The first table below looks at the demand for Adobe Illustrator skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe Illustrator over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Illustrator
Rank 42 47 37
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -10
Contract jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 1 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% 1.108% 1.392%
As % of the Applications category 1.587% 7.447% 9.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
Average daily rate £300 £150 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £215 £238
% change year-on-year
-1.16% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £17.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+20.58% -20.93%
All Applications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
63 94 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 14.22% 14.87% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 31
Average daily rate £250 £325 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +85.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £150 £123
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £425 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 12
Average hourly rate £11.76 £13.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.57% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.00 £10.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £17.50 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
Adobe Illustrator
West Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Birmingham Adobe Illustrator Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe Illustrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Adobe Illustrator Daily Rate Trend

Adobe Illustrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Adobe Illustrator Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe Illustrator
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Adobe Illustrator also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Adobe Illustrator.

1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Web 2.0
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Flash

Adobe Illustrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Adobe Illustrator also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Adobe Illustrator. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) OmniGraffle
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Web 2.0
1 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle