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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 330 365
Rank change year-on-year -73 +35 +45
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 24 29 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Applications category 2.47% 2.90% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 24
10th Percentile £289 £152 £229
25th Percentile £308 £229 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £525 £380 £377
90th Percentile - £520 £542
England median daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year -1.92% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £48.24 -
25th Percentile - £48.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate £44.87 £50.75 £17.19
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +195.33% -55.65%
75th Percentile - £51.80 £24.69
90th Percentile - £51.92 £33.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £33.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.84% +65.25% -48.39%

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 972 1,000 1,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.03% 7.63% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 624 686
10th Percentile £257 £236 £189
25th Percentile £363 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 63 78
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.35 £16.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £28.72 £25.01 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +14.99% -15.40%
75th Percentile £47.78 £33.88 £27.78
90th Percentile £55.25 £50.70 £52.25
England median hourly rate £22.68 £25.15 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.82% +54.96% -36.87%

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 3 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 3 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 - 4 £325 - 2
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 (16.67%) CMS
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (33.33%) InDesign
3 6 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
4 5 (20.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (16.67%) Acrobat
5 4 (16.67%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (8.33%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (4.17%) Eloqua
2 1 (4.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Figma
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Lucidchart
3 1 (4.17%) Canva
3 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
3 1 (4.17%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 12 (50.00%) Marketing
2 5 (20.83%) Retail
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Electronics
3 4 (16.67%) Wearables
4 3 (12.50%) Publishing
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
6 1 (4.17%) Games
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Designer
2 4 (16.67%) Campaign Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Graphic Designer
2 4 (16.67%) Motion Designer
3 3 (12.50%) Artworker
4 2 (8.33%) Creative Artworker
4 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Artworker
5 1 (4.17%) Creative Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Creative Graphic Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Drupal Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Product Designer
5 1 (4.17%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) CSS
1 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Compass CSS Framework
2 1 (4.17%) CSS3
2 1 (4.17%) HTML5
2 1 (4.17%) jQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Microformats
2 1 (4.17%) OOCSS
2 1 (4.17%) Sass
2 1 (4.17%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 4 (16.67%) Animation
2 4 (16.67%) IoT
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (8.33%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (8.33%) Video Editing
4 1 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (4.17%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (16.67%) Data-Driven Marketing
2 4 (16.67%) Design Thinking
2 4 (16.67%) Interaction Design
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing Automation
2 4 (16.67%) Project Management
2 4 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 4 (16.67%) Typography
2 4 (16.67%) User Experience
2 4 (16.67%) Visual Effects
3 2 (8.33%) AI
3 2 (8.33%) Content Management
3 2 (8.33%) CRM
3 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (8.33%) Time Management
3 2 (8.33%) UX Design
3 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (8.33%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) WAI
3 1 (4.17%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Optimizely
3 1 (4.17%) CODA
3 1 (4.17%) Pardot
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Sitecore