The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 60 48 63
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 34 32 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.122% 3.365% 1.822%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.307% 3.509% 1.907%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 16
Average salary £32,000 £28,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,500 £20,000 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1028 912 839
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.40% 95.90% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 915 775 789
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Designer
East of England

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Designer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Designer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Designer across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Designer Salary Trend

Designer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Designer across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Designer Salary Histogram

Designer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 6 £17,500 -
Luton -6 2 £48,750 +103.12%
Designer
East of England

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Designer in their job title.

1 54 (79.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 47 (69.12%) Photoshop
3 29 (42.65%) HTML
3 29 (42.65%) CSS
4 26 (38.24%) Adobe
5 17 (25.00%) Fireworks
6 16 (23.53%) Advertising
7 15 (22.06%) Graphic Design
8 14 (20.59%) Information Architecture
8 14 (20.59%) Marketing
9 13 (19.12%) Retail
9 13 (19.12%) Web Design
10 12 (17.65%) FreeHand
10 12 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (16.18%) InDesign
12 10 (14.71%) CRM
12 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
13 9 (13.24%) Email Marketing
13 9 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (11.76%) Adobe After Effects
15 7 (10.29%) Balsamiq Mockups
15 7 (10.29%) Axure RP
16 6 (8.824%) Flash
17 5 (7.353%) JavaScript
17 5 (7.353%) Dreamweaver
17 5 (7.353%) Photography
18 4 (5.882%) Customer Insight
18 4 (5.882%) XHTML
19 3 (4.412%) Microsoft
19 3 (4.412%) Stakeholder Management

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (42.65%) HTML
1 29 (42.65%) CSS
2 6 (8.824%) Flash
3 4 (5.882%) XHTML
4 3 (4.412%) HTML5
4 3 (4.412%) CSS3
5 1 (1.471%) JMS
5 1 (1.471%) JDBC
5 1 (1.471%) Servlets
5 1 (1.471%) Struts
5 1 (1.471%) .NET
5 1 (1.471%) J2EE
5 1 (1.471%) EJB
5 1 (1.471%) jQuery
5 1 (1.471%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.471%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.471%) CMS
Applications
1 54 (79.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 47 (69.12%) Photoshop
3 17 (25.00%) Fireworks
4 12 (17.65%) FreeHand
5 11 (16.18%) InDesign
6 8 (11.76%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (1.471%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.471%) SiteCatalyst
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Balsamiq Mockups
1 7 (10.29%) Axure RP
2 5 (7.353%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (4.412%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.471%) JUnit
General
1 16 (23.53%) Advertising
2 14 (20.59%) Marketing
3 13 (19.12%) Retail
4 3 (4.412%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Graphic Design
2 5 (7.353%) Photography
3 3 (4.412%) New Media
4 2 (2.941%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.471%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.941%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.471%) Android
2 1 (1.471%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) Information Architecture
2 13 (19.12%) Web Design
3 12 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (14.71%) CRM
4 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
5 9 (13.24%) Email Marketing
5 9 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (5.882%) Customer Insight
7 3 (4.412%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (4.412%) Scrum
8 2 (2.941%) Content Management
8 2 (2.941%) Market Research
9 1 (1.471%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (1.471%) CAD
9 1 (1.471%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.353%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.471%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (4.412%) Degree
2 1 (1.471%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) QA
Vendors
1 26 (38.24%) Adobe
2 3 (4.412%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.471%) SAP
3 1 (1.471%) Omniture