The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adobe
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank230211204
Rank change year-on-year
Down-19Down-7
Matching permanent IT job ads134613891023
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.111 %1.138 %1.074 %
As % of the Vendors category2.332 %2.426 %2.420 %
Number of salaries quoted11971215879
Average salary£35,000£35,000£33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+4.47 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£22,500£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£31,000£27,500
% change year-on-year
+4.83 %+12.72 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
577175724842267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.62 %46.92 %44.39 %
Number of salaries quoted486384748333833
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Adobe
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Adobe within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Adobe Demand Trend

Adobe
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Adobe within the UK.

Adobe Salary Trend

Adobe
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Adobe over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Adobe Salary Histogram

Adobe
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-121312£35,000-
LondonDown-19640£38,250-1.92 %
South EastDown-28254£34,000+4.61 %
City of LondonUp+36141£37,500-
East of EnglandDown-2122£34,000+7.93 %
North WestUp+1496£30,000-
BerkshireDown-1268£32,500-7.14 %
South WestUp+565£26,000-23.52 %
SurreyDown-2862£35,000-12.50 %
East MidlandsUp+1659£27,000-6.89 %
West MidlandsUp+449£29,500-13.23 %
CheshireUp+347£29,500-1.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+1643£34,000+7.93 %
BedfordshireUp+1838£30,000-14.28 %
LeicestershireUp+1035£27,000+13.68 %
ManchesterUp+1133£33,000+10.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2032£34,000+9.67 %
HertfordshireUp+1730£39,250+30.83 %
ReadingDown-530£32,500-7.14 %
CambridgeUp+726£34,000+19.29 %
GloucestershireDown-325£28,000-20.00 %
West SussexUp+924£34,000+23.63 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+1921£35,000-26.31 %
LutonDown-521£28,000-20.00 %
LeicesterUp+620£27,000-3.57 %
HampshireDown-3919£40,000+11.11 %
YorkshireDown-4819£22,500-16.66 %
MacclesfieldUp+1518£30,000-
BirminghamDown-417£27,000-1.81 %
OxfordshireUp+516£35,750+19.16 %

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Adobe 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 Adobe.

11343 (51.52 %)CSS
21324 (50.79 %)HTML
31109 (42.54 %)Photoshop
4993 (38.09 %)JavaScript
5819 (31.42 %)Flash
6668 (25.62 %)Adobe Illustrator
7529 (20.29 %)Marketing
8527 (20.21 %)jQuery
9517 (19.83 %)XML
10422 (16.19 %)Microsoft
11415 (15.92 %)Degree
12377 (14.46 %)PHP
13374 (14.35 %)XHTML
14372 (14.27 %).NET
14372 (14.27 %)HTML5
15368 (14.12 %)Dreamweaver
16340 (13.04 %)Ajax
17332 (12.73 %)ActionScript
18321 (12.31 %)Windows
19317 (12.16 %)Finance
20304 (11.66 %)Java
21290 (11.12 %)CMS
21290 (11.12 %)Apache Flex
22288 (11.05 %)ASP.NET
23286 (10.97 %)Web Design
24279 (10.70 %)Web Development
25272 (10.43 %)SQL Server
26270 (10.36 %)E-Commerce
27263 (10.09 %)Content Management
28261 (10.01 %)MS Office

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Adobe 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 Adobe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11343 (51.52 %)CSS
21324 (50.79 %)HTML
3819 (31.42 %)Flash
4527 (20.21 %)jQuery
5517 (19.83 %)XML
6374 (14.35 %)XHTML
7372 (14.27 %).NET
7372 (14.27 %)HTML5
8340 (13.04 %)Ajax
9290 (11.12 %)Apache Flex
10288 (11.05 %)ASP.NET
11212 (8.132 %)CSS3
12147 (5.639 %)Web Services
13142 (5.447 %)XSLT
14105 (4.028 %)JSP
1585 (3.260 %)Spring
1681 (3.107 %)JSON
1772 (2.762 %)J2EE
1871 (2.723 %).NET Framework
1969 (2.647 %)XSL
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1290 (11.12 %)CMS
2114 (4.373 %)Adobe CQ
398 (3.759 %)Apache
492 (3.529 %)WordPress
567 (2.570 %)IIS
663 (2.417 %)SharePoint
733 (1.266 %)Lotus Notes
830 (1.151 %)Joomla!
928 (1.074 %)MS Exchange
1027 (1.036 %)Tomcat
1124 (0.921 %)LiveCycle
1222 (0.844 %)ColdFusion
1320 (0.767 %)Drupal
1419 (0.729 %)WebLogic
1517 (0.652 %)FileNet
1615 (0.575 %)Magento
1615 (0.575 %)ExpressionEngine
1714 (0.537 %)Sitecore CMS
1813 (0.499 %)Umbraco
1813 (0.499 %)SharePoint 2010
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11109 (42.54 %)Photoshop
2668 (25.62 %)Adobe Illustrator
3261 (10.01 %)MS Office
4254 (9.743 %)Fireworks
5252 (9.666 %)InDesign
6209 (8.017 %)MS Visio
7200 (7.672 %)MS Excel
8144 (5.524 %)Acrobat
992 (3.529 %)FrameMaker
1072 (2.762 %)Adobe After Effects
1165 (2.493 %)RoboHelp
1264 (2.455 %)MS PowerPoint
1352 (1.995 %)Adobe Captivate
1430 (1.151 %)Adobe Premiere
1529 (1.112 %)OmniGraffle
1529 (1.112 %)MS Project
1624 (0.921 %)Final Cut Pro
1720 (0.767 %)3ds Max
1815 (0.575 %)QuarkXPress
1815 (0.575 %)FreeHand
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
172 (2.762 %)Google Analytics
230 (1.151 %)Oracle BPM
321 (0.806 %)SiteCatalyst
419 (0.729 %)WebTrends
59 (0.345 %)Pivotal CRM
65 (0.192 %)Dynamics CRM
74 (0.153 %)BusinessWorks
74 (0.153 %)RMDS
74 (0.153 %)SAP Oil and Gas
83 (0.115 %)Remedy ITSM
83 (0.115 %)Exstream
83 (0.115 %)Tridion
83 (0.115 %)SAP R/3
92 (0.077 %)Summit
92 (0.077 %)SAP HR
92 (0.077 %)Changepoint
101 (0.038 %)Line 50
101 (0.038 %)GoldMine
101 (0.038 %)SAP FI
101 (0.038 %)Maximo
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1150 (5.754 %)Internet
251 (1.956 %)Intranet
344 (1.688 %)HTTP
435 (1.343 %)TCP/IP
532 (1.227 %)VPN
624 (0.921 %)Wireless
721 (0.806 %)Firewall
820 (0.767 %)Broadband
919 (0.729 %)DNS
919 (0.729 %)FTP
1010 (0.384 %)DHCP
1010 (0.384 %)RIP
119 (0.345 %)Extranet
126 (0.230 %)SMTP
126 (0.230 %)SAN
126 (0.230 %)SSL
126 (0.230 %)Cisco ASA
135 (0.192 %)LAN
135 (0.192 %)SMS
144 (0.153 %)WAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1272 (10.43 %)SQL Server
2246 (9.436 %)MySQL
383 (3.184 %)SQL Server 2008
430 (1.151 %)SQL Server 2005
520 (0.767 %)GIS
614 (0.537 %)SQL Server 2000
614 (0.537 %)SQL Server Integration Services
711 (0.422 %)DTS
89 (0.345 %)RDBMS
98 (0.307 %)Crystal Reports
107 (0.269 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
107 (0.269 %)MS Access
114 (0.153 %)NoSQL
114 (0.153 %)OLAP
114 (0.153 %)FileMaker
114 (0.153 %)BusinessObjects
123 (0.115 %)SQLite
123 (0.115 %)SAP BW
123 (0.115 %)Data Warehouse
123 (0.115 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1368 (14.12 %)Dreamweaver
2106 (4.066 %)Visual Studio
375 (2.877 %)Axure RP
458 (2.225 %)Subversion
547 (1.803 %)Maven
639 (1.496 %)Flash Builder
736 (1.381 %)Eclipse
833 (1.266 %)NUnit
833 (1.266 %)Team Foundation Server
931 (1.189 %)Selenium
1030 (1.151 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1128 (1.074 %)ClearCase
1225 (0.959 %)Expression Blend
1225 (0.959 %)Ant
1324 (0.921 %)JIRA
1421 (0.806 %)Git (software)
1515 (0.575 %)Cucumber
1515 (0.575 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1614 (0.537 %)JUnit
1712 (0.460 %)PhoneGap
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1529 (20.29 %)Marketing
2317 (12.16 %)Finance
3184 (7.058 %)Retail
4153 (5.869 %)Advertising
5151 (5.792 %)Games
699 (3.797 %)Banking
797 (3.721 %)Multimedia
878 (2.992 %)Publishing
964 (2.455 %)Telecoms
1047 (1.803 %)Investment Banking
1127 (1.036 %)Legal
1222 (0.844 %)Manufacturing
1317 (0.652 %)Spanish Language
1416 (0.614 %)Music
1515 (0.575 %)Law
1613 (0.499 %)Online Betting
1712 (0.460 %)Financial Institution
1712 (0.460 %)Back Office
1811 (0.422 %)Arabic Language
1811 (0.422 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1960 (36.82 %)Developer
2867 (33.26 %)Designer
3448 (17.18 %)Web Designer
4344 (13.20 %)Web Developer
5180 (6.904 %)Front-End Developer
6142 (5.447 %)Analyst
7137 (5.255 %)Author
8133 (5.102 %)Technical Author
9111 (4.258 %)Senior Designer
10102 (3.913 %)Junior
11101 (3.874 %)Architect
1298 (3.759 %).NET Developer
1397 (3.721 %)Senior Developer
1496 (3.682 %)User Experience Designer
1496 (3.682 %)PHP Developer
1577 (2.954 %)Graphic Designer
1676 (2.915 %)Consultant
1775 (2.877 %)Flex Developer
1874 (2.839 %)Digital Designer
1971 (2.723 %)Flash Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1170 (6.521 %)Graphic Design
2151 (5.792 %)Social Media
3119 (4.565 %)W3C
4106 (4.066 %)iPhone
595 (3.644 %)Digital Media
693 (3.567 %)Computer Science
786 (3.299 %)Animation
873 (2.800 %)iPad
970 (2.685 %)E-Learning
1055 (2.110 %)Blackberry
1154 (2.071 %)RIA
1249 (1.880 %)Copywriting
1348 (1.841 %)Photography
1444 (1.688 %)New Media
1540 (1.534 %)Management Information System
1639 (1.496 %)Video Editing
1736 (1.381 %)Mathematics
1834 (1.304 %)Derivative
1834 (1.304 %)Open Source
1930 (1.151 %)Flash Games
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1321 (12.31 %)Windows
2138 (5.293 %)Android
3120 (4.603 %)Linux
4112 (4.296 %)Apple iOS
588 (3.376 %)Windows XP
667 (2.570 %)Windows 7
763 (2.417 %)Mac OS X
763 (2.417 %)UNIX
835 (1.343 %)Windows Server 2003
925 (0.959 %)Windows Server 2008
1018 (0.690 %)Windows Vista
1116 (0.614 %)Mac OS
1211 (0.422 %)Oracle Linux
137 (0.269 %)Windows 2000
145 (0.192 %)Mac OS X Server
154 (0.153 %)Windows 2000 Server
163 (0.115 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
172 (0.077 %)Solaris
172 (0.077 %)Ubuntu
181 (0.038 %)CentOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1286 (10.97 %)Web Design
2279 (10.70 %)Web Development
3270 (10.36 %)E-Commerce
4263 (10.09 %)Content Management
5231 (8.861 %)Agile Software Development
6230 (8.822 %)SEO
7183 (7.020 %)OO
8173 (6.636 %)MVC
9129 (4.948 %)Scrum
10105 (4.028 %)Time Management
1197 (3.721 %)Digital Marketing
1292 (3.529 %)ITIL
1391 (3.491 %)OOP
1488 (3.376 %)Project Management
1577 (2.954 %)UML
1673 (2.800 %)Information Architecture
1765 (2.493 %)Incident Management
1860 (2.301 %)TDD
1954 (2.071 %)User Experience Design
2053 (2.033 %)Web Analytics
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1993 (38.09 %)JavaScript
2377 (14.46 %)PHP
3332 (12.73 %)ActionScript
4304 (11.66 %)Java
5219 (8.400 %)SQL
6206 (7.902 %)C#
7185 (7.096 %)ActionScript 3.0
878 (2.992 %)ActionScript 2.0
959 (2.263 %)VB.NET
1052 (1.995 %)Objective-C
1143 (1.649 %)Python
1239 (1.496 %)Perl
1239 (1.496 %)PHP5
1335 (1.343 %)Ruby
1432 (1.227 %)C
1531 (1.189 %)C++
1628 (1.074 %)XAML
1725 (0.959 %)VB
1819 (0.729 %)ABAP
1916 (0.614 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1415 (15.92 %)Degree
270 (2.685 %)Microsoft Certification
347 (1.803 %)MCP
443 (1.649 %)Security Cleared
521 (0.806 %)SC Cleared
619 (0.729 %)Cisco Certification
717 (0.652 %)MCSE
815 (0.575 %)ISEB
913 (0.499 %)CCNA
1011 (0.422 %)ACSP
1110 (0.384 %)HND
129 (0.345 %)PMI Certification
138 (0.307 %)MCSA
138 (0.307 %)MCAD
138 (0.307 %)MCSD
138 (0.307 %)ITIL Certification
138 (0.307 %)ECDL
138 (0.307 %)MOS
138 (0.307 %)MCTS
147 (0.269 %)MCDST
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1123 (4.718 %)QA
231 (1.189 %)SLA
319 (0.729 %)WCAG
319 (0.729 %)ISO 9001
418 (0.690 %)WAI
56 (0.230 %)ISO/IEC 27001
64 (0.153 %)PCI DSS
73 (0.115 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
82 (0.077 %)Data Quality
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
183 (3.184 %)Active Directory
226 (0.997 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (0.230 %)vSphere
36 (0.230 %)Hyper-V
44 (0.153 %)VMware ESX
53 (0.115 %)XenApp
53 (0.115 %)VMware ESXi
62 (0.077 %)Novell eDirectory
62 (0.077 %)VMware Server
71 (0.038 %)XenServer
71 (0.038 %)Veritas Cluster Server
71 (0.038 %)Nmap
71 (0.038 %)Terminal Server
71 (0.038 %)MetaFrame
71 (0.038 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (0.384 %)SCCM
24 (0.153 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
24 (0.153 %)WSUS
24 (0.153 %)HP Quality Center
33 (0.115 %)MOM
33 (0.115 %)Backup Exec
42 (0.077 %)ServiceCenter
51 (0.038 %)DameWare
51 (0.038 %)AppDNA
51 (0.038 %)Puppet
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1422 (16.19 %)Microsoft
2165 (6.329 %)Google
3119 (4.565 %)Oracle
4107 (4.104 %)Apple
560 (2.301 %)Facebook
646 (1.764 %)IBM
745 (1.726 %)Pega
842 (1.611 %)JBoss
939 (1.496 %)Omniture
1038 (1.458 %)Quark
1135 (1.343 %)VMware
1233 (1.266 %)Symantec
1233 (1.266 %)Cisco
1233 (1.266 %)Lotus
1331 (1.189 %)SAP
1331 (1.189 %)Citrix
1430 (1.151 %)McAfee
1529 (1.112 %)Metastorm
1627 (1.036 %)Zend
1726 (0.997 %)Twitter