West Midlands Adobe Illustrator Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Illustrator skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe Illustrator over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Batley Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Brecon Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Keighley Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughton Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neston Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadley Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	181
Rank change on same period last year	+41
Matching permanent IT job ads	97	45
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	7.596 %	3.883 %
Salaries quoted	82	44
Average minimum salary	£23,103	£28,286
Average salary	£25,325	£31,663
% change on same period last year	-20.01 %
Average maximum salary	£27,546	£35,041
UK excluding London average salary	£26,926	£27,741
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Applications West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1277	1159
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.674 %	0.475 %
Salaries quoted	1068	1002
Average minimum salary	£27,866	£27,949
Average salary	£30,218	£30,427
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum salary	£32,570	£32,906
UK excluding London average salary	£33,332	£33,774
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
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Adobe Illustrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Coventry	+20	37	£25,601	-30.80 %
Birmingham	+22	34	£25,956	-7.30 %
Warwickshire	-5	17	£28,667	-16.13 %
Staffordshire	+1	8	£18,938	-31.75 %
Shropshire	-10	4	£25,000	+31.57 %
Herefordshire	-	1	-	-

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Adobe Illustrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Adobe Illustrator 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 Illustrator.

1 178 (98.89 %) Photoshop 2 128 (71.11 %) Flash 3 91 (50.56 %) HTML 4 87 (48.33 %) CSS 5 69 (38.33 %) XHTML 6 66 (36.67 %) ActionScript 7 65 (36.11 %) Dreamweaver 8 42 (23.33 %) Web Design 9 39 (21.67 %) Adobe 10 34 (18.89 %) JavaScript 11 33 (18.33 %) Advertising 11 33 (18.33 %) Multimedia 12 26 (14.44 %) InDesign 12 26 (14.44 %) Marketing 13 25 (13.89 %) PHP

14 24 (13.33 %) MySQL 15 23 (12.78 %) W3C 15 23 (12.78 %) Quark 16 19 (10.56 %) SEO 17 17 (9.444 %) SQL Server 17 17 (9.444 %) .NET 17 17 (9.444 %) Pay per click 18 16 (8.889 %) Graphic Design 18 16 (8.889 %) FreeHand 19 15 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 20 13 (7.222 %) SQL Server 2005 21 12 (6.667 %) Fireworks 21 12 (6.667 %) C# 22 9 (5.000 %) XML 22 9 (5.000 %) Internet

Adobe Illustrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Adobe Illustrator 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 Illustrator. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 91 (50.56 %) HTML 2 87 (48.33 %) CSS 3 69 (38.33 %) XHTML 4 17 (9.444 %) .NET 5 15 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (5.000 %) XML 7 8 (4.444 %) ASP 8 4 (2.222 %) WebServices 9 3 (1.667 %) AJAX 10 2 (1.111 %) Adobe Flex 10 2 (1.111 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (0.556 %) XSLT 11 1 (0.556 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.556 %) CMS
Applications 1 178 (98.89 %) Photoshop 2 26 (14.44 %) InDesign 3 16 (8.889 %) FreeHand 4 12 (6.667 %) Fireworks 5 7 (3.889 %) QuarkXPress 6 4 (2.222 %) ImageReady 6 4 (2.222 %) Acrobat 7 2 (1.111 %) MS Excel 7 2 (1.111 %) MS Visio 7 2 (1.111 %) AutoCAD 8 1 (0.556 %) 3ds Max 8 1 (0.556 %) Adobe Premiere 8 1 (0.556 %) CINEMA 4D	Communications & Networking 1 9 (5.000 %) Internet 2 2 (1.111 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.556 %) SSH 3 1 (0.556 %) FTP 3 1 (0.556 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (13.33 %) MySQL 2 17 (9.444 %) SQL Server 3 13 (7.222 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (1.111 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.556 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 128 (71.11 %) Flash 2 65 (36.11 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (2.778 %) Visual Studio
General 1 33 (18.33 %) Advertising 1 33 (18.33 %) Multimedia 2 26 (14.44 %) Marketing 3 16 (8.889 %) Graphic Design 4 4 (2.222 %) Legal 5 3 (1.667 %) Animation 6 2 (1.111 %) Pensions 6 2 (1.111 %) Banking 6 2 (1.111 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (1.111 %) Construction 7 1 (0.556 %) Education 7 1 (0.556 %) Government 7 1 (0.556 %) Finance 7 1 (0.556 %) 3D Graphics	Job Titles 1 76 (42.22 %) Web Designer 2 53 (29.44 %) Graphic Designer 3 20 (11.11 %) Flash Designer 4 18 (10.00 %) Developer 5 13 (7.222 %) Web Developer 5 13 (7.222 %) Senior Web Designer 6 9 (5.000 %) Senior Graphic Designer 7 7 (3.889 %) Photoshop Designer 8 6 (3.333 %) Flash Developer 9 5 (2.778 %) Junior 10 3 (1.667 %) Graduate 10 3 (1.667 %) Junior Web Designer 10 3 (1.667 %) Art Worker 11 2 (1.111 %) Senior Photoshop Designer 11 2 (1.111 %) Business Manager 11 2 (1.111 %) Business Development Manager 11 2 (1.111 %) Development Manager 12 1 (0.556 %) Senior Developer 12 1 (0.556 %) Administrator 12 1 (0.556 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 23 (12.78 %) W3C 2 2 (1.111 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (0.556 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (1.667 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (23.33 %) Web Design 2 19 (10.56 %) SEO 3 17 (9.444 %) Pay per click 4 7 (3.889 %) Web Development 4 7 (3.889 %) E-Commerce 5 6 (3.333 %) Creative Marketing 6 5 (2.778 %) Content Management 6 5 (2.778 %) Project Management 7 4 (2.222 %) B2B 7 4 (2.222 %) B2C 7 4 (2.222 %) Product Marketing 8 3 (1.667 %) OO 8 3 (1.667 %) Business Development 9 2 (1.111 %) Internet Marketing 9 2 (1.111 %) RAD 9 2 (1.111 %) OOP 10 1 (0.556 %) CRM 10 1 (0.556 %) ERP 10 1 (0.556 %) Email Marketing	Programming Languages 1 66 (36.67 %) ActionScript 2 34 (18.89 %) JavaScript 3 25 (13.89 %) PHP 4 12 (6.667 %) C# 5 3 (1.667 %) DHTML 5 3 (1.667 %) VB.NET 6 2 (1.111 %) C 6 2 (1.111 %) Java 6 2 (1.111 %) SQL 6 2 (1.111 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 8 (4.444 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.222 %) QA
Vendors 1 39 (21.67 %) Adobe 2 23 (12.78 %) Quark 3 7 (3.889 %) Microsoft 4 4 (2.222 %) Sony 5 1 (0.556 %) Interwoven