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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 132 147
Rank change year-on-year -49 +15 +20
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 19 26 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.28% 1.05% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.15% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 32
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £48,475
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,384 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% -30.62% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73,171 £77,500 -
90th Percentile £77,283 - -
North West median annual salary £48,750 £69,384 £69,308
% change year-on-year -29.74% +0.11% +20.53%

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 5,119 2,266 3,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.54% 91.19% 81.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 1,316 2,361
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in Manchester

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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Windchill
2 1 (5.26%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) SaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (10.53%) dbt
3 2 (10.53%) Figma
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Designer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Product Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Content Designer
4 3 (15.79%) Creative Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Interaction Designer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Designer
6 1 (5.26%) Product Management Director
6 1 (5.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) AI
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Rapid Prototyping
3 8 (42.11%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (21.05%) Product Management
4 4 (21.05%) User Research
4 4 (21.05%) Workflow
5 3 (15.79%) B2B
5 3 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (15.79%) Commercial Awareness
5 3 (15.79%) Content Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Human-Centred Design
5 3 (15.79%) Inclusive Design
5 3 (15.79%) Pedagogy
5 3 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (21.05%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.26%) YouTube