South West Photoshop Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Photoshop skills within the South 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	116	114
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	17	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	3.047 %	6.687 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£230	£197
Average daily rate	£250	£213
% change on same period last year	+17.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£238
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£22.06
% change on same period last year	-13.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.70	£22.45
% change on same period last year	-3.32 %
Applications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	558	658
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.736 %	0.698 %
Daily rates quoted	181	118
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£299
Average daily rate	£336	£317
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	101	166
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£17.88
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£19.18
% change on same period last year	+7.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.29	£20.48
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 South 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 South West region.

Photoshop
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 South 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
Bristol	-3	6	£231	-7.50 %
Wiltshire	+5	3	-	-
Somerset	-1	3	-	-
Dorset	+3	1	-	-
Devon	+2	1	-	-

Photoshop England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 22 (53.66 %) CSS 2 19 (46.34 %) XHTML 2 19 (46.34 %) HTML 3 15 (36.59 %) Dreamweaver 3 15 (36.59 %) Flash 4 14 (34.15 %) CMS 5 13 (31.71 %) XML 6 12 (29.27 %) JavaScript 7 11 (26.83 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 11 (26.83 %) Adobe 8 9 (21.95 %) Content Management 9 8 (19.51 %) Web Design 10 7 (17.07 %) Internet 11 6 (14.63 %) Intranet 11 6 (14.63 %) ASP

11 6 (14.63 %) ImageReady 12 5 (12.20 %) ASP.NET 12 5 (12.20 %) .NET 12 5 (12.20 %) PHP 12 5 (12.20 %) AJAX 12 5 (12.20 %) Time Management 13 4 (9.756 %) Web Development 13 4 (9.756 %) C# 13 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server 13 4 (9.756 %) ActionScript 13 4 (9.756 %) Publishing 14 3 (7.317 %) Tridion 14 3 (7.317 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 3 (7.317 %) MySQL 14 3 (7.317 %) SQL

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 22 (53.66 %) CSS 2 19 (46.34 %) XHTML 2 19 (46.34 %) HTML 3 13 (31.71 %) XML 4 6 (14.63 %) ASP 5 5 (12.20 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (12.20 %) .NET 5 5 (12.20 %) AJAX 6 3 (7.317 %) XSLT 7 2 (4.878 %) LAMP 8 1 (2.439 %) XSL 8 1 (2.439 %) Ruby on Rails 8 1 (2.439 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 14 (34.15 %) CMS 2 3 (7.317 %) SharePoint 3 2 (4.878 %) IIS 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (26.83 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 6 (14.63 %) ImageReady 3 2 (4.878 %) QuarkXPress 3 2 (4.878 %) Fireworks 4 1 (2.439 %) PageMaker 4 1 (2.439 %) Acrobat 4 1 (2.439 %) InDesign 4 1 (2.439 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (17.07 %) Internet 2 6 (14.63 %) Intranet 3 2 (4.878 %) Extranet 4 1 (2.439 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server 2 3 (7.317 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 15 (36.59 %) Flash 1 15 (36.59 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (7.317 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 4 (9.756 %) Publishing 2 2 (4.878 %) Finance 2 2 (4.878 %) Law 2 2 (4.878 %) Pensions 2 2 (4.878 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.439 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.439 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.439 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 14 (34.15 %) Developer 2 11 (26.83 %) Web Designer 3 8 (19.51 %) Interface Designer 4 7 (17.07 %) Web Developer 5 4 (9.756 %) Senior Web Designer 6 3 (7.317 %) Coordinator 7 2 (4.878 %) Flash Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) .NET Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) C# Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) Junior 8 1 (2.439 %) ASP Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) Junior Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) PHP Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) HTML Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) Junior Web Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) Graphic Designer 8 1 (2.439 %) Web Editor 8 1 (2.439 %) MySQL Developer 8 1 (2.439 %) Web Content Editor
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.878 %) W3C 2 1 (2.439 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.439 %) Windows 1 1 (2.439 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (21.95 %) Content Management 2 8 (19.51 %) Web Design 3 5 (12.20 %) Time Management 4 4 (9.756 %) Web Development 5 3 (7.317 %) OO 6 1 (2.439 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.439 %) Migration 6 1 (2.439 %) OOP 6 1 (2.439 %) Wealth Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (29.27 %) JavaScript 2 5 (12.20 %) PHP 3 4 (9.756 %) C# 3 4 (9.756 %) ActionScript 4 3 (7.317 %) SQL 5 2 (4.878 %) VB.NET 5 2 (4.878 %) DHTML 5 2 (4.878 %) PHP5 6 1 (2.439 %) Java 6 1 (2.439 %) Python 6 1 (2.439 %) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) WAI	System Software 1 1 (2.439 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (26.83 %) Adobe 2 3 (7.317 %) Tridion 3 2 (4.878 %) Quark 3 2 (4.878 %) Microsoft