The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 22 May 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 41 46 29
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -17
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 2 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.451% 1.266% 2.982%
As % of the Applications category 3.175% 8.511% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
Average daily rate £363 £150 £165
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+141.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £150 £123
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £225 £236
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £250 £245
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.51 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+99.88% -9.03%
All Applications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
63 94 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 14.22% 14.87% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 31
Average daily rate £250 £325 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +85.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £150 £123
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £425 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 12
Average hourly rate £11.76 £13.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.57% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.00 £10.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £17.50 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
Photoshop
West Midlands

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Photoshop Daily Rate Trend

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) XHTML
3 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) Adobe
4 2 (33.33%) Subversion
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Graphic Design
5 1 (16.67%) Animation
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) Dojo
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Web 2.0
5 1 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) SEO
5 1 (16.67%) CMS
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
5 1 (16.67%) Xcode
5 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 1 (16.67%) Apple
5 1 (16.67%) OpenGL
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) OOD

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) XHTML
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) Dojo
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Cocoa
5 1 (16.67%) OpenGL
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Flash
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (16.67%) Core Animation
5 1 (16.67%) Cocoa Touch
5 1 (16.67%) UIKit
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (16.67%) OmniGraffle
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
2 1 (16.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Designer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Graphic Design
1 1 (16.67%) Animation
1 1 (16.67%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 1 (16.67%) SEO
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) OOD
2 1 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) GLSL
2 1 (16.67%) HLSL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sitecore
2 1 (16.67%) Facebook