Rapid Prototyping Job Trends

Rapid Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Rapid Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 669 646
Rank change year-on-year +66 -23 +153
Permanent jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 39 36 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.067% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.074% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 28
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £42,236
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +42.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,614 £100,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £120,000 £88,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +42.11% -32.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Rapid 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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Rapid Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rapid Prototyping relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Rapid Prototyping job vacancy trend in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rapid Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rapid Prototyping over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Rapid Prototyping in the UK

Rapid Prototyping
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 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 +79 35 £72,500 -21.62% 77
UK excluding London +39 17 £55,000 -18.52% 72
London +51 14 £75,000 -37.50% 11
Work from Home +87 10 £87,352 +2.77% 59
East of England - 8 - - 14
South East +34 5 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South West - 3 £91,750 - 12
Wales -5 1 - - 5

Rapid 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:

Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Adobe XD
1 7 (17.95%) Sketch
2 5 (12.82%) InVision
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) AWS
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) Figma
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) Heroku
5 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.69%) PaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) IaaS
7 2 (5.13%) n8n
7 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.13%) Zapier
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) 2G
1 2 (5.13%) 4G
1 2 (5.13%) 5G
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) ICMP
1 2 (5.13%) Software-Defined Radio
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
1 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Power Query
2 1 (2.56%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) IDA Disassembler
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Law
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Legal
5 4 (10.26%) Finance
5 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.13%) Marketing
7 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.56%) Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Front Office
8 1 (2.56%) Games
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Designer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Consultant
3 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Interaction Designer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Principal Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (7.69%) UX Designer
8 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 1 (2.56%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Node.js
2 9 (23.08%) HTML
3 8 (20.51%) CSS
3 8 (20.51%) PyTorch
3 8 (20.51%) TensorFlow
4 7 (17.95%) Google JAX
4 7 (17.95%) JAX
4 7 (17.95%) React
5 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.69%) Vue
7 2 (5.13%) .NET
7 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.13%) LangChain
8 1 (2.56%) Flash
8 1 (2.56%) Next.js
8 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.56%) RESTful
8 1 (2.56%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) CUDA
2 5 (12.82%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 3 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.13%) Arduino
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (5.13%) VUI
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Android
1 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Prototyping
2 16 (41.03%) AI
3 14 (35.90%) Agile
4 13 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 13 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.08%) User Research
7 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.95%) Computer Vision
8 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
8 7 (17.95%) Mathematics
8 7 (17.95%) Physics
8 7 (17.95%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (17.95%) Wireframes
9 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (15.38%) Data Engineering
9 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.38%) Information Architecture
10 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.38%) C++
4 3 (7.69%) C
4 3 (7.69%) Go
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) Degree
3 9 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (10.26%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Ansible
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Adobe
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.13%) UiPath
4 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.56%) Foundry
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) SimCorp