Prototyping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Prototyping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Prototyping over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 329 219
Rank change year-on-year -50 -110 +100
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 701 1,113 2,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.04% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.09% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 400 594 903
10th Percentile £33,125 £44,125 £42,390
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year -12.00% +17.68% +6.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Prototyping is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London 0 548 £55,000 -12.00% 206
England -70 548 £57,500 -11.54% 293
Work from Home -88 179 £55,000 -15.38% 98
North of England +137 156 £55,000 -15.38% 24
London -77 118 £67,500 - 101
South East -52 107 £53,000 -11.67% 52
Scotland +9 102 £52,500 -22.22% 15
North West +63 94 £57,965 -17.19% 18
Midlands -54 61 £42,500 -33.59% 41
South West -14 54 £57,500 - 34
East of England -43 47 £65,000 - 47
Yorkshire +122 43 £42,500 -22.73% 6
West Midlands -45 42 £41,774 -34.73% 26
North East +12 19 £53,982 - 4
East Midlands -6 19 £49,000 -12.89% 15
Northern Ireland +36 12 £58,800 - 1
Wales +3 9 £58,800 +51.77% 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 36 (5.14%) IIS
2 8 (1.14%) Confluence
3 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.57%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Kentico
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (12.70%) Sketch
2 52 (7.42%) Simulink
3 36 (5.14%) Stateflow
4 22 (3.14%) InVision
5 17 (2.43%) Adobe XD
6 16 (2.28%) Photoshop
7 14 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
8 8 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.57%) Blender
9 4 (0.57%) InDesign
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
10 3 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.43%) CINEMA 4D
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.43%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.43%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.29%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (14.55%) Azure
2 98 (13.98%) Figma
3 60 (8.56%) AWS
4 55 (7.85%) Miro
5 53 (7.56%) Heroku
6 32 (4.56%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (4.28%) SaaS
8 26 (3.71%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.57%) GCP
11 10 (1.43%) PaaS
12 7 (1.00%) dbt
12 7 (1.00%) GitHub
12 7 (1.00%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.00%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.00%) Serverless
13 6 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.71%) Collibra
14 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.14%) WAN
2 17 (2.43%) Bluetooth
2 17 (2.43%) Wireless
3 10 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.14%) BGP
4 8 (1.14%) DMVPN
4 8 (1.14%) EIGRP
4 8 (1.14%) OSPF
5 5 (0.71%) 3G
5 5 (0.71%) 4G
5 5 (0.71%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.71%) Modbus
6 3 (0.43%) GPRS
6 3 (0.43%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.29%) 2G
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.14%) DSL
8 1 (0.14%) RFID
8 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 37 (5.28%) NoSQL
3 30 (4.28%) Metadata
4 26 (3.71%) Power BI
5 19 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (2.57%) MySQL
7 12 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.00%) Redis
9 7 (1.00%) Tableau
10 6 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.86%) GIS
11 5 (0.71%) Big Data
12 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.43%) Power Query
14 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.29%) Looker
14 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (3.14%) Git
2 17 (2.43%) JIRA
3 9 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.00%) Postman
5 7 (1.00%) Subversion
6 6 (0.86%) Selenium
6 6 (0.86%) SoapUI
6 6 (0.86%) Spinnaker
6 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.57%) Appium
8 4 (0.57%) MSI
8 4 (0.57%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.29%) CANoe
10 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 134 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 94 (13.41%) Finance
3 75 (10.70%) Marketing
4 62 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.99%) Electronics
6 34 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (4.42%) Telecoms
9 23 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 22 (3.14%) Retail
11 21 (3.00%) Brand Awareness
11 21 (3.00%) Publishing
12 19 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.57%) Aerospace
14 16 (2.28%) Legal
15 15 (2.14%) Automotive
16 14 (2.00%) Banking
16 14 (2.00%) Law
17 12 (1.71%) Advertising
18 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (31.81%) Designer
2 181 (25.82%) Senior
3 118 (16.83%) UX Designer
4 94 (13.41%) UI Designer
5 87 (12.41%) UI/UX Designer
6 86 (12.27%) Lead
7 84 (11.98%) Systems Engineer
8 78 (11.13%) Senior Designer
9 70 (9.99%) Developer
10 60 (8.56%) Software Engineer
11 56 (7.99%) Senior UX Designer
12 51 (7.28%) Architect
13 50 (7.13%) Interaction Designer
13 50 (7.13%) Senior UI Designer
14 49 (6.99%) Senior UI/UX Designer
15 32 (4.56%) Senior Developer
16 30 (4.28%) Control Systems Engineer
17 29 (4.14%) Embedded Engineer
18 25 (3.57%) Data Architect
19 23 (3.28%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (13.84%) HTML
2 43 (6.13%) React
3 37 (5.28%) .NET
3 37 (5.28%) CSS
4 21 (3.00%) AngularJS
4 21 (3.00%) RESTful
5 18 (2.57%) JSON
6 17 (2.43%) ASP.NET
6 17 (2.43%) Node.js
6 17 (2.43%) TensorFlow
7 16 (2.28%) Keras
7 16 (2.28%) NumPy
8 15 (2.14%) HTML5
9 13 (1.85%) .NET Core
9 13 (1.85%) Web Services
9 13 (1.85%) XML
10 11 (1.57%) REST
11 10 (1.43%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.43%) SOAP
12 9 (1.28%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.55%) Algorithms
2 53 (7.56%) Renewable Energy
3 48 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 39 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 36 (5.14%) Clustering
6 30 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.28%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.14%) IoT
8 16 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
10 13 (1.85%) Operational Technology
11 11 (1.57%) CUDA
11 11 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.43%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.00%) Graphic Design
14 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.13%) Linux
2 46 (6.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Unix
4 8 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.00%) Android
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.57%) Debian
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (31.38%) Agile
2 188 (26.82%) User Experience
3 182 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (23.68%) UX Design
5 150 (21.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 119 (16.98%) Actionable Insight
7 109 (15.55%) Customer Experience
8 103 (14.69%) Software Engineering
9 100 (14.27%) Coaching
10 96 (13.69%) Design Patterns
10 96 (13.69%) Rapid Prototyping
11 93 (13.27%) Analytics
12 92 (13.12%) Wireframes
13 91 (12.98%) User Research
14 90 (12.84%) Workshop Facilitation
15 78 (11.13%) Service Design
16 76 (10.84%) Mentoring
17 74 (10.56%) DevOps
17 74 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (10.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.97%) Python
2 81 (11.55%) C
3 75 (10.70%) SQL
4 67 (9.56%) JavaScript
4 67 (9.56%) MATLAB
5 61 (8.70%) C#
6 55 (7.85%) Java
7 34 (4.85%) C++
8 24 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.85%) Embedded C
10 14 (2.00%) Bash
10 14 (2.00%) Fortran
11 13 (1.85%) PHP
12 9 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.28%) XAML
13 7 (1.00%) Haskell
13 7 (1.00%) Rust
14 6 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.71%) Ruby
16 4 (0.57%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 197 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 149 (21.26%) Degree
3 115 (16.41%) SC Cleared
4 51 (7.28%) Master's Degree
5 32 (4.56%) PhD
6 26 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.00%) HNC
10 2 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.14%) APMP
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) HND
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) MCAD
11 1 (0.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (20.97%) Accessibility
2 101 (14.41%) WCAG
3 36 (5.14%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.42%) GDPR
5 23 (3.28%) QA
6 17 (2.43%) ISO 13485
7 10 (1.43%) IEC 62304
7 10 (1.43%) ITGC
8 3 (0.43%) IEC 61131
8 3 (0.43%) JTAG
9 2 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) COSHH
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) TickIT
System Software
1 36 (5.14%) VMware NSX
2 13 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.00%) Firmware
5 5 (0.71%) Docker
6 3 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (1.28%) Ansible
2 8 (1.14%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.00%) Terraform
4 4 (0.57%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.57%) WMI
5 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.14%) Nessus
5 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.14%) Puppet
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.99%) VMware
3 24 (3.42%) Oracle
4 22 (3.14%) Adobe
5 13 (1.85%) Google
6 9 (1.28%) EMC
7 8 (1.14%) Cisco
7 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
7 8 (1.14%) Juniper
7 8 (1.14%) SAP
8 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.86%) Databricks
10 5 (0.71%) ESRI
11 4 (0.57%) Mercator
11 4 (0.57%) Workday
12 3 (0.43%) Apple
12 3 (0.43%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.43%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.43%) Qualtrics
13 2 (0.29%) Siemens