Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 February 2020

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Adobe over the 6 months to 21 February 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adobe
UK > England
6 months to
21 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 223 225 188
Rank change year-on-year +2 -37 +12
Contract jobs citing Adobe 733 1,100 1,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.21% 1.45%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 2.86% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 621 898
England median daily rate £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -
10th Percentile £132 £194 £210
90th Percentile £575 £575 £563
UK median daily rate £375 £415 £400
% change year-on-year -9.64% +3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 39
England median hourly rate £21.50 £18.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +14.67% -6.25% -35.48%
10th Percentile £15.30 £12.72 £12.25
90th Percentile £48.75 £26.45 £45.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £18.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year +18.62% -9.38% -35.48%

Adobe is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

All Vendors
England
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 26,730 38,499 39,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.12% 42.41% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,617 24,136 24,854
England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
10th Percentile £225 £263 £238
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 1,370 1,321
England median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +8.57% - -
10th Percentile £11.89 £10.75 £11.00
90th Percentile £51.75 £48.04 £47.50
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% - +2.94%

Adobe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Adobe as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Adobe in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Adobe in England over the 6 months to 21 February 2020.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Adobe in England over the 6 months to 21 February 2020.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the England region over the 6 months to 21 February 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
London +27 437 £400 -5.88% 157
South East +21 137 £300 -25.00% 52
South West +42 66 £370 -7.50% 25
North of England +12 42 £184 -52.21% 71
Midlands +49 29 £378 -5.63% 33
Yorkshire +39 25 £184 -50.93% 23
East of England +24 22 £275 -27.63% 24
West Midlands +39 21 £380 -5.00% 15
North West -4 13 £450 - 40
East Midlands +34 8 £325 +3.17% 18
North East +15 4 £135 -58.46% 8
Adobe
UK

For the 6 months to 21 February 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Adobe also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Adobe.

1 206 (28.10%) Agile Software Development
2 193 (26.33%) User Experience
3 170 (23.19%) Marketing
4 167 (22.78%) HTML
5 142 (19.37%) Sketch
6 139 (18.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 127 (17.33%) Analytics
7 127 (17.33%) CSS
8 125 (17.05%) Photoshop
9 120 (16.37%) JavaScript
10 115 (15.69%) Wireframes
11 104 (14.19%) Windows
12 99 (13.51%) InVision
13 97 (13.23%) Finance
14 94 (12.82%) Microsoft
15 90 (12.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 85 (11.60%) Adobe Illustrator
16 85 (11.60%) Google
17 82 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
18 81 (11.05%) Adobe Analytics
19 78 (10.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
20 77 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
21 75 (10.23%) JIRA
22 74 (10.10%) E-Commerce
23 73 (9.96%) CRM
24 72 (9.82%) CMS
25 69 (9.41%) Java
26 66 (9.00%) Retail
27 65 (8.87%) Active Directory
28 62 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel

Adobe
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 139 (18.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 72 (9.82%) CMS
3 41 (5.59%) Confluence
4 28 (3.82%) MS Exchange
5 23 (3.14%) SharePoint
6 19 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2007
7 16 (2.18%) Skype for Business
8 14 (1.91%) Sitecore CMS
9 12 (1.64%) SAP Portal
9 12 (1.64%) SAS
10 8 (1.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.95%) Apache
11 7 (0.95%) JBoss
12 6 (0.82%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.82%) WordPress
13 5 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
13 5 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 142 (19.37%) Sketch
2 125 (17.05%) Photoshop
3 99 (13.51%) InVision
4 90 (12.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 85 (11.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 82 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
7 62 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
8 59 (8.05%) InDesign
9 46 (6.28%) Adobe XD
10 43 (5.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 39 (5.32%) Adobe After Effects
12 34 (4.64%) Acrobat
13 29 (3.96%) Zeplin
14 26 (3.55%) MS Visio
15 25 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
16 23 (3.14%) Figma
17 22 (3.00%) Adobe Captivate
18 19 (2.59%) Adobe Premiere
19 13 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
20 8 (1.09%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 29 (3.96%) Adobe Campaign
2 19 (2.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (1.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 10 (1.36%) Magento
5 9 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (1.23%) SAP PSCD
6 4 (0.55%) Eloqua
6 4 (0.55%) Salesforce.com CRM
6 4 (0.55%) Unica
7 3 (0.41%) Shopify
8 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.27%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.27%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.27%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.14%) WebTrends
9 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (11.05%) Adobe Analytics
2 78 (10.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 62 (8.46%) Office 365
4 42 (5.73%) Google Analytics
5 30 (4.09%) AWS
6 24 (3.27%) Azure
7 13 (1.77%) OneDrive
8 11 (1.50%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.50%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.23%) Google Docs
10 8 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (1.09%) GCP
10 8 (1.09%) Serverless
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.95%) GitHub
12 6 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (0.68%) SaaS
14 4 (0.55%) CloudFront
14 4 (0.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.55%) Internet
1 26 (3.55%) VPN
2 21 (2.86%) WebEx
3 20 (2.73%) Skype
4 19 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.36%) DNS
7 9 (1.23%) DHCP
8 7 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (0.95%) Firewall
8 7 (0.95%) HTTP
9 5 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.68%) NaaS
10 4 (0.55%) LAN
10 4 (0.55%) SSL
10 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.41%) Cisco PIX
11 3 (0.41%) VoIP
11 3 (0.41%) WAN
11 3 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
2 11 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (1.50%) Power BI
3 9 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.09%) Big Data
4 8 (1.09%) MySQL
5 7 (0.95%) Jackrabbit
6 6 (0.82%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.68%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.55%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 4 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.55%) SAS EBI
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.41%) DataStage
9 3 (0.41%) QlikView
9 3 (0.41%) QualityStage
9 3 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 75 (10.23%) JIRA
2 44 (6.00%) Axure RP
3 36 (4.91%) Git (software)
4 17 (2.32%) Maven
5 16 (2.18%) Visual Studio Team System
6 14 (1.91%) Gradle
6 14 (1.91%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.77%) Balsamiq
8 10 (1.36%) Dreamweaver
8 10 (1.36%) IntelliJ
9 7 (0.95%) Selenium
10 6 (0.82%) StarTeam
11 5 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.55%) Ant
12 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.55%) Gatling
12 4 (0.55%) gulp
12 4 (0.55%) JUnit
General
1 170 (23.19%) Marketing
2 97 (13.23%) Finance
3 66 (9.00%) Retail
4 28 (3.82%) Banking
5 25 (3.41%) Advertising
6 22 (3.00%) Games
6 22 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.46%) Legal
8 17 (2.32%) Publishing
9 16 (2.18%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.36%) Electronics
10 10 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.23%) Automotive
11 9 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.09%) Back Office
12 8 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (1.09%) Law
12 8 (1.09%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 208 (28.38%) Designer
2 112 (15.28%) Developer
3 97 (13.23%) UX Designer
4 71 (9.69%) Analyst
5 56 (7.64%) UI Designer
6 37 (5.05%) Digital Designer
7 36 (4.91%) UI/UX Designer
8 35 (4.77%) Consultant
9 27 (3.68%) Architect
9 27 (3.68%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.55%) Desktop Support
11 25 (3.41%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.00%) SAP Developer
13 21 (2.86%) Senior Designer
14 19 (2.59%) Desktop Engineer
14 19 (2.59%) Graphic Designer
15 17 (2.32%) Junior
16 16 (2.18%) IT Support
17 15 (2.05%) Digital Analyst
17 15 (2.05%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (22.78%) HTML
2 127 (17.33%) CSS
3 48 (6.55%) HTML5
4 36 (4.91%) Web Services
4 36 (4.91%) XML
5 28 (3.82%) AngularJS
6 23 (3.14%) JSON
7 22 (3.00%) React
8 20 (2.73%) Spring
9 18 (2.46%) RESTful
10 14 (1.91%) JSR 170
10 14 (1.91%) OSGi
11 13 (1.77%) XHTML
12 12 (1.64%) CSS3
12 12 (1.64%) Flash
12 12 (1.64%) Web Dynpro
13 11 (1.50%) J2SE
13 11 (1.50%) jQuery
14 10 (1.36%) Spring Batch
15 9 (1.23%) Apache Sling
Miscellaneous
1 193 (26.33%) User Experience
2 43 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (4.91%) Social Media
4 34 (4.64%) Mobile App
5 31 (4.23%) e-Learning
5 31 (4.23%) Graphic Design
6 27 (3.68%) Blackberry
7 21 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.73%) Marketing Technology
9 19 (2.59%) Learning Management System
9 19 (2.59%) PDA
10 16 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.05%) Animation
11 15 (2.05%) W3C
12 11 (1.50%) iPhone
13 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.23%) Digital Media
14 9 (1.23%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 104 (14.19%) Windows
2 55 (7.50%) Windows 7
3 36 (4.91%) Android
4 35 (4.77%) Windows Server
5 31 (4.23%) Windows 10
5 31 (4.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 25 (3.41%) Windows XP
7 24 (3.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 23 (3.14%) Mac OS X
9 21 (2.86%) Apple iOS
10 20 (2.73%) Windows 8
11 19 (2.59%) Windows 2000
11 19 (2.59%) Windows Vista
12 17 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.36%) Linux
13 10 (1.36%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.68%) Unix
15 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (28.10%) Agile Software Development
2 127 (17.33%) Analytics
3 115 (15.69%) Wireframes
4 77 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (10.10%) E-Commerce
6 73 (9.96%) CRM
7 59 (8.05%) Prototyping
8 55 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
9 51 (6.96%) Scrum
10 48 (6.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 47 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (5.73%) Front End Development
13 41 (5.59%) Content Management
13 41 (5.59%) Project Management
14 40 (5.46%) User Stories
15 39 (5.32%) DevOps
16 38 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (4.91%) Collaborative Working
18 35 (4.77%) Time Management
19 34 (4.64%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (16.37%) JavaScript
2 69 (9.41%) Java
3 34 (4.64%) SQL
4 19 (2.59%) PHP
5 15 (2.05%) ABAP
5 15 (2.05%) Python
6 11 (1.50%) C#
7 10 (1.36%) C
8 8 (1.09%) Java 8
9 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.68%) Ruby
9 5 (0.68%) Scala
9 5 (0.68%) VBA
10 4 (0.55%) Groovy
10 4 (0.55%) Perl
11 3 (0.41%) Haskell
11 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.41%) R
12 2 (0.27%) Apple Swift
12 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (7.09%) Degree
2 17 (2.32%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.68%) CCNA
7 5 (0.68%) MCITP
7 5 (0.68%) MCSA
8 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.27%) CIPD
9 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.14%) CISA
10 1 (0.14%) CISM
10 1 (0.14%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.50%) QA
2 16 (2.18%) WCAG
3 14 (1.91%) SLA
4 10 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 65 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.68%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) StorNext
3 2 (0.27%) XenApp
4 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (2.59%) ServiceCenter
1 19 (2.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 17 (2.32%) SCCM
3 12 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.50%) Norton AntiVirus
5 10 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.82%) TeamSite
7 5 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (0.68%) Puppet
7 5 (0.68%) SCOM
7 5 (0.68%) WSUS
8 4 (0.55%) Kibana
9 3 (0.41%) Grafana
10 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) NetVault Backup
10 1 (0.14%) Opscode Chef
10 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 85 (11.60%) Google
3 52 (7.09%) SAP
4 29 (3.96%) Salesforce.com
5 26 (3.55%) Cisco
5 26 (3.55%) HP
6 23 (3.14%) hybris
7 22 (3.00%) Tealium
8 20 (2.73%) Apple
8 20 (2.73%) Bomgar
9 19 (2.59%) Peregrine
9 19 (2.59%) Remedy
9 19 (2.59%) Tableau
10 17 (2.32%) VMware
11 16 (2.18%) Sitecore
12 15 (2.05%) Autodesk
13 14 (1.91%) IBM
13 14 (1.91%) webMethods
14 13 (1.77%) Oracle
14 13 (1.77%) Symantec