Prototyping Jobs

Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 379 328
Rank change year-on-year +97 -51 -132
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 603 717 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.70% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.83% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 158 367 564
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,563 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 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 +66 457 £60,000 +4.35% 460
Work from Home +274 434 £55,000 - 249
UK excluding London +36 334 £60,000 +9.09% 271
London +150 166 £60,000 -12.73% 223
Scotland +170 118 £45,635 -13.08% 31
South East +4 57 £60,000 +13.21% 75
North of England -57 54 £65,000 +18.18% 56
East of England +32 40 £45,000 -30.77% 54
North West -49 38 £57,500 -0.80% 36
South West +85 30 £68,525 +24.59% 26
Midlands +20 24 £57,500 +35.29% 27
West Midlands +32 16 £60,000 +41.18% 11
Wales +42 8 £67,626 +15.01% 4
North East +31 8 £65,000 +20.41% 3
Yorkshire +19 8 £85,253 +100.59% 17
East Midlands +18 8 £33,000 -32.65% 16
Isle of Man - 4 - -

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 8 (1.33%) Confluence
2 7 (1.16%) CMS
3 5 (0.83%) Apache
3 5 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.33%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.65%) Adobe XD
2 20 (3.32%) Sketch
3 8 (1.33%) InVision
4 7 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (0.66%) Blender
6 4 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.50%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.50%) Maya
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.33%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.33%) CATIA
8 2 (0.33%) InDesign
8 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.33%) Simulink
8 2 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FSCM
2 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
2 3 (0.50%) SAP IS-U
2 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (12.11%) AWS
2 51 (8.46%) Figma
3 44 (7.30%) Azure
4 25 (4.15%) GCP
4 25 (4.15%) GitHub
5 19 (3.15%) SaaS
6 15 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
8 11 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 11 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 11 (1.82%) AWS CodeBuild
8 11 (1.82%) dbt
8 11 (1.82%) Pulumi
9 9 (1.49%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.49%) Sentry
10 7 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (35.66%) Broadband
2 11 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.66%) 5G
3 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.66%) WAN
4 3 (0.50%) DNS
4 3 (0.50%) Internet
4 3 (0.50%) RS-485
4 3 (0.50%) SMTP
5 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.33%) GPRS
5 2 (0.33%) GSM
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.17%) MQTT
6 1 (0.17%) RS-232
6 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.17%) VSAN
6 1 (0.17%) Wideband
6 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.82%) Redis
4 10 (1.66%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.49%) MySQL
5 9 (1.49%) Power BI
6 8 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.66%) Apache Hive
8 4 (0.66%) Biml
8 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.66%) QGIS
8 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.32%) JIRA
2 19 (3.15%) Git
3 12 (1.99%) Axure RP
4 11 (1.82%) GitLab
5 8 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.83%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.66%) Selenium
7 4 (0.66%) Subversion
8 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.50%) MSI
8 3 (0.50%) webpack
9 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Babel
10 1 (0.17%) Carbide.c++
10 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 230 (38.14%) Games
2 165 (27.36%) Finance
3 116 (19.24%) Social Skills
4 112 (18.57%) Banking
5 47 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.31%) Electronics
6 32 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.15%) Law
8 21 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.99%) Marketing
10 16 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.82%) Retail
12 8 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.16%) Advertising
14 6 (1.00%) Aviation
15 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.66%) Local Government
15 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 365 (60.53%) Senior
2 123 (20.40%) Designer
3 99 (16.42%) UX Designer
4 84 (13.93%) Senior Designer
5 83 (13.76%) Senior UX Designer
6 67 (11.11%) Developer
7 41 (6.80%) Software Engineer
8 28 (4.64%) UX Developer
9 24 (3.98%) Electronics Engineer
10 21 (3.48%) Design Engineer
11 18 (2.99%) Lead
11 18 (2.99%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 15 (2.49%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 15 (2.49%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 12 (1.99%) FPGA Engineer
14 12 (1.99%) Product Manager
15 11 (1.82%) Architect
15 11 (1.82%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (1.82%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (36.15%) GraphQL
2 216 (35.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 215 (35.66%) WebGL
4 26 (4.31%) React
5 22 (3.65%) CSS
6 15 (2.49%) .NET
6 15 (2.49%) Django
6 15 (2.49%) HTML
7 11 (1.82%) .NET Framework
7 11 (1.82%) Node.js
8 10 (1.66%) Spring
8 10 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.49%) Kafka
10 8 (1.33%) Express.js
10 8 (1.33%) Next.js
10 8 (1.33%) RESTful
11 7 (1.16%) REST
12 6 (1.00%) Jest
12 6 (1.00%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.66%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 215 (35.66%) Animation
2 27 (4.48%) FPGA
3 18 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 18 (2.99%) Mobile App
3 18 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.49%) Verilog
5 14 (2.32%) VHDL
6 13 (2.16%) Analogue Electronics
7 12 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.99%) Educational Technology
8 11 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.82%) Optoelectronics
9 10 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.66%) Mobile Games
10 9 (1.49%) Wiki
11 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.00%) CPLD
12 6 (1.00%) Hackathon
13 5 (0.83%) GNSS
13 5 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.31%) Linux
2 15 (2.49%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.16%) Android
4 11 (1.82%) Unix
5 3 (0.50%) Windows
6 1 (0.17%) CentOS
6 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (46.93%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (42.29%) Rapid Prototyping
3 246 (40.80%) Artificial Intelligence
4 228 (37.81%) Agile
5 223 (36.98%) Storytelling
6 215 (35.66%) 3D Animation
6 215 (35.66%) Visual Effects
7 186 (30.85%) User Experience
8 148 (24.54%) User Research
9 146 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 140 (23.22%) Wireframes
11 139 (23.05%) UX Design
12 137 (22.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 125 (20.73%) Usability Testing
14 116 (19.24%) Journey Map
14 116 (19.24%) Project Management
15 108 (17.91%) UX Research
16 101 (16.75%) Design Thinking
17 65 (10.78%) Software Engineering
18 61 (10.12%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (35.66%) HLSL
2 59 (9.78%) Python
3 34 (5.64%) Java
4 30 (4.98%) C#
5 29 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.81%) SQL
8 22 (3.65%) C++
9 21 (3.48%) C
10 17 (2.82%) MATLAB
11 10 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.66%) Objective-C
11 10 (1.66%) Swift
12 6 (1.00%) Embedded C
12 6 (1.00%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.66%) R
13 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.33%) Go
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (12.11%) Degree
2 33 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.66%) PhD
8 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.50%) HNC
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (21.39%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.32%) QA
3 14 (2.32%) WCAG
4 5 (0.83%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.66%) NCSC
6 3 (0.50%) GDPR
6 3 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.33%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) DO-254
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 30 (4.98%) Docker
2 29 (4.81%) Firmware
3 15 (2.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (4.31%) Terraform
2 18 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (1.16%) Ansible
4 7 (1.16%) Grafana
5 3 (0.50%) WMI
6 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (4.81%) Adobe
2 20 (3.32%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.65%) Google
4 10 (1.66%) EMC
5 5 (0.83%) VMware
6 4 (0.66%) Agilent
6 4 (0.66%) Databricks
6 4 (0.66%) IBM
6 4 (0.66%) SAP
7 3 (0.50%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.50%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle
8 2 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.33%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.33%) Facebook
8 2 (0.33%) Mercator
8 2 (0.33%) Pega
9 1 (0.17%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) YouTube