The first table below looks at the demand for Acrobat skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Acrobat over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Acrobat
Rank - - 111
Permanent jobs citing Acrobat 0 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - - 0.302%
As % of the Applications category - - 2.193%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £28,721 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-12.95% -4.26%
All Applications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
236 248 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 13.19% 12.87% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 194 222 186
Average salary £30,000 £32,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £21,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
Acrobat
North West

Acrobat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Acrobat across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Cheshire Acrobat Jobs Demand Trend

Acrobat
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Acrobat Salary Trend

Acrobat
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Acrobat 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Acrobat.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) MS Project
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) COM

Acrobat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Acrobat also 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 that cited Acrobat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) COM
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Project
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Sun