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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 336 203
Rank change year-on-year -42 -133 +101
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 713 1,006 3,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.03% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.07% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 367 565 923
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £94,000 £88,440
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

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 85,719 93,735 157,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 95.58% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 60,185 55,235 82,763
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 24 May 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 24 May 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
England -49 605 £57,500 -11.54% 312
UK excluding London +2 566 £55,000 -8.33% 234
North of England +133 163 £55,000 -15.38% 47
Work from Home -99 155 £55,000 -15.38% 93
South East +12 152 £53,000 -11.67% 88
London -119 105 £68,750 +1.85% 111
North West +57 94 £57,965 -20.05% 33
Midlands -65 64 £42,500 -33.59% 33
South West -23 62 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Scotland -32 52 £52,500 -25.00% 18
East of England -45 49 £65,000 - 39
Yorkshire +101 46 £42,500 -20.56% 7
West Midlands -50 40 £42,500 -33.59% 20
East Midlands +2 24 £49,000 -2.00% 13
North East +14 23 £53,982 - 7
Northern Ireland +36 14 £58,800 -
Wales +17 12 £58,800 +17.60% 1

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 24 (3.37%) IIS
2 8 (1.12%) Confluence
3 5 (0.70%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.42%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Drupal
6 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 87 (12.20%) Sketch
2 20 (2.81%) InVision
3 18 (2.52%) Adobe XD
4 15 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.10%) Photoshop
5 14 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (1.54%) Simulink
7 8 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.56%) Blender
8 4 (0.56%) InDesign
8 4 (0.56%) OrCAD
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.42%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (0.42%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.28%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (13.32%) Figma
2 89 (12.48%) Azure
3 53 (7.43%) Miro
4 52 (7.29%) Heroku
5 48 (6.73%) AWS
6 26 (3.65%) SaaS
7 25 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.54%) GCP
11 7 (0.98%) dbt
11 7 (0.98%) PaaS
11 7 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.70%) GitHub
13 5 (0.70%) Serverless
14 4 (0.56%) Collibra
14 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.37%) WAN
2 18 (2.52%) Wireless
3 17 (2.38%) Bluetooth
4 10 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.26%) BGP
5 9 (1.26%) DMVPN
5 9 (1.26%) EIGRP
5 9 (1.26%) OSPF
6 6 (0.84%) Modbus
7 4 (0.56%) 3G
7 4 (0.56%) 4G
7 4 (0.56%) GPRS
8 3 (0.42%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.28%) DSL
9 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.28%) HTTP
10 1 (0.14%) Internet
10 1 (0.14%) MQTT
10 1 (0.14%) RFID
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.91%) Metadata
3 28 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.51%) Power BI
5 15 (2.10%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.82%) MySQL
7 12 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.26%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.98%) Tableau
11 6 (0.84%) Big Data
11 6 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.84%) GIS
11 6 (0.84%) Redis
12 5 (0.70%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.42%) Power Query
14 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 18 (2.52%) Git
1 18 (2.52%) JIRA
2 8 (1.12%) Subversion
3 7 (0.98%) Postman
4 6 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.70%) Selenium
5 5 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 5 (0.70%) Spinnaker
5 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.56%) Appium
6 4 (0.56%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.56%) MSI
6 4 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.28%) CANoe
8 1 (0.14%) GitLab
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 180 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (13.04%) Finance
4 75 (10.52%) Marketing
5 62 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 49 (6.87%) Electronics
7 34 (4.77%) Aerospace
7 34 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (3.79%) Retail
9 23 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 22 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.95%) Banking
11 21 (2.95%) Brand Awareness
12 20 (2.81%) Publishing
13 19 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (2.38%) Law
15 15 (2.10%) Legal
16 12 (1.68%) Advertising
17 11 (1.54%) Automotive
18 9 (1.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 212 (29.73%) Designer
2 179 (25.11%) Senior
3 135 (18.93%) Architect
4 113 (15.85%) UX Designer
5 89 (12.48%) UI Designer
6 85 (11.92%) UI/UX Designer
7 82 (11.50%) Lead
8 73 (10.24%) Senior Designer
9 64 (8.98%) Developer
10 60 (8.42%) Software Engineer
11 53 (7.43%) Senior UX Designer
12 49 (6.87%) Interaction Designer
13 47 (6.59%) Senior UI Designer
13 47 (6.59%) Senior UI/UX Designer
13 47 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (5.75%) Senior Architect
14 41 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
15 31 (4.35%) Data Architect
16 30 (4.21%) Embedded Engineer
17 28 (3.93%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.88%) HTML
2 45 (6.31%) React
3 40 (5.61%) CSS
4 34 (4.77%) .NET
5 19 (2.66%) NumPy
5 19 (2.66%) TensorFlow
6 18 (2.52%) Keras
6 18 (2.52%) RESTful
7 15 (2.10%) JSON
8 14 (1.96%) ASP.NET
8 14 (1.96%) Node.js
9 13 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 13 (1.82%) HTML5
10 11 (1.54%) XML
11 10 (1.40%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.26%) OpenACC
12 9 (1.26%) OpenMP
12 9 (1.26%) SOAP
12 9 (1.26%) Web Services
12 9 (1.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 47 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.21%) IoT
4 24 (3.37%) Clustering
5 23 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.54%) CUDA
11 11 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
11 11 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.40%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.52%) Linux
2 48 (6.73%) Windows
3 9 (1.26%) Unix
4 8 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.84%) Android
6 5 (0.70%) Debian
6 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) CentOS
8 2 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (31.98%) Agile
2 227 (31.84%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (25.25%) User Experience
4 161 (22.58%) UX Design
5 160 (22.44%) Coaching
6 151 (21.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 134 (18.79%) Mentoring
8 109 (15.29%) Actionable Insight
8 109 (15.29%) Customer Experience
9 101 (14.17%) Software Engineering
10 95 (13.32%) Workshop Facilitation
11 94 (13.18%) Analytics
11 94 (13.18%) Wireframes
12 92 (12.90%) Design Patterns
13 88 (12.34%) Line Management
13 88 (12.34%) User Research
14 83 (11.64%) Service Design
15 80 (11.22%) DevOps
16 78 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 71 (9.96%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 124 (17.39%) Python
2 78 (10.94%) C
3 66 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 60 (8.42%) C#
5 56 (7.85%) SQL
6 48 (6.73%) Java
7 35 (4.91%) C++
8 28 (3.93%) MATLAB
9 25 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.81%) Embedded C
11 14 (1.96%) Fortran
12 12 (1.68%) Bash
13 11 (1.54%) PHP
14 9 (1.26%) XAML
15 8 (1.12%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.98%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.84%) Haskell
17 6 (0.84%) Rust
18 5 (0.70%) Ruby
19 4 (0.56%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 209 (29.31%) Degree
2 183 (25.67%) Security Cleared
3 110 (15.43%) SC Cleared
4 44 (6.17%) Master's Degree
5 30 (4.21%) PhD
6 21 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.84%) HNC
10 2 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) HND
11 1 (0.14%) MCSA
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (20.48%) Accessibility
2 99 (13.88%) WCAG
3 41 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 22 (3.09%) QA
5 19 (2.66%) GDPR
6 17 (2.38%) ISO 13485
7 10 (1.40%) IEC 62304
8 5 (0.70%) ITGC
8 5 (0.70%) JTAG
9 4 (0.56%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.14%) COSHH
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) TickIT
System Software
1 24 (3.37%) VMware NSX
2 11 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.40%) Firmware
4 9 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.42%) Docker
5 3 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.26%) Ansible
1 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
2 7 (0.98%) Terraform
3 6 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.56%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.56%) WMI
5 2 (0.28%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.14%) Grafana
6 1 (0.14%) Nessus
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.21%) VMware
3 24 (3.37%) Adobe
4 22 (3.09%) Oracle
5 11 (1.54%) Google
6 9 (1.26%) Cisco
6 9 (1.26%) EMC
6 9 (1.26%) Fortinet
6 9 (1.26%) Juniper
7 7 (0.98%) SAP
8 6 (0.84%) Databricks
9 5 (0.70%) ESRI
9 5 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.56%) Mercator
10 4 (0.56%) Workday
11 3 (0.42%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.42%) Qualtrics
12 2 (0.28%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.28%) Rockwell