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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 382 336
Rank change year-on-year +99 -46 -135
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 602 712 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.70% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.83% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 160 366 569
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £98,125 £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 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
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 £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 27 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 27 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 +73 456 £60,000 +4.35% 1,878
Work from Home +285 433 £55,000 - 957
UK excluding London +34 333 £60,000 +9.09% 1,753
London +165 166 £60,000 -12.73% 365
Scotland +163 117 £45,635 -13.08% 109
South East -9 57 £60,000 +13.21% 505
North of England -53 54 £65,000 +18.18% 366
East of England +27 40 £45,000 -30.77% 269
North West -57 37 £57,500 -0.80% 175
South West +75 29 £68,525 +24.59% 211
Midlands +27 24 £57,500 +35.29% 291
West Midlands +44 16 £60,000 +41.18% 150
Wales +42 9 £63,813 +8.53% 44
Yorkshire +27 9 £69,626 +63.83% 147
North East +34 8 £65,000 +20.41% 44
East Midlands +24 8 £33,000 -32.65% 124
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%) CMS
1 8 (1.33%) Confluence
2 5 (0.83%) Apache
2 5 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.50%) IIS
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.33%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.17%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
6 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
6 4 (0.66%) 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 72 (11.96%) AWS
2 51 (8.47%) Figma
3 43 (7.14%) Azure
4 25 (4.15%) GitHub
5 24 (3.99%) GCP
6 19 (3.16%) SaaS
7 15 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (1.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 11 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 11 (1.83%) AWS CodeBuild
9 11 (1.83%) dbt
9 11 (1.83%) Pulumi
10 9 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.50%) Sentry
11 7 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (35.71%) Broadband
2 11 (1.83%) 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%) GPRS
4 3 (0.50%) GSM
4 3 (0.50%) Internet
4 3 (0.50%) RS-485
4 3 (0.50%) SMTP
5 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
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 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.66%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.83%) Redis
4 10 (1.66%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.50%) MySQL
5 9 (1.50%) 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 17 (2.82%) Git
3 12 (1.99%) Axure RP
4 11 (1.83%) 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
9 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Carbide.c++
10 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 230 (38.21%) Games
2 163 (27.08%) Finance
3 115 (19.10%) Social Skills
4 111 (18.44%) Banking
5 48 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.48%) Electronics
7 31 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.99%) Law
9 21 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.99%) Marketing
12 16 (2.66%) Public Sector
13 11 (1.83%) Retail
14 8 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.16%) Advertising
15 7 (1.16%) Aviation
16 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.66%) Local Government
16 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 365 (60.63%) Senior
2 124 (20.60%) Designer
3 99 (16.45%) UX Designer
4 84 (13.95%) Senior Designer
5 83 (13.79%) Senior UX Designer
6 67 (11.13%) Developer
7 38 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 28 (4.65%) UX Developer
9 25 (4.15%) Electronics Engineer
10 21 (3.49%) Design Engineer
11 19 (3.16%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 17 (2.82%) Lead
13 15 (2.49%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 15 (2.49%) Principal Engineer
14 14 (2.33%) Senior Developer
15 12 (1.99%) FPGA Engineer
15 12 (1.99%) Product Manager
16 11 (1.83%) Architect
16 11 (1.83%) Delivery Manager
16 11 (1.83%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (36.21%) GraphQL
2 216 (35.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 215 (35.71%) WebGL
4 26 (4.32%) React
5 20 (3.32%) CSS
6 15 (2.49%) .NET
6 15 (2.49%) Django
7 13 (2.16%) HTML
8 11 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 11 (1.83%) Node.js
9 10 (1.66%) Spring
9 10 (1.66%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.50%) Kafka
11 8 (1.33%) Express.js
11 8 (1.33%) Next.js
11 8 (1.33%) RESTful
12 7 (1.16%) REST
13 6 (1.00%) TensorFlow
14 4 (0.66%) Flask
14 4 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 215 (35.71%) Animation
2 28 (4.65%) FPGA
3 19 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 18 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.49%) Verilog
6 14 (2.33%) Analogue Electronics
6 14 (2.33%) VHDL
7 12 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.99%) Educational Technology
8 11 (1.83%) Optoelectronics
9 10 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.66%) Mobile Games
10 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.16%) CPLD
11 7 (1.16%) Wiki
12 6 (1.00%) Hackathon
13 5 (0.83%) GNSS
13 5 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.32%) Linux
2 15 (2.49%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.16%) Android
4 11 (1.83%) 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 (47.01%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (42.36%) Rapid Prototyping
3 246 (40.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 225 (37.38%) Agile
5 223 (37.04%) Storytelling
6 215 (35.71%) 3D Animation
6 215 (35.71%) Visual Effects
7 186 (30.90%) User Experience
8 148 (24.58%) User Research
9 144 (23.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 140 (23.26%) Wireframes
11 139 (23.09%) UX Design
12 138 (22.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 125 (20.76%) Usability Testing
14 116 (19.27%) Journey Map
14 116 (19.27%) Project Management
15 108 (17.94%) UX Research
16 101 (16.78%) Design Thinking
17 62 (10.30%) Software Engineering
18 59 (9.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (35.71%) HLSL
2 59 (9.80%) Python
3 33 (5.48%) Java
4 30 (4.98%) C#
5 27 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 24 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.82%) SQL
8 22 (3.65%) C
8 22 (3.65%) C++
9 18 (2.99%) MATLAB
10 10 (1.66%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.66%) Objective-C
10 10 (1.66%) Swift
11 6 (1.00%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.00%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.66%) R
12 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 74 (12.29%) Degree
2 33 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.83%) 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
1 130 (21.59%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.32%) QA
3 14 (2.33%) 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%) Firmware
2 28 (4.65%) Docker
3 16 (2.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (4.32%) Terraform
2 18 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.83%) 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 (4.82%) Adobe
2 20 (3.32%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.49%) Google
4 11 (1.83%) 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%) Mercator
8 2 (0.33%) Pega
9 1 (0.17%) Altera
9 1 (0.17%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) YouTube