django
9 11 (3.26%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.97%) REST
11 9 (2.67%) JSON
11 9 (2.67%) XML
12 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.37%) Google JAX
12 8 (2.37%) JAX
13 7 (2.08%) Vue
14 6 (1.78%) Pandas
14 6 (1.78%) Spring
14 6 (1.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.12%) IoT
4 19 (5.64%) AI Agents
5 17 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 17 (5.04%) Operational Technology
5 17 (5.04%) SCADA
6 16 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.86%) Biopharmaceutical
8 13 (3.86%) Industry 4.0
8 13 (3.86%) Renewable Energy
9 12 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (3.26%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.78%) Equities
11 6 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.12%) Linux
2 12 (3.56%) Unix
3 9 (2.67%) Android
4 6 (1.78%) Windows
5 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.19%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (49.26%) Agile
2 150 (44.51%) User Experience
3 88 (26.11%) Analytics
4 87 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (22.85%) AI
6 75 (22.26%) Wireframes
7 74 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (21.96%) UX Design
8 72 (21.36%) User Research
9 68 (20.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 65 (19.29%) Mentoring
11 62 (18.40%) CI/CD
11 62 (18.40%) Software Engineering
12 61 (18.10%) Machine Learning
13 53 (15.73%) Computer Science
14 48 (14.24%) Usability Testing
15 47 (13.95%) DevOps
16 46 (13.65%) Data Science
16 46 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (13.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (27.60%) Python
2 60 (17.80%) JavaScript
3 41 (12.17%) Java
4 27 (8.01%) SQL
4 27 (8.01%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.82%) C#
6 18 (5.34%) C++
7 8 (2.37%) C
7 8 (2.37%) PHP
8 7 (2.08%) Go
9 5 (1.48%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.48%) R
10 4 (1.19%) Delphi
10 4 (1.19%) Rust
11 3 (0.89%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) Bash
12 2 (0.59%) Perl
13 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 133 (39.47%) Degree
2 77 (22.85%) Security Cleared
3 59 (17.51%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.34%) HNC
6 17 (5.04%) HND
7 14 (4.15%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.86%) Chartered Engineer
9 12 (3.56%) PhD
10 11 (3.26%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.19%) MCP
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (24.63%) Accessibility
2 34 (10.09%) WCAG
3 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.19%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.19%) QA
4 3 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (9.79%) Docker
2 14 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.42%) Terraform
2 19 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.86%) Functional Safety
4 12 (3.56%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (1.78%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.48%) Ansible
6 5 (1.48%) WMI
7 4 (1.19%) Grafana
7 4 (1.19%) Nessus
7 4 (1.19%) Nmap
8 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (21.07%) Adobe
2 49 (14.54%) Google
3 38 (11.28%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.23%) Qualtrics
5 17 (5.04%) Foundry
6 15 (4.45%) VMware
7 13 (3.86%) AVEVA
7 13 (3.86%) Rockwell
7 13 (3.86%) Siemens
8 11 (3.26%) SAP
9 7 (2.08%) Splunk
10 4 (1.19%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.19%) Cisco
10 4 (1.19%) Facebook
10 4 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.19%) Sage
11 2 (0.59%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.59%) Mercator
11 2 (0.59%) PTC