The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 63 50 47
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 3 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.483% 0.557% 1.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.508% 0.590% 1.028%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
Average salary £52,500 £32,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.53% -38.09%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
591 339 389
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 95.17% 94.43% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 493 306 368
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Designer
West Midlands

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Designer Salary Trend

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 14 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 14 (58.33%) CSS
1 14 (58.33%) HTML5
2 13 (54.17%) jQuery
3 10 (41.67%) .NET
4 9 (37.50%) Java
4 9 (37.50%) Windows
4 9 (37.50%) SharePoint
4 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 7 (29.17%) HTML
5 7 (29.17%) Photoshop
6 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (25.00%) Oracle
6 6 (25.00%) DB2
6 6 (25.00%) CSS3
7 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone
7 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 7
7 5 (20.83%) Android
7 5 (20.83%) SAP Portal
7 5 (20.83%) Silverlight
7 5 (20.83%) Java EE 5
7 5 (20.83%) XML
7 5 (20.83%) OO
7 5 (20.83%) OOD
7 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
7 5 (20.83%) Sybase
7 5 (20.83%) J2EE
7 5 (20.83%) EJB
7 5 (20.83%) SAP
7 5 (20.83%) C#

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 14 (58.33%) CSS
1 14 (58.33%) HTML5
2 13 (54.17%) jQuery
3 10 (41.67%) .NET
4 7 (29.17%) HTML
5 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (25.00%) CSS3
6 5 (20.83%) Silverlight
6 5 (20.83%) Java EE 5
6 5 (20.83%) XML
6 5 (20.83%) J2EE
6 5 (20.83%) EJB
6 5 (20.83%) Web Dynpro
7 2 (8.333%) Ajax
7 2 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) SAP Portal
2 5 (20.83%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 2 (8.333%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (4.167%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (4.167%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) LAN
1 4 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) DB2
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Xcode
2 2 (8.333%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (4.167%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (4.167%) ERwin
General
1 4 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (4.167%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.167%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Blackberry
2 4 (16.67%) Clustering
3 2 (8.333%) RIA
3 2 (8.333%) Psychology
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 7
2 5 (20.83%) Android
3 4 (16.67%) Solaris
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) OO
1 5 (20.83%) OOD
1 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
1 5 (20.83%) Scrum
2 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (16.67%) Network Design
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (8.333%) Web Development
4 2 (8.333%) Usability Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Use Case
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (4.167%) Product Management
5 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) C++
4 4 (16.67%) VB
5 1 (4.167%) ABAP
5 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) Sybase
3 5 (20.83%) SAP
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Sun
4 4 (16.67%) Citrix
4 4 (16.67%) IBM
5 1 (4.167%) Adobe
5 1 (4.167%) Teradata