The first table below looks at the demand for Acrobat skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Acrobat
Rank 414 424 407
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Acrobat 22 19 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.100% 0.080% 0.062%
As % of the Applications category 0.617% 0.562% 0.382%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 12
Average salary £28,250 £27,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.72% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £27,500 £18,900
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £41,400 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £28,721 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-12.95% -4.26%
All Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
3566 3381 3668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 16.20% 14.23% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2957 2907 3115
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £53,200
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
Acrobat
England

Acrobat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Acrobat Salary Trend

Acrobat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Acrobat across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Acrobat Salary Histogram

Acrobat
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acrobat within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Surrey - 16 £20,500 -
Berkshire +8 6 £47,500 +57.02%
Acrobat
England

Acrobat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 31 (70.45%) Photoshop
2 27 (61.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 26 (59.09%) HTML
3 26 (59.09%) CSS
3 26 (59.09%) Adobe
4 18 (40.91%) Dreamweaver
5 17 (38.64%) Degree
6 16 (36.36%) MS Office
7 15 (34.09%) XHTML
7 15 (34.09%) W3C
8 14 (31.82%) Web Design
8 14 (31.82%) CMS
9 12 (27.27%) JavaScript
9 12 (27.27%) XML
9 12 (27.27%) jQuery
10 11 (25.00%) New Media
10 11 (25.00%) Telecoms
10 11 (25.00%) Content Management
11 10 (22.73%) Marketing
11 10 (22.73%) Time Management
12 9 (20.45%) XMetaL
12 9 (20.45%) MS Excel
13 8 (18.18%) InDesign
14 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
14 7 (15.91%) ImageReady
14 7 (15.91%) Fireworks
14 7 (15.91%) Intranet
14 7 (15.91%) Open Source
15 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
15 6 (13.64%) Benchmarking

Acrobat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 26 (59.09%) HTML
1 26 (59.09%) CSS
2 15 (34.09%) XHTML
3 12 (27.27%) XML
3 12 (27.27%) jQuery
4 5 (11.36%) HTML5
4 5 (11.36%) CSS3
4 5 (11.36%) Ajax
4 5 (11.36%) Flash
4 5 (11.36%) JSP
5 4 (9.091%) LAMP
6 1 (2.273%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 14 (31.82%) CMS
2 4 (9.091%) Drupal
3 1 (2.273%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (70.45%) Photoshop
2 27 (61.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 16 (36.36%) MS Office
4 9 (20.45%) MS Excel
4 9 (20.45%) XMetaL
5 8 (18.18%) InDesign
6 7 (15.91%) Fireworks
6 7 (15.91%) ImageReady
7 5 (11.36%) QuarkXPress
8 4 (9.091%) Google Apps
9 2 (4.545%) RoboHelp
9 2 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) Intranet
2 4 (9.091%) Internet
2 4 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.273%) Wireless
3 1 (2.273%) LAN
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Dreamweaver
General
1 11 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (22.73%) Marketing
3 6 (13.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Administrator
2 13 (29.55%) Web Administrator
3 12 (27.27%) Developer
3 12 (27.27%) Front-End Developer
4 11 (25.00%) Designer
5 10 (22.73%) Web Designer
6 9 (20.45%) Author
6 9 (20.45%) Technical Author
7 5 (11.36%) Web Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Photoshop Designer
7 5 (11.36%) Front-End Web Developer
8 4 (9.091%) Technical Writer
8 4 (9.091%) Analyst
9 3 (6.818%) Junior
9 3 (6.818%) Web Content Administrator
10 2 (4.545%) IT Support
10 2 (4.545%) Documentation Analyst
10 2 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (4.545%) Support Analyst
11 1 (2.273%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) W3C
2 11 (25.00%) New Media
3 7 (15.91%) Open Source
4 6 (13.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.545%) Mathematics
6 1 (2.273%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.273%) Statistics
6 1 (2.273%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.273%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.273%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.091%) Windows
1 4 (9.091%) Linux
1 4 (9.091%) Android
1 4 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.273%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Web Design
2 11 (25.00%) Content Management
3 10 (22.73%) Time Management
4 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
5 6 (13.64%) Benchmarking
5 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (11.36%) Web Development
7 3 (6.818%) Web Marketing
8 2 (4.545%) Validation
9 1 (2.273%) Performance Management
9 1 (2.273%) Project Management
9 1 (2.273%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Degree
2 1 (2.273%) MCP
2 1 (2.273%) MCSA
2 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.273%) WCAG
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) Adobe
2 4 (9.091%) Quark
2 4 (9.091%) Google
3 2 (4.545%) Microsoft