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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 339 381
Rank change year-on-year -18 +42 +108
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 23 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Applications category 2.20% 3.15% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 19
10th Percentile £209 £203 £200
25th Percentile £218 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £386 £388 £563
90th Percentile £416 £454 £578
England median daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -29.41%
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 £12.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year +175.42% -55.19% +15.18%

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 1,046 985 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.34% 6.30% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 631 907
10th Percentile £250 £200 £200
25th Percentile £325 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £462
Median % change year-on-year - -2.60% -3.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
England median daily rate £440 £406 £400
% change year-on-year +8.51% +1.38% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 21 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.26 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.31 £20.75 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.79 £29.24
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -11.80% +24.43%
75th Percentile £27.83 £35.00 £42.06
90th Percentile £37.29 £43.75 £51.38
England median hourly rate £21.50 £24.19 £27.50
% change year-on-year -11.12% -12.04% +6.55%

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 December 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 3 December 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 - -
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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 11 (47.83%) Adobe After Effects
3 9 (39.13%) Adobe Premiere
4 8 (34.78%) InDesign
5 5 (21.74%) Sketch
6 4 (17.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (17.39%) InVision
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (17.39%) OmniGraffle
6 4 (17.39%) UXPin
7 3 (13.04%) Blender
8 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (4.35%) Acrobat
9 1 (4.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (4.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Figma
3 1 (4.35%) Dropbox
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Google Drive
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Axure RP
1 4 (17.39%) Balsamiq
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Dreamweaver
General
1 9 (39.13%) Marketing
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Games
4 4 (17.39%) Advertising
4 4 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Music Industry
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Designer
2 5 (21.74%) UX Designer
3 4 (17.39%) Graphic Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Digital Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Graphic Artist
4 2 (8.70%) Junior
4 2 (8.70%) Junior Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Motion Graphics Artist
5 1 (4.35%) Animator
5 1 (4.35%) Art Director
5 1 (4.35%) Conceptual Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Creative Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) PowerPoint Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Framer.js
2 3 (13.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (13.04%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Social Media
2 4 (17.39%) Animation
3 3 (13.04%) Graphic Design
3 3 (13.04%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (8.70%) Video Editing
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Typography
1 6 (26.09%) User Experience
2 5 (21.74%) UX Design
3 4 (17.39%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (13.04%) CRM
4 3 (13.04%) Storytelling
4 3 (13.04%) Texturing
4 3 (13.04%) Time Management
5 2 (8.70%) 3D Modelling
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) AI
5 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.70%) Content Writing
5 2 (8.70%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
5 2 (8.70%) Outbound Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 2 (8.70%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Adobe
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) YouTube
3 1 (4.35%) Autodesk
3 1 (4.35%) Google