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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 65 57 50
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 5 12 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.839% 2.048% 1.757%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.853% 2.098% 1.855%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 4
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £27,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +46.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,800 £23,050
10% offered a salary of more than £34,250 £40,000 £33,200
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
586 572 539
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 98.32% 97.61% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 498 490 431
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £18,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £62,500 £55,000
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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Designer Salary Trend

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 Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent +5 4 £32,500 -18.75%
Designer
West Midlands

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 22 (64.71%) HTML
1 22 (64.71%) CSS
2 21 (61.76%) Photoshop
3 16 (47.06%) JavaScript
4 15 (44.12%) HTML5
5 11 (32.35%) Marketing
5 11 (32.35%) SAP
6 10 (29.41%) Web Services
6 10 (29.41%) Adobe
7 9 (26.47%) Dreamweaver
7 9 (26.47%) Flash
8 8 (23.53%) SAP PP
8 8 (23.53%) jQuery
9 7 (20.59%) WordPress
9 7 (20.59%) Flash Builder
9 7 (20.59%) Graphic Design
9 7 (20.59%) OOD
9 7 (20.59%) XHTML
9 7 (20.59%) OO
9 7 (20.59%) ActionScript
9 7 (20.59%) ActionScript 3.0
9 7 (20.59%) CSS3
10 6 (17.65%) Joomla!
10 6 (17.65%) Retail
10 6 (17.65%) Content Management
11 5 (14.71%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (14.71%) Finance
11 5 (14.71%) QA
11 5 (14.71%) Email Marketing
11 5 (14.71%) SAP MM

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 22 (64.71%) HTML
1 22 (64.71%) CSS
2 15 (44.12%) HTML5
3 10 (29.41%) Web Services
4 9 (26.47%) Flash
5 8 (23.53%) jQuery
6 7 (20.59%) XHTML
6 7 (20.59%) CSS3
7 4 (11.76%) BREW
8 1 (2.941%) XML
8 1 (2.941%) .NET
8 1 (2.941%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) WordPress
2 6 (17.65%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.941%) CMS
3 1 (2.941%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (61.76%) Photoshop
2 5 (14.71%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) SAP PP
2 5 (14.71%) SAP MM
3 3 (8.824%) SAP SD
4 2 (5.882%) SAP APO
4 2 (5.882%) SAP SCM
4 2 (5.882%) SAP QM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.941%) SAN
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (20.59%) Flash Builder
General
1 11 (32.35%) Marketing
2 6 (17.65%) Retail
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.941%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.941%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.941%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) OOD
1 7 (20.59%) OO
2 6 (17.65%) Content Management
3 5 (14.71%) Email Marketing
4 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.76%) Change Management
4 4 (11.76%) Online Marketing
5 3 (8.824%) Web Design
5 3 (8.824%) Logistics
5 3 (8.824%) Web Development
5 3 (8.824%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.941%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.941%) E-business
6 1 (2.941%) MVC
6 1 (2.941%) Project Management
6 1 (2.941%) ITIL
6 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 7 (20.59%) ActionScript
2 7 (20.59%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (2.941%) PHP
3 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.941%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) SAP
2 10 (29.41%) Adobe
3 2 (5.882%) Infor
4 1 (2.941%) VMware
4 1 (2.941%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.941%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.941%) Citrix
4 1 (2.941%) Facebook