The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 62 99 85
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -14
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 60 39 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.563% 1.230% 1.558%
As % of the Applications category 17.54% 9.375% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 29
Average daily rate £235 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.66% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £328 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £256 £250
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 3
Average hourly rate £35.00 £16.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.75% -17.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -
All Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
342 416 426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 14.61% 13.12% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 176 147
Average daily rate £319 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.92% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £200 £149
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £306 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 31 47
Average hourly rate £30.00 £15.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+93.54% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £9.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.50 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
Photoshop
South East

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Photoshop across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Berkshire Photoshop Jobs Demand Trend

Photoshop
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Photoshop across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Photoshop Daily Rate Trend

Photoshop
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Photoshop across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Photoshop Daily Rate Histogram

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Photoshop across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Photoshop across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Photoshop Hourly Rate Histogram

Photoshop
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Photoshop within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Slough +5 32 £281 -6.25% 1
Reading +16 12 £188 - 2
Windsor +11 6 - -
Maidenhead - 4 £188 -
Bracknell -17 1 £350 +9.37% 1
Wokingham - 1 £250 -
Ascot - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Photoshop
South East

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Photoshop also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Photoshop.

1 77 (70.64%) JavaScript
1 77 (70.64%) HTML
2 73 (66.97%) CSS
3 64 (58.72%) jQuery
4 48 (44.04%) HTML5
5 45 (41.28%) XML
6 42 (38.53%) CSS3
7 34 (31.19%) XSLT
8 28 (25.69%) Adobe
9 26 (23.85%) Marketing
10 19 (17.43%) XHTML
11 17 (15.60%) CMS
11 17 (15.60%) Content Management
12 15 (13.76%) Adobe Illustrator
12 15 (13.76%) Dreamweaver
13 14 (12.84%) E-Commerce
14 13 (11.93%) Flash
15 10 (9.174%) InDesign
15 10 (9.174%) Agile Software Development
15 10 (9.174%) Microsoft
15 10 (9.174%) Internet
15 10 (9.174%) Telecoms
15 10 (9.174%) JSP
15 10 (9.174%) Information Architecture
16 9 (8.257%) Perl
16 9 (8.257%) SEO
16 9 (8.257%) Fireworks
16 9 (8.257%) Web Design
16 9 (8.257%) Advertising
16 9 (8.257%) Japanese Language

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Photoshop also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Photoshop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 77 (70.64%) HTML
2 73 (66.97%) CSS
3 64 (58.72%) jQuery
4 48 (44.04%) HTML5
5 45 (41.28%) XML
6 42 (38.53%) CSS3
7 34 (31.19%) XSLT
8 19 (17.43%) XHTML
9 13 (11.93%) Flash
10 10 (9.174%) JSP
11 7 (6.422%) Apache Flex
12 6 (5.505%) .NET
13 4 (3.670%) ASP.NET
14 3 (2.752%) Middleware
14 3 (2.752%) ASP.NET MVC
15 1 (0.917%) COM
15 1 (0.917%) ASP
15 1 (0.917%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.60%) CMS
2 7 (6.422%) OpenCms
3 2 (1.835%) WordPress
4 1 (0.917%) MODX
4 1 (0.917%) Kentico
4 1 (0.917%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.917%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.917%) IIS
4 1 (0.917%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (0.917%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (9.174%) InDesign
3 9 (8.257%) Fireworks
4 6 (5.505%) MS Office
5 5 (4.587%) OmniGraffle
5 5 (4.587%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.835%) MS Excel
7 1 (0.917%) Google Apps
7 1 (0.917%) QuarkXPress
7 1 (0.917%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.174%) Internet
2 2 (1.835%) DHCP
2 2 (1.835%) FTP
3 1 (0.917%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.917%) LAN
3 1 (0.917%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.917%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Dreamweaver
2 6 (5.505%) Axure RP
3 4 (3.670%) Subversion
4 1 (0.917%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 1 (0.917%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (23.85%) Marketing
2 10 (9.174%) Telecoms
3 9 (8.257%) Advertising
3 9 (8.257%) Japanese Language
3 9 (8.257%) Korean Language
4 6 (5.505%) Automotive
5 5 (4.587%) Front Office
5 5 (4.587%) Retail
5 5 (4.587%) Interactive Media
6 4 (3.670%) Publishing
7 2 (1.835%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.835%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.835%) Finance
8 1 (0.917%) Games
Job Titles
1 59 (54.13%) Developer
2 32 (29.36%) Web Developer
3 28 (25.69%) Designer
4 24 (22.02%) Front-End Developer
5 20 (18.35%) Web Designer
6 19 (17.43%) HTML Developer
7 13 (11.93%) CSS Developer
8 9 (8.257%) Web Producer
8 9 (8.257%) Front-End Web Developer
9 8 (7.339%) Photoshop Designer
10 6 (5.505%) Project Manager
11 5 (4.587%) Creative Web Designer
11 5 (4.587%) Architect
11 5 (4.587%) Programmer
12 4 (3.670%) User Experience Manager
12 4 (3.670%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (3.670%) User Experience Architect
13 3 (2.752%) Graphic Designer
13 3 (2.752%) Flash Developer
13 3 (2.752%) User Experience Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.505%) W3C
1 6 (5.505%) Visualisation
2 5 (4.587%) Digital Media
3 3 (2.752%) iPad
3 3 (2.752%) Graphic Design
3 3 (2.752%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.835%) Flash Lite
5 1 (0.917%) New Media
5 1 (0.917%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.917%) STB
5 1 (0.917%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.587%) Android
2 4 (3.670%) Windows
3 2 (1.835%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.835%) Linux
4 1 (0.917%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.917%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.917%) UNIX
4 1 (0.917%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.917%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (15.60%) Content Management
2 14 (12.84%) E-Commerce
3 10 (9.174%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (9.174%) Information Architecture
4 9 (8.257%) SEO
4 9 (8.257%) Web Design
5 8 (7.339%) Web Development
6 7 (6.422%) Scrum
7 6 (5.505%) Online Marketing
7 6 (5.505%) Brand Management
7 6 (5.505%) MVC
7 6 (5.505%) Project Management
8 4 (3.670%) Kanban
9 2 (1.835%) Usability Testing
9 2 (1.835%) Multivariate Testing
9 2 (1.835%) Web Marketing
10 1 (0.917%) Web Application Development
10 1 (0.917%) UML
10 1 (0.917%) OO
10 1 (0.917%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (70.64%) JavaScript
2 9 (8.257%) Perl
3 5 (4.587%) ActionScript
4 4 (3.670%) Java
4 4 (3.670%) PHP
4 4 (3.670%) SQL
5 3 (2.752%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (1.835%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (0.917%) C#
7 1 (0.917%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.917%) Lua
Qualifications
1 8 (7.339%) Degree
2 1 (0.917%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.917%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.917%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.917%) Plesk
Vendors
1 28 (25.69%) Adobe
2 10 (9.174%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.917%) Quark
3 1 (0.917%) Google
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