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Digital Salary Survey Propel

Digital salary survey: how much should you earn working in user experience & information architecture roles?

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

March 3, 2011 | 2 min read

Recruitment company Propel London has produced a salary survey looking at the digital industry and charting the salaries of over 1,500 new job vacancies in the digital market in the second half of 2010. Here we take a look at the company’s findings on the digital salaries for user experience & information architecture.

User Experience and Information Architecture roles are highly-specialised, and are widely considered fundamentally important to the success of digital activity. Creative agencies and brands alike are increasingly aware of the importance of robust standards in usability, interface design and information architecture.

The result, predictably enough, is a recruitment market virtually obsessed by the pursuit of talented candidates with experience in these disciplines. In H1 2010 we saw steady growth in salaries across the board (barring the most senior IA positions which remained stable). In H2 this growth has accelerated as the shortage of skills starts to bite harder. Middleweight and senior IA roles, and UX roles across the board, have strong average salaries which are rising still.

The biggest rise in salaries, +43% for senior IA roles, underlines this point. Experience, and the ability to deliver in these crucial positions, is a precious commodity.

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