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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 319 345
Rank change year-on-year -41 +26 -12
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 570 420 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.85% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.95% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 382 170 195
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,375 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £96,031 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.00%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +26 485 £60,000 -14.29% 1,876
UK excluding London -44 379 £56,000 -6.67% 1,425
Work from Home -38 186 £65,000 +18.18% 1,289
London -48 148 £75,000 -3.23% 880
North of England +6 103 £55,000 -4.35% 229
South East -9 97 £56,000 -13.85% 287
East of England +8 64 £60,000 - 171
North West -2 56 £53,750 -10.42% 116
Midlands -26 42 £57,500 -4.17% 128
West Midlands -16 32 £57,500 -4.17% 74
South West -52 31 £58,250 -31.47% 180
North East -38 28 £58,750 -9.62% 46
Wales -55 24 £53,171 +7.42% 111
Yorkshire -28 19 £50,000 +63.93% 72
Scotland -72 13 £55,000 - 259
East Midlands -40 10 £45,000 +36.36% 54
Northern Ireland -74 10 £80,000 - 63

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 12 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.93%) Apache
2 11 (1.93%) Confluence
3 9 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.05%) CMS
5 6 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.70%) WordPress
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (4.04%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 18 (3.16%) Photoshop
3 17 (2.98%) Adobe XD
4 14 (2.46%) InDesign
5 12 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (1.40%) Sketch
7 8 (1.40%) Solid Edge
8 7 (1.23%) EPLAN
9 5 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.70%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.53%) Productboard
11 3 (0.53%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.53%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.35%) InVision
12 2 (0.35%) Trello
12 2 (0.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.70%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.53%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (17.37%) Figma
2 85 (14.91%) AWS
3 67 (11.75%) Azure
4 41 (7.19%) GCP
5 27 (4.74%) GitHub
6 18 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.16%) SaaS
7 17 (2.98%) Amazon S3
7 17 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.98%) Serverless
8 15 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.46%) Adobe Analytics
9 14 (2.46%) dbt
10 13 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.93%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.75%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.58%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.63%) Broadband
2 8 (1.40%) WPA
3 7 (1.23%) Wireless
4 5 (0.88%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.88%) Intranet
4 5 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.53%) RS-485
6 2 (0.35%) Internet
6 2 (0.35%) RS-232
6 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) AMQP
7 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.18%) J1939
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Modbus
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.46%) DynamoDB
2 12 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.40%) Power BI
4 8 (1.40%) Redis
5 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.70%) Metadata
7 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.53%) Tableau
8 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) Power Query
8 2 (0.35%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 26 (4.56%) Git
2 18 (3.16%) JIRA
3 16 (2.81%) GitLab
4 8 (1.40%) Axure RP
4 8 (1.40%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.23%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.05%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.05%) Postman
7 5 (0.88%) Maven
7 5 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.35%) Bower
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 222 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 116 (20.35%) Electronics
3 105 (18.42%) Finance
4 104 (18.25%) Manufacturing
5 96 (16.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (14.91%) Public Sector
7 71 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
8 53 (9.30%) Law
9 52 (9.12%) Aerospace
10 40 (7.02%) Marketing
11 33 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (4.74%) Automotive
13 22 (3.86%) Retail
14 19 (3.33%) Games
15 18 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (2.46%) Legal
17 12 (2.11%) Military
18 11 (1.93%) Banking
19 10 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (25.26%) Senior
2 118 (20.70%) Designer
3 62 (10.88%) Developer
4 52 (9.12%) Lead
5 46 (8.07%) UX Designer
6 45 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 42 (7.37%) Electronics Engineer
8 34 (5.96%) Senior Designer
9 29 (5.09%) Architect
9 29 (5.09%) Interaction Designer
10 24 (4.21%) Design Engineer
10 24 (4.21%) UI Designer
10 24 (4.21%) UI/UX Designer
11 22 (3.86%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (3.68%) Lead Designer
13 20 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.33%) Consultant
14 19 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.72%) HTML
2 43 (7.54%) CSS
3 39 (6.84%) React
4 25 (4.39%) .NET
5 17 (2.98%) LangChain
5 17 (2.98%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.98%) Terraform
6 15 (2.63%) Kafka
6 15 (2.63%) REST
7 13 (2.28%) Spring
8 12 (2.11%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.11%) Web Services
9 10 (1.75%) FastAPI
9 10 (1.75%) RESTful
10 9 (1.58%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.58%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.58%) JSON
10 9 (1.58%) Next.js
11 8 (1.40%) Node.js
12 7 (1.23%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.14%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.56%) AI Agents
6 24 (4.21%) Robotics
7 22 (3.86%) IoT
8 18 (3.16%) FPGA
9 17 (2.98%) Analogue Electronics
10 16 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.63%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.63%) Social Media
12 13 (2.28%) Algorithms
12 13 (2.28%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.93%) Life Science
14 10 (1.75%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.75%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.58%) Data Structures
16 8 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
16 8 (1.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.58%) Android
1 9 (1.58%) Linux
2 8 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (35.44%) AI
2 192 (33.68%) Agile
3 136 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 122 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (20.53%) User Experience
6 109 (19.12%) User Research
7 106 (18.60%) Rapid Prototyping
8 105 (18.42%) Mentoring
9 104 (18.25%) Validation
10 94 (16.49%) Analytics
11 93 (16.32%) Software Engineering
12 78 (13.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 78 (13.68%) UX Design
13 73 (12.81%) CI/CD
14 64 (11.23%) LLM
15 63 (11.05%) Roadmaps
16 60 (10.53%) Service Design
17 56 (9.82%) Wireframes
18 50 (8.77%) DevOps
18 50 (8.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (18.07%) Python
2 47 (8.25%) JavaScript
2 47 (8.25%) TypeScript
3 39 (6.84%) SQL
4 37 (6.49%) Java
5 30 (5.26%) C#
6 28 (4.91%) C++
7 27 (4.74%) C
8 16 (2.81%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.40%) Bash
9 8 (1.40%) Rust
10 6 (1.05%) Embedded C
10 6 (1.05%) Go
10 6 (1.05%) Groovy
11 5 (0.88%) Embedded C++
11 5 (0.88%) PHP
12 4 (0.70%) R
13 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (35.09%) Degree
2 114 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 88 (15.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.74%) Master's Degree
5 21 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.16%) HND
7 15 (2.63%) PhD
8 13 (2.28%) HNC
9 12 (2.11%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.18%) OCP
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (16.49%) Accessibility
2 41 (7.19%) WCAG
3 19 (3.33%) QA
4 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.88%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.70%) GDPR
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) JTAG
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) DO-254
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) MISRA
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) IASME
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (6.32%) Docker
2 33 (5.79%) Firmware
3 11 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.88%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 54 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.30%) Adobe
3 32 (5.61%) EMC
3 32 (5.61%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.33%) Google
5 12 (2.11%) SAP
6 11 (1.93%) Databricks
7 10 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.23%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.05%) Thales
10 5 (0.88%) Foundry
11 4 (0.70%) Oracle
11 4 (0.70%) Siemens
12 3 (0.53%) Apple
12 3 (0.53%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.53%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.53%) HighQ
12 3 (0.53%) Legora
12 3 (0.53%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.35%) Revolut