Prototyping Job Trends in the North West

Prototyping
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Prototyping skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 143 146
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 +63
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 17 66 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.28% 1.26% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 1.40% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 29
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,425 £23,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,869 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,058 £69,800
90th Percentile £83,032 £84,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,122 4,712 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.23% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,332 2,655
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Prototyping job vacancy trend in the North West

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Prototyping.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Prototyping

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Prototyping within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Manchester -7 17 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Adobe XD
1 3 (17.65%) Sketch
2 1 (5.88%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Figma
2 6 (35.29%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
1 6 (35.29%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Strategy Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Product Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Strategy Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) User Experience Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) Framer.js
2 2 (11.76%) Jest
2 2 (11.76%) Next.js
2 2 (11.76%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Animation
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 11 (64.71%) User Experience
2 11 (64.71%) Wireframes
3 10 (58.82%) Storytelling
4 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (47.06%) Strategic Thinking
4 8 (47.06%) UX Design
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Business Strategy
6 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (35.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
6 6 (35.29%) Customer Journey Map
6 6 (35.29%) Customer-Centricity
6 6 (35.29%) Design Thinking
6 6 (35.29%) Digital Banking
6 6 (35.29%) Journey Map
6 6 (35.29%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (76.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Adobe
2 6 (35.29%) Qualtrics
3 1 (5.88%) Google