Prototyping Job Trends in Manchester

Prototyping
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Prototyping skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 143 153
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 22 42 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.93% 1.04% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.26% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 12
10th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £53,875
25th Percentile £53,125 £55,200 £58,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +53.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £78,625
90th Percentile £80,500 - £93,700
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,154 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.52% +11.92% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,111 3,327 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.49% 82.41% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,788 2,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £83,575 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in Manchester

Prototyping
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Salford +14 1 £55,000 -15.38%
Altrincham - 1 £42,500 -
Prototyping
North West

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 2 (9.09%) Sketch
2 1 (4.55%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Figma
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
1 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) webpack
3 1 (4.55%) Axure RP
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) UX Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior UI Designer
6 1 (4.55%) UI Designer
6 1 (4.55%) User Experience Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
1 6 (27.27%) React
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
1 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) CSS
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) CSS3
4 2 (9.09%) Jest
4 2 (9.09%) Playwright
4 2 (9.09%) RxJS
4 2 (9.09%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (4.55%) D3.js
5 1 (4.55%) NestJS
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Wiki
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.55%) FPGA
3 1 (4.55%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 11 (50.00%) User Experience
5 9 (40.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (40.91%) Information Security
6 8 (36.36%) DevOps
7 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven
7 7 (31.82%) Microservices
8 6 (27.27%) TDD
8 6 (27.27%) UX Design
9 5 (22.73%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (22.73%) Validation
10 4 (18.18%) API Development
10 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
10 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 4 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
10 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Bloomberg
2 2 (9.09%) Adobe
2 2 (9.09%) IBM