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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 310 373
Rank change year-on-year -59 +63 -46
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 532 433 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.88% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.99% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 351 176 203
10th Percentile £42,215 £41,250 £46,069
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,469 £77,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -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 84,797 43,558 63,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.68% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,554 24,566 35,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -2 444 £60,000 -14.29% 1,514
UK excluding London -50 343 £57,500 -4.17% 714
Work from Home -39 194 £65,000 +18.18% 590
London -61 141 £75,000 - 921
North of England -10 94 £55,000 -4.35% 125
South East -30 82 £58,250 -12.08% 172
East of England +5 59 £60,000 +33.33% 109
North West -11 45 £50,000 -16.67% 82
Midlands -37 38 £57,500 -4.17% 56
West Midlands -28 30 £57,500 -4.17% 44
South West -49 28 £60,000 -29.41% 130
North East -37 26 £58,750 -9.62% 16
Yorkshire -22 23 £57,500 +88.52% 27
Wales -56 22 £53,171 -2.88% 16
Scotland -74 12 £55,000 - 75
Northern Ireland -71 11 £80,000 - 31
East Midlands -36 8 £45,000 +36.36% 12

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 11 (2.07%) Confluence
2 9 (1.69%) Apache
2 9 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.56%) WordPress
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 22 (4.14%) SOLIDWORKS
2 18 (3.38%) Adobe XD
3 15 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (2.82%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.63%) InDesign
5 10 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.69%) Sketch
7 8 (1.50%) Solid Edge
8 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (1.13%) EPLAN
10 5 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.56%) Productboard
11 3 (0.56%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.56%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.38%) InVision
12 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.38%) Trello
12 2 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.75%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.05%) Figma
2 85 (15.98%) AWS
3 65 (12.22%) Azure
4 37 (6.95%) GCP
5 21 (3.95%) GitHub
6 20 (3.76%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.76%) SaaS
6 20 (3.76%) Serverless
7 18 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.20%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.01%) Adobe Analytics
10 15 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (2.63%) dbt
12 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.07%) Google Analytics
14 10 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.01%) Broadband
2 8 (1.50%) WPA
3 5 (0.94%) Intranet
4 4 (0.75%) Wireless
5 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.56%) RS-485
5 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.38%) Internet
6 2 (0.38%) RS-232
6 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) AMQP
7 1 (0.19%) Modbus
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.20%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.50%) Redis
3 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.32%) Power BI
5 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.56%) Tableau
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.38%) Big Data
9 2 (0.38%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (4.14%) Git
2 17 (3.20%) JIRA
3 13 (2.44%) GitLab
4 10 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.50%) Axure RP
6 8 (1.50%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.50%) Maven
6 8 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.13%) Balsamiq
8 6 (1.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.38%) Bower
10 2 (0.38%) MLflow
11 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.19%) ERwin
11 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 203 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 102 (19.17%) Finance
3 98 (18.42%) Electronics
4 94 (17.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (16.17%) Manufacturing
6 78 (14.66%) Public Sector
7 69 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (9.77%) Law
9 42 (7.89%) Aerospace
10 38 (7.14%) Marketing
11 31 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (4.14%) Games
13 19 (3.57%) Automotive
14 18 (3.38%) Retail
15 16 (3.01%) Legal
15 16 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (2.07%) Military
17 10 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (1.69%) Banking
19 8 (1.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 120 (22.56%) Senior
2 106 (19.92%) Designer
3 66 (12.41%) Developer
4 47 (8.83%) Lead
5 43 (8.08%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 36 (6.77%) Architect
8 30 (5.64%) Senior Designer
9 28 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
10 27 (5.08%) Interaction Designer
11 24 (4.51%) UI Designer
11 24 (4.51%) UI/UX Designer
12 22 (4.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 22 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
12 22 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
13 20 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (3.76%) Lead Designer
14 18 (3.38%) Consultant
14 18 (3.38%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.71%) HTML
2 39 (7.33%) CSS
3 36 (6.77%) React
4 22 (4.14%) .NET
5 17 (3.20%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.20%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.01%) LangChain
6 16 (3.01%) Terraform
7 13 (2.44%) REST
8 11 (2.07%) Kafka
8 11 (2.07%) Web Services
9 10 (1.88%) Spring
10 9 (1.69%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.69%) Framer.js
10 9 (1.69%) Jest
10 9 (1.69%) Node.js
10 9 (1.69%) RESTful
11 8 (1.50%) Gherkin
11 8 (1.50%) Next.js
12 7 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.83%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.76%) IoT
5 20 (3.76%) Robotics
6 17 (3.20%) FPGA
6 17 (3.20%) Social Media
7 15 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.63%) Analogue Electronics
8 14 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.26%) Mobile App
11 11 (2.07%) Life Science
11 11 (2.07%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.69%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.50%) Android
1 8 (1.50%) Linux
2 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (35.90%) Agile
1 191 (35.90%) AI
2 120 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 111 (20.86%) User Research
4 109 (20.49%) User Experience
5 102 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (18.80%) Rapid Prototyping
7 96 (18.05%) Mentoring
8 90 (16.92%) Analytics
9 86 (16.17%) Validation
10 85 (15.98%) Software Engineering
11 78 (14.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 75 (14.10%) UX Design
13 68 (12.78%) Roadmaps
14 64 (12.03%) CI/CD
15 56 (10.53%) LLM
16 55 (10.34%) Service Design
17 52 (9.77%) Wireframes
18 47 (8.83%) DevOps
19 46 (8.65%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 87 (16.35%) Python
2 43 (8.08%) JavaScript
2 43 (8.08%) TypeScript
3 37 (6.95%) Java
4 32 (6.02%) SQL
5 27 (5.08%) C#
6 24 (4.51%) C++
7 23 (4.32%) C
8 14 (2.63%) MATLAB
9 10 (1.88%) Bash
10 9 (1.69%) Groovy
11 7 (1.32%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.32%) Go
12 5 (0.94%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.94%) PHP
13 4 (0.75%) Rust
14 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.38%) Ruby
15 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 179 (33.65%) Degree
2 106 (19.92%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.04%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.08%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.01%) PhD
8 14 (2.63%) HND
9 13 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.88%) HNC
11 8 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
11 8 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
16 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.19%) OCP
16 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.48%) Accessibility
2 41 (7.71%) WCAG
3 20 (3.76%) QA
4 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.56%) DO-254
5 3 (0.56%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.56%) JTAG
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.38%) GRC
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.19%) GxP
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.19%) MISRA
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (5.26%) Docker
2 26 (4.89%) Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 52 (9.77%) Adobe
1 52 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.83%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.32%) EMC
4 19 (3.57%) Google
5 11 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.07%) SAP
6 10 (1.88%) Databricks
7 6 (1.13%) Autodesk
8 4 (0.75%) Oracle
9 3 (0.56%) Apple
9 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.56%) Foundry
9 3 (0.56%) Siemens
9 3 (0.56%) Thales
9 3 (0.56%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.38%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.38%) Revolut
10 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.38%) YouTube