The first table below looks at the demand for Adobe Illustrator skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe Illustrator over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Illustrator
Rank 62 - 78
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.358% - 0.375%
As % of the Applications category 1.948% - 2.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £188 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £225 £229
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £17.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+35.29% -20.93%
All Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
154 158 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.36% 14.17% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 56
Average daily rate £325 £357 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.96% +19.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £12.38 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.25% -1.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.10 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £16.00 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Adobe Illustrator
Berkshire

Adobe Illustrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Adobe Illustrator Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe Illustrator
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Flex
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) InDesign
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Music
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (33.33%) Animation
3 1 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (33.33%) Games
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (33.33%) New Media
3 1 (33.33%) Lua
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) CSS

Adobe Illustrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) Flash
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Flex
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Music
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Coordinator
1 2 (66.67%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (33.33%) Flash Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Graduate
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
1 1 (33.33%) Animation
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
1 1 (33.33%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Interactive Advertising
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (33.33%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe