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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 116 148
Rank change year-on-year -26 +32 +61
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 19 26 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.40% 1.30% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.37% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 38
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £40,116
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,438 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,230 £96,539
90th Percentile £75,482 £77,500 £100,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £56,250 £57,965
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.96% -17.19%

All Process & 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 3,518 1,900 4,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.43% 95.24% 86.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,400 1,243 3,307
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -9.09%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend 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 12 April 2026.

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 12 April 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
Salford -13 1 £74,301 +7.20% 1
Prototyping
North West

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Sketch
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Figma
2 3 (15.79%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) dbt
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Heroku
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Creative Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Strategy Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Strategy Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) React
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) Framer.js
2 2 (10.53%) Jest
2 2 (10.53%) Next.js
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Django
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Animation
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) User Experience
2 9 (47.37%) Wireframes
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Storytelling
4 7 (36.84%) UX Design
5 6 (31.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (26.32%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (21.05%) Analytics
7 4 (21.05%) Clean Code
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Customer Journey Map
8 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (15.79%) Design Thinking
8 3 (15.79%) Digital Banking
8 3 (15.79%) Matrix Organization
8 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Adobe
1 3 (15.79%) Qualtrics
2 1 (5.26%) Google