Prototyping Jobs in the North West

Prototyping
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Prototyping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prototyping over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 194 258
Rank change year-on-year -55 +64 -87
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 37 93 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.48% 0.91% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.12% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20 52 17
10th Percentile £45,565 £40,988 £39,900
25th Percentile £45,628 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -22.71% +36.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,539 £96,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £100,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and 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 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Prototyping
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Prototyping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Prototyping in the North West.

Salary trend for Prototyping in the North West

Prototyping
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Prototyping in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +32 28 £68,505 +14.17% 89
Cumbria - 5 £45,628 - 1
Cheshire +11 4 £70,000 +21.74% 51
Prototyping
England

Prototyping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.70%) InDesign
2 1 (2.70%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.70%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Figma
3 5 (13.51%) GCP
3 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (8.11%) Azure
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.11%) dbt
4 3 (8.11%) Pulumi
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Broadband
1 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.11%) Redis
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Cucumber
1 4 (10.81%) GitLab
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
1 4 (10.81%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.51%) Games
3 5 (13.51%) Retail
4 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Senior
2 9 (24.32%) Principal Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Designer
4 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Principal Software Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Designer
5 4 (10.81%) UX Designer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior UX Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Product Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Product Designer
8 1 (2.70%) Design Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) React
2 5 (13.51%) Kafka
2 5 (13.51%) Spring
2 5 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
3 4 (10.81%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (8.11%) Django
4 3 (8.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 3 (8.11%) WebGL
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) D3.js
5 1 (2.70%) DCOM
5 1 (2.70%) J2EE
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) NestJS
5 1 (2.70%) Node.js
5 1 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) Vitest
5 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Wiki
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Animation
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.41%) Graphic Design
5 2 (5.41%) PropTech
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.70%) FPGA
6 1 (2.70%) IoT
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Software Engineering
2 15 (40.54%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) User Experience
4 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (24.32%) Microservices
6 9 (24.32%) UX Design
7 8 (21.62%) Customer-Centricity
7 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven
7 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
8 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.92%) Information Security
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.92%) Rapid Prototyping
8 7 (18.92%) TDD
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
10 5 (13.51%) Observability
10 5 (13.51%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Java
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.11%) HLSL
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) C
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) SEPA
2 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.62%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Bloomberg
1 3 (8.11%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe
2 2 (5.41%) IBM