The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 51 78 69
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -9
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 19 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.289% 0.282% 1.041%
As % of the Applications category 12.50% 1.899% 6.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £269 - £130
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 - £126
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 - £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £225 £250
% change year-on-year
+15.55% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -28.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £15.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+105.88% -5.55%
All Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
152 158 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.31% 14.85% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 63 54
Average daily rate £325 £360 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.72% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £137 £218 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 19
Average hourly rate £15.50 £12.38 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.25% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.60 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £16.00 £21.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Photoshop
Berkshire

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 24 (80.00%) HTML
2 23 (76.67%) CSS
3 21 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 18 (60.00%) Adobe
5 16 (53.33%) jQuery
6 11 (36.67%) HTML5
6 11 (36.67%) Marketing
7 9 (30.00%) Advertising
7 9 (30.00%) XML
8 8 (26.67%) CSS3
8 8 (26.67%) Digital Media
8 8 (26.67%) JSP
8 8 (26.67%) Content Management
9 7 (23.33%) Japanese Language
9 7 (23.33%) Korean Language
9 7 (23.33%) CMS
9 7 (23.33%) Perl
9 7 (23.33%) .NET
9 7 (23.33%) Dreamweaver
9 7 (23.33%) Apache Flex
10 6 (20.00%) Android
10 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (20.00%) iPad
10 6 (20.00%) W3C
10 6 (20.00%) XHTML
10 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
10 6 (20.00%) MVC
11 5 (16.67%) ActionScript
11 5 (16.67%) Flash
12 4 (13.33%) Microsoft

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 24 (80.00%) HTML
2 23 (76.67%) CSS
3 16 (53.33%) jQuery
4 11 (36.67%) HTML5
5 9 (30.00%) XML
6 8 (26.67%) JSP
6 8 (26.67%) CSS3
7 7 (23.33%) .NET
7 7 (23.33%) Apache Flex
8 6 (20.00%) XHTML
8 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
8 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (16.67%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.333%) WordPress
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
2 3 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (6.667%) InDesign
3 2 (6.667%) Fireworks
4 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) FTP
2 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.333%) DNS
2 1 (3.333%) LAN
2 1 (3.333%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (3.333%) Subversion
2 1 (3.333%) Expression Blend
General
1 11 (36.67%) Marketing
2 9 (30.00%) Advertising
3 7 (23.33%) Japanese Language
3 7 (23.33%) Korean Language
4 3 (10.00%) Publishing
5 2 (6.667%) Retail
6 1 (3.333%) Music
6 1 (3.333%) Games
6 1 (3.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Designer
3 7 (23.33%) Web Producer
4 5 (16.67%) Web Designer
5 4 (13.33%) Web Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Flash Developer
7 2 (6.667%) Photoshop Designer
7 2 (6.667%) Coordinator
7 2 (6.667%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (6.667%) Visual Designer
8 1 (3.333%) UI Programmer
8 1 (3.333%) Graduate
8 1 (3.333%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.333%) Support Technician
8 1 (3.333%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (3.333%) Product Specialist
8 1 (3.333%) UI Designer
8 1 (3.333%) UI Developer
8 1 (3.333%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Digital Media
2 6 (20.00%) iPad
2 6 (20.00%) W3C
3 2 (6.667%) Flash Lite
4 1 (3.333%) New Media
4 1 (3.333%) STB
4 1 (3.333%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.333%) Animation
4 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.333%) UNIX
2 1 (3.333%) Windows
2 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Content Management
2 6 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 2 (6.667%) Web Development
4 1 (3.333%) Interactive Advertising
4 1 (3.333%) UML
4 1 (3.333%) Migration
4 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (23.33%) Perl
3 5 (16.67%) ActionScript
4 3 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (6.667%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (6.667%) XAML
5 2 (6.667%) PHP
6 1 (3.333%) SQL
6 1 (3.333%) Lua
6 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Adobe
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
Reading, Thames Valley
The successful candidate will have experience developing flash applications using AS3 (actionscript 3). You will have experience of working with Adobe Creative Studio including Flash Pro, Photoshop and...
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