Salary Survey 2018/19
Our 2018/19 Salary Survey is now available to view and download.
To view the Salary Survery and Career Insights document or download your optional PDF version please CLICK HERE.
The survey sheds light on the average salaries of all the digital, creative, and marketing jobs we recruit for. In the report are over 280 job titles, with the average salary for each position.
The document also contains our Career Insights section, where we have collated the responses from our candidate survey. Whenever a creative candidate steps through our doors for a face to face interview with our consultants, we ask them to complete our survey answering questions about themselves, their current role, and what they would like from a future role.
We want to know what motivates our candidates, what perks they are interested in, and what makes them say yes to a new role.
This includes our freelancers, too. We found out what their ideal length of booking is, what makes them take a new brief, and whether they’d consider permanent positions.
Our findings showed some particularly interesting data, the first which being the gender disparity. 67% of respondents were male, compared to a somewhat dwarfed 33% of female candidates. Our MD, Mike Carter, said “some industries, very pointedly digital, are very male biased — but creative has always appeared to me to be more gender neutral and more of a meritocracy. However, based on our candidates over the last year this would prove not to be the case.”
“Our data predominantly comes from candidates between the age of 25–34. In total only 19% of our candidates had dependants, and 81% of candidates are single. Often, you hear of people challenging the issue of gender inequality in the workplace with childcare or family related situations linked to females — however from the range of candidates I would be inclined to say that this ‘family’ argument crumbles,” he concludes.
Another key finding we saw in the data was the rise from 2017 to 2018 in the number of candidates working from home. We saw that 20% of our permanent creative candidates currently work from home, a significant rise from the year before. Our Senior Creative Consultant, Tommy Giles, explored this data. “According to our surveys, we recorded that 11% of our candidates worked from home in 2017, but that’s now increased to 20% showing a far greater demand for remote working or flexible hours.”
“For some candidates it can be the difference of taking a new role or staying put. On multiple occasions last year, companies were required to be more flexible to slightly earlier or later interviewing times; varying working hours; and sometimes offering remote working once or twice a week to make the role more desirable and appealing” he said.
Finally, taking a look at the freelance data, we saw that a whopping 42% of freelancers said that the briefs they receive don’t actually contain enough information for them to start working on them. Another interesting statistic, that may provoke you to reconsider the next time you provide a brief to a freelancer — is this description sufficient enough?
Amongst these examples, there are plenty more surprising results regarding candidates aspirations and past experiences within the document. Similarly, as previously mentioned you can find a complete breakdown of the average salary for each position in your industry.
You can find all of this information HERE, where you can also download your own PDF version.
