The first table below looks at the demand for Photoshop skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 21 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Photoshop
Rank 38 50 65
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Photoshop 7 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.465% 3.179% 0.232%
As % of the Applications category 10.00% 21.15% 1.613%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 1
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Applications
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
70 52 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 24.65% 15.03% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 36 55
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £21,000 £24,700
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £43,250 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -
Photoshop
Hertfordshire

Photoshop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Photoshop Jobs Demand Trend

Photoshop
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Photoshop across the Watford region.

Watford Photoshop Salary Trend

Photoshop
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Photoshop across the Watford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Watford Photoshop Salary Histogram

Photoshop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Photoshop.

1 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) JSP
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) Web Design
3 6 (75.00%) Adobe
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (62.50%) XHTML
4 5 (62.50%) OO
4 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
4 5 (62.50%) W3C
4 5 (62.50%) Retail
4 5 (62.50%) HTML5
4 5 (62.50%) CSS3
4 5 (62.50%) Responsive Web Design
4 5 (62.50%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Liferay
5 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) Perforce
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) Informix
5 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (25.00%) Java

Photoshop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Photoshop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) JSP
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
4 5 (62.50%) XHTML
4 5 (62.50%) HTML5
4 5 (62.50%) CSS3
5 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) J2EE
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Liferay
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Informix
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Web Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Web Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) W3C
2 1 (12.50%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Web Design
2 6 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 5 (62.50%) OO
3 5 (62.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) Perforce
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle