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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 307 341
Rank change year-on-year -55 +34 -37
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 315 496 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.95% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.03% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 188 192 373
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,916 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% +14.86% -11.11%
75th Percentile £91,063 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £87,250 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,525 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +37.05% -21.71%

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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -45 274 £70,000 +3.70% 293
UK excluding London -134 145 £57,500 -16.09% 252
London +81 137 £75,000 +8.21% 99
Work from Home -84 100 £57,500 -17.04% 139
South East -73 46 £55,000 -26.67% 96
North of England -29 38 £57,500 -4.17% 33
North West -18 19 £57,500 -4.17% 13
East of England -2 16 £90,000 +63.64% 37
South West -25 16 £79,750 +6.33% 36
Yorkshire -12 15 £49,000 -6.67% 13
Scotland -20 10 £54,500 -21.36% 13
Midlands +9 9 £52,500 -24.25% 36
Wales -11 9 £61,651 -11.05% 7
West Midlands +31 8 £50,000 -27.86% 24
North East -4 4 £73,801 +32.01% 7
Northern Ireland -13 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 11

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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Strapi
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (12.38%) Adobe XD
2 17 (5.40%) Sketch
3 13 (4.13%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (3.17%) Maya
5 6 (1.90%) InVision
6 5 (1.59%) Fusion 360
6 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.59%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (1.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.95%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.63%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.63%) Windchill
10 1 (0.32%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.32%) Blender
10 1 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (2.86%) SAP CO
1 9 (2.86%) SAP FI
1 9 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
1 9 (2.86%) SAP FSCM
1 9 (2.86%) SAP IBP
1 9 (2.86%) SAP IS-U
1 9 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 107 (33.97%) Figma
2 68 (21.59%) AWS
3 56 (17.78%) Azure
4 31 (9.84%) GCP
5 29 (9.21%) Adobe Analytics
6 24 (7.62%) Miro
7 20 (6.35%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (5.40%) SaaS
10 16 (5.08%) PaaS
11 14 (4.44%) GitHub
12 13 (4.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (4.13%) dbt
13 12 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.81%) Pulumi
13 12 (3.81%) Sentry
14 11 (3.49%) Google Analytics
14 11 (3.49%) Serverless
15 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.13%) Broadband
3 5 (1.59%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.59%) Firewall
4 4 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.27%) Modbus
4 4 (1.27%) Network Security
4 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.27%) VLAN
4 4 (1.27%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.27%) ZigBee
5 3 (0.95%) Internet
6 2 (0.63%) 2G
6 2 (0.63%) 4G
6 2 (0.63%) 5G
6 2 (0.63%) DNS
6 2 (0.63%) HTTP
6 2 (0.63%) ICMP
7 1 (0.32%) RFID
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.44%) Redis
3 13 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.86%) SAP BW
6 7 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.27%) Power BI
7 4 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.63%) Tableau
10 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.32%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.32%) Power Query
10 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.84%) Axure RP
2 25 (7.94%) Balsamiq
3 15 (4.76%) JIRA
4 11 (3.49%) Git
4 11 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.22%) GitLab
6 7 (2.22%) Maven
6 7 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.27%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.27%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 97 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (18.10%) Finance
4 56 (17.78%) Law
5 40 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (11.43%) Public Sector
7 25 (7.94%) Banking
8 24 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (6.67%) Games
10 15 (4.76%) Legal
10 15 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (4.13%) Manufacturing
12 12 (3.81%) Retail
13 11 (3.49%) Electronics
14 8 (2.54%) Marketing
15 7 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
17 5 (1.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 82 (26.03%) Designer
2 65 (20.63%) Senior
3 37 (11.75%) Developer
4 35 (11.11%) Lead
5 34 (10.79%) UX Designer
6 21 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (6.03%) Strategy Manager
8 18 (5.71%) Consultant
8 18 (5.71%) Product Designer
9 15 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.44%) Interaction Designer
10 14 (4.44%) Service Designer
11 13 (4.13%) Analyst
11 13 (4.13%) Architect
12 12 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (2.86%) Senior Designer
14 9 (2.86%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.38%) CSS
2 38 (12.06%) HTML
3 34 (10.79%) React
4 28 (8.89%) Node.js
5 24 (7.62%) .NET
6 16 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.76%) REST
8 12 (3.81%) Django
8 12 (3.81%) PyTorch
9 11 (3.49%) TensorFlow
10 10 (3.17%) Jest
10 10 (3.17%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.86%) JSON
11 9 (2.86%) XML
12 7 (2.22%) Gherkin
12 7 (2.22%) Google JAX
12 7 (2.22%) JAX
12 7 (2.22%) Next.js
12 7 (2.22%) Vue
13 6 (1.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.75%) Product Ownership
2 32 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (3.81%) Social Media
5 11 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.22%) CUDA
8 7 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.90%) IoT
10 5 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.59%) Animation
10 5 (1.59%) Blog
10 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.27%) Life Science
11 4 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.62%) Linux
2 12 (3.81%) Unix
3 10 (3.17%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (50.79%) Agile
2 140 (44.44%) User Experience
3 96 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (27.30%) Analytics
5 85 (26.98%) UX Design
6 82 (26.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 80 (25.40%) User Research
8 77 (24.44%) Wireframes
9 75 (23.81%) AI
10 63 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (17.78%) CI/CD
12 49 (15.56%) Usability Testing
13 47 (14.92%) Computer Science
14 43 (13.65%) Clean Code
14 43 (13.65%) Customer Experience
15 42 (13.33%) Mentoring
15 42 (13.33%) Rapid Prototyping
15 42 (13.33%) Software Engineering
16 40 (12.70%) DevOps
16 40 (12.70%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.86%) Python
2 52 (16.51%) JavaScript
3 42 (13.33%) Java
4 31 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.08%) C++
6 15 (4.76%) SQL
7 12 (3.81%) C#
8 8 (2.54%) Bash
8 8 (2.54%) Groovy
9 7 (2.22%) C
10 5 (1.59%) R
11 4 (1.27%) Rust
12 3 (0.95%) Bicep
12 3 (0.95%) Go
12 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.95%) PHP
13 2 (0.63%) Delphi
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 112 (35.56%) Degree
2 80 (25.40%) Security Cleared
3 63 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.59%) PhD
9 4 (1.27%) HNC
9 4 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.95%) HND
10 3 (0.95%) MCP
11 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (30.48%) Accessibility
2 39 (12.38%) WCAG
3 5 (1.59%) GRC
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.95%) QA
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (8.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.71%) Terraform
2 12 (3.81%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (2.22%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.90%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.27%) Nessus
5 4 (1.27%) Nmap
6 2 (0.63%) Ansible
7 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 80 (25.40%) Adobe
2 38 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.52%) Google
4 23 (7.30%) Qualtrics
5 9 (2.86%) SAP
6 7 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.27%) Cisco
7 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.27%) Splunk
8 2 (0.63%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.63%) Foundry
8 2 (0.63%) Mercator
8 2 (0.63%) PTC
8 2 (0.63%) Sage
8 2 (0.63%) UiPath
8 2 (0.63%) VMware
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Planon
9 1 (0.32%) YouTube