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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 122 142
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +23
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 23 58 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.98% 1.50% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.77% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 15
10th Percentile £45,625 - £45,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,901 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +6.63% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,822 £100,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,403 - £89,800
North West median annual salary £66,901 £65,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +2.92% +15.56% -6.25%

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 2,076 3,283 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 84.74% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,555 1,995
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £43,800
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 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 15 October 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 October 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 +12 2 £64,401 -7.08% 2
Altrincham - 1 £42,500 -
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 5 (21.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Adobe XD
1 2 (8.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (8.70%) Sketch
2 1 (4.35%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Figma
3 4 (17.39%) Adobe Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure
6 1 (4.35%) dbt
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) MongoDB
2 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) webpack
4 1 (4.35%) Axure RP
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Strategy Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Principal Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) UX Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
1 6 (26.09%) Spring
1 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
2 5 (21.74%) React
3 4 (17.39%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) CSS3
5 2 (8.70%) Jest
5 2 (8.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (8.70%) Playwright
5 2 (8.70%) RxJS
5 2 (8.70%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (4.35%) D3.js
6 1 (4.35%) Django
6 1 (4.35%) NestJS
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Wiki
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.35%) FPGA
3 1 (4.35%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Software Engineering
3 13 (56.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (56.52%) User Experience
4 10 (43.48%) Test Automation
5 9 (39.13%) DevOps
6 8 (34.78%) Customer-Centricity
6 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (34.78%) Information Security
6 8 (34.78%) UX Design
7 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
8 6 (26.09%) Microservices
8 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (26.09%) TDD
8 6 (26.09%) Wireframes
9 5 (21.74%) Analytics
9 5 (21.74%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
10 4 (17.39%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Adobe
2 4 (17.39%) Qualtrics
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.35%) Google