The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 40 39 49
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +10
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 7 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.741% 1.446% 0.255%
As % of the Applications category 9.722% 5.714% 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £275 £175 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £258 £250 £250
% change year-on-year
+3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.11 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.26 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+102.83% -9.18%
All Applications
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
72 105 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.91% 25.30% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 27
Average daily rate £250 £170 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.05% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £105 £111
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £377 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 21
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+64.70% -37.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £13.76 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.45 £27.63 £80.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
Photoshop
East of England

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Harlow - 2 - -
Chelmsford -5 1 £275 -
Photoshop
East of England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) jQuery
3 7 (70.00%) PHP
4 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (50.00%) Web Design
4 5 (50.00%) Marketing
4 5 (50.00%) Ajax
5 4 (40.00%) Advertising
5 4 (40.00%) XML
5 4 (40.00%) XSLT
5 4 (40.00%) XHTML
6 3 (30.00%) Flash
6 3 (30.00%) ASP
6 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 3 (30.00%) New Media
6 3 (30.00%) HTML5
6 3 (30.00%) Fireworks
7 2 (20.00%) Analytics
7 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (20.00%) Sass
7 2 (20.00%) LESS
7 2 (20.00%) SCSS
7 2 (20.00%) CSS3
7 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (20.00%) MooTools
7 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (20.00%) Image Processing

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) jQuery
3 5 (50.00%) Ajax
4 4 (40.00%) XML
4 4 (40.00%) XSLT
4 4 (40.00%) XHTML
5 3 (30.00%) Flash
5 3 (30.00%) ASP
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) HTML5
6 2 (20.00%) Sass
6 2 (20.00%) LESS
6 2 (20.00%) SCSS
6 2 (20.00%) CSS3
6 2 (20.00%) MooTools
6 2 (20.00%) Dojo
6 2 (20.00%) J2EE
6 2 (20.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Marketing
2 4 (40.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) UI Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior UI Developer
3 4 (40.00%) UI Programmer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Front-End Web Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Designer
4 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Digital Designer
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) New Media
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Image Processing
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) SEO
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) B2B
3 1 (10.00%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) XPath
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Omniture
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
1 2 (20.00%) FatWire
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
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