South East Photoshop Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Photoshop skills within the South East 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Wycombe Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	160	151
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	93	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.126 %	0.163 %
As % of the category below	5.284 %	7.657 %
Daily rates quoted	23	14
Average minimum daily rate	£188	£231
Average daily rate	£200	£241
% change on same period last year	-17.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£212	£251
UK excluding London average daily rate	£213	£287
% change on same period last year	-25.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.63	£27.43
Average hourly rate	£18.03	£29.31
% change on same period last year	-38.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.42	£31.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.32	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-33.11 %
Applications South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1760	2155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.379 %	2.125 %
Daily rates quoted	352	451
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£278
Average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	362	474
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.64	£18.13
Average hourly rate	£18.79	£19.48
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.94	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.59	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Photoshop across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Berkshire	+31	37	£216	-27.24 %
Surrey	+1	16	£183	-5.17 %
Hampshire	+11	9	-	-
Thames Valley	+18	8	£208	-29.77 %
Kent	+6	8	£166	-13.92 %
East Sussex	+5	3	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+2	3	-	-
Oxfordshire	+1	3	-	-
West Sussex	-3	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 150 (59.76 %) HTML 2 130 (51.79 %) CSS 3 107 (42.63 %) Flash 4 87 (34.66 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 73 (29.08 %) XHTML 6 62 (24.70 %) JavaScript 7 57 (22.71 %) Dreamweaver 8 56 (22.31 %) Content Management 9 42 (16.73 %) XML 10 36 (14.34 %) Adobe 11 35 (13.94 %) SQL Server 12 31 (12.35 %) CMS 12 31 (12.35 %) Marketing 12 31 (12.35 %) Web Design 13 30 (11.95 %) Intranet

14 29 (11.55 %) .NET 15 27 (10.76 %) ASP.NET 16 26 (10.36 %) ASP 17 25 (9.960 %) SQL 18 23 (9.163 %) ActionScript 18 23 (9.163 %) AJAX 18 23 (9.163 %) Multimedia 19 22 (8.765 %) MS Excel 19 22 (8.765 %) Microsoft 20 20 (7.968 %) Internet 20 20 (7.968 %) JSP 21 19 (7.570 %) IIS 21 19 (7.570 %) Publishing 22 18 (7.171 %) Advertising 22 18 (7.171 %) WAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 150 (59.76 %) HTML 2 130 (51.79 %) CSS 3 73 (29.08 %) XHTML 4 42 (16.73 %) XML 5 29 (11.55 %) .NET 6 27 (10.76 %) ASP.NET 7 26 (10.36 %) ASP 8 23 (9.163 %) AJAX 9 20 (7.968 %) JSP 10 18 (7.171 %) WAP 11 16 (6.375 %) XSL 12 15 (5.976 %) WML 13 8 (3.187 %) WebServices 14 6 (2.390 %) J2EE 14 6 (2.390 %) .NET Framework 15 5 (1.992 %) jQuery 15 5 (1.992 %) XSLT 16 4 (1.594 %) MooTools 16 4 (1.594 %) JSTL 16 4 (1.594 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 31 (12.35 %) CMS 2 19 (7.570 %) IIS 3 4 (1.594 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (0.797 %) Apache 4 2 (0.797 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.398 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.398 %) Plone 5 1 (0.398 %) Joomla!
Applications 1 87 (34.66 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 22 (8.765 %) MS Excel 3 16 (6.375 %) MS Office 4 15 (5.976 %) 3ds Max 4 15 (5.976 %) Fireworks 5 6 (2.390 %) ImageReady 5 6 (2.390 %) MS PowerPoint 6 5 (1.992 %) FreeHand 6 5 (1.992 %) MS Visio 6 5 (1.992 %) AutoCAD 7 4 (1.594 %) Acrobat 7 4 (1.594 %) LightWave 3D 7 4 (1.594 %) InDesign 8 1 (0.398 %) CorelDRAW 8 1 (0.398 %) FrameMaker 8 1 (0.398 %) Paint Shop Pro	Business Applications 1 1 (0.398 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 30 (11.95 %) Intranet 2 20 (7.968 %) Internet 3 9 (3.586 %) Extranet 4 5 (1.992 %) 3G 4 5 (1.992 %) FTP 5 1 (0.398 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.398 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (13.94 %) SQL Server 2 6 (2.390 %) MS Access 3 5 (1.992 %) DB2 3 5 (1.992 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (1.992 %) DB2 UDB 4 4 (1.594 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.594 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (1.195 %) MySQL 5 3 (1.195 %) SQLBase 6 1 (0.398 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 107 (42.63 %) Flash 2 57 (22.71 %) Dreamweaver 3 12 (4.781 %) Visual Studio 4 7 (2.789 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.398 %) Subversion	General 1 31 (12.35 %) Marketing 2 23 (9.163 %) Multimedia 3 19 (7.570 %) Publishing 4 18 (7.171 %) Advertising 5 15 (5.976 %) Telecoms 6 9 (3.586 %) Finance 6 9 (3.586 %) Games 7 8 (3.187 %) Education 8 6 (2.390 %) Legal 8 6 (2.390 %) Police 9 5 (1.992 %) Government 10 4 (1.594 %) Insurance 10 4 (1.594 %) Graphic Design 11 3 (1.195 %) 3D Graphics 11 3 (1.195 %) Electronics 12 2 (0.797 %) Financial Institution 12 2 (0.797 %) Banking 12 2 (0.797 %) Retail 12 2 (0.797 %) Video Editing 13 1 (0.398 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 77 (30.68 %) Developer 2 68 (27.09 %) Web Designer 3 41 (16.33 %) Web Developer 4 28 (11.16 %) Photoshop Designer 5 21 (8.367 %) Web Editor 6 20 (7.968 %) Content Editor 7 14 (5.578 %) Graphic Designer 8 9 (3.586 %) Flash Designer 8 9 (3.586 %) Coordinator 9 8 (3.187 %) Analyst 9 8 (3.187 %) E-Learning Developer 10 7 (2.789 %) .NET Developer 11 6 (2.390 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 6 (2.390 %) Graduate 11 6 (2.390 %) Website Designer 12 5 (1.992 %) Administrator 12 5 (1.992 %) 3D Artist 12 5 (1.992 %) Junior 12 5 (1.992 %) Software Developer 12 5 (1.992 %) Graduate Developer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (7.171 %) E-Learning 2 12 (4.781 %) W3C 3 4 (1.594 %) N-Tier 4 3 (1.195 %) NHS 4 3 (1.195 %) German Language 4 3 (1.195 %) Copywriting 5 2 (0.797 %) SCORM 6 1 (0.398 %) French Language 6 1 (0.398 %) Italian Language 6 1 (0.398 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.398 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 9 (3.586 %) Windows 2 5 (1.992 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.398 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (22.31 %) Content Management 2 31 (12.35 %) Web Design 3 14 (5.578 %) E-Commerce 4 13 (5.179 %) Web Development 5 6 (2.390 %) Usability Testing 5 6 (2.390 %) SEO 6 5 (1.992 %) Internet Marketing 7 4 (1.594 %) CRM 7 4 (1.594 %) Direct Marketing 7 4 (1.594 %) Release Management 7 4 (1.594 %) OO 8 3 (1.195 %) OOP 8 3 (1.195 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (1.195 %) Pay per click 9 2 (0.797 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (0.797 %) Validation 9 2 (0.797 %) Security Cleared 10 1 (0.398 %) Creative Marketing 10 1 (0.398 %) Time Management 10 1 (0.398 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 62 (24.70 %) JavaScript 2 25 (9.960 %) SQL 3 23 (9.163 %) ActionScript 4 17 (6.773 %) PHP 4 17 (6.773 %) Java 5 12 (4.781 %) C# 6 9 (3.586 %) VB 7 8 (3.187 %) VB.NET 7 8 (3.187 %) DHTML 8 7 (2.789 %) Transact-SQL 9 5 (1.992 %) Perl 10 2 (0.797 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (0.797 %) C 10 2 (0.797 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.398 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 8 (3.187 %) Degree 2 4 (1.594 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.594 %) MCP 2 4 (1.594 %) MCSD 3 1 (0.398 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.789 %) WAI 2 1 (0.398 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.398 %) TickIT	Vendors 1 36 (14.34 %) Adobe 2 22 (8.765 %) Microsoft 3 10 (3.984 %) Macromedia 4 8 (3.187 %) RedDot 5 5 (1.992 %) IBM 6 4 (1.594 %) Business Objects 6 4 (1.594 %) FatWire 7 3 (1.195 %) Google 7 3 (1.195 %) Quark 8 2 (0.797 %) Tridion 9 1 (0.398 %) Endeca 9 1 (0.398 %) MKS 9 1 (0.398 %) Plumtree 9 1 (0.398 %) Oracle