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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 339 370
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 -44
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 358 379 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.86% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.92% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 193 191 407
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +17.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.09% +30.52% -16.00%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 16 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 9 March 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 -12 311 £67,500 +3.85% 423
UK excluding London -82 188 £57,500 -16.09% 355
Work from Home +9 164 £60,000 -13.43% 252
London +62 135 £72,500 +11.54% 140
South East -20 56 £55,000 -26.67% 126
North of England -53 45 £57,500 -4.17% 57
East of England +9 40 £81,575 +48.32% 78
North West -39 24 £57,500 -4.17% 28
South West -52 17 £79,750 +16.38% 30
Yorkshire -36 16 £67,500 +22.73% 21
Scotland -23 12 £54,500 -21.36% 27
Wales -27 9 £73,801 +6.96% 7
West Midlands +2 7 £46,022 -31.95% 17
Midlands -18 7 £46,022 -31.95% 33
North East -19 5 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Northern Ireland -29 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3

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 (2.79%) Confluence
2 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Strapi
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (9.78%) Adobe XD
2 17 (4.75%) Sketch
3 14 (3.91%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.40%) Fusion 360
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.12%) InVision
7 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.84%) Maya
8 2 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.28%) CATIA
9 1 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.28%) InDesign
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.56%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 124 (34.64%) Figma
2 78 (21.79%) AWS
3 68 (18.99%) Adobe Analytics
4 66 (18.44%) Azure
5 46 (12.85%) GCP
6 27 (7.54%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (6.42%) Miro
9 22 (6.15%) PaaS
10 18 (5.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 18 (5.03%) dbt
11 17 (4.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (4.75%) Pulumi
11 17 (4.75%) Sentry
12 16 (4.47%) SaaS
13 13 (3.63%) GitHub
13 13 (3.63%) Google Analytics
14 12 (3.35%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.08%) Broadband
2 23 (6.42%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.68%) Bluetooth
4 5 (1.40%) Firewall
5 4 (1.12%) Internet
5 4 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.12%) Modbus
5 4 (1.12%) Network Security
5 4 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.12%) VLAN
5 4 (1.12%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.12%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.56%) 2G
6 2 (0.56%) 4G
6 2 (0.56%) 5G
6 2 (0.56%) DNS
6 2 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.56%) ICMP
6 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.31%) Redis
3 18 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.51%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.96%) Power BI
7 6 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.84%) DB2
10 3 (0.84%) DB2 UDB
10 3 (0.84%) QlikView
11 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.56%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.56%) Tableau
12 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.28%) Mixpanel
12 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (8.66%) Axure RP
2 25 (6.98%) Balsamiq
3 16 (4.47%) JIRA
4 13 (3.63%) Git
4 13 (3.63%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.07%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.51%) GitLab
6 9 (2.51%) Maven
6 9 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.40%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.12%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.12%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 92 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (17.04%) Finance
4 54 (15.08%) Law
5 51 (14.25%) Games
6 49 (13.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (12.29%) Public Sector
8 29 (8.10%) Banking
9 21 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (5.03%) Manufacturing
11 16 (4.47%) Legal
12 15 (4.19%) Electronics
13 14 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (3.63%) Retail
15 11 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.68%) Marketing
16 6 (1.68%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.40%) Back Office
17 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (27.37%) Designer
2 71 (19.83%) Senior
3 54 (15.08%) Lead
4 42 (11.73%) UX Designer
5 28 (7.82%) Developer
6 23 (6.42%) Lead Designer
7 20 (5.59%) Consultant
7 20 (5.59%) Product Designer
8 19 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 19 (5.31%) Senior Manager
8 19 (5.31%) Strategy Manager
9 18 (5.03%) Analyst
10 17 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.19%) Interaction Designer
11 15 (4.19%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.91%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.63%) Architect
14 12 (3.35%) Service Designer
15 11 (3.07%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.45%) CSS
1 41 (11.45%) HTML
2 30 (8.38%) React
3 23 (6.42%) Node.js
4 22 (6.15%) .NET
5 17 (4.75%) Django
6 15 (4.19%) AngularJS
7 13 (3.63%) REST
7 13 (3.63%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.35%) Jest
9 11 (3.07%) PyTorch
10 10 (2.79%) TensorFlow
11 9 (2.51%) Gherkin
12 7 (1.96%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.96%) JAX
12 7 (1.96%) Next.js
13 6 (1.68%) JSON
13 6 (1.68%) LangChain
13 6 (1.68%) XML
14 5 (1.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.97%) Social Media
2 39 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.38%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.87%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.51%) IoT
6 9 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.23%) Life Science
7 8 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.96%) CUDA
8 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.68%) Blog
9 6 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.40%) Animation
10 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.40%) FPGA
11 4 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.82%) Linux
2 17 (4.75%) Unix
3 10 (2.79%) Android
4 5 (1.40%) Windows
5 4 (1.12%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (58.38%) Agile
2 141 (39.39%) User Experience
3 121 (33.80%) AI
4 118 (32.96%) User Research
4 118 (32.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 117 (32.68%) Analytics
6 104 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (25.98%) UX Design
8 82 (22.91%) Customer Experience
9 79 (22.07%) Roadmaps
10 75 (20.95%) Wireframes
11 73 (20.39%) Storytelling
12 62 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (16.48%) Product Roadmap
14 54 (15.08%) CI/CD
14 54 (15.08%) Workshop Facilitation
15 52 (14.53%) Clean Code
16 51 (14.25%) Mentoring
17 49 (13.69%) Digital Customer Experience
18 46 (12.85%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (20.39%) Python
2 49 (13.69%) JavaScript
3 47 (13.13%) Java
4 31 (8.66%) TypeScript
5 15 (4.19%) C++
5 15 (4.19%) SQL
6 13 (3.63%) C#
7 10 (2.79%) Bash
7 10 (2.79%) Groovy
8 6 (1.68%) C
8 6 (1.68%) R
9 4 (1.12%) Rust
10 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.56%) Julia
11 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.56%) PHP
11 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (29.33%) Degree
2 85 (23.74%) Security Cleared
3 68 (18.99%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.84%) PhD
11 3 (0.84%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.56%) HNC
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.28%) HND
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (37.15%) Accessibility
2 59 (16.48%) WCAG
3 7 (1.96%) GRC
4 4 (1.12%) GDPR
4 4 (1.12%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.84%) QA
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (8.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.42%) Terraform
2 17 (4.75%) AWS Copilot
3 9 (2.51%) HP Fortify
4 5 (1.40%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.12%) Nessus
5 4 (1.12%) Nmap
6 2 (0.56%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 111 (31.01%) Adobe
2 40 (11.17%) Google
3 36 (10.06%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.42%) Qualtrics
5 8 (2.23%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.68%) Foundry
7 5 (1.40%) EMC
8 4 (1.12%) Cisco
8 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.12%) Splunk
9 3 (0.84%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.84%) Workday
10 2 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.56%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.56%) Mercator
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.56%) SAP
10 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.56%) UiPath
10 2 (0.56%) VMware