The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 135 154 186
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +32
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 67 59 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.064% 0.758% 0.610%
As % of the Applications category 9.091% 6.217% 5.367%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 41 49
Average daily rate £255 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.14% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £225 £250
% change year-on-year
+15.55% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+105.88% -5.55%
All Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
737 949 1118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.71% 12.20% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 627 777
Average daily rate £388 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 59 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.50 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £12.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £23.50 £32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Photoshop
London

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 69 (63.89%) HTML
2 56 (51.85%) CSS
3 38 (35.19%) Adobe
4 37 (34.26%) JavaScript
5 31 (28.70%) jQuery
6 30 (27.78%) Adobe Illustrator
7 26 (24.07%) HTML5
8 25 (23.15%) Flash
9 23 (21.30%) CSS3
10 22 (20.37%) Degree
11 20 (18.52%) Web Design
12 19 (17.59%) Java
13 18 (16.67%) E-Commerce
14 17 (15.74%) CMS
15 16 (14.81%) Marketing
16 15 (13.89%) Graphic Design
16 15 (13.89%) Finance
17 14 (12.96%) Banking
18 13 (12.04%) Dreamweaver
18 13 (12.04%) Telecoms
19 12 (11.11%) Fireworks
20 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
20 11 (10.19%) MVC
20 11 (10.19%) MS Visio
20 11 (10.19%) Content Management
20 11 (10.19%) Publishing
21 10 (9.259%) Retail
21 10 (9.259%) PHP
22 9 (8.333%) OO
22 9 (8.333%) XML

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 69 (63.89%) HTML
2 56 (51.85%) CSS
3 31 (28.70%) jQuery
4 26 (24.07%) HTML5
5 25 (23.15%) Flash
6 23 (21.30%) CSS3
7 9 (8.333%) XML
8 8 (7.407%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (6.481%) Ajax
10 6 (5.556%) Spring
10 6 (5.556%) .NET
11 5 (4.630%) JSP
11 5 (4.630%) JSF
11 5 (4.630%) XHTML
11 5 (4.630%) Silverlight
11 5 (4.630%) JSON
11 5 (4.630%) Spring MVC
11 5 (4.630%) Apache Flex
12 4 (3.704%) WPF
12 4 (3.704%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.74%) CMS
2 8 (7.407%) Adobe CQ
3 5 (4.630%) Liferay
4 4 (3.704%) Apache
5 3 (2.778%) Documentum
6 2 (1.852%) Drupal
6 2 (1.852%) WordPress
7 1 (0.926%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.926%) TYPO3
7 1 (0.926%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.926%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.926%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 30 (27.78%) Adobe Illustrator
2 12 (11.11%) Fireworks
3 11 (10.19%) MS Visio
4 5 (4.630%) MS Office
4 5 (4.630%) OmniGraffle
5 3 (2.778%) Acrobat
5 3 (2.778%) InDesign
5 3 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (1.852%) MS Excel
7 1 (0.926%) FreeHand
7 1 (0.926%) Vectorworks
7 1 (0.926%) SketchUp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.333%) Internet
2 7 (6.481%) Intranet
3 1 (0.926%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.852%) MySQL
2 1 (0.926%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Dreamweaver
2 9 (8.333%) Axure RP
3 8 (7.407%) Git (software)
4 5 (4.630%) Subversion
4 5 (4.630%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.704%) VisualAge
5 4 (3.704%) Ant
5 4 (3.704%) JUnit
5 4 (3.704%) Maven
5 4 (3.704%) JIRA
5 4 (3.704%) Selenium
5 4 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (3.704%) Expression Blend
5 4 (3.704%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.778%) PhoneGap
6 3 (2.778%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.926%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.926%) Rational Application Developer
7 1 (0.926%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (14.81%) Marketing
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Banking
4 13 (12.04%) Telecoms
5 11 (10.19%) Publishing
6 10 (9.259%) Retail
7 7 (6.481%) Legal
8 5 (4.630%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.778%) Advertising
9 3 (2.778%) Games
10 2 (1.852%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.852%) Local Government
11 1 (0.926%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.926%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 47 (43.52%) Designer
2 44 (40.74%) Developer
3 19 (17.59%) Front-End Developer
4 12 (11.11%) UI Designer
4 12 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Web Developer
5 11 (10.19%) User Experience Designer
6 8 (7.407%) Web Producer
7 7 (6.481%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (6.481%) Visual Designer
8 6 (5.556%) Web Designer
9 5 (4.630%) Front-End Web Developer
9 5 (4.630%) Digital Designer
10 4 (3.704%) UI Programmer
10 4 (3.704%) Senior JavaScript Developer
10 4 (3.704%) Photoshop Designer
10 4 (3.704%) UI Developer
10 4 (3.704%) PHP Developer
10 4 (3.704%) HTML Developer
10 4 (3.704%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Graphic Design
2 7 (6.481%) W3C
3 6 (5.556%) Visualisation
3 6 (5.556%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.704%) RIA
5 3 (2.778%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.778%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.778%) Copywriting
6 2 (1.852%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (1.852%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.852%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.852%) IPTV
6 2 (1.852%) Web 2.0
6 2 (1.852%) Derivative
6 2 (1.852%) Statistics
6 2 (1.852%) New Media
7 1 (0.926%) iDTV
7 1 (0.926%) Open Source
7 1 (0.926%) Social Media
7 1 (0.926%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.333%) Android
1 9 (8.333%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.704%) UNIX
2 4 (3.704%) Linux
3 3 (2.778%) Windows
4 1 (0.926%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (0.926%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.52%) Web Design
2 18 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 11 (10.19%) MVC
3 11 (10.19%) Content Management
4 9 (8.333%) OO
5 8 (7.407%) Web Development
6 7 (6.481%) Project Management
6 7 (6.481%) Unit Testing
6 7 (6.481%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (4.630%) User Experience Design
7 5 (4.630%) Information Architecture
7 5 (4.630%) Scrum
8 4 (3.704%) SEO
8 4 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (3.704%) TDD
8 4 (3.704%) Usability Testing
8 4 (3.704%) Multithreading
9 3 (2.778%) Business Analysis
9 3 (2.778%) Workflow
10 2 (1.852%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.26%) JavaScript
2 19 (17.59%) Java
3 10 (9.259%) PHP
4 7 (6.481%) XAML
4 7 (6.481%) Objective-C
5 6 (5.556%) C#
6 5 (4.630%) SQL
7 3 (2.778%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.852%) C
9 1 (0.926%) PHP5
9 1 (0.926%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 22 (20.37%) Degree
2 3 (2.778%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.852%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.926%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.481%) WAI
2 3 (2.778%) QA
3 2 (1.852%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 38 (35.19%) Adobe
2 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.630%) IBM
3 5 (4.630%) Google
4 4 (3.704%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.704%) Facebook
4 4 (3.704%) Twitter
5 2 (1.852%) RedDot
6 1 (0.926%) Apple
6 1 (0.926%) Oracle
6 1 (0.926%) Siebel
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