Prototyping Job Trends

Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Prototyping skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 365 347
Rank change year-on-year +52 -18 -131
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 443 527 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.67% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.83% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 180 204 421
10th Percentile £41,125 £46,139 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

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 43,840 63,484 57,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.24% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24,733 35,914 43,040
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the UK

Prototyping
Top 18 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 19 September 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 -14 289 £70,000 +12.00% 424
UK excluding London +10 266 £60,000 - 310
Work from Home +57 200 £55,000 -8.33% 220
London +91 139 £75,000 +11.11% 212
Scotland +120 113 - - 24
South East -63 56 £67,500 +3.85% 141
North of England -20 37 £60,000 - 61
North West -16 26 £67,500 +0.52% 33
Midlands +42 22 £60,000 +2.33% 20
East of England -24 18 £45,000 -18.18% 30
East Midlands +32 12 £33,000 -17.50% 6
West Midlands +33 10 £60,000 +2.04% 14
South West +56 8 £85,000 +9.68% 30
Wales +17 7 £54,750 -15.77% 8
Yorkshire -1 7 £30,500 -28.24% 23
North East +6 4 £65,000 +10.54% 8
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +8 1 - - 8

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 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.13%) CMS
4 4 (0.90%) Apache
4 4 (0.90%) Confluence
4 4 (0.90%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.68%) IIS
5 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (10.38%) Adobe XD
2 32 (7.22%) Sketch
3 13 (2.93%) Maya
4 12 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (2.26%) InVision
6 8 (1.81%) Blender
7 6 (1.35%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (1.13%) Chatbot
8 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.90%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.68%) PTC Creo
11 2 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.45%) InDesign
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.45%) Simulink
11 2 (0.45%) Windchill
12 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 12 (2.71%) SAP CO
1 12 (2.71%) SAP FI
1 12 (2.71%) SAP FI/CO
1 12 (2.71%) SAP FSCM
1 12 (2.71%) SAP IBP
1 12 (2.71%) SAP IS-U
1 12 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.90%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (17.83%) AWS
2 77 (17.38%) Figma
3 52 (11.74%) Azure
4 35 (7.90%) GCP
5 15 (3.39%) Azure AI
5 15 (3.39%) SaaS
5 15 (3.39%) Vertex AI
6 10 (2.26%) GitHub
7 9 (2.03%) Serverless
8 8 (1.81%) Google Analytics
8 8 (1.81%) Miro
9 7 (1.58%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (1.58%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.13%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.13%) Datadog
10 5 (1.13%) Prefect
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.90%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.61%) Modbus
2 13 (2.93%) MQTT
3 12 (2.71%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.81%) 5G
4 8 (1.81%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.81%) WAN
5 5 (1.13%) Broadband
6 4 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.68%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.68%) DNS
7 3 (0.68%) Firewall
7 3 (0.68%) Network Security
7 3 (0.68%) SMTP
7 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.68%) VLAN
7 3 (0.68%) VSAN
7 3 (0.68%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.68%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.23%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.71%) MongoDB
2 12 (2.71%) SAP BW
3 9 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.81%) QGIS
5 7 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.90%) Power BI
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.45%) MySQL
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (5.19%) Axure RP
2 16 (3.61%) Balsamiq
3 11 (2.48%) Git
4 10 (2.26%) JIRA
5 7 (1.58%) MSI
6 6 (1.35%) GitLab
6 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.35%) MLflow
7 5 (1.13%) webpack
8 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.90%) Selenium
8 4 (0.90%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.68%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.68%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.45%) Subversion
11 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.23%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 188 (42.44%) Finance
2 128 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 109 (24.60%) Banking
4 71 (16.03%) Law
5 48 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.09%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.87%) Manufacturing
9 24 (5.42%) Legal
10 23 (5.19%) Marketing
11 21 (4.74%) Electronics
12 20 (4.51%) Games
13 17 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (2.93%) Retail
15 8 (1.81%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.81%) Front Office
16 7 (1.58%) Advertising
17 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (33.18%) Senior
2 146 (32.96%) Designer
3 104 (23.48%) UX Designer
4 83 (18.74%) Senior Designer
5 81 (18.28%) Senior UX Designer
6 52 (11.74%) Developer
7 42 (9.48%) Software Engineer
8 28 (6.32%) Lead
9 27 (6.09%) UX Developer
10 22 (4.97%) Consultant
11 18 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (3.84%) Product Designer
12 17 (3.84%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.84%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.84%) Service Designer
13 16 (3.61%) Architect
14 15 (3.39%) Product Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.71%) SAP Financial Consultant
15 12 (2.71%) Senior IT Consultant
15 12 (2.71%) Senior SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.35%) React
2 31 (7.00%) CSS
3 24 (5.42%) HTML
4 21 (4.74%) Kafka
5 17 (3.84%) .NET
5 17 (3.84%) TensorFlow
6 15 (3.39%) Node.js
6 15 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 10 (2.26%) scikit-learn
7 10 (2.26%) Spring
7 10 (2.26%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.03%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.81%) Flask
9 8 (1.81%) Google JAX
9 8 (1.81%) JAX
9 8 (1.81%) OAuth
9 8 (1.81%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.81%) OpenID
10 7 (1.58%) Vue
11 6 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.87%) Cloud Native
1 26 (5.87%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.42%) IoT
3 23 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 17 (3.84%) FPGA
5 17 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.61%) Operational Technology
6 16 (3.61%) SCADA
7 14 (3.16%) Renewable Energy
8 13 (2.93%) Biopharmaceutical
8 13 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.93%) Industry 4.0
9 12 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.48%) Verilog
10 11 (2.48%) VHDL
11 9 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.81%) GNSS
12 8 (1.81%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.26%) Linux
2 8 (1.81%) Android
3 7 (1.58%) Windows
4 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (57.79%) Agile
2 228 (51.47%) User Experience
3 172 (38.83%) User Research
4 163 (36.79%) UX Design
5 159 (35.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 157 (35.44%) Wireframes
7 144 (32.51%) Usability Testing
8 143 (32.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (27.77%) Journey Map
10 117 (26.41%) Project Management
11 111 (25.06%) UX Research
12 104 (23.48%) Design Thinking
13 81 (18.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 79 (17.83%) Software Engineering
15 64 (14.45%) Analytics
15 64 (14.45%) Mentoring
16 62 (14.00%) Machine Learning
17 60 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
18 55 (12.42%) DevOps
19 53 (11.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (19.64%) Python
2 46 (10.38%) JavaScript
3 40 (9.03%) Java
4 28 (6.32%) C#
4 28 (6.32%) SQL
5 23 (5.19%) C++
6 22 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.48%) C
7 11 (2.48%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.03%) Go
10 8 (1.81%) PHP
11 5 (1.13%) R
12 4 (0.90%) Bicep
12 4 (0.90%) Delphi
13 3 (0.68%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.68%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
14 2 (0.45%) Bash
14 2 (0.45%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 119 (26.86%) Degree
2 52 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 34 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.74%) HNC
5 18 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.84%) HND
7 16 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.61%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.93%) Chartered Engineer
8 13 (2.93%) PhD
9 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.68%) MCP
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (34.09%) Accessibility
2 28 (6.32%) WCAG
3 7 (1.58%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.13%) QA
5 4 (0.90%) NCSC
6 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.45%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) DO-254
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 30 (6.77%) Docker
2 16 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.39%) Firmware
4 11 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.06%) Terraform
3 13 (2.93%) Functional Safety
4 9 (2.03%) Ansible
5 7 (1.58%) WMI
6 6 (1.35%) Kubeflow
7 5 (1.13%) Grafana
8 4 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.68%) Nmap
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (13.32%) Adobe
2 37 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.45%) Google
4 18 (4.06%) VMware
5 15 (3.39%) Foundry
6 13 (2.93%) AVEVA
6 13 (2.93%) Rockwell
6 13 (2.93%) Siemens
7 12 (2.71%) SAP
8 7 (1.58%) Splunk
9 6 (1.35%) Facebook
10 4 (0.90%) Autodesk
10 4 (0.90%) EMC
10 4 (0.90%) IBM
10 4 (0.90%) Sage
11 3 (0.68%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.68%) Cisco
11 3 (0.68%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.68%) Qualtrics
11 3 (0.68%) Red Hat