North West Photoshop Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Photoshop skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Photoshop
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Portsmouth Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	98
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	39	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	8.298 %	7.172 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£103
Average daily rate	£165	£119
% change on same period last year	+38.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£180	£136
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£238
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.29	£12.13
Average hourly rate	£15.29	£13.13
% change on same period last year	+16.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.29	£14.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.70	£22.45
% change on same period last year	-3.32 %
Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	470	488
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.620 %	0.518 %
Daily rates quoted	61	111
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£221
Average daily rate	£290	£230
% change on same period last year	+25.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	118	89
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.81	£15.09
Average hourly rate	£15.38	£16.15
% change on same period last year	-4.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.95	£17.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Photoshop England

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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Photoshop
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Photoshop across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Photoshop across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Photoshop
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Photoshop within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-20	19	-	-
Cheshire	-20	10	-	-
Merseyside	-2	9	£165	-

Photoshop England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 51 (57.95 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 46 (52.27 %) HTML 3 42 (47.73 %) CSS 4 40 (45.45 %) Flash 5 39 (44.32 %) JavaScript 6 32 (36.36 %) XHTML 7 24 (27.27 %) Adobe 8 22 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 9 16 (18.18 %) Web Design 10 15 (17.05 %) W3C 10 15 (17.05 %) ActionScript 11 12 (13.64 %) Graphic Design 12 11 (12.50 %) Marketing 12 11 (12.50 %) E-Learning 12 11 (12.50 %) XML

13 10 (11.36 %) Fireworks 14 8 (9.091 %) ImageReady 14 8 (9.091 %) Health 14 8 (9.091 %) PHP 14 8 (9.091 %) Java 14 8 (9.091 %) DHTML 14 8 (9.091 %) Content Management 15 7 (7.955 %) AJAX 15 7 (7.955 %) ASP 15 7 (7.955 %) SEO 16 6 (6.818 %) .NET 17 5 (5.682 %) Adobe Flex 17 5 (5.682 %) C# 17 5 (5.682 %) ASP.NET 17 5 (5.682 %) XSLT

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 46 (52.27 %) HTML 2 42 (47.73 %) CSS 3 32 (36.36 %) XHTML 4 11 (12.50 %) XML 5 7 (7.955 %) AJAX 5 7 (7.955 %) ASP 6 6 (6.818 %) .NET 7 5 (5.682 %) ASP.NET 7 5 (5.682 %) Adobe Flex 7 5 (5.682 %) XSLT 8 3 (3.409 %) XSL 9 2 (2.273 %) LAMP 10 1 (1.136 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (1.136 %) .NET Remoting 10 1 (1.136 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (1.136 %) JSP 10 1 (1.136 %) SOAP 10 1 (1.136 %) ADO 10 1 (1.136 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.409 %) SharePoint 1 3 (3.409 %) CMS 2 2 (2.273 %) LiveLink 2 2 (2.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (2.273 %) Apache 3 1 (1.136 %) IIS
Applications 1 51 (57.95 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 10 (11.36 %) Fireworks 3 8 (9.091 %) ImageReady 4 5 (5.682 %) QuarkXPress 5 4 (4.545 %) FreeHand 5 4 (4.545 %) MS PowerPoint 6 3 (3.409 %) Acrobat 7 2 (2.273 %) Adobe Premiere 8 1 (1.136 %) Adobe After Effects 8 1 (1.136 %) MS Office 8 1 (1.136 %) 3ds Max 8 1 (1.136 %) Adobe Director 8 1 (1.136 %) InDesign	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.409 %) WEP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.409 %) MySQL 2 2 (2.273 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.136 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 40 (45.45 %) Flash 2 22 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (3.409 %) FrontPage 4 1 (1.136 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.136 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 12 (13.64 %) Graphic Design 2 11 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 8 (9.091 %) Health 4 5 (5.682 %) Advertising 4 5 (5.682 %) Finance 4 5 (5.682 %) Construction 5 4 (4.545 %) Animation 5 4 (4.545 %) Government 5 4 (4.545 %) Pensions 6 3 (3.409 %) Education 7 1 (1.136 %) Aerospace 7 1 (1.136 %) Publishing 7 1 (1.136 %) 3D Graphics 7 1 (1.136 %) Games 7 1 (1.136 %) Flash Games	Job Titles 1 39 (44.32 %) Developer 2 23 (26.14 %) Web Designer 3 22 (25.00 %) Web Developer 4 6 (6.818 %) Graphic Designer 5 4 (4.545 %) ActionScript Developer 5 4 (4.545 %) Photoshop Designer 5 4 (4.545 %) E-Learning Developer 5 4 (4.545 %) Website Designer 6 3 (3.409 %) Webmaster 6 3 (3.409 %) Graduate 6 3 (3.409 %) PHP Developer 6 3 (3.409 %) Senior Web Designer 6 3 (3.409 %) Flash Designer 6 3 (3.409 %) Senior Flash Designer 7 2 (2.273 %) PHP Web Developer 7 2 (2.273 %) HTML Developer 7 2 (2.273 %) Applications Developer 7 2 (2.273 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (2.273 %) C# Developer 7 2 (2.273 %) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 15 (17.05 %) W3C 2 11 (12.50 %) E-Learning 3 4 (4.545 %) SCORM 4 3 (3.409 %) PDA 5 2 (2.273 %) Social Network 5 2 (2.273 %) Management Information System 6 1 (1.136 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.273 %) Linux 2 1 (1.136 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (18.18 %) Web Design 2 8 (9.091 %) Content Management 3 7 (7.955 %) SEO 4 3 (3.409 %) Change Management 5 2 (2.273 %) UML 5 2 (2.273 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (1.136 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.136 %) Web Development 6 1 (1.136 %) Email Marketing 6 1 (1.136 %) Internet Marketing 6 1 (1.136 %) Digital Marketing 6 1 (1.136 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 39 (44.32 %) JavaScript 2 15 (17.05 %) ActionScript 3 8 (9.091 %) DHTML 3 8 (9.091 %) Java 3 8 (9.091 %) PHP 4 5 (5.682 %) C# 5 4 (4.545 %) SQL 5 4 (4.545 %) Perl 6 3 (3.409 %) VBScript 7 2 (2.273 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (2.273 %) Lingo 8 1 (1.136 %) PHP5 8 1 (1.136 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (2.273 %) HND	Vendors 1 24 (27.27 %) Adobe 2 5 (5.682 %) Quark 3 4 (4.545 %) Microsoft 4 2 (2.273 %) Macromedia