The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 45 80 47
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -33
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 30 8 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 3.185% 0.609% 2.148%
As % of the Applications category 20.41% 5.634% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
Average daily rate £200 £250 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -12.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £250 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £250 £245
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+561.76% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.51 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+99.88% -9.03%
All Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
147 142 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 15.61% 10.81% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 39
Average daily rate £306 £248 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.73% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £135 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £374 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 17
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.40 £12.01 £9.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.70 £22.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Photoshop across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester Photoshop Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - -
Bolton - 1 - -
Photoshop
North West

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 28 (60.87%) Adobe Illustrator
2 25 (54.35%) CSS
3 24 (52.17%) HTML
4 17 (36.96%) Adobe
5 16 (34.78%) JavaScript
6 14 (30.43%) PHP
7 13 (28.26%) HTML5
8 11 (23.91%) Dreamweaver
9 9 (19.57%) Apache
9 9 (19.57%) Fireworks
9 9 (19.57%) MySQL
9 9 (19.57%) InDesign
9 9 (19.57%) jQuery
10 8 (17.39%) WordPress
10 8 (17.39%) CSS3
11 7 (15.22%) Apple
11 7 (15.22%) Acrobat
12 6 (13.04%) Quark
12 6 (13.04%) Linux
12 6 (13.04%) SQL
12 6 (13.04%) Orchard
12 6 (13.04%) Marketing
12 6 (13.04%) CodeIgniter
12 6 (13.04%) Drupal
13 5 (10.87%) Photography
13 5 (10.87%) Sass
13 5 (10.87%) .NET
13 5 (10.87%) QuarkXPress
14 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
14 4 (8.696%) Flash

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 25 (54.35%) CSS
2 24 (52.17%) HTML
3 13 (28.26%) HTML5
4 9 (19.57%) jQuery
5 8 (17.39%) CSS3
6 6 (13.04%) CodeIgniter
7 5 (10.87%) Sass
7 5 (10.87%) .NET
8 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
8 4 (8.696%) Flash
8 4 (8.696%) Ajax
8 4 (8.696%) LAMP
8 4 (8.696%) JSON
9 3 (6.522%) XSL
10 2 (4.348%) Web Services
10 2 (4.348%) XHTML
11 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (2.174%) MooTools
11 1 (2.174%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (2.174%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 9 (19.57%) Apache
2 8 (17.39%) WordPress
3 6 (13.04%) Drupal
4 3 (6.522%) CMS
5 1 (2.174%) Umbraco
5 1 (2.174%) Joomla!
5 1 (2.174%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (60.87%) Adobe Illustrator
2 9 (19.57%) Fireworks
2 9 (19.57%) InDesign
3 7 (15.22%) Acrobat
4 5 (10.87%) QuarkXPress
5 4 (8.696%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (4.348%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.522%) Intranet
2 1 (2.174%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) MySQL
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (4.348%) Subversion
3 1 (2.174%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (13.04%) Marketing
2 3 (6.522%) Banking
3 2 (4.348%) Advertising
4 1 (2.174%) Publishing
4 1 (2.174%) Automotive
4 1 (2.174%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Developer
2 16 (34.78%) Designer
3 8 (17.39%) Web Designer
3 8 (17.39%) Web Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Front-End Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Drupal Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Graphic Designer
7 2 (4.348%) IT Trainer
7 2 (4.348%) Trainer
7 2 (4.348%) Junior
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Artist
7 2 (4.348%) Creative Director
7 2 (4.348%) Junior Designer
8 1 (2.174%) Print Designer
8 1 (2.174%) Junior Graphic Designer
8 1 (2.174%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Art Director
8 1 (2.174%) Flash Designer
8 1 (2.174%) Programmer
8 1 (2.174%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Photography
2 3 (6.522%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.522%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.348%) New Media
3 2 (4.348%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.174%) Visualisation
4 1 (2.174%) Open Source
4 1 (2.174%) iPhone
4 1 (2.174%) Social Network
4 1 (2.174%) Animation
4 1 (2.174%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.174%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (4.348%) Android
3 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.174%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (6.522%) Web Design
2 2 (4.348%) E-Commerce
2 2 (4.348%) Time Management
2 2 (4.348%) Performance Management
2 2 (4.348%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (2.174%) Web Usability
3 1 (2.174%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (2.174%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (2.174%) MVC
3 1 (2.174%) SEO
3 1 (2.174%) Content Management
3 1 (2.174%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) JavaScript
2 14 (30.43%) PHP
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (4.348%) C#
5 1 (2.174%) PHP5
5 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) Plesk
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Adobe
2 7 (15.22%) Apple
3 6 (13.04%) Quark
3 6 (13.04%) Orchard
4 1 (2.174%) Facebook
4 1 (2.174%) Twitter
4 1 (2.174%) Microsoft