Photoshop Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 72 85 63
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -22
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 23 18 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.393% 0.807% 1.636%
As % of the Applications category 8.846% 5.732% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 24
Average daily rate £260 £150 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £225 £250
% change year-on-year
+15.55% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £17.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+105.88% -5.55%
All Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 260 314 287
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.75% 14.07% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 114 106
Average daily rate £275 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £150 £123
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £442 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 60 54
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +10.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.91 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £32.25 £22.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Worcestershire -12 6 £290 -
Birmingham +5 3 £300 +100.00%
Warwickshire 0 3 £215 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £235 -
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 45 (86.54%) CSS
2 41 (78.85%) JavaScript
3 37 (71.15%) HTML
4 29 (55.77%) jQuery
4 29 (55.77%) HTML5
5 26 (50.00%) CSS3
6 17 (32.69%) Adobe
7 15 (28.85%) XHTML
8 14 (26.92%) Flash
9 13 (25.00%) CMS
10 11 (21.15%) .NET
10 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
10 11 (21.15%) Facebook
11 10 (19.23%) W3C
11 10 (19.23%) Adobe Illustrator
12 9 (17.31%) SEO
13 8 (15.38%) Subversion
13 8 (15.38%) Content Management
13 8 (15.38%) Marketing
14 7 (13.46%) Web Development
14 7 (13.46%) Graphic Design
14 7 (13.46%) JSP
14 7 (13.46%) PHP
15 6 (11.54%) Dreamweaver
15 6 (11.54%) OO
15 6 (11.54%) Web Accessibility
15 6 (11.54%) WordPress
16 5 (9.615%) Sitecore CMS
16 5 (9.615%) Sitecore
16 5 (9.615%) Flash Builder

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 45 (86.54%) CSS
2 37 (71.15%) HTML
3 29 (55.77%) HTML5
3 29 (55.77%) jQuery
4 26 (50.00%) CSS3
5 15 (28.85%) XHTML
6 14 (26.92%) Flash
7 11 (21.15%) .NET
7 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
8 7 (13.46%) JSP
9 5 (9.615%) Web Services
9 5 (9.615%) Sass
10 2 (3.846%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (3.846%) Middleware
10 2 (3.846%) CodeIgniter
10 2 (3.846%) Ajax
11 1 (1.923%) JSON
11 1 (1.923%) Dojo
11 1 (1.923%) Backbone.js
11 1 (1.923%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) CMS
2 6 (11.54%) WordPress
3 5 (9.615%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (7.692%) Joomla!
5 2 (3.846%) Drupal
5 2 (3.846%) Umbraco
5 2 (3.846%) Apache
5 2 (3.846%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.923%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (3.846%) OmniGraffle
2 2 (3.846%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.692%) Internet
2 3 (5.769%) FTP
3 1 (1.923%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Subversion
2 6 (11.54%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (9.615%) Flash Builder
4 1 (1.923%) Xcode
General
1 8 (15.38%) Marketing
2 2 (3.846%) Automotive
3 1 (1.923%) Publishing
3 1 (1.923%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (75.00%) Developer
2 26 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
3 11 (21.15%) Web Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Designer
5 5 (9.615%) Front-End Web Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Programmer
6 4 (7.692%) Flash Designer
6 4 (7.692%) Flash Programmer
7 3 (5.769%) UI Developer
7 3 (5.769%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.769%) UI Programmer
8 2 (3.846%) Drupal Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Web Designer
8 2 (3.846%) Lead Developer
9 1 (1.923%) Games Developer
9 1 (1.923%) Interface Designer
9 1 (1.923%) Flash Developer
9 1 (1.923%) Graphic Designer
9 1 (1.923%) UI Designer
9 1 (1.923%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) W3C
2 7 (13.46%) Graphic Design
3 2 (3.846%) Open Source
3 2 (3.846%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.923%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.923%) Animation
4 1 (1.923%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.692%) Linux
2 1 (1.923%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) SEO
2 8 (15.38%) Content Management
3 7 (13.46%) Web Development
4 6 (11.54%) Web Accessibility
4 6 (11.54%) OO
5 5 (9.615%) OOD
6 4 (7.692%) Enterprise Content Management
6 4 (7.692%) Scrum
7 3 (5.769%) Time Management
8 2 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (1.923%) Unit Testing
9 1 (1.923%) Online Marketing
9 1 (1.923%) Information Architecture
9 1 (1.923%) MVC
9 1 (1.923%) E-Commerce
9 1 (1.923%) Industrial Design
9 1 (1.923%) Pay per click
9 1 (1.923%) Project Planning
9 1 (1.923%) User Experience Design
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) JavaScript
2 7 (13.46%) PHP
3 5 (9.615%) SQL
3 5 (9.615%) ActionScript
3 5 (9.615%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (7.692%) PHP5
5 3 (5.769%) C#
6 1 (1.923%) Java
6 1 (1.923%) C
6 1 (1.923%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.923%) GLSL
6 1 (1.923%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.846%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Adobe
2 11 (21.15%) Facebook
3 5 (9.615%) Oracle
3 5 (9.615%) Sitecore
4 3 (5.769%) Stellent
5 1 (1.923%) VMware
5 1 (1.923%) Alterian
5 1 (1.923%) Apple
Front End Web Developer - HTML5/CCS3
West Midlands
For the role applicants should have an excellent knowledge and extensive commercial experience of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and flash... Additional desirable skills which could make you stand out...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
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