The first table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT jobs advertised for the Epsom region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Author in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Epsom region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Author
Rank 25 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Author 1 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Epsom 1.370% 2.051% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.370% 2.051% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £31,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -8.82%
All Job Titles
Epsom
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
73 195 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Epsom 100.00% 100.00% 98.41%
Number of salaries quoted 68 182 48
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £60,000 £87,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Author
Surrey

Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Epsom Author Jobs Demand Trend

Author
Salary Trend

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

Epsom Author Salary Trend

Author
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Epsom region that cited Author 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 Author in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RoboHelp
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics

Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Epsom region that cited Author 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 Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) RoboHelp
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
Epsom, South East
As a Technical Author you will help to create and improve user documentation that accompanies their extremely complex software products; to include writing a wide range of technical...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Epsom, Surrey
Technical Author required to join a global financial modelling software company based in Surrey... Experience of writing software help guides, installation guides and tutorials ideally for analytics / modelling...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013