Adobe Illustrator Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Adobe Illustrator
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Adobe Illustrator skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 533 531
Rank change year-on-year +58 -2 +167
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 42 47 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.13% 0.065%
As % of the Applications category 0.99% 1.21% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 26 10 19
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,400 £22,650
25th Percentile £26,901 £27,188 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £31,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -15.33% -22.68%
75th Percentile £36,188 £34,875 £41,875
90th Percentile £42,500 £38,288 £43,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -14.14%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,255 3,898 2,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.14% 10.46% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 1,429 1,842
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £51,060 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -7.61%

Adobe Illustrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Adobe Illustrator job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Adobe Illustrator.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Adobe Illustrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Adobe Illustrator in the UK excluding London

Adobe Illustrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
South East +32 17 £28,476 -12.38% 8
North of England +29 10 £40,000 +23.08% 7
North West +28 7 £40,000 +2.72% 4
East of England +27 6 £31,500 +21.15% 10
Midlands +15 6 £32,500 +4.84% 4
West Midlands +20 5 £49,500 +58.40% 4
South West +3 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -2 3 £29,000 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -15 1 £27,500 -11.29%
Adobe Illustrator
UK

Adobe Illustrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (23.81%) CMS
2 9 (21.43%) WordPress
3 2 (4.76%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.38%) Drupal
4 1 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (90.48%) Photoshop
2 29 (69.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 22 (52.38%) InDesign
4 11 (26.19%) Adobe Premiere
5 10 (23.81%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (14.29%) Adobe XD
6 6 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (11.90%) Elementor
8 3 (7.14%) Acrobat
9 2 (4.76%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
10 1 (2.38%) CATIA
10 1 (2.38%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Figma
2 7 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 6 (14.29%) Canva
4 3 (7.14%) Google Ads
5 2 (4.76%) AWS
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) MailChimp
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 27 (64.29%) Marketing
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Multimedia
5 4 (9.52%) Brand Awareness
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.76%) Publishing
8 1 (2.38%) Advertising
8 1 (2.38%) Digital Economy
8 1 (2.38%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Designer
2 14 (33.33%) Graphic Designer
3 4 (9.52%) Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Digital Designer
4 3 (7.14%) Digital Executive
4 3 (7.14%) Digital Marketing Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Junior
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Operations Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Art Director
5 2 (4.76%) Artworker
5 2 (4.76%) Digital Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.38%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (2.38%) PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) HTML
2 10 (23.81%) CSS
3 5 (11.90%) Bootstrap
3 5 (11.90%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (4.76%) Laravel
4 2 (4.76%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (4.76%) Vue
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (42.86%) Social Media
2 14 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 9 (21.43%) Motion Graphics
4 5 (11.90%) Animation
4 5 (11.90%) Video Editing
5 3 (7.14%) Digital Media
5 3 (7.14%) Digital Signage
6 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
6 2 (4.76%) Learning Management System
6 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Photography
7 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) User Experience
2 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.19%) Typography
4 8 (19.05%) B2B
5 7 (16.67%) Content Management
5 7 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (16.67%) UX Design
6 6 (14.29%) Storyboarding
6 6 (14.29%) Time Management
7 5 (11.90%) Copywriting
7 5 (11.90%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (11.90%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (11.90%) Wireframes
8 4 (9.52%) Clean Code
8 4 (9.52%) Process Improvement
8 4 (9.52%) SEO
9 3 (7.14%) B2B Marketing
9 3 (7.14%) Customer Service
9 3 (7.14%) Inventory Management
9 3 (7.14%) Remarketing
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.14%) PHP
3 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) C#
4 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) HNC
3 1 (2.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 40 (95.24%) Adobe
2 4 (9.52%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) ESRI
4 1 (2.38%) HubSpot