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 2 May 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 118 135
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing Adobe 9 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.36% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.66% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £196 £168 £283
25th Percentile £319 £196 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £313 £293
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% +7.01% -38.42%
75th Percentile £481 £358 £299
90th Percentile £502 £535 £303
England median daily rate £450 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -8.85%

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 1,340 1,053 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.97% 53.51% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 674 642
10th Percentile £222 £250 £270
25th Percentile £374 £393 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -1.55% -
75th Percentile £579 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £687
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 53 150
10th Percentile £19.55 £16.29 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £62.44 £60.00 £26.39
90th Percentile £85.70 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -43.75%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -25 9 £404 +102.05% 10
Adobe
England

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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 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (22.22%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HR
1 1 (11.11%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Vite
2 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) CSS3
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) HTML5
2 3 (33.33%) Jest
2 3 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (33.33%) NestJS
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Sass
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (11.11%) Nuxt
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (11.11%) SAPUI5
3 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Video Editing
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Wealth Management
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) SAP