The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 23 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 Staffordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank - 35 29
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 0 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 0.467% 5.023%
As % of the Applications category - 4.348% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £250 £250
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.26 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+102.83% -9.18%
All Applications
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
11 23 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 12.50% 10.75% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
Average daily rate £135 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-59.09% +1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
Average hourly rate £13.17 £17.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.77% +84.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Photoshop
West Midlands

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Photoshop Daily Rate Trend

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Photoshop Hourly Rate Trend

Photoshop
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
1 4 (100.00%) Adobe
1 4 (100.00%) Flash Builder
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) Graphic Design
2 3 (75.00%) OOD
2 3 (75.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Flash Builder
General
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Flash Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Adobe