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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 341 372
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 -53
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 421 343 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.83% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.90% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 224 187 413
10th Percentile £46,347 £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,626 £53,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +27.60% -15.20%

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 60,329 38,275 77,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.98% 93.09% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 37,012 22,459 57,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 March 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 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 +11 367 £67,500 +3.85% 237
UK excluding London -43 238 £57,500 -14.97% 166
Work from Home +24 206 £67,490 -0.20% 89
London +43 142 £73,801 +15.77% 110
South East -8 68 £56,500 -24.67% 50
East of England +5 57 £80,788 +61.58% 22
North of England -58 54 £57,500 -4.17% 44
Yorkshire -39 23 £67,500 +22.73% 14
North West -46 23 £55,000 -8.33% 22
South West -62 21 £79,750 +16.38% 14
Scotland -37 16 £54,500 -9.02% 21
Midlands -25 14 £52,500 -17.73% 14
West Midlands -13 12 £52,500 -17.73% 9
North East -22 8 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Wales -38 6 £73,801 +7.35% 6
Northern Ireland -35 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -39 2 £101,250 - 5

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 (2.61%) Confluence
2 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.24%) Strapi
3 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (8.08%) Adobe XD
2 17 (4.04%) Sketch
3 11 (2.61%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.19%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.95%) InVision
8 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.71%) Maya
9 1 (0.24%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.24%) Blender
9 1 (0.24%) CATIA
9 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.48%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.48%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 121 (28.74%) Figma
2 91 (21.62%) AWS
3 79 (18.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 75 (17.81%) Azure
5 52 (12.35%) GCP
6 30 (7.13%) Amazon ECR
6 30 (7.13%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (7.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (5.23%) PaaS
8 19 (4.51%) Miro
8 19 (4.51%) SaaS
9 18 (4.28%) dbt
10 17 (4.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 17 (4.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (4.04%) Pulumi
10 17 (4.04%) Sentry
11 16 (3.80%) Serverless
12 15 (3.56%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.33%) Google Analytics
14 13 (3.09%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 80 (19.00%) Broadband
2 20 (4.75%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.95%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.95%) Internet
3 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.71%) Wireless
5 2 (0.48%) 2G
5 2 (0.48%) 4G
5 2 (0.48%) 5G
5 2 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.48%) Firewall
5 2 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.48%) ICMP
5 2 (0.48%) LTE
6 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.24%) Modbus
6 1 (0.24%) RFID
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.28%) Redis
3 17 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.09%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.90%) Power BI
6 6 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.95%) DB2
8 4 (0.95%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.95%) QlikView
9 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.48%) Tableau
11 1 (0.24%) GIS
11 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (6.65%) Axure RP
2 25 (5.94%) Balsamiq
3 18 (4.28%) JIRA
4 17 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.56%) Cypress.io
6 13 (3.09%) GitLab
6 13 (3.09%) Maven
6 13 (3.09%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.85%) Git
8 5 (1.19%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.24%) Mocha
10 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (16.86%) Finance
4 70 (16.63%) Games
5 55 (13.06%) Law
6 51 (12.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (11.16%) Public Sector
8 29 (6.89%) Electronics
9 26 (6.18%) Manufacturing
10 21 (4.99%) Banking
11 19 (4.51%) Legal
12 15 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.85%) Retail
15 10 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (1.43%) Marketing
17 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
18 5 (1.19%) Police
18 5 (1.19%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (23.75%) Designer
2 76 (18.05%) Senior
3 64 (15.20%) Lead
4 44 (10.45%) UX Designer
5 34 (8.08%) Developer
6 28 (6.65%) Lead Designer
7 22 (5.23%) Senior Manager
8 21 (4.99%) Architect
8 21 (4.99%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.75%) Analyst
9 20 (4.75%) Consultant
10 19 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 18 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.28%) Product Designer
11 18 (4.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.80%) Interaction Designer
12 16 (3.80%) Product Manager
13 15 (3.56%) Business Analyst
13 15 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.26%) HTML
2 38 (9.03%) CSS
3 31 (7.36%) React
4 24 (5.70%) .NET
5 22 (5.23%) Node.js
6 19 (4.51%) AngularJS
7 17 (4.04%) Django
7 17 (4.04%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.80%) Jest
9 13 (3.09%) Gherkin
9 13 (3.09%) REST
10 10 (2.38%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.14%) LangChain
11 9 (2.14%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.66%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.66%) JAX
13 6 (1.43%) Next.js
14 5 (1.19%) RESTful
14 5 (1.19%) Vue
14 5 (1.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.15%) Social Media
2 39 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 38 (9.03%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.99%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.85%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.14%) Robotics
7 8 (1.90%) Life Science
8 7 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.66%) CUDA
8 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (1.66%) IoT
8 7 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.43%) Arduino
9 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.43%) Raspberry Pi
9 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.89%) Linux
2 18 (4.28%) Unix
3 6 (1.43%) Android
4 5 (1.19%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (56.06%) Agile
2 160 (38.00%) AI
3 142 (33.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 140 (33.25%) User Research
5 129 (30.64%) User Experience
6 126 (29.93%) Analytics
7 115 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (24.47%) Roadmaps
9 100 (23.75%) Customer Experience
10 88 (20.90%) UX Design
11 84 (19.95%) Storytelling
12 82 (19.48%) Product Roadmap
13 68 (16.15%) Digital Customer Experience
14 64 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (15.20%) Rapid Prototyping
14 64 (15.20%) Wireframes
15 60 (14.25%) CI/CD
15 60 (14.25%) Workshop Facilitation
16 59 (14.01%) Clean Code
16 59 (14.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.67%) Python
2 58 (13.78%) Java
3 47 (11.16%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.08%) TypeScript
5 20 (4.75%) C++
6 19 (4.51%) C
7 18 (4.28%) C#
8 17 (4.04%) SQL
9 14 (3.33%) Bash
9 14 (3.33%) Groovy
10 4 (0.95%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.71%) Julia
11 3 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.71%) Pascal
11 3 (0.71%) R
12 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (27.32%) Degree
2 94 (22.33%) Security Cleared
3 76 (18.05%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.19%) PhD
10 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.71%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.24%) HNC
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (33.97%) Accessibility
2 71 (16.86%) WCAG
3 7 (1.66%) GDPR
3 7 (1.66%) GRC
4 4 (0.95%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.71%) DO-254
5 3 (0.71%) QA
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (8.79%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (5.70%) Terraform
2 17 (4.04%) AWS Copilot
3 13 (3.09%) HP Fortify
4 10 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Nessus
6 1 (0.24%) Nmap
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 120 (28.50%) Adobe
2 46 (10.93%) Google
3 37 (8.79%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.85%) Qualtrics
5 9 (2.14%) Foundry
6 8 (1.90%) EMC
6 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.95%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.71%) Motorola
8 3 (0.71%) Workday
9 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.48%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.48%) Mercator
9 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.48%) SAP
9 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.48%) VMware
10 1 (0.24%) Pega
10 1 (0.24%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.24%) Xilinx