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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 327 398
Rank change year-on-year -30 +71 -73
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 451 386 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.96% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 232 161 368
10th Percentile £44,972 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,571 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,375 £92,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 68,525 40,020 82,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 84.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,515 20,986 59,915
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,645 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.66% +3.29% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +44 388 £67,249 +12.08% 202
UK excluding London -46 267 £60,000 - 139
Work from Home +37 237 £67,500 +22.73% 89
London +1 138 £75,000 +30.43% 94
East of England +43 75 £70,000 +55.56% 24
North of England -17 66 £57,500 -11.54% 32
South East 0 59 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Yorkshire -22 32 £67,500 -3.05% 4
North West -9 23 £51,250 -10.87% 23
Midlands -25 21 £53,750 -6.52% 13
South West -66 20 £60,000 -12.44% 11
West Midlands -26 19 £53,750 -10.42% 7
North East -36 11 £56,250 -16.28% 5
Scotland -89 11 £54,500 +19.43% 8
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 7
Wales -37 7 £53,171 -16.68% 4
East Midlands -31 2 £101,250 +206.82% 6

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 5 (1.11%) CMS
2 4 (0.89%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) WordPress
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 22 (4.88%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.88%) Sketch
3 7 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.11%) Fusion 360
5 5 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.67%) Productboard
7 2 (0.44%) CATIA
7 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.44%) InVision
7 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.44%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.22%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
8 1 (0.22%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.94%) Figma
2 85 (18.85%) AWS
3 84 (18.63%) Adobe Analytics
4 61 (13.53%) Azure
5 39 (8.65%) GCP
6 24 (5.32%) SaaS
7 21 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.43%) Amazon ECR
9 19 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.21%) Serverless
10 16 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.10%) Apigee
12 14 (3.10%) Vertex AI
13 11 (2.44%) Miro
14 9 (2.00%) Google Analytics
14 9 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.84%) Broadband
2 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.67%) Wireless
3 3 (0.67%) WPA
4 2 (0.44%) LTE
4 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
5 1 (0.22%) Modbus
5 1 (0.22%) MQTT
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.55%) DynamoDB
2 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.77%) Power BI
3 8 (1.77%) Redis
4 6 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.89%) DB2
6 4 (0.89%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.89%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.44%) Big Data
8 2 (0.44%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (3.77%) GitLab
2 15 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.10%) Axure RP
3 14 (3.10%) Balsamiq
3 14 (3.10%) Cypress.io
3 14 (3.10%) Maven
3 14 (3.10%) SonarQube
4 9 (2.00%) Git
4 9 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.22%) Mocha
6 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.63%) Finance
2 84 (18.63%) Games
3 65 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 51 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (9.76%) Law
7 39 (8.65%) Electronics
8 36 (7.98%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.66%) Legal
9 21 (4.66%) Marketing
10 20 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.66%) Banking
12 11 (2.44%) Retail
13 10 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.55%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (23.28%) Designer
2 77 (17.07%) Lead
3 64 (14.19%) Senior
4 47 (10.42%) Developer
5 45 (9.98%) UX Designer
6 37 (8.20%) Lead Designer
7 27 (5.99%) Architect
8 21 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Interaction Designer
9 20 (4.43%) Product Designer
9 20 (4.43%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Analyst
10 19 (4.21%) Product Manager
11 18 (3.99%) Consultant
12 17 (3.77%) Digital Designer
12 17 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 15 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (3.10%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.32%) HTML
2 30 (6.65%) React
3 29 (6.43%) CSS
4 23 (5.10%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.66%) Spring Boot
6 19 (4.21%) Node.js
7 18 (3.99%) .NET
8 16 (3.55%) REST
9 15 (3.33%) Jest
10 14 (3.10%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.22%) LangChain
12 8 (1.77%) PyTorch
13 7 (1.55%) Google JAX
13 7 (1.55%) JAX
13 7 (1.55%) Spring
13 7 (1.55%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.55%) Vue
14 5 (1.11%) Django
15 4 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
15 4 (0.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.18%) Social Media
2 33 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.66%) Robotics
7 11 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (2.22%) FPGA
8 10 (2.22%) IoT
9 9 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.77%) Life Science
11 7 (1.55%) CUDA
11 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.11%) Blog
13 5 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.11%) Verilog
13 5 (1.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.10%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (51.66%) Agile
2 198 (43.90%) AI
3 159 (35.25%) User Research
4 143 (31.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 129 (28.60%) Analytics
6 128 (28.38%) Roadmaps
7 105 (23.28%) Customer Experience
8 104 (23.06%) Product Roadmap
9 103 (22.84%) User Experience
10 91 (20.18%) Storytelling
11 89 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (18.18%) Digital Customer Experience
13 79 (17.52%) UX Design
14 71 (15.74%) Rapid Prototyping
15 67 (14.86%) Workshop Facilitation
16 63 (13.97%) Mentoring
17 62 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (13.30%) Software Engineering
18 60 (13.30%) Validation
19 53 (11.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (17.96%) Python
2 53 (11.75%) Java
3 34 (7.54%) TypeScript
4 33 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.66%) C#
5 21 (4.66%) SQL
6 19 (4.21%) C
7 17 (3.77%) Bash
7 17 (3.77%) C++
8 15 (3.33%) Groovy
9 5 (1.11%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.67%) Julia
10 3 (0.67%) Pascal
11 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) R
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (25.06%) Degree
2 69 (15.30%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.75%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.10%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.89%) PhD
9 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.22%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (30.82%) Accessibility
2 68 (15.08%) WCAG
3 8 (1.77%) QA
4 7 (1.55%) GRC
5 4 (0.89%) DO-254
5 4 (0.89%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
6 3 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (6.21%) Docker
2 13 (2.88%) Firmware
3 4 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.10%) HP Fortify
1 14 (3.10%) Terraform
2 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.11%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (25.94%) Adobe
2 31 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.99%) Google
4 10 (2.22%) EMC
5 9 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.77%) Foundry
6 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.89%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.67%) Motorola
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle
8 3 (0.67%) SAP
8 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.67%) Workday
9 2 (0.44%) Databricks
9 2 (0.44%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir
10 1 (0.22%) YouTube