Acrobat Contract Job Trends

Adobe Acrobat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Acrobat skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 506 570
Rank change year-on-year -96 +64 +149
Contract jobs citing Acrobat 10 12 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.041% 0.072%
As % of the Applications category 0.35% 0.51% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £390 £202 £212
25th Percentile £413 £205 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £331 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -44.79% +233.33%
75th Percentile £475 £531 £625
90th Percentile - £633 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £200 £600
% change year-on-year +125.00% -66.67% +357.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - £36.25
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate £37.12 - £45.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £53.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +136.90%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Acrobat 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,895 2,339 3,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.82% 7.91% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,429 1,940
10th Percentile £205 £176 £159
25th Percentile £319 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 217 631
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.84 £11.50
25th Percentile £15.55 £16.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +35.92% -48.33%
75th Percentile £27.61 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £76.25 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year -29.95% +52.39% -50.56%

Acrobat
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Acrobat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Acrobat job vacancy trend in the UK

Acrobat
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Acrobat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Acrobat

Acrobat
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Acrobat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Acrobat

Acrobat
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acrobat within the UK over the 6 months to 10 March 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
England -85 10 £450 -1.37% 6
UK excluding London -81 9 £450 +125.00% 5
North of England - 6 £450 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £450 -
South West - 2 - - 2
Work from Home -31 1 £400 +20.75% 2
London -41 1 £400 -12.33% 1
South East -41 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £400 - 1

Acrobat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (30.00%) InDesign
1 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (20.00%) CorelDRAW
2 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
1 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (20.00%) Author
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Graphic Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Author
3 1 (10.00%) Conceptual Designer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Trainer
3 1 (10.00%) Photoshop Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Graphic Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CMDB
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Time Management
2 5 (50.00%) Change Management
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) ITSM
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Adobe
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (50.00%) Meraki
3 5 (50.00%) Veeam