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Employment and education opportunities in the media sector

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Web Developer IT You can be both a freelance and employed Web Developer. You can earn a lot more money being self-employed, but have less job security and have to keep finding new clients, which can be hard in such a modern industry. A lead Web Developer working for a company can earn upwards of £50,000 a year. Link to Job
Frontend Developer (HTML, CSS/SCSS, JS)
£42,000 a year
Required Skills…
  • Javascript (vanilla, jQuery, JSON, Gulp, Grunt)
  • HTML
  • CSS/SASS/SCSS
  • GIT/Version Control
  • Ability to work confidently within terminal
  • Basic Ruby on Rails experience
 Link to Education Digital Media and Web Technologies BSc (Hons) – University of Gloucestershire The degree covers a range of technical aspects (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, MySQL and PHP) as well as creative skills such as audio, animation, graphic design and 3D modelling. User experience, mobile games and augmented reality are major themes of the course. The course’s links with industry practitioners means you’ll learn about current practices, creating websites for live clients such as Cheltenham Motor Sports.
Web Designer IT You can be both a freelance and employed Web Designer. You can earn a lot more money being self-employed, but have less job security and have to keep finding new clients, which can be hard in such a modern industry. A lead Web Designer working for a company can earn upwards of £50,000 a year. Link to Job
Senior Web Designer
We’re looking for a talented Senior Web Designer to join our Online Tools team in the ARM IoT Services Group. You’ll be working on some of the busiest web properties across ARM, with a community of hundreds of thousands of ARMmbed developers. Our team is hugely talented and working to deliver the tools, services and developer ecosystem to make IoT possible. You’ll have a high degree of autonomy and lots of scope for bringing your own creativity into the mix. 		Link to Education Web Design BSc (Hons) – University of Huddersfield
Web design is a part of our everyday lives and we continually find new ways of accessing and interacting with it. This course aims to give you these skills and knowledge. This is a mixed discipline course encompassing both creative and technical elements. In the first two years you will study the technical side of web development alongside gaining an in-depth understanding of web design. The aim of this is to help you gain a broad range of skills, which are in demand from employers and our placement providers. If you choose to opt for the placement year we have many links with industry to help you secure a job, including globally recognised brands and small local companies.
Information Security Officer IT IT Security is an ever expanding industry as much more companies are hiring professionals to manage their security due to recent cyber attacks such as WannaCry. You would either work for an IT company and be a contractor to smaller companies who need IT assistance or you would be hired by a company and only work for their IT department. Link to Job
INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER
£40,000 a year – Permanent
Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop, maintain and deliver periodic security audits security reports to our clients in the region
  • Operate or oversee managed-services operation of security-specific devices and software (e.g. firewalls, IPS, Vulnerability Management Tools, anti-virus, etc)
  • Network and Server design consulting with a security-minded focus
  • Design, develop, document and maintain a complete Security Program
  • To provide maximum quality of service, you will have to keep abreast of IIT security trends, emerging threats and best practices.
  • Maintain customer relations and requirements as set out in applicable commercial arrangements
 Computer Science with Cyber Security MEng (Hons) – University of Southampton
This four-year degree in MEng Computer Science with Cyber Security will help you to gain a thorough grounding in computer science and to specialise in the growing field of cyber security.
This course will teach you the latest thinking in cyber security, including the concepts, principles, technologies and practices for addressing current and emerging cyber security threats and challenges.With cybercrime on a steep rise and cyber terrorism emerging as a national concern, the MEng Computer Science with Cyber Security is specifically designed to produce graduates with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary view of the subject area, embracing the technical subjects in depth, but including important aspects of criminology, risk management, law and social sciences.