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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 308 427
Rank change year-on-year -48 +119 -116
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 500 451 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.02% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 270 171 351
10th Percentile £43,457 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -10.82%
75th Percentile £78,109 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £62,875 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +9.35% -4.17%

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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +16 412 £60,000 -4.00% 248
UK excluding London -57 306 £56,500 -10.14% 138
Work from Home +19 267 £67,481 +22.69% 106
London -5 141 £75,000 +20.00% 139
North of England -6 80 £50,000 -27.94% 19
East of England +40 72 £75,000 +66.67% 18
South East -26 69 £56,500 -6.42% 40
North West -6 32 £47,500 -31.54% 12
Yorkshire -11 31 £66,250 -22.29% 5
Midlands -33 21 £60,000 +4.35% 16
South West -57 21 £60,000 -11.11% 28
West Midlands -18 18 £60,000 - 11
Wales -38 18 £53,171 -21.88% 1
North East -34 17 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Scotland -75 15 £52,250 +14.50% 15
Northern Ireland - 10 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -37 3 £60,000 +81.82% 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 7 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.20%) Apache
2 6 (1.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 14 (2.80%) Adobe XD
2 10 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (2.00%) InDesign
2 10 (2.00%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.00%) Sketch
3 7 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.60%) Productboard
6 2 (0.40%) CATIA
6 2 (0.40%) InVision
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
6 2 (0.40%) Windchill
7 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.20%) Simulink
7 1 (0.20%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.00%) Figma
2 89 (17.80%) AWS
3 82 (16.40%) Adobe Analytics
4 73 (14.60%) Azure
5 44 (8.80%) GCP
6 23 (4.60%) Amazon S3
6 23 (4.60%) SaaS
7 22 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
7 22 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (4.40%) Serverless
8 20 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.00%) Apigee
12 14 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (2.80%) Vertex AI
13 12 (2.40%) GitHub
14 11 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.20%) dbt
14 11 (2.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 92 (18.40%) Broadband
2 8 (1.60%) WPA
3 7 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.00%) Intranet
4 5 (1.00%) Wireless
5 3 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.40%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.40%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) Modbus
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) RS-232
7 1 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.80%) DynamoDB
2 11 (2.20%) Redis
3 10 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.20%) Power BI
6 6 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Db2
8 4 (0.80%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.80%) QlikView
9 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (4.00%) Git
2 19 (3.80%) GitLab
3 17 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.20%) JIRA
5 15 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 15 (3.00%) Maven
5 15 (3.00%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.40%) Axure RP
6 7 (1.40%) LabVIEW
7 5 (1.00%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.60%) Postman
9 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.40%) Bower
9 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.40%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) Mocha
10 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 96 (19.20%) Finance
3 82 (16.40%) Games
4 73 (14.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.60%) Public Sector
7 51 (10.20%) Electronics
8 40 (8.00%) Law
9 35 (7.00%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.60%) Marketing
10 23 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.80%) Legal
12 15 (3.00%) Retail
13 13 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.40%) Banking
15 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.20%) Advertising
17 6 (1.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 115 (23.00%) Designer
2 90 (18.00%) Senior
3 76 (15.20%) Lead
4 63 (12.60%) Developer
5 48 (9.60%) UX Designer
6 39 (7.80%) Lead Designer
7 35 (7.00%) Architect
8 29 (5.80%) Systems Engineer
9 27 (5.40%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.00%) Interaction Designer
11 20 (4.00%) Senior Designer
12 19 (3.80%) Analyst
12 19 (3.80%) Consultant
12 19 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.60%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (3.40%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.40%) Product Manager
14 17 (3.40%) UI Designer
14 17 (3.40%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.80%) HTML
2 30 (6.00%) CSS
3 29 (5.80%) React
4 25 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.20%) Spring Boot
6 17 (3.40%) .NET
7 16 (3.20%) Jest
8 15 (3.00%) Gherkin
8 15 (3.00%) REST
9 13 (2.60%) LangChain
10 11 (2.20%) Node.js
11 8 (1.60%) JSON
12 7 (1.40%) Framer.js
12 7 (1.40%) Spring
12 7 (1.40%) Web Services
13 6 (1.20%) Django
13 6 (1.20%) RESTful
13 6 (1.20%) Vue
13 6 (1.20%) XML
14 5 (1.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.00%) Social Media
2 38 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (3.40%) IoT
6 14 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.60%) FPGA
8 12 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.40%) Robotics
9 11 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
13 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.20%) FMCG
13 6 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.00%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (50.20%) Agile
2 223 (44.60%) AI
3 165 (33.00%) User Research
4 144 (28.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 135 (27.00%) Analytics
6 134 (26.80%) Roadmaps
7 103 (20.60%) Customer Experience
8 100 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
9 99 (19.80%) User Experience
10 87 (17.40%) Rapid Prototyping
11 86 (17.20%) Storytelling
12 82 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (16.00%) Digital Customer Experience
14 76 (15.20%) UX Design
15 74 (14.80%) Mentoring
16 71 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (13.80%) Software Engineering
18 65 (13.00%) Validation
19 60 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
20 59 (11.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.40%) Python
2 50 (10.00%) Java
3 36 (7.20%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.80%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.60%) SQL
6 26 (5.20%) C
6 26 (5.20%) C#
7 25 (5.00%) C++
8 17 (3.40%) Bash
9 16 (3.20%) Groovy
10 11 (2.20%) MATLAB
11 6 (1.20%) PHP
12 5 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.60%) Julia
13 3 (0.60%) Pascal
13 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.20%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) R
14 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 121 (24.20%) Degree
2 74 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 57 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.60%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.00%) PhD
10 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.00%) HND
11 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.20%) HNC
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (27.20%) Accessibility
2 67 (13.40%) WCAG
3 9 (1.80%) QA
4 8 (1.60%) GRC
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) DO-254
7 2 (0.40%) JTAG
8 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (6.80%) Docker
2 18 (3.60%) Firmware
3 7 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.40%) Terraform
2 15 (3.00%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 110 (22.00%) Adobe
2 38 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.20%) Google
4 19 (3.80%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.60%) EMC
6 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.40%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) JD Edwards
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle
8 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.60%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) Motorola
9 3 (0.60%) SAP
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Planon
10 2 (0.40%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.40%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.20%) Pega