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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 315 349
Rank change year-on-year -85 +34 +72
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 17 33 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.098% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Applications category 1.74% 3.28% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 21
10th Percentile £288 £155 £200
25th Percentile £297 £179 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -16.13%
75th Percentile £367 £380 £544
90th Percentile £386 £442 £575
England median daily rate £314 £302 £325
% change year-on-year +3.89% -7.08% -16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £48.24 -
25th Percentile - £48.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate - £50.75 £17.19
Median % change year-on-year - +195.33% -31.26%
75th Percentile - £51.80 £24.69
90th Percentile - £51.92 £33.13
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.65% +153.76% -20.00%

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 975 1,005 1,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.62% 7.93% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 642 783
10th Percentile £275 £210 £185
25th Percentile £389 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £725 £709
England median daily rate £450 £424 £400
% change year-on-year +6.07% +6.06% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 45 87
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.84 £13.15
25th Percentile £20.87 £16.75 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £24.66 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +17.43% -29.32%
75th Percentile £37.77 £38.11 £26.75
90th Percentile £48.88 £53.05 £51.40
England median hourly rate £20.35 £24.66 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.48% +39.16% -49.37%

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
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 April 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
West London - 1 - -
Central London - 1 £350 - 5
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 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (47.06%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (41.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (35.29%) InDesign
5 5 (29.41%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (23.53%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
7 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Figma
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Google Docs
3 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.88%) Miro
3 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Marketing
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Wearables
4 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Publishing
5 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Advertising
6 1 (5.88%) Finance
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Motion Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Artworker
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Creative Artworker
4 1 (5.88%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 1 (5.88%) PowerPoint Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Artworker
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Animation
2 4 (23.53%) IoT
3 3 (17.65%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (11.76%) Graphic Design
5 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (5.88%) Social Media
5 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Storytelling
2 4 (23.53%) Design Thinking
2 4 (23.53%) Interaction Design
2 4 (23.53%) Project Management
2 4 (23.53%) Typography
2 4 (23.53%) User Experience
2 4 (23.53%) Visual Effects
3 3 (17.65%) AI
4 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.76%) Content Management
4 2 (11.76%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
4 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Web Usability
4 2 (11.76%) Workflow
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (5.88%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (5.88%) Multichannel Marketing
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Adobe
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Optimizely
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Sitecore