Photoshop Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 82 116 101
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -15
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 36 16 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.567% 0.505% 1.007%
As % of the Applications category 11.36% 4.954% 9.145%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 18
Average daily rate £213 £269 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -17.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £250 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £403 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £225 £250
% change year-on-year
+15.55% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+462.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+105.88% -5.55%
All Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 317 323 339
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.80% 10.20% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 135 164
Average daily rate £295 £308 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.06% -0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £430 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 45 39
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £12.01 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £101.40 £25.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +32 29 £200 -20.00%
Cheshire +7 4 £329 +10.88%
Lancashire +13 2 - -
Merseyside +8 1 - -
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 33 (50.00%) CSS
1 33 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 32 (48.48%) HTML
3 31 (46.97%) JavaScript
4 27 (40.91%) Adobe
5 19 (28.79%) HTML5
6 18 (27.27%) jQuery
7 16 (24.24%) .NET
8 15 (22.73%) PHP
9 14 (21.21%) SQL
9 14 (21.21%) Dreamweaver
9 14 (21.21%) CSS3
10 12 (18.18%) Fireworks
10 12 (18.18%) InDesign
10 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
11 10 (15.15%) MySQL
11 10 (15.15%) WordPress
11 10 (15.15%) Android
12 9 (13.64%) Ajax
12 9 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
12 9 (13.64%) ASP.NET
12 9 (13.64%) Apache
13 8 (12.12%) Apple
13 8 (12.12%) VB.NET
13 8 (12.12%) Marketing
13 8 (12.12%) .NET Framework
13 8 (12.12%) Photography
13 8 (12.12%) iPad
14 7 (10.61%) C#
14 7 (10.61%) Acrobat

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 33 (50.00%) CSS
2 32 (48.48%) HTML
3 19 (28.79%) HTML5
4 18 (27.27%) jQuery
5 16 (24.24%) .NET
6 14 (21.21%) CSS3
7 9 (13.64%) ASP.NET
7 9 (13.64%) Ajax
8 8 (12.12%) .NET Framework
9 6 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
9 6 (9.091%) Web Services
10 5 (7.576%) XHTML
10 5 (7.576%) Sass
11 4 (6.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (6.061%) LAMP
11 4 (6.061%) JSON
11 4 (6.061%) LINQ
12 3 (4.545%) XSL
12 3 (4.545%) Flash
13 2 (3.030%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.15%) WordPress
2 9 (13.64%) Apache
3 6 (9.091%) Drupal
4 5 (7.576%) CMS
5 3 (4.545%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.515%) Joomla!
6 1 (1.515%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 12 (18.18%) InDesign
2 12 (18.18%) Fireworks
3 7 (10.61%) Acrobat
4 5 (7.576%) QuarkXPress
5 4 (6.061%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (6.061%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) SMS
2 3 (4.545%) Intranet
3 1 (1.515%) Internet
3 1 (1.515%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.15%) MySQL
3 9 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (6.061%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (7.576%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.030%) Subversion
4 1 (1.515%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (12.12%) Marketing
2 3 (4.545%) Banking
3 2 (3.030%) Retail
3 2 (3.030%) German Language
3 2 (3.030%) Spanish Language
3 2 (3.030%) Advertising
3 2 (3.030%) Games
4 1 (1.515%) Automotive
4 1 (1.515%) Publishing
4 1 (1.515%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (50.00%) Developer
2 18 (27.27%) Designer
3 14 (21.21%) Web Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Web Designer
4 9 (13.64%) Front-End Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Graphic Designer
6 5 (7.576%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Front-End Web Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Junior Designer
8 2 (3.030%) IT Trainer
8 2 (3.030%) Creative Director
8 2 (3.030%) Technical Artist
8 2 (3.030%) SQL Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Graduate
8 2 (3.030%) Trainer
8 2 (3.030%) Junior
9 1 (1.515%) PHP Developer
9 1 (1.515%) Programmer
9 1 (1.515%) .NET Developer
9 1 (1.515%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Photography
1 8 (12.12%) iPad
2 4 (6.061%) Digital Media
2 4 (6.061%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.061%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.061%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.545%) Animation
4 2 (3.030%) New Media
5 1 (1.515%) W3C
5 1 (1.515%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.515%) Social Network
5 1 (1.515%) iPhone
5 1 (1.515%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.515%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Android
2 6 (9.091%) Linux
3 1 (1.515%) Windows
3 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.515%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (10.61%) Web Design
2 5 (7.576%) SEO
3 4 (6.061%) Contact Management
3 4 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (4.545%) E-Commerce
4 3 (4.545%) Content Management
4 3 (4.545%) Web Accessibility
5 2 (3.030%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (3.030%) Web Application Development
5 2 (3.030%) Time Management
5 2 (3.030%) Performance Management
5 2 (3.030%) B2B
6 1 (1.515%) MVC
6 1 (1.515%) Scrum
6 1 (1.515%) TDD
6 1 (1.515%) Pair Programming
6 1 (1.515%) Web Usability
6 1 (1.515%) Web Development
6 1 (1.515%) Unit Testing
6 1 (1.515%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.97%) JavaScript
2 15 (22.73%) PHP
3 14 (21.21%) SQL
4 8 (12.12%) VB.NET
5 7 (10.61%) C#
6 4 (6.061%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.515%) C
7 1 (1.515%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (1.515%) Degree
1 1 (1.515%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) Plesk
Vendors
1 27 (40.91%) Adobe
2 8 (12.12%) Apple
3 6 (9.091%) Quark
4 5 (7.576%) Orchard
4 5 (7.576%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.061%) Twitter
6 1 (1.515%) Facebook
Design and Digital Officer
Preston, North West
Someone who can design from the get go.The skills they are looking for are: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Web Design.The Web Design skills they are looking...
Rate: £135.00 - £135.74 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
Graphic Designer/Art Director
Manchester, Lancashire
To include art direction, conceptualisation, visualising, & producing creative, innovative & original ideas. Rresponsible for interpreting client briefs to ensure the successful development of design communications. Use innovation to define...
NES Global Talent
Rate: Excellent rate
Posted: 14 May 2013
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