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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 304 417
Rank change year-on-year -60 +113 -100
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 499 452 561
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.92% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.02% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 274 171 334
10th Percentile £43,319 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.18% -10.05%
75th Percentile £78,312 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,850 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -13.08% +12.14% -3.39%

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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 July 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 July 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 +10 408 £60,000 -7.69% 336
UK excluding London -52 308 £56,500 -13.08% 177
Work from Home +26 272 £67,500 +22.73% 147
London -14 138 £75,000 +20.00% 215
North of England 0 77 £50,000 -27.94% 26
East of England +40 74 £74,000 +64.44% 19
South East -11 68 £56,500 -10.14% 46
North West -17 32 £47,500 -31.54% 15
Yorkshire -13 29 £66,250 -22.29% 9
Midlands -36 22 £60,000 +4.35% 15
South West -59 21 £60,000 -11.11% 58
West Midlands -15 19 £61,250 +2.08% 10
Wales -36 19 £53,171 -21.88%
North East -42 16 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Scotland -70 16 £54,500 +19.43% 13
Northern Ireland - 11 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -40 3 £60,000 +81.82% 5

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 7 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (2.00%) InDesign
2 10 (2.00%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.00%) Sketch
3 6 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.60%) Productboard
7 2 (0.40%) CATIA
7 2 (0.40%) InVision
7 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) Windchill
8 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.20%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (22.65%) Figma
2 88 (17.64%) AWS
3 82 (16.43%) Adobe Analytics
4 74 (14.83%) Azure
5 46 (9.22%) GCP
6 23 (4.61%) SaaS
7 21 (4.21%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.01%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.01%) Serverless
9 18 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.21%) dbt
12 15 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (2.81%) Vertex AI
14 13 (2.61%) Apigee
15 12 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (2.40%) GitHub
16 11 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (2.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (18.44%) Broadband
2 8 (1.60%) WPA
3 7 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.00%) Intranet
5 4 (0.80%) Wireless
6 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.40%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Modbus
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) RS-232
7 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.41%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.20%) Redis
3 10 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) Power BI
6 6 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Db2
8 4 (0.80%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.80%) QlikView
9 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (4.01%) Git
2 17 (3.41%) GitLab
3 16 (3.21%) JIRA
4 15 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 13 (2.61%) Maven
5 13 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.40%) Axure RP
6 7 (1.40%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.00%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.60%) Postman
9 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.40%) Bower
9 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.40%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) Mocha
10 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 134 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 95 (19.04%) Finance
3 82 (16.43%) Games
4 78 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.63%) Public Sector
7 51 (10.22%) Electronics
8 40 (8.02%) Law
9 35 (7.01%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.61%) Marketing
10 23 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.81%) Legal
12 15 (3.01%) Retail
13 13 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.40%) Banking
15 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.20%) Advertising
17 6 (1.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 114 (22.85%) Designer
2 91 (18.24%) Senior
3 74 (14.83%) Lead
4 61 (12.22%) Developer
5 47 (9.42%) UX Designer
6 40 (8.02%) Architect
7 39 (7.82%) Lead Designer
8 29 (5.81%) Systems Engineer
9 27 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.01%) Interaction Designer
11 20 (4.01%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.81%) Consultant
12 19 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.61%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.61%) Analyst
13 18 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (3.41%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.41%) Product Manager
14 17 (3.41%) UI Designer
14 17 (3.41%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.61%) HTML
2 29 (5.81%) CSS
3 27 (5.41%) React
4 22 (4.41%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.61%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.01%) .NET
7 14 (2.81%) Jest
8 13 (2.61%) Gherkin
8 13 (2.61%) LangChain
8 13 (2.61%) REST
9 10 (2.00%) Node.js
10 8 (1.60%) JSON
11 7 (1.40%) Framer.js
11 7 (1.40%) Web Services
12 6 (1.20%) Django
12 6 (1.20%) Spring
12 6 (1.20%) XML
13 5 (1.00%) Ajax
13 5 (1.00%) jQuery
13 5 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.03%) Social Media
2 37 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.41%) IoT
6 14 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.81%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.61%) FPGA
8 12 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.40%) Robotics
9 11 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
12 7 (1.40%) Verilog
12 7 (1.40%) VHDL
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.81%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (50.50%) Agile
2 227 (45.49%) AI
3 163 (32.67%) User Research
4 142 (28.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 134 (26.85%) Analytics
5 134 (26.85%) Roadmaps
6 103 (20.64%) Customer Experience
7 100 (20.04%) Product Roadmap
8 96 (19.24%) User Experience
9 94 (18.84%) Rapid Prototyping
10 86 (17.23%) Storytelling
11 81 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (16.03%) Digital Customer Experience
13 74 (14.83%) Mentoring
13 74 (14.83%) UX Design
14 71 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (13.83%) Software Engineering
16 64 (12.83%) Validation
17 60 (12.02%) Workshop Facilitation
18 56 (11.22%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.24%) Python
2 45 (9.02%) Java
3 35 (7.01%) JavaScript
4 33 (6.61%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.41%) SQL
6 26 (5.21%) C
6 26 (5.21%) C#
7 25 (5.01%) C++
8 15 (3.01%) Bash
9 14 (2.81%) Groovy
10 11 (2.20%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.20%) PHP
12 5 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.60%) Julia
13 3 (0.60%) Pascal
13 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.20%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (24.25%) Degree
2 78 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 61 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.61%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.00%) PhD
10 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.00%) HND
11 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.20%) HNC
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (27.05%) Accessibility
2 66 (13.23%) WCAG
3 9 (1.80%) QA
4 8 (1.60%) GRC
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) DO-254
7 2 (0.40%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (6.41%) Docker
2 18 (3.61%) Firmware
3 7 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.41%) Terraform
2 13 (2.61%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (21.84%) Adobe
2 41 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.21%) Google
4 24 (4.81%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.61%) EMC
6 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.40%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle
8 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.60%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) Motorola
9 3 (0.60%) SAP
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
9 3 (0.60%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Planon
10 2 (0.40%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.20%) NVIDIA