Adobe Illustrator Job Trends in the West Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Adobe Illustrator skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 204 177
Rank change year-on-year +36 -27 +80
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 6 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.047% 0.030%
As % of the Applications category 1.19% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £29,150 £26,875 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,813 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £31,250 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year +112.80% +38.89% -50.22%
75th Percentile £67,250 £35,313 £23,750
90th Percentile - £36,625 -
England median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -14.14%

All Software Application Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 503 496 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.54% 11.55% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 230 183 246
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,800 £24,393
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £65,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,000
% change year-on-year -16.11% +13.53% -9.68%

Adobe Illustrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Adobe Illustrator job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Adobe Illustrator
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Adobe Illustrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Adobe Illustrator in the West Midlands

Adobe Illustrator
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £28,500 -
Staffordshire - 1 £32,500 -
Adobe Illustrator
England

Adobe Illustrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 3 (50.00%) CMS
1 3 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) InDesign
3 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (16.67%) CATIA
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (16.67%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Vite
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Artworker
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Illustrator
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) Laravel
1 3 (50.00%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Vue
1 3 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
1 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (16.67%) CAD
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) HNC
1 1 (16.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft