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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 339 351
Rank change year-on-year -81 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 26 26 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Applications category 2.62% 2.51% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 30
10th Percentile £291 £150 £224
25th Percentile £309 £279 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £348 £338
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +2.96% +3.85%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £388
90th Percentile - £555 £538
England median daily rate £319 £370 £325
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.85% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.24 £21.63
25th Percentile - £48.87 £24.06
Median hourly rate £44.87 £50.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +76.53% -45.24%
75th Percentile - £51.80 £34.06
90th Percentile - £51.92 £36.88
England median hourly rate £33.99 £33.05 £31.50
% change year-on-year +2.84% +4.92% -40.00%

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 992 1,037 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.01% 7.65% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 649 666
10th Percentile £239 £237 £189
25th Percentile £363 £325 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £421
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +6.82% -14.90%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 69 62
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £16.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +14.32% -14.43%
75th Percentile £46.81 £33.75 £33.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £49.24 £57.50
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year -8.00% +44.70% -32.80%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 - 5 £325 - 1
West London - 1 - -
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 4 (15.38%) CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
3 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Drupal
Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (30.77%) InDesign
3 7 (26.92%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (26.92%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (23.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (15.38%) Acrobat
5 4 (15.38%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (7.69%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
8 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (3.85%) Eloqua
2 1 (3.85%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Figma
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.85%) Canva
3 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.85%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 14 (53.85%) Marketing
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Retail
4 4 (15.38%) Electronics
4 4 (15.38%) Wearables
5 3 (11.54%) Publishing
6 2 (7.69%) Finance
6 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (3.85%) Games
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Designer
2 5 (19.23%) Motion Designer
3 4 (15.38%) Campaign Specialist
3 4 (15.38%) Graphic Designer
4 3 (11.54%) Artworker
5 2 (7.69%) Creative Artworker
5 2 (7.69%) Junior
5 2 (7.69%) Junior Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Junior Graphic Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Artworker
6 1 (3.85%) Creative Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Creative Graphic Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Drupal Designer
6 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Product Designer
6 1 (3.85%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) CSS
1 3 (11.54%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) Compass CSS Framework
2 1 (3.85%) CSS3
2 1 (3.85%) HTML5
2 1 (3.85%) jQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Microformats
2 1 (3.85%) OOCSS
2 1 (3.85%) Sass
2 1 (3.85%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Graphic Design
2 4 (15.38%) Animation
2 4 (15.38%) IoT
2 4 (15.38%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (7.69%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (7.69%) Video Editing
4 1 (3.85%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Storytelling
2 5 (19.23%) User Experience
3 4 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (15.38%) Data-Driven Marketing
3 4 (15.38%) Design Thinking
3 4 (15.38%) Interaction Design
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing Automation
3 4 (15.38%) Project Management
3 4 (15.38%) Prototyping
3 4 (15.38%) Typography
3 4 (15.38%) Visual Effects
4 3 (11.54%) AI
5 2 (7.69%) Content Management
5 2 (7.69%) CRM
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Iconography
5 2 (7.69%) Time Management
5 2 (7.69%) UX Design
5 2 (7.69%) Visualisation
5 2 (7.69%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) WAI
3 1 (3.85%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) Adobe
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Optimizely
2 2 (7.69%) TikTok
3 1 (3.85%) CODA
3 1 (3.85%) Pardot
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.85%) YouTube