Cheshire Graphic Designer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Graphic Designer role in IT jobs within the Cheshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graphic Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Graphics Designer
Location Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Batley Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Croydon Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughton Luton Maidenhead Malton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Southam St Helens Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadley UK Wakefield Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	148	135
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.190 %	0.068 %
Salaries quoted	5	0
Average minimum salary	£20,800	-
Average salary	£25,900	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£31,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£24,251	£25,754
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3157	2929
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.201 %
Salaries quoted	2850	2585
Average minimum salary	£32,515	£31,743
Average salary	£35,739	£34,357
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Average maximum salary	£38,964	£36,970
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Graphic Designer North West

Graphic Designer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Graphic Designer across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Graphic Designer
Salary Trend

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

Graphic Designer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graphic Designer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Graphic Designer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graphic Designer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northwich	-	2	£27,500	-
Crewe	-	1	£21,500	-
Warrington	-	1	-	-

Graphic Designer North West

Graphic Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Graphic 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 Graphic Designer in their job title.

1 8 (88.89 %) Photoshop 2 7 (77.78 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 5 (55.56 %) Flash 4 4 (44.44 %) Marketing 5 3 (33.33 %) Web Design 5 3 (33.33 %) CSS 5 3 (33.33 %) ActionScript 5 3 (33.33 %) Adobe 6 2 (22.22 %) Dreamweaver 6 2 (22.22 %) W3C 6 2 (22.22 %) Quark 6 2 (22.22 %) FreeHand 6 2 (22.22 %) XML 6 2 (22.22 %) XSL 6 2 (22.22 %) XSLT

6 2 (22.22 %) HTML 6 2 (22.22 %) JavaScript 6 2 (22.22 %) PDA 6 2 (22.22 %) Advertising 6 2 (22.22 %) WEP 6 2 (22.22 %) Graphic Design 6 2 (22.22 %) Adobe Flex 6 2 (22.22 %) Web Development 7 1 (11.11 %) Degree 7 1 (11.11 %) 3D Graphics 7 1 (11.11 %) Pensions 7 1 (11.11 %) XHTML 7 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (11.11 %) Windows 7 1 (11.11 %) Fireworks

Graphic Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Graphic 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 Graphic Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (33.33 %) CSS 2 2 (22.22 %) XML 2 2 (22.22 %) XSL 2 2 (22.22 %) XSLT 2 2 (22.22 %) HTML 2 2 (22.22 %) Adobe Flex 3 1 (11.11 %) XHTML	Applications 1 8 (88.89 %) Photoshop 2 7 (77.78 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 2 (22.22 %) FreeHand 4 1 (11.11 %) Fireworks 4 1 (11.11 %) Acrobat 4 1 (11.11 %) QuarkXPress
Communications & Networking 1 2 (22.22 %) WEP	Development Applications 1 5 (55.56 %) Flash 2 2 (22.22 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 4 (44.44 %) Marketing 2 2 (22.22 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (22.22 %) Advertising 3 1 (11.11 %) 3D Graphics 3 1 (11.11 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 2 (22.22 %) W3C 1 2 (22.22 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 1 (11.11 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Web Design 2 2 (22.22 %) Web Development 3 1 (11.11 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) ActionScript 2 2 (22.22 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Adobe 2 2 (22.22 %) Quark