The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 60 62 58
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 3 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.414% 0.125% 1.445%
As % of the Applications category 4.615% 1.190% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
Average daily rate £329 - £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 - £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 - £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £258 £250 £250
% change year-on-year
+3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.26 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+102.83% -9.18%
All Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
65 84 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 8.978% 10.51% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 68
Average daily rate £300 £313 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £114 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £487 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +200.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.09 £30.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
Photoshop
North West

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Warrington -1 3 £329 -
Photoshop
North West

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) VB.NET
2 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (72.73%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (72.73%) .NET Framework
2 8 (72.73%) Android
2 8 (72.73%) iPad
3 6 (54.55%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) LINQ
4 4 (36.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
4 4 (36.36%) SMS
4 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 4 (36.36%) C#
4 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (36.36%) Contact Management
4 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
5 3 (27.27%) HTML5
5 3 (27.27%) CSS3
5 3 (27.27%) Fireworks
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (18.18%) SEO

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (72.73%) .NET
1 8 (72.73%) .NET Framework
2 6 (54.55%) jQuery
3 4 (36.36%) LINQ
3 4 (36.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
3 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) CSS
4 3 (27.27%) HTML5
4 3 (27.27%) CSS3
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 1 (9.091%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Fireworks
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SMS
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (9.091%) Retail
1 1 (9.091%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Designer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) User Experience Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) iPad
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Contact Management
1 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) SEO
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Web Design
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) Pair Programming
3 1 (9.091%) Content Management
3 1 (9.091%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) VB.NET
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 1 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Adobe