The first table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 22 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 111 106 110
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 43 47 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.348% 1.343% 1.345%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.423% 1.421% 1.422%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 35
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% -14.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £22,500 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3021 3308 3235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.67% 94.51% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1807 2408 2435
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Designer
UK

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Designer Salary Trend

Designer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Designer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow -3 23 £37,500 +2.04%
Edinburgh +2 15 £40,000 -38.46%
Dundee -5 3 - -
Designer
UK

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 26 (26.53%) HTML
2 26 (26.53%) CSS
3 25 (25.51%) Oracle
4 19 (19.39%) Agile Software Development
5 18 (18.37%) Finance
5 18 (18.37%) Java
6 17 (17.35%) Banking
7 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
7 15 (15.31%) Marketing
8 14 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 13 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (12.24%) ETL
10 12 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
10 12 (12.24%) PL/SQL
11 11 (11.22%) Data Management
11 11 (11.22%) SQL Server
11 11 (11.22%) jQuery
12 10 (10.20%) Adobe
12 10 (10.20%) RDBMS
13 9 (9.184%) Data Mart
13 9 (9.184%) Photoshop
13 9 (9.184%) Windows
13 9 (9.184%) Degree
13 9 (9.184%) SQL Server 2005
13 9 (9.184%) Investment Management
14 8 (8.163%) UNIX
14 8 (8.163%) Linux
14 8 (8.163%) Scrum

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 26 (26.53%) HTML
1 26 (26.53%) CSS
2 11 (11.22%) jQuery
3 7 (7.143%) Flash
3 7 (7.143%) XML
3 7 (7.143%) .NET
4 6 (6.122%) XHTML
4 6 (6.122%) Hibernate
5 5 (5.102%) Ajax
6 4 (4.082%) Web Services
6 4 (4.082%) HTML5
7 3 (3.061%) CSS3
7 3 (3.061%) Spring
7 3 (3.061%) J2EE
8 2 (2.041%) Middleware
8 2 (2.041%) Java EE
9 1 (1.020%) soapUI
9 1 (1.020%) Apache CXF
9 1 (1.020%) JRuby
9 1 (1.020%) Java EE 5
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.082%) Tomcat
1 4 (4.082%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.020%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (1.020%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.020%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.020%) SAP Portal
2 1 (1.020%) WordPress
2 1 (1.020%) Mule
2 1 (1.020%) GlassFish
2 1 (1.020%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.020%) ESB
2 1 (1.020%) CMS
2 1 (1.020%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.020%) SAS
2 1 (1.020%) Apache
2 1 (1.020%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (9.184%) Photoshop
2 6 (6.122%) Fireworks
3 3 (3.061%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (3.061%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.041%) InDesign
5 1 (1.020%) MS Excel
5 1 (1.020%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.061%) Internet
2 2 (2.041%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.20%) RDBMS
4 9 (9.184%) Data Mart
4 9 (9.184%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (4.082%) DTS
6 2 (2.041%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.020%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.020%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.020%) MS Access
7 1 (1.020%) OLTP
7 1 (1.020%) MySQL
7 1 (1.020%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (4.082%) Balsamiq Mockups
1 4 (4.082%) Axure RP
2 3 (3.061%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.020%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (1.020%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.020%) Dreamweaver
General
1 18 (18.37%) Finance
2 17 (17.35%) Banking
3 15 (15.31%) Marketing
4 7 (7.143%) Publishing
5 4 (4.082%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.082%) Retail
5 4 (4.082%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.041%) Games
7 1 (1.020%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.102%) Data Integration
2 4 (4.082%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.082%) Graphic Design
2 4 (4.082%) Photography
3 2 (2.041%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.041%) Mobile Games
3 2 (2.041%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.041%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.041%) Open Source
3 2 (2.041%) Social Gaming
4 1 (1.020%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.020%) Social Media
4 1 (1.020%) iPhone
4 1 (1.020%) IPTV
4 1 (1.020%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.020%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.020%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.020%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.020%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.184%) Windows
2 8 (8.163%) UNIX
2 8 (8.163%) Linux
3 4 (4.082%) Windows Mobile
4 2 (2.041%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.020%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.020%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.020%) AIX
5 1 (1.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.39%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 13 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (12.24%) ETL
5 11 (11.22%) Data Management
6 9 (9.184%) Investment Management
7 8 (8.163%) Scrum
8 7 (7.143%) Web Design
9 6 (6.122%) TDD
9 6 (6.122%) Web Application Development
9 6 (6.122%) Master Data Management
10 5 (5.102%) Metadata Management
10 5 (5.102%) User Experience Design
11 4 (4.082%) BCP
11 4 (4.082%) Migration
11 4 (4.082%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (4.082%) Email Marketing
11 4 (4.082%) Technical Architecture
11 4 (4.082%) Kanban
11 4 (4.082%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 18 (18.37%) Java
3 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.24%) PL/SQL
5 6 (6.122%) PHP
6 5 (5.102%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.102%) Python
7 4 (4.082%) Ruby
8 1 (1.020%) Groovy
8 1 (1.020%) Jython
8 1 (1.020%) VB6
8 1 (1.020%) VB
8 1 (1.020%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (9.184%) Degree
2 1 (1.020%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.020%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.020%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.082%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.061%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.041%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) Oracle
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) Adobe
4 4 (4.082%) JBoss
4 4 (4.082%) VMware
4 4 (4.082%) Cadis
5 3 (3.061%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.041%) Veritas
6 2 (2.041%) IBM
6 2 (2.041%) Eloqua
6 2 (2.041%) Facebook
7 1 (1.020%) Pega
7 1 (1.020%) EPiServer
7 1 (1.020%) Teradata
7 1 (1.020%) Casewise
7 1 (1.020%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.020%) Apple
7 1 (1.020%) Informatica
7 1 (1.020%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.020%) SAP
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