InDesign Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Adobe InDesign
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring InDesign skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 189 187
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +22
Permanent jobs citing InDesign 6 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.088% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Applications category 1.56% 2.36% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £42,750 £25,300 £26,150
25th Percentile £43,125 £25,750 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £27,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,125 £30,000 £35,000
90th Percentile £54,250 £31,500 -
South East median annual salary £41,250 £32,500 £29,750
% change year-on-year +26.92% +9.24% +19.00%

All Software Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 384 381 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.65% 10.10% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 223 160 273
10th Percentile £27,500 £22,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £71,378 £67,500 £63,500
South East median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -16.67% +5.88%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

InDesign job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

InDesign
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing InDesign.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing InDesign

InDesign
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing InDesign within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Buckinghamshire -7 4 - - 1
Berkshire +21 2 £47,500 +72.73% 1
InDesign
South East

InDesign
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) AutoCAD
2 2 (33.33%) Revit
2 2 (33.33%) SketchUp
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
1 4 (66.67%) Multimedia
1 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
2 4 (66.67%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Graphic Design
1 4 (66.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) B2B
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
1 4 (66.67%) Customer-Centricity
1 4 (66.67%) Infographics
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft