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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 199 262
Rank change year-on-year -56 +63 -82
Permanent jobs citing Prototyping 40 96 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.97% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.17% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27 53 19
10th Percentile £41,850 £40,988 £40,700
25th Percentile £45,628 £46,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -22.71% +36.36%
75th Percentile £74,258 £96,539 £96,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 7,710 8,199 7,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.82% 82.52% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,004 6,220 3,869
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,815
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 £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 17 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 17 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 +9 29 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Cheshire +7 6 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Cumbria - 5 £45,628 -
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:

Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Adobe XD
1 3 (7.50%) Sketch
2 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.50%) InDesign
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Figma
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.50%) dbt
4 3 (7.50%) Pulumi
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) Sentry
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Broadband
1 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.50%) Redis
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (27.50%) Manufacturing
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Games
4 5 (12.50%) Retail
5 4 (10.00%) Electronics
6 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Public Speaking
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Designer
2 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior Designer
4 6 (15.00%) UX Designer
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
5 5 (12.50%) Senior UX Designer
6 4 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior UI Designer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior UI/UX Designer
7 3 (7.50%) UI Designer
7 3 (7.50%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Product Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Product Designer
8 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) React
2 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (7.50%) CSS
3 3 (7.50%) Django
3 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (7.50%) WebGL
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) D3.js
5 1 (2.50%) DCOM
5 1 (2.50%) J2EE
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) Kafka
5 1 (2.50%) LINQ
5 1 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) Spring
5 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Animation
3 3 (7.50%) FPGA
4 2 (5.00%) ASIC
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (5.00%) PropTech
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) Verilog
4 2 (5.00%) VHDL
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (2.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
1 14 (35.00%) User Experience
2 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) UX Design
4 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.50%) User Research
7 6 (15.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 6 (15.00%) DevOps
7 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.50%) Microservices
8 5 (12.50%) Observability
8 5 (12.50%) PLM
8 5 (12.50%) Project Management
8 5 (12.50%) Validation
8 5 (12.50%) Wireframes
9 4 (10.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) HLSL
4 3 (7.50%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) HND
3 1 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) SEPA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Adobe
2 3 (7.50%) Bloomberg
2 3 (7.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) EMC