Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Designer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 19 March 2010 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

 Designer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank118122124
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+2
Matching permanent IT job ads156314603308
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.819 %1.721 %1.621 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.952 %1.837 %1.717 %
Salaries quoted121611682711
Average salary£32,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,962£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.690 %-
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
8006179487192657
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.18 %93.72 %94.40 %
Salaries quoted6618965376157185
Average salary£41,500£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.790 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-

Designer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Designer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Designer Demand Trend

Designer
Salary Trend

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

Designer Salary Trend

Designer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Designer over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

Designer Salary Histogram

Designer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
EnglandNo change01450£32,500-4.41 %
LondonDown-26534£40,000+14.28 %
South EastDown-2333£31,500-3.07 %
North WestUp+36141£32,000+28.00 %
East of EnglandUp+9140£27,750-38.33 %
YorkshireUp+82119£28,500+21.27 %
City of LondonDown-30119£43,250+8.12 %
BerkshireNo change0100£32,500-7.14 %
West MidlandsUp+2887£24,000-36.84 %
ManchesterUp+2065£30,000+30.43 %
HampshireUp+3462£31,000+3.33 %
West YorkshireUp+5759£27,000+20.00 %
SuffolkUp+3155£47,500+29.25 %
South WestUp+355£32,500+16.07 %
IpswichUp+2254£47,500+5.55 %
LeedsUp+6152£26,500+23.25 %
SurreyUp+1351£32,500-7.14 %
ScotlandDown-2150£32,500-25.28 %
CheshireUp+3945£38,000+49.01 %
East MidlandsDown-1445£27,500-15.38 %
HertfordshireDown-2941£37,500-25.00 %
BirminghamUp+2938£22,500-57.14 %
South YorkshireUp+3736£30,500+22.00 %
SheffieldUp+3135£30,250+21.00 %
WalesUp+2334£26,000-11.86 %
South WalesUp+2431£26,000-11.86 %
OxfordshireUp+930£32,500+20.37 %
CardiffUp+1024£26,250-11.01 %
SouthamptonUp+1123£29,500+5.35 %
BristolUp+1522£37,500+15.38 %

Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11363 (43.48 %)CSS
21253 (39.97 %)Photoshop
31239 (39.52 %)HTML
41150 (36.68 %)Flash
5844 (26.92 %)JavaScript
6726 (23.16 %)Adobe Illustrator
7627 (20.00 %)XHTML
8538 (17.16 %)Adobe
9497 (15.85 %)Web Design
10464 (14.80 %)Marketing
11402 (12.82 %)Dreamweaver
12350 (11.16 %)E-Commerce
13344 (10.97 %).NET
14319 (10.18 %)XML
15316 (10.08 %)Finance
16302 (9.633 %)ActionScript
17287 (9.155 %)Fireworks
18265 (8.453 %)Java
19239 (7.624 %)AJAX
20237 (7.560 %)Microsoft
21236 (7.528 %)Web Development
22230 (7.337 %)PHP
23229 (7.305 %)Internet
24228 (7.273 %)Oracle
25221 (7.049 %)SEO
26211 (6.730 %)Windows
27209 (6.667 %)Degree
28207 (6.603 %)Graphic Design
29200 (6.380 %)W3C
30197 (6.284 %)ASP.NET

Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11363 (43.48 %)CSS
21239 (39.52 %)HTML
31150 (36.68 %)Flash
4627 (20.00 %)XHTML
5344 (10.97 %).NET
6319 (10.18 %)XML
7239 (7.624 %)AJAX
8197 (6.284 %)ASP.NET
9164 (5.231 %)jQuery
10130 (4.147 %)J2EE
11121 (3.860 %)Adobe Flex
12115 (3.668 %)Spring
13106 (3.381 %)Silverlight
1491 (2.903 %)JSP
1590 (2.871 %)ASP
1676 (2.424 %)Web Services
1774 (2.360 %)XSLT
1865 (2.073 %)WebSphere
1964 (2.041 %)Hibernate
1964 (2.041 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1178 (5.678 %)CMS
2106 (3.381 %)SharePoint
373 (2.329 %)IIS
461 (1.946 %)SharePoint Server 2007
547 (1.499 %)WebLogic
646 (1.467 %)Apache
721 (0.670 %)ESB
820 (0.638 %)WebSphere Application Server
917 (0.542 %)MS Exchange
917 (0.542 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1013 (0.415 %)Drupal
1013 (0.415 %)ColdFusion
1013 (0.415 %)WebSphere Process Server
1112 (0.383 %)WebLogic Portal
1112 (0.383 %)Lotus Notes
1211 (0.351 %)Tomcat
1211 (0.351 %)Documentum
1310 (0.319 %)BizTalk Server
148 (0.255 %)Oracle Workflow
157 (0.223 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11253 (39.97 %)Photoshop
2726 (23.16 %)Adobe Illustrator
3287 (9.155 %)Fireworks
4141 (4.498 %)MS Visio
570 (2.233 %)InDesign
668 (2.169 %)MS Excel
740 (1.276 %)MS Office
834 (1.085 %)Acrobat
922 (0.702 %)QuarkXPress
922 (0.702 %)3ds Max
1020 (0.638 %)ImageReady
1117 (0.542 %)Adobe After Effects
1212 (0.383 %)MS PowerPoint
139 (0.287 %)ZBrush
148 (0.255 %)FreeHand
157 (0.223 %)MS Project
165 (0.159 %)Adobe Premiere
173 (0.096 %)MATLAB
173 (0.096 %)Maya
182 (0.064 %)AutoCAD
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (0.542 %)Siebel Analytics
213 (0.415 %)Singl.eView
312 (0.383 %)Oracle BPM
411 (0.351 %)Google Analytics
57 (0.223 %)Summit
66 (0.191 %)Dynamics CRM
75 (0.159 %)BusinessWorks
84 (0.128 %)Oracle Applications
84 (0.128 %)Bond Adapt
84 (0.128 %)TIBCO iProcess
93 (0.096 %)WebTrends
93 (0.096 %)Endur
93 (0.096 %)BusinessWare
93 (0.096 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
102 (0.064 %)Oracle EBS
102 (0.064 %)Pivotal CRM
111 (0.032 %)Oracle ERP
111 (0.032 %)SAP Payroll
111 (0.032 %)SAP FI/CO
111 (0.032 %)SAP CO
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1229 (7.305 %)Internet
277 (2.456 %)Firewall
336 (1.148 %)WAN
431 (0.989 %)Intranet
528 (0.893 %)Network Security
627 (0.861 %)IPsec
725 (0.797 %)Broadband
824 (0.766 %)TCP/IP
918 (0.574 %)LAN
918 (0.574 %)BSS
1014 (0.447 %)SAN
1112 (0.383 %)VPN
1112 (0.383 %)Wireless
1211 (0.351 %)NAS
1211 (0.351 %)Ethernet
1211 (0.351 %)CTI
1211 (0.351 %)BGP
1310 (0.319 %)DMZ
1310 (0.319 %)FTP
1310 (0.319 %)DNS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1164 (5.231 %)SQL Server
2115 (3.668 %)MySQL
376 (2.424 %)Datawarehouse
451 (1.627 %)Oracle 10g
545 (1.435 %)SQL Server 2005
641 (1.308 %)ETL
738 (1.212 %)Oracle Reports
830 (0.957 %)Oracle 11g
929 (0.925 %)Oracle BI EE
1028 (0.893 %)SQL Server 2000
1124 (0.766 %)SQL Server 2008
1221 (0.670 %)RDBMS
1320 (0.638 %)OLAP
1416 (0.510 %)DataStage
1515 (0.478 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1614 (0.447 %)Oracle 9i
1711 (0.351 %)DB2
1711 (0.351 %)BusinessObjects
1711 (0.351 %)EDRMS
1810 (0.319 %)dBASE
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1402 (12.82 %)Dreamweaver
262 (1.978 %)Visual Studio
344 (1.404 %)JUnit
443 (1.372 %)Ant
529 (0.925 %)ClearCase
628 (0.893 %)Eclipse
726 (0.829 %)Expression Blend
819 (0.606 %)Maven
819 (0.606 %)VSS/SourceSafe
918 (0.574 %)Subversion
1012 (0.383 %)Mercurial
1111 (0.351 %)PowerDesigner
1111 (0.351 %)ERwin
128 (0.255 %)Expression Studio
136 (0.191 %)Oracle Forms
144 (0.128 %)Rational Rose
144 (0.128 %)Expression Web
153 (0.096 %)JIRA
153 (0.096 %)Selenium
153 (0.096 %)QuickTest Pro
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1464 (14.80 %)Marketing
2316 (10.08 %)Finance
3207 (6.603 %)Graphic Design
4131 (4.179 %)Games
5121 (3.860 %)Multimedia
6113 (3.604 %)Pensions
7107 (3.413 %)Retail
8102 (3.254 %)Animation
997 (3.094 %)Advertising
1096 (3.062 %)Health
1192 (2.935 %)Banking
1275 (2.392 %)Telecoms
1360 (1.914 %)Education
1445 (1.435 %)Publishing
1540 (1.276 %)Insurance
1637 (1.180 %)Government
1637 (1.180 %)Front Office
1735 (1.116 %)Billing
1735 (1.116 %)Social Media
1832 (1.021 %)3D Graphics
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1200 (6.380 %)W3C
285 (2.711 %)Web 2.0
371 (2.265 %)Cloud Computing
462 (1.978 %)RIA
555 (1.754 %)E-Learning
649 (1.563 %)Computer Science
742 (1.340 %)Social Network
830 (0.957 %)Derivative
927 (0.861 %)Open Source
1023 (0.734 %)Multithreading
1023 (0.734 %)Photography
1118 (0.574 %)iPhone
1217 (0.542 %)SaaS
1316 (0.510 %)N-Tier
1415 (0.478 %)Mainframe
1415 (0.478 %)Blog
1514 (0.447 %)Management Information System
1613 (0.415 %)PKI
1712 (0.383 %)Client/Server
1810 (0.319 %)Fixed Income
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1211 (6.730 %)Windows
2124 (3.955 %)Linux
3102 (3.254 %)UNIX
454 (1.722 %)Windows Server 2003
550 (1.595 %)Windows Server 2008
644 (1.404 %)Windows 2000
743 (1.372 %)Windows NT
819 (0.606 %)Solaris
913 (0.415 %)Android
1011 (0.351 %)Mac OS
117 (0.223 %)zOS
125 (0.159 %)Red Hat Linux
125 (0.159 %)AIX
125 (0.159 %)HPUX
133 (0.096 %)Ubuntu
142 (0.064 %)Windows Vista
142 (0.064 %)Windows XP
151 (0.032 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1497 (15.85 %)Web Design
2350 (11.16 %)E-Commerce
3236 (7.528 %)Web Development
4221 (7.049 %)SEO
5126 (4.019 %)Agile Software Development
6123 (3.923 %)Content Management
7114 (3.636 %)Online Marketing
8113 (3.604 %)Data Modelling
9110 (3.509 %)UML
10106 (3.381 %)SOA
1197 (3.094 %)Information Architecture
1281 (2.584 %)OO
1368 (2.169 %)Project Management
1465 (2.073 %)Business Intelligence
1556 (1.786 %)TDD
1653 (1.691 %)RUP
1752 (1.659 %)Scrum
1845 (1.435 %)CRM
1943 (1.372 %)Problem Management
2042 (1.340 %)Web Accessibility
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1844 (26.92 %)JavaScript
2302 (9.633 %)ActionScript
3265 (8.453 %)Java
4230 (7.337 %)PHP
5196 (6.252 %)SQL
6127 (4.051 %)C#
790 (2.871 %)ActionScript 3.0
888 (2.807 %)ActionScript 2.0
974 (2.360 %)C
1051 (1.627 %)Ruby
1145 (1.435 %)PL/SQL
1243 (1.372 %)Perl
1339 (1.244 %)C++
1426 (0.829 %)VB.NET
1524 (0.766 %)Shell Script
1623 (0.734 %)XAML
1717 (0.542 %)Python
1816 (0.510 %)COBOL
1915 (0.478 %)T-SQL
2013 (0.415 %)VB
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1209 (6.667 %)Degree
2140 (4.466 %)Security Cleared
358 (1.850 %)SC Cleared
436 (1.148 %)DV Cleared
436 (1.148 %)Cisco Certification
527 (0.861 %)Microsoft Certification
623 (0.734 %)CCNP
721 (0.670 %)CCNA
816 (0.510 %)MCSE
915 (0.478 %)CCIE
1010 (0.319 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
118 (0.255 %)CCDP
118 (0.255 %)CISSP
127 (0.223 %)CCSP
127 (0.223 %)MCSD
134 (0.128 %)CCDA
143 (0.096 %)Oracle Certification
143 (0.096 %)MCAD
143 (0.096 %)PMP
143 (0.096 %)PMI Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
137 (1.180 %)QA
214 (0.447 %)PCI DSS
36 (0.191 %)WCAG
36 (0.191 %)WAI
45 (0.159 %)SLA
53 (0.096 %)ISO27001
61 (0.032 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
147 (1.499 %)Active Directory
233 (1.053 %)ISA Server
327 (0.861 %)Oracle RAC
424 (0.766 %)VMware Infrastructure
512 (0.383 %)VMware ESX
68 (0.255 %)XenApp
68 (0.255 %)Terminal Services
77 (0.223 %)Oracle RMAN
85 (0.159 %)XenServer
94 (0.128 %)OpenSSO
101 (0.032 %)NFS
101 (0.032 %)SRDF
101 (0.032 %)VMware GSX
101 (0.032 %)Novell eDirectory
101 (0.032 %)Citrix Presentation Server
101 (0.032 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
138 (1.212 %)SCOM
235 (1.116 %)MOM
330 (0.957 %)SCCM
419 (0.606 %)Norton AntiVirus
58 (0.255 %)Tivoli
65 (0.159 %)Tivoli Monitoring
65 (0.159 %)OpenView
65 (0.159 %)Netcool
73 (0.096 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
73 (0.096 %)Plesk
82 (0.064 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
91 (0.032 %)Cisco IPCC
91 (0.032 %)NetBackup
91 (0.032 %)ServiceCenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1538 (17.16 %)Adobe
2237 (7.560 %)Microsoft
3228 (7.273 %)Oracle
4102 (3.254 %)HP
570 (2.233 %)BT
650 (1.595 %)Cisco
744 (1.404 %)IBM
837 (1.180 %)VMware
934 (1.085 %)Quark
1031 (0.989 %)Altiris
1130 (0.957 %)Siebel
1228 (0.893 %)Macromedia
1228 (0.893 %)Google
1325 (0.797 %)Perforce
1424 (0.766 %)Sun
1424 (0.766 %)Citrix
1522 (0.702 %)Atos Origin
1522 (0.702 %)Symantec
1620 (0.638 %)Sybase
1718 (0.574 %)JBoss