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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 134 126
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 36 21 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 0.89% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.99% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 27
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £81,500 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +13.04%

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 5,834 2,115 3,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.17% 84.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 1,185 1,624
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 6 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Superset
1 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (8.33%) dbt
3 3 (8.33%) Figma
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Metabase
2 1 (2.78%) OLAP
2 1 (2.78%) OLAP Cube
2 1 (2.78%) OLTP
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Publishing
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Billing
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Senior
2 12 (33.33%) Designer
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Product Manager
6 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (11.11%) Lead Designer
6 4 (11.11%) Service Designer
7 3 (8.33%) Content Designer
7 3 (8.33%) UX Designer
8 2 (5.56%) Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Digital Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Interaction Designer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.56%) UI Designer
8 2 (5.56%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Spring
1 8 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 7 (19.44%) Kafka
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.78%) NumPy
4 1 (2.78%) Pandas
4 1 (2.78%) pgvector
4 1 (2.78%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Media Streaming
1 7 (19.44%) Podcast
2 3 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) IoT
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) AI
2 20 (55.56%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 13 (36.11%) Observability
5 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 10 (27.78%) DevOps
5 10 (27.78%) Microservices
6 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 9 (25.00%) User Experience
7 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 8 (22.22%) Workflow
8 7 (19.44%) Incident Management
8 7 (19.44%) Software Delivery
9 6 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
9 6 (16.67%) Service Design
9 6 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.56%) YouTube
3 1 (2.78%) Trend Micro