Prototyping Jobs

Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 392 322
Rank change year-on-year +120 -70 -117
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 664 660 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 0.64% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.78% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 174 334 546
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £44,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -10.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,750 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.14% -3.39% +4.35%

All Process and 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 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prototyping.

Salary trend for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 +92 513 £65,000 +12.14% 720
Work from Home +255 442 £55,000 -5.11% 397
UK excluding London +55 365 £65,000 +12.14% 487
London +189 193 £65,000 -3.70% 350
Scotland +146 120 £45,635 -18.87% 35
South East +22 84 £65,000 +15.56% 154
North of England -44 53 £68,505 +18.18% 103
East of England +33 43 £45,000 -30.77% 81
North West -39 36 £69,384 +18.00% 60
Midlands +47 31 £58,750 +6.82% 49
South West +75 24 £67,500 +22.73% 52
West Midlands +51 16 £60,000 +7.62% 26
East Midlands +34 15 £33,000 -32.65% 23
Yorkshire +7 9 £69,626 +54.73% 30
North East +29 8 £65,000 +12.14% 15
Wales +22 7 £68,063 +9.96% 15
Isle of Man - 4 - -

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.20%) Confluence
3 7 (1.05%) CMS
4 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.60%) Apache
5 4 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (4.97%) Adobe XD
2 27 (4.07%) Sketch
3 9 (1.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (1.20%) Blender
5 7 (1.05%) InVision
6 6 (0.90%) Maya
7 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.30%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.30%) InDesign
9 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.30%) Simulink
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
10 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) SAP CO
1 5 (0.75%) SAP FI
1 5 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (0.75%) SAP FSCM
1 5 (0.75%) SAP IBP
1 5 (0.75%) SAP IS-U
1 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.60%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 104 (15.66%) AWS
2 66 (9.94%) Figma
3 64 (9.64%) Azure
4 45 (6.78%) GCP
5 24 (3.61%) GitHub
6 17 (2.56%) SaaS
7 15 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (2.26%) Azure AI
7 15 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (2.26%) Vertex AI
8 12 (1.81%) dbt
9 11 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (1.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 11 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 11 (1.66%) AWS CodeBuild
9 11 (1.66%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.66%) Pulumi
10 10 (1.51%) Sentry
10 10 (1.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 215 (32.38%) Broadband
2 14 (2.11%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.11%) MQTT
3 13 (1.96%) Modbus
4 11 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.20%) 5G
5 8 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.20%) WAN
6 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 3 (0.45%) Internet
6 3 (0.45%) SMTP
6 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.45%) VSAN
7 1 (0.15%) GPRS
7 1 (0.15%) GSM
7 1 (0.15%) Intranet
7 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.15%) RS-232
7 1 (0.15%) RS-485
7 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.66%) Redis
6 10 (1.51%) MySQL
6 10 (1.51%) Power BI
7 8 (1.20%) QGIS
8 5 (0.75%) SAP BW
9 4 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.60%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.60%) Biml
9 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.46%) Git
2 21 (3.16%) JIRA
3 17 (2.56%) Axure RP
4 11 (1.66%) GitLab
5 10 (1.51%) Balsamiq
6 8 (1.20%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.05%) MSI
8 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.75%) MLflow
9 5 (0.75%) webpack
10 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.60%) Selenium
10 4 (0.60%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.60%) Subversion
11 2 (0.30%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.15%) Carbide.c++
12 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 232 (34.94%) Games
2 188 (28.31%) Finance
3 129 (19.43%) Social Skills
4 117 (17.62%) Banking
5 59 (8.89%) Law
6 48 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (4.22%) Electronics
8 26 (3.92%) Marketing
9 25 (3.77%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.16%) Legal
10 21 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.16%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.11%) Retail
12 13 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.05%) Advertising
15 5 (0.75%) Aviation
15 5 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.60%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 375 (56.48%) Senior
2 131 (19.73%) Designer
3 101 (15.21%) UX Designer
4 83 (12.50%) Senior Designer
5 82 (12.35%) Senior UX Designer
6 65 (9.79%) Developer
7 57 (8.58%) Software Engineer
8 28 (4.22%) UX Developer
9 27 (4.07%) Product Manager
10 24 (3.61%) Lead
10 24 (3.61%) Product Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.01%) Electronics Engineer
12 19 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (2.56%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.26%) Design Engineer
14 15 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (2.11%) Architect
15 14 (2.11%) Java Engineer
15 14 (2.11%) Senior Electronics Engineer
15 14 (2.11%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (32.83%) GraphQL
2 216 (32.53%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 215 (32.38%) WebGL
4 40 (6.02%) React
5 28 (4.22%) CSS
6 25 (3.77%) .NET
7 19 (2.86%) HTML
8 16 (2.41%) Django
8 16 (2.41%) Kafka
8 16 (2.41%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.81%) Node.js
9 12 (1.81%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.66%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.66%) Spring
11 8 (1.20%) Jest
11 8 (1.20%) OAuth
11 8 (1.20%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.20%) OpenID
11 8 (1.20%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 215 (32.38%) Animation
2 23 (3.46%) FPGA
3 22 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.16%) IoT
5 20 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.01%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
9 13 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
9 13 (1.96%) Industry 4.0
9 13 (1.96%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.96%) SCADA
9 13 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.96%) Verilog
9 13 (1.96%) VHDL
10 11 (1.66%) Analogue Electronics
10 11 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.92%) Linux
2 15 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.96%) Android
4 11 (1.66%) Unix
5 7 (1.05%) Windows
6 1 (0.15%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (44.13%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (41.87%) Artificial Intelligence
3 268 (40.36%) Agile
4 262 (39.46%) Rapid Prototyping
5 222 (33.43%) Storytelling
5 222 (33.43%) User Experience
6 215 (32.38%) 3D Animation
6 215 (32.38%) Visual Effects
7 155 (23.34%) User Research
8 153 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 150 (22.59%) UX Design
9 150 (22.59%) Wireframes
10 143 (21.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 133 (20.03%) Usability Testing
12 120 (18.07%) Journey Map
13 114 (17.17%) Project Management
14 111 (16.72%) UX Research
15 104 (15.66%) Design Thinking
16 88 (13.25%) Software Engineering
17 77 (11.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (32.38%) HLSL
2 87 (13.10%) Python
3 46 (6.93%) Java
3 46 (6.93%) JavaScript
4 41 (6.17%) C#
5 33 (4.97%) SQL
6 30 (4.52%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.46%) C++
8 20 (3.01%) MATLAB
9 18 (2.71%) C
10 10 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.36%) Objective-C
11 9 (1.36%) Swift
12 6 (0.90%) Go
12 6 (0.90%) PHP
13 5 (0.75%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.75%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.60%) R
14 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (15.96%) Degree
2 45 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 33 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.56%) HNC
6 14 (2.11%) HND
7 13 (1.96%) Chartered Engineer
7 13 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.66%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.36%) PhD
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.15%) MCP
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (21.23%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.01%) WCAG
3 19 (2.86%) QA
4 6 (0.90%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.60%) NCSC
6 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.30%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) DO-254
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 42 (6.33%) Docker
2 24 (3.61%) Firmware
3 16 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (5.12%) Terraform
2 30 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.96%) Functional Safety
4 11 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
5 10 (1.51%) Ansible
6 8 (1.20%) Grafana
7 7 (1.05%) WMI
8 5 (0.75%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (6.48%) Adobe
2 38 (5.72%) Google
3 29 (4.37%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.71%) VMware
5 15 (2.26%) Foundry
6 13 (1.96%) AVEVA
6 13 (1.96%) Rockwell
6 13 (1.96%) Siemens
7 7 (1.05%) EMC
8 6 (0.90%) Facebook
8 6 (0.90%) SAP
9 4 (0.60%) Agilent
9 4 (0.60%) IBM
9 4 (0.60%) Splunk
10 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.45%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.30%) Altera
11 2 (0.30%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.30%) Pega
11 2 (0.30%) YouTube