Adobe Contract Job Trends in the North West

Adobe
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Adobe products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Adobe over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 115 116
Rank change year-on-year -44 +1 +35
Contract jobs citing Adobe 17 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 0.66% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 6
10th Percentile £210 £172 £293
25th Percentile £250 £225 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £336 £565
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -40.57% +32.82%
75th Percentile £492 £465 £602
90th Percentile - £576 £624
England median daily rate £450 £465 £400
% change year-on-year -3.23% +16.25% -8.57%

All Vendors
North West

Adobe falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,539 1,067 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.04% 49.22% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 673 556
10th Percentile £266 £300 £266
25th Percentile £400 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £663 £674 £652
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 72 104
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.00 £19.07 £12.07
Median hourly rate £29.96 £28.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +78.02% -45.19%
75th Percentile £65.93 £51.37 £35.36
90th Percentile £85.90 £70.00 £55.79
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%

Adobe
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Adobe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Adobe job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe in the North West over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester -34 14 £457 +30.56% 7
Merseyside -19 2 - - 1
Cheshire -9 1 £690 +92.74% 2
Adobe
England

Adobe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (17.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
1 3 (17.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Marketing
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Law
4 3 (17.65%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) Service Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) ABAP Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Asset Management Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Development Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Marketo Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) BAPI
1 3 (17.65%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) OSGi
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Sling
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
2 3 (17.65%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (29.41%) CRM
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (23.53%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Identity Management
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) System Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) ABAP
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) iManage
2 3 (17.65%) Intapp
2 3 (17.65%) Litera
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Marketo