InDesign Job Trends in the South East

Adobe InDesign
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring InDesign skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 296 264
Rank change year-on-year +47 -32 +160
Permanent jobs citing InDesign 20 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.062% 0.014%
As % of the Applications category 1.87% 0.63% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 1
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,975 -
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,313 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £29,750 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +2.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £37,500 £34,688 £29,500
90th Percentile £51,250 £36,375 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year - -24.42% +7.50%

All Software Application Skills
South East

InDesign 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,068 957 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.36% 9.92% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 464 417 490
10th Percentile £26,075 £27,000 £25,725
25th Percentile £28,375 £36,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £54,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.77% -8.60%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing InDesign relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

InDesign job vacancy trend in the South East

InDesign
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing InDesign.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing InDesign

InDesign
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing InDesign in the South East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for InDesign in the South East

InDesign
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing InDesign within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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 Sussex - 6 £30,000 - 1
Thames Valley +14 5 £47,500 +75.93% 2
Kent - 4 £32,500 -
Oxfordshire +25 3 £47,500 +75.93%
Hampshire - 3 £35,000 -
Surrey +6 2 £25,000 -28.57%
Berkshire -2 2 £32,500 +10.17% 2
InDesign
England

InDesign
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (50.00%) CMS
2 3 (15.00%) Drupal
2 3 (15.00%) WordPress
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Photoshop
2 13 (65.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (65.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (35.00%) Adobe Premiere
4 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (25.00%) Adobe XD
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (5.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Figma
2 5 (25.00%) MailChimp
3 4 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Intranet
1 3 (15.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 19 (95.00%) Marketing
2 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Advertising
4 3 (15.00%) Brand Awareness
4 3 (15.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Designer
2 7 (35.00%) Graphic Designer
2 7 (35.00%) Marketing Executive
3 4 (20.00%) Digital Designer
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Marketing Executive
5 1 (5.00%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
1 3 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Social Media
2 5 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 5 (25.00%) Video Editing
3 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.00%) Photography
3 3 (15.00%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (10.00%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Analytics
1 7 (35.00%) Creative Marketing
1 7 (35.00%) User Experience
2 6 (30.00%) CRM
2 6 (30.00%) Typography
3 5 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (25.00%) UX Design
3 5 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Marketing Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (20.00%) Time Management
5 3 (15.00%) Channel Management
5 3 (15.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Content Management
5 3 (15.00%) Demand Generation
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Generation
5 3 (15.00%) Line Management
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Adobe
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Facebook
3 4 (20.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) Instagram
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 3 (15.00%) Zoho