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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 346 389
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 +123
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 19 33 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Applications category 1.86% 3.66% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 21
10th Percentile £209 £209 £200
25th Percentile £213 £263 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £391 £388 £456
90th Percentile £425 £454 £538
England median daily rate £325 £320 £305
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -28.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.05 £21.75 £26.78
% change year-on-year +51.95% -18.78% +7.12%

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 1,020 902 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.48% 5.72% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 566 985
10th Percentile £234 £207 £200
25th Percentile £315 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £446 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -6.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 20 35
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.26 £16.62
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +5.02% +1.13%
75th Percentile £27.69 £35.44 £40.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £44.13 £46.79
England median hourly rate £22.63 £21.46 £25.71
% change year-on-year +5.45% -16.53% +7.13%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +3 1 - - 11
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 1 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Adobe Illustrator
2 9 (47.37%) Adobe After Effects
3 8 (42.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (31.58%) InDesign
5 5 (26.32%) Sketch
6 4 (21.05%) InVision
6 4 (21.05%) OmniGraffle
6 4 (21.05%) UXPin
7 3 (15.79%) Blender
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (10.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (5.26%) Acrobat
9 1 (5.26%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (5.26%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Figma
3 1 (5.26%) Dropbox
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Google Drive
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Axure RP
1 4 (21.05%) Balsamiq
2 1 (5.26%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Marketing
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Games
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (15.79%) Advertising
5 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Designer
2 5 (26.32%) UX Designer
3 4 (21.05%) Graphic Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Graphic Artist
4 2 (10.53%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Motion Graphics Artist
5 1 (5.26%) Animator
5 1 (5.26%) Art Director
5 1 (5.26%) Conceptual Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Creative Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Framer.js
2 3 (15.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (15.79%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Social Media
2 3 (15.79%) Animation
2 3 (15.79%) Graphic Design
2 3 (15.79%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.53%) Video Editing
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) User Experience
2 5 (26.32%) UX Design
3 4 (21.05%) Typography
4 3 (15.79%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) Texturing
4 3 (15.79%) Time Management
5 2 (10.53%) 3D Modelling
5 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.53%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (10.53%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
5 2 (10.53%) Outbound Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Workflow
6 1 (5.26%) Content Strategy
6 1 (5.26%) Content Writing
6 1 (5.26%) Multichannel Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Post-Production
6 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
6 1 (5.26%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) YouTube
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.26%) Google