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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 310 417
Rank change year-on-year -52 +107 -106
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 495 450 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.92% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.02% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 275 177 299
10th Percentile £43,487 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £50,000
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 £87,800 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £62,875 £57,965
% change year-on-year -9.34% +8.47% -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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 22 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 22 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 +7 408 £60,000 -7.69% 301
UK excluding London -67 305 £57,000 -9.34% 141
Work from Home +21 268 £67,500 +22.73% 136
London -17 141 £75,000 +8.09% 188
North of England -4 75 £50,000 -26.06% 29
East of England +50 74 £74,000 +64.44% 17
South East -16 72 £56,500 -7.00% 41
North West -5 33 £48,750 -29.74% 18
Yorkshire -22 26 £65,000 - 5
South West -62 20 £60,000 -5.88% 26
Midlands -31 19 £68,665 +16.88% 12
Wales -44 19 £53,171 -22.38% 2
West Midlands -13 16 £74,830 +24.72% 8
North East -42 16 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland -63 15 £52,250 +14.50% 15
Northern Ireland -55 11 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -35 3 £60,000 +81.82% 4

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 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.21%) Apache
2 6 (1.21%) Confluence
3 4 (0.81%) CMS
4 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.61%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 15 (3.03%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (2.02%) InDesign
2 10 (2.02%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.02%) Sketch
3 6 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.01%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.61%) Productboard
7 2 (0.40%) CATIA
7 2 (0.40%) InVision
7 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
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 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.23%) Figma
2 85 (17.17%) AWS
3 81 (16.36%) Adobe Analytics
4 72 (14.55%) Azure
5 46 (9.29%) GCP
6 20 (4.04%) SaaS
7 18 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (3.64%) Serverless
8 16 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (3.23%) dbt
9 15 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (2.42%) Vertex AI
12 11 (2.22%) Apigee
12 11 (2.22%) GitHub
13 10 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 91 (18.38%) Broadband
2 8 (1.62%) WPA
3 7 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.01%) Intranet
5 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.81%) Wireless
6 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.40%) Internet
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 15 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.02%) Redis
4 8 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.21%) Power BI
7 5 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.81%) Db2
8 4 (0.81%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.81%) QlikView
8 4 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.61%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.40%) Big Data
10 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (4.24%) Git
2 15 (3.03%) GitLab
2 15 (3.03%) JIRA
3 13 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.22%) Maven
4 11 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.62%) Axure RP
5 8 (1.62%) LabVIEW
6 6 (1.21%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.81%) Postman
8 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.61%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.40%) Bower
9 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 137 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.99%) Finance
3 81 (16.36%) Games
4 80 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (13.94%) Public Sector
7 52 (10.51%) Electronics
8 42 (8.48%) Law
9 36 (7.27%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.65%) Marketing
10 23 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (3.43%) Legal
12 15 (3.03%) Retail
13 14 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.42%) Banking
15 9 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.21%) Advertising
18 5 (1.01%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 113 (22.83%) Designer
2 94 (18.99%) Senior
3 74 (14.95%) Lead
4 60 (12.12%) Developer
5 47 (9.49%) UX Designer
6 38 (7.68%) Lead Designer
7 37 (7.47%) Architect
8 32 (6.46%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.25%) Interaction Designer
11 21 (4.24%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.84%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.84%) Consultant
12 19 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.64%) UI Designer
13 18 (3.64%) UI/UX Designer
14 17 (3.43%) Product Manager
14 17 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.23%) Digital Designer
15 16 (3.23%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.27%) HTML
2 32 (6.46%) CSS
3 23 (4.65%) React
4 18 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.23%) .NET
6 15 (3.03%) Spring Boot
7 14 (2.83%) LangChain
8 12 (2.42%) REST
9 11 (2.22%) Gherkin
9 11 (2.22%) Jest
10 8 (1.62%) JSON
10 8 (1.62%) Node.js
10 8 (1.62%) Web Services
11 7 (1.41%) Framer.js
12 6 (1.21%) Django
12 6 (1.21%) RESTful
12 6 (1.21%) XML
13 5 (1.01%) Ajax
13 5 (1.01%) jQuery
13 5 (1.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.96%) Social Media
2 37 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.43%) IoT
6 16 (3.23%) FPGA
6 16 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.83%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.42%) Robotics
10 11 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.02%) Algorithms
11 10 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.82%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.62%) Fibre Optics
13 8 (1.62%) Verilog
13 8 (1.62%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.83%) Linux
2 8 (1.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (51.52%) Agile
2 221 (44.65%) AI
3 164 (33.13%) User Research
4 142 (28.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 134 (27.07%) Analytics
6 132 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 102 (20.61%) Customer Experience
8 98 (19.80%) Product Roadmap
8 98 (19.80%) User Experience
9 97 (19.60%) Rapid Prototyping
10 86 (17.37%) Storytelling
11 80 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (15.96%) Digital Customer Experience
13 77 (15.56%) Mentoring
14 74 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (14.75%) UX Design
16 70 (14.14%) Software Engineering
17 63 (12.73%) Validation
18 62 (12.53%) Workshop Facilitation
19 53 (10.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 89 (17.98%) Python
2 44 (8.89%) Java
3 36 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 30 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.45%) C
5 27 (5.45%) SQL
6 26 (5.25%) C++
7 25 (5.05%) C#
8 13 (2.63%) Bash
9 12 (2.42%) Groovy
9 12 (2.42%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.01%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.01%) PHP
11 3 (0.61%) Julia
11 3 (0.61%) Pascal
11 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.61%) Rust
12 2 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 129 (26.06%) Degree
2 81 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 64 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.05%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.42%) PhD
8 11 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.01%) HND
10 3 (0.61%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.20%) HNC
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (27.47%) Accessibility
2 68 (13.74%) WCAG
3 10 (2.02%) QA
4 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.01%) GRC
5 4 (0.81%) DO-254
5 4 (0.81%) GDPR
6 2 (0.40%) JTAG
7 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (6.06%) Docker
2 18 (3.64%) Firmware
3 7 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.23%) Terraform
2 11 (2.22%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 108 (21.82%) Adobe
2 41 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.86%) Google
4 21 (4.24%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.63%) EMC
6 11 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.41%) Foundry
8 4 (0.81%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle
8 4 (0.81%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.61%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.61%) Databricks
9 3 (0.61%) Motorola
9 3 (0.61%) SAP
9 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) Altera
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Intel
10 2 (0.40%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.40%) Workday