The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 24 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 South 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 90 124 108
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -16
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 18 12 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.892% 0.371% 0.495%
As % of the Applications category 6.272% 2.685% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 5
Average daily rate £175 £250 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £105 £144 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £360 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £258 £250 £250
% change year-on-year
+3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £19.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +21.87%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.26 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+102.83% -9.18%
All Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
287 447 364
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.23% 13.82% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 252 148
Average daily rate £320 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £155 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £414 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 63 69
Average hourly rate £13.50 £23.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.30% +15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.03 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.40 £50.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South 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 South West region.

South West Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Devon - 8 £250 -
Bristol +14 4 £175 +9.37%
Wiltshire 0 2 £220 +34.14%
Dorset - 2 £105 -
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 24 (75.00%) CSS
2 22 (68.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 16 (50.00%) HTML
4 13 (40.63%) Adobe
5 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 11 (34.38%) Web Development
7 10 (31.25%) Web Design
8 9 (28.13%) Fireworks
8 9 (28.13%) Graphic Design
8 9 (28.13%) HTML5
9 7 (21.88%) CSS3
10 6 (18.75%) Analytics
10 6 (18.75%) User Experience Design
10 6 (18.75%) Content Management
11 5 (15.63%) Subversion
11 5 (15.63%) SEO
11 5 (15.63%) Dreamweaver
11 5 (15.63%) Flash
11 5 (15.63%) Usability Testing
11 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
11 5 (15.63%) Web Analytics
11 5 (15.63%) Marketing
11 5 (15.63%) New Media
11 5 (15.63%) Information Architecture
12 4 (12.50%) jQuery
12 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
12 4 (12.50%) Web Services
12 4 (12.50%) XML
12 4 (12.50%) PHP
12 4 (12.50%) Finance

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 24 (75.00%) CSS
2 16 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (28.13%) HTML5
4 7 (21.88%) CSS3
5 5 (15.63%) Flash
6 4 (12.50%) jQuery
6 4 (12.50%) Web Services
6 4 (12.50%) XML
7 3 (9.375%) .NET
7 3 (9.375%) REST
8 2 (6.250%) XHTML
9 1 (3.125%) ASP
9 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
9 1 (3.125%) JSON
9 1 (3.125%) Ajax
9 1 (3.125%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) CMS
2 2 (6.250%) WordPress
2 2 (6.250%) TeamSite
3 1 (3.125%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 9 (28.13%) Fireworks
3 2 (6.250%) InDesign
4 1 (3.125%) Maya
4 1 (3.125%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (3.125%) MS Office
4 1 (3.125%) Acrobat
4 1 (3.125%) QuarkXPress
4 1 (3.125%) FreeHand
4 1 (3.125%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (3.125%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Summit
2 1 (3.125%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) MySQL
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Subversion
1 5 (15.63%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (9.375%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.250%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (15.63%) Marketing
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.375%) Multimedia
4 2 (6.250%) Advertising
5 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Designer
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Web Designer
3 5 (15.63%) Web Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Production Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Web Production Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Photoshop Designer
5 3 (9.375%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (9.375%) Android Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Flash Designer
6 2 (6.250%) Flash Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.125%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.125%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Website Manager
7 1 (3.125%) Instructional Designer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Graphic Design
2 5 (15.63%) New Media
3 3 (9.375%) E-Learning
3 3 (9.375%) Social Network
4 2 (6.250%) Social Media
4 2 (6.250%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.250%) Digital Media
4 2 (6.250%) Video Editing
4 2 (6.250%) Blog
4 2 (6.250%) Open Source
5 1 (3.125%) SCORM
5 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.375%) Mac OS X
1 3 (9.375%) Android
2 1 (3.125%) Windows
2 1 (3.125%) Linux
2 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Web Development
2 10 (31.25%) Web Design
3 6 (18.75%) Analytics
3 6 (18.75%) User Experience Design
3 6 (18.75%) Content Management
4 5 (15.63%) SEO
4 5 (15.63%) Usability Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Web Analytics
4 5 (15.63%) Information Architecture
5 2 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.125%) Scrum
6 1 (3.125%) TDD
6 1 (3.125%) OO
6 1 (3.125%) Brand Management
6 1 (3.125%) Time Management
6 1 (3.125%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (3.125%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 4 (12.50%) PHP
3 3 (9.375%) ActionScript
3 3 (9.375%) Java
4 2 (6.250%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (6.250%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.125%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) ISO 14001
1 3 (9.375%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Adobe
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.125%) Google