Photoshop Contract Job Trends in London

Adobe Photoshop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Photoshop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 338 356
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 +107
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 21 25 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Applications category 2.13% 2.71% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 13
10th Percentile £209 £159 -
25th Percentile £213 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £365 £380 £575
90th Percentile £394 £478 -
England median daily rate £325 £293 £278
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.41% -35.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £14.37
75th Percentile £63.75 - £14.69
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.00 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Software Application Skills
London

Photoshop falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 987 921 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 6.88% 6.58% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 579 842
10th Percentile £258 £200 £190
25th Percentile £360 £311 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
England median daily rate £450 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 52
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.28 £14.32
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.96
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +11.56% -4.64%
75th Percentile £27.83 £35.00 £36.71
90th Percentile £35.00 £42.50 £43.85
England median hourly rate £19.91 £25.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -21.92% +15.19% -31.93%

Photoshop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Photoshop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Photoshop job vacancy trend in London

Photoshop
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Photoshop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Photoshop

Photoshop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Photoshop in London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Photoshop in London

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Photoshop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Photoshop

Photoshop
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Photoshop within the London region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Jobs
Central London +1 2 £350 +11.11% 2
Photoshop
England

Photoshop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Adobe After Effects
1 12 (57.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 9 (42.86%) Adobe Premiere
3 8 (38.10%) InDesign
4 5 (23.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (14.29%) Blender
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (9.52%) Sketch
8 1 (4.76%) Acrobat
8 1 (4.76%) Adobe XD
8 1 (4.76%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (4.76%) InVision
8 1 (4.76%) Maya
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (4.76%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (4.76%) Trello
8 1 (4.76%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) Dropbox
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Google Docs
3 1 (4.76%) Google Drive
3 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Axure RP
2 1 (4.76%) Balsamiq
2 1 (4.76%) Dreamweaver
General
1 10 (47.62%) Marketing
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Games
4 4 (19.05%) Advertising
4 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Publishing
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Designer
2 4 (19.05%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (14.29%) Digital Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Graphic Artist
4 2 (9.52%) Junior
4 2 (9.52%) Junior Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Motion Graphics Artist
4 2 (9.52%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Animator
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Conceptual Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Creative Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) PowerPoint Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Graphic Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
1 3 (14.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (14.29%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Social Media
2 4 (19.05%) Animation
2 4 (19.05%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (9.52%) Graphic Design
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (9.52%) Video Editing
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Typography
2 4 (19.05%) Creative Thinking
2 4 (19.05%) User Experience
3 3 (14.29%) AI
3 3 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (14.29%) Storytelling
3 3 (14.29%) Texturing
3 3 (14.29%) Time Management
3 3 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (9.52%) 3D Modelling
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.52%) Content Writing
4 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (9.52%) Mathematics
4 2 (9.52%) Multichannel Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Outbound Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Project Management
4 2 (9.52%) UX Design
4 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Adobe
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.52%) YouTube
4 1 (4.76%) Autodesk