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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 317 399
Rank change year-on-year -27 +82 -71
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 448 392 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.97% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 233 168 381
10th Percentile £43,994 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% +2.17% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £92,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +59 384 £67,249 +12.08% 210
UK excluding London -50 264 £57,500 -4.17% 142
Work from Home +42 237 £67,500 +25.58% 83
London +14 136 £75,000 +36.36% 99
East of England +40 72 £60,000 +33.33% 26
North of England -18 64 £57,500 +4.55% 25
South East +4 61 £61,250 +2.08% 41
Yorkshire -32 31 £67,500 +22.73% 5
North West -10 24 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Midlands -29 20 £52,500 -12.50% 16
South West -64 20 £60,000 -12.44% 18
West Midlands -24 18 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Scotland -79 12 £54,500 +19.43% 13
North East -33 9 £52,500 -21.87% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 3
Wales -34 7 £53,171 -3.33% 2
East Midlands -22 2 £101,250 +206.82% 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 5 (1.12%) CMS
2 4 (0.89%) WordPress
3 3 (0.67%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 25 (5.58%) Adobe XD
2 13 (2.90%) Sketch
3 8 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (1.12%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.89%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.67%) InVision
9 2 (0.45%) CATIA
9 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.45%) Productboard
9 2 (0.45%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.22%) Solid Edge
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
1 118 (26.34%) Figma
2 85 (18.97%) AWS
3 84 (18.75%) Adobe Analytics
4 64 (14.29%) Azure
5 39 (8.71%) GCP
6 24 (5.36%) SaaS
7 21 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.24%) Amazon ECR
8 19 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (4.24%) Serverless
9 18 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.13%) Apigee
12 14 (3.13%) Vertex AI
13 12 (2.68%) Miro
14 10 (2.23%) Google Analytics
15 9 (2.01%) GitHub
15 9 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.98%) Broadband
2 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.67%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.67%) Wireless
4 2 (0.45%) LTE
4 2 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.45%) WPA
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 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (1.79%) Power BI
2 8 (1.79%) Redis
3 7 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
4 6 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.89%) DB2
6 4 (0.89%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (0.89%) QlikView
7 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.45%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.45%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (4.02%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.57%) Axure RP
2 16 (3.57%) Balsamiq
2 16 (3.57%) GitLab
3 14 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 14 (3.13%) Maven
3 14 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 10 (2.23%) JIRA
5 9 (2.01%) Git
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.20%) Finance
3 84 (18.75%) Games
4 66 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (12.95%) Public Sector
6 52 (11.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (10.71%) Law
8 35 (7.81%) Electronics
8 35 (7.81%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.69%) Legal
10 20 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (4.24%) Marketing
12 12 (2.68%) Banking
13 10 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.23%) Retail
14 8 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (23.88%) Designer
2 76 (16.96%) Lead
3 66 (14.73%) Senior
4 47 (10.49%) Developer
5 45 (10.04%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.04%) Lead Designer
7 27 (6.03%) Architect
8 22 (4.91%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.69%) Interaction Designer
10 20 (4.46%) Analyst
11 19 (4.24%) Product Designer
11 19 (4.24%) Product Manager
11 19 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
12 18 (4.02%) Consultant
13 17 (3.79%) Digital Designer
13 17 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.57%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 15 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.04%) HTML
2 32 (7.14%) CSS
3 30 (6.70%) React
4 23 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 22 (4.91%) .NET
6 21 (4.69%) Node.js
6 21 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.57%) REST
8 15 (3.35%) Jest
9 14 (3.13%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.01%) LangChain
11 8 (1.79%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.56%) Google JAX
12 7 (1.56%) JAX
12 7 (1.56%) Spring
12 7 (1.56%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.56%) Vue
13 5 (1.12%) Django
14 4 (0.89%) Next.js
14 4 (0.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.30%) Social Media
2 33 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 30 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.46%) Robotics
6 9 (2.01%) IoT
7 8 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (1.79%) FPGA
7 8 (1.79%) Life Science
8 7 (1.56%) CUDA
8 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) 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
1 237 (52.90%) Agile
2 195 (43.53%) AI
3 161 (35.94%) User Research
4 147 (32.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 131 (29.24%) Analytics
6 124 (27.68%) Roadmaps
7 107 (23.88%) Customer Experience
8 105 (23.44%) User Experience
9 102 (22.77%) Product Roadmap
10 92 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (20.54%) Storytelling
11 82 (18.30%) Digital Customer Experience
12 80 (17.86%) UX Design
13 70 (15.63%) Rapid Prototyping
14 69 (15.40%) Workshop Facilitation
15 65 (14.51%) Mentoring
16 61 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (13.62%) Software Engineering
17 54 (12.05%) Validation
18 53 (11.83%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 76 (16.96%) Python
2 54 (12.05%) Java
3 38 (8.48%) JavaScript
4 34 (7.59%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.36%) C#
6 19 (4.24%) SQL
7 18 (4.02%) C
8 17 (3.79%) Bash
9 16 (3.57%) C++
10 15 (3.35%) Groovy
11 5 (1.12%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.67%) Julia
12 3 (0.67%) Pascal
13 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (25.00%) Degree
2 73 (16.29%) Security Cleared
3 57 (12.72%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.89%) PhD
8 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.22%) HNC
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
9 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (31.47%) Accessibility
2 68 (15.18%) WCAG
3 8 (1.79%) QA
4 7 (1.56%) GRC
5 4 (0.89%) DO-254
5 4 (0.89%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (6.25%) Docker
2 11 (2.46%) Firmware
3 3 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (3.35%) Terraform
2 14 (3.13%) HP Fortify
3 12 (2.68%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.12%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 120 (26.79%) Adobe
2 34 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.25%) Google
4 9 (2.01%) EMC
4 9 (2.01%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.79%) Foundry
6 7 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.89%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.67%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.67%) Motorola
8 3 (0.67%) SAP
8 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.67%) Workday
9 2 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.45%) Databricks
9 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle
9 2 (0.45%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.22%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir