The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 35 43 33
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 4 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.220% 1.422% 1.533%
As % of the Applications category 10.81% 15.38% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £225 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £250 £250
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.26 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+102.83% -9.18%
All Applications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
37 39 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 11.28% 9.242% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 16
Average daily rate £260 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.45% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £500 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 13
Average hourly rate £25.00 £11.63 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+115.05% -7.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.80 £9.75 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.60 £13.37 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Photoshop
Cambridgeshire

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PHP
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (50.00%) InDesign
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) CAD
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
2 2 (33.33%) Photography
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSLT
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) GIMP
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) Magento

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (50.00%) InDesign
2 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) GIMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Graphic Designer
1 3 (50.00%) Instructional Designer
1 3 (50.00%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) UI Programmer
2 2 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
1 2 (33.33%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CAD
1 2 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Required Technical Skills HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery, jQuery UI, XML / JSON / AJAX, etc... ASP.NET / C# UI design skills / good at functional design, usability, etc. Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator...
Psonar Ltd
Rate: From £200 to £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Description: You'll be taking on the primary development of our music streaming iOS and Android apps, developed using Xamarin MonoTouch & MonoDroid, powered by the Psonar RESTful API.....
Psonar Ltd
Posted: 17 May 2013