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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Designer
Rank 32 33 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 3 14 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 2.041% 7.000% 0.500%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.190% 7.179% 0.613%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 1
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% +38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -
All Job Titles
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
137 195 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 93.20% 97.50% 81.50%
Number of salaries quoted 49 177 157
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £50,000 £58,300
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Designer
Hertfordshire

Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Designer Salary Trend

Designer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Designer across the Stevenage region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Stevenage Designer Salary Histogram

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Multimedia
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (66.67%) Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) SEO
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Internet

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) RSpec
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA