Newcastle Photoshop Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Photoshop skills within the Newcastle region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Photoshop
Location Abingdon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Wolverhampton Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	28
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	23.53 %	6.250 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£218	£285
% change on same period last year	-23.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£7.00
Average hourly rate	-	£7.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£7.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.82	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-23.14 %
Applications Newcastle
Matching contract IT job ads	17	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£239
Average daily rate	-	£239
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£239
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£65.80
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£72.30
% change on same period last year	-55.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£78.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.53	£19.52
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Photoshop Tyne and Wear

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Photoshop
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Photoshop across the Newcastle region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Photoshop across the Newcastle region.

Photoshop
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 5 (62.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 4 (50.00 %) Adobe 3 3 (37.50 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (37.50 %) Fireworks 3 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 3 3 (37.50 %) XHTML 3 3 (37.50 %) SEO 3 3 (37.50 %) Advertising 3 3 (37.50 %) Web Design 3 3 (37.50 %) Multimedia 3 3 (37.50 %) Graphic Design 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP

4 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 4 2 (25.00 %) PDA 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 5 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 5 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (12.50 %) PHP 5 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Office

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 (37.50 %) XHTML	Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Fireworks 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Advertising 1 3 (37.50 %) Multimedia 1 3 (37.50 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Web Developer 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Web Designer 3 2 (25.00 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) PHP Web Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) 1st Line Support 4 1 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) PDA 2 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) SEO 1 3 (37.50 %) Web Design 2 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Adobe 2 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft