Adobe Illustrator Job Trends in the Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Adobe Illustrator skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 226 297
Rank change year-on-year -22 +71 -31
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 12 4 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.091% 0.071% 0.26%
As % of the Applications category 1.75% 0.60% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 25
10th Percentile £35,750 £29,250 £21,100
25th Percentile £37,063 £33,750 £23,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +57.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £33,000
90th Percentile £65,775 £46,750 £47,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -29.41%

All Software Application Skills
Midlands

Adobe Illustrator falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 684 663 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.17% 11.83% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 363 326 755
10th Percentile £26,437 £25,625 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,125 £27,750 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -11.95%
75th Percentile £48,641 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,188 £61,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £39,716
% change year-on-year -6.98% +8.27% -11.74%

Adobe Illustrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Adobe Illustrator relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Adobe Illustrator job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Adobe Illustrator.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Adobe Illustrator in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Adobe Illustrator in the Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -7 12 £45,000 +5.88%
Adobe Illustrator
England

Adobe Illustrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) CMS
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 8 (66.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (41.67%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (41.67%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Canva
2 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Vite
General
1 5 (41.67%) Automotive
1 5 (41.67%) Games
1 5 (41.67%) iGaming
1 5 (41.67%) Marketing
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Animator
2 4 (33.33%) Marketing Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Graphic Artist
4 2 (16.67%) 2D Animator
4 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Animator
5 1 (8.33%) Coordinator
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) Laravel
1 2 (16.67%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
1 2 (16.67%) Vue
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Graphic Design
2 5 (41.67%) Animation
2 5 (41.67%) Social Media
2 5 (41.67%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) B2B
3 5 (41.67%) Campaign Management
3 5 (41.67%) Lead Generation
3 5 (41.67%) Logistics
3 5 (41.67%) Storytelling
3 5 (41.67%) Supplier Management
3 5 (41.67%) Time Management
4 4 (33.33%) B2B Marketing
4 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
4 4 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Marketing Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Storyboarding
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
6 2 (16.67%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Adobe
2 5 (41.67%) Facebook
2 5 (41.67%) Instagram
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce