Photoshop Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Photoshop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Photoshop over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Adobe Photoshop UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	363	343	298
Rank change year-on-year	-20	-45
Contract jobs citing Photoshop	258	343	408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.55%	0.65%	0.73%
As % of the Applications category	6.39%	7.14%	6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	159	241	210
Median daily rate	£383	£325	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+17.69%	+8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£229	£184	£158
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£450	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£344	£315	£281
% change year-on-year	+9.20%	+12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	8	17
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£26.63	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-39.90%	+40.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£26.25	£15.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£26.13	£27.12	£84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.00	£27.00	£17.86
% change year-on-year	-40.74%	+51.17%

Photoshop is in the software application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract Software Application Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills	4038	4801	6008
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	8.59%	9.04%	10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	2314	2888	3399
Median daily rate	£365	£330	£338
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.60%	-2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£165	£150	£160
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£338	£325	£325
% change year-on-year	+3.84%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	310	426	575
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£16.97	£15.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+9.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.50	£10.89	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.25	£36.00	£36.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.78	£16.50	£14.50
% change year-on-year	-4.39%	+13.79%

Photoshop
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Photoshop as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Photoshop.

Contractor daily rate trend for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Photoshop over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Photoshop.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Photoshop over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Photoshop within the UK over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-40	236	£383	+17.69%	130
London	-47	139	£420	+29.23%	45
South East	+36	37	£363	+31.81%	21
Scotland	+44	19	£463	+32.14%	5
North West	+15	17	£350	+17.64%	16
Surrey	+16	15	£344	-	6
Yorkshire	+28	14	£275	-15.38%	16
Glasgow	+17	14	£500	+53.84%	3
East of England	-15	14	£400	+23.07%	9
Manchester	+14	12	£363	+57.60%	7
Croydon	+10	11	£525	-
City of London	-16	10	£425	+21.42%	11
Berkshire	+19	8	£305	+144.00%	6
North Yorkshire	+16	8	£275	+96.42%	4
Skipton	-	8	£275	-	2
West Midlands	+6	7	£250	-16.58%	11
Leeds	+20	6	£230	-29.23%	8
West Yorkshire	+13	6	£230	-29.23%	11
Hampshire	+8	6	£450	+100.00%	2
Buckinghamshire	-16	6	£375	+15.38%	2
Aylesbury	-	6	£375	-
Reading	+18	5	£306	+188.23%
Birmingham	+10	5	£151	-49.83%	3
Edinburgh	+17	4	£463	+8.82%	1
Norfolk	+2	4	£425	+30.76%	2
Bedfordshire	-3	4	£309	+18.75%
Staines	-	4	£488	-
Cambridgeshire	-2	3	£381	+5.90%	4
South West	-12	3	£380	+78.82%	7
Uxbridge	-	3	-	-

Photoshop
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Photoshop also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Photoshop.

1	358 (67.80%)	HTML
2	331 (62.69%)	CSS
3	261 (49.43%)	User Experience
4	253 (47.92%)	JavaScript
5	240 (45.45%)	Adobe
6	227 (42.99%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	183 (34.66%)	HTML5
8	169 (32.01%)	Agile Software Development
9	167 (31.63%)	CSS3
10	160 (30.30%)	Wireframes
11	145 (27.46%)	Front End Development
12	140 (26.52%)	jQuery
13	113 (21.40%)	AngularJS
14	103 (19.51%)	Web Development
15	99 (18.75%)	Sass

16	90 (17.05%)	Responsive Web Design
17	83 (15.72%)	Git (software)
17	83 (15.72%)	Prototyping
18	79 (14.96%)	Marketing
19	73 (13.83%)	Axure RP
20	71 (13.45%)	React
20	71 (13.45%)	Degree
21	70 (13.26%)	Finance
22	62 (11.74%)	TDD
22	62 (11.74%)	Adobe Creative Suite
23	58 (10.98%)	Web Design
24	55 (10.42%)	MVC
24	55 (10.42%)	Scrum
25	54 (10.23%)	Grunt
26	50 (9.47%)	Dreamweaver

Photoshop
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	42 (7.95%)	CMS
2	32 (6.06%)	WordPress
3	15 (2.84%)	Confluence
4	12 (2.27%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	8 (1.52%)	SharePoint
6	6 (1.14%)	Drupal
7	5 (0.95%)	Apache
8	3 (0.57%)	EPiServer
8	3 (0.57%)	Magnolia
8	3 (0.57%)	Marvel
8	3 (0.57%)	Sitecore CMS
8	3 (0.57%)	Umbraco
9	2 (0.38%)	Cloud Foundry
9	2 (0.38%)	Joomla!
9	2 (0.38%)	nginx
10	1 (0.19%)	Elasticsearch
10	1 (0.19%)	SAS
10	1 (0.19%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	227 (42.99%)	Adobe Illustrator
2	62 (11.74%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	45 (8.52%)	InVision
4	43 (8.14%)	InDesign
5	29 (5.49%)	Microsoft Office
6	26 (4.92%)	Adobe After Effects
7	22 (4.17%)	MS Visio
8	21 (3.98%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
9	17 (3.22%)	OmniGraffle
10	15 (2.84%)	Microsoft Excel
11	12 (2.27%)	Adobe Premiere
11	12 (2.27%)	Fireworks
12	10 (1.89%)	UXPin
13	8 (1.52%)	3ds Max
13	8 (1.52%)	Acrobat
13	8 (1.52%)	CINEMA 4D
14	7 (1.33%)	GIMP
15	6 (1.14%)	ImageReady
16	5 (0.95%)	Pixate
17	4 (0.76%)	Adobe Captivate

Business Applications
1	8 (1.52%)	SDL Web 8
2	6 (1.14%)	Adobe Campaign
2	6 (1.14%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	3 (0.57%)	FastStats
3	3 (0.57%)	FastStats PeopleStage
4	2 (0.38%)	Eloqua
4	2 (0.38%)	SAP CRM
4	2 (0.38%)	SAP Hybris
4	2 (0.38%)	Teamcenter
5	1 (0.19%)	Magento
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP CO
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP FI
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP FI/CO
5	1 (0.19%)	Unica
5	1 (0.19%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	29 (5.49%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
2	18 (3.41%)	Google Analytics
3	12 (2.27%)	Adobe Analytics
4	9 (1.70%)	GitHub
4	9 (1.70%)	Microsoft Azure
5	8 (1.52%)	Amazon AWS
6	4 (0.76%)	Slack
6	4 (0.76%)	Trello
7	3 (0.57%)	Google Drive
7	3 (0.57%)	Responsys
7	3 (0.57%)	SaaS
8	2 (0.38%)	Amazon S3
8	2 (0.38%)	CloudFront
8	2 (0.38%)	Google Play
8	2 (0.38%)	Route 53
9	1 (0.19%)	Dropbox
9	1 (0.19%)	Firebase
9	1 (0.19%)	IBM Cloud
9	1 (0.19%)	Office 365
9	1 (0.19%)	Silverpop

Communications & Networking
1	3 (0.57%)	MVNO
1	3 (0.57%)	SMS
2	2 (0.38%)	DHCP
2	2 (0.38%)	DNS
2	2 (0.38%)	Intranet
2	2 (0.38%)	Skype
2	2 (0.38%)	VoIP
2	2 (0.38%)	WebEx
3	1 (0.19%)	Internet
3	1 (0.19%)	snoop

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (3.98%)	Oracle Database
2	20 (3.79%)	MySQL
3	6 (1.14%)	Big Data
4	5 (0.95%)	SQL Server
5	4 (0.76%)	MongoDB
6	2 (0.38%)	HBase
6	2 (0.38%)	Relational Database
6	2 (0.38%)	Spatial Data
7	1 (0.19%)	NoSQL
7	1 (0.19%)	PostgreSQL
7	1 (0.19%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	83 (15.72%)	Git (software)
2	73 (13.83%)	Axure RP
3	54 (10.23%)	Grunt
4	50 (9.47%)	Dreamweaver
5	41 (7.77%)	Subversion
6	40 (7.58%)	gulp
7	37 (7.01%)	Jasmine
8	28 (5.30%)	JIRA
9	25 (4.73%)	Balsamiq Mockups
10	22 (4.17%)	Karma Test Runner
11	20 (3.79%)	Mocha
12	12 (2.27%)	Visual Studio
13	11 (2.08%)	webpack
14	10 (1.89%)	Microsoft Blend
15	9 (1.70%)	Mercurial
16	5 (0.95%)	Jenkins
17	4 (0.76%)	Bower
17	4 (0.76%)	Sinon.JS
18	3 (0.57%)	PhantomJS
18	3 (0.57%)	WebStorm

General
1	79 (14.96%)	Marketing
2	70 (13.26%)	Finance
3	25 (4.73%)	Publishing
4	20 (3.79%)	Retail
5	19 (3.60%)	Games
6	17 (3.22%)	Banking
7	12 (2.27%)	Telecoms
8	8 (1.52%)	Financial Institution
8	8 (1.52%)	Manufacturing
9	7 (1.33%)	Electronics
10	6 (1.14%)	Advertising
10	6 (1.14%)	German Language
11	5 (0.95%)	Czech Language
11	5 (0.95%)	French Language
11	5 (0.95%)	Multimedia
12	3 (0.57%)	Dutch Language
12	3 (0.57%)	Italian Language
12	3 (0.57%)	Japanese Language
12	3 (0.57%)	Korean Language
12	3 (0.57%)	Russian Language

Job Titles
1	244 (46.21%)	Developer
2	216 (40.91%)	Designer
3	146 (27.65%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4	98 (18.56%)	UX Designer
5	74 (14.02%)	UI Designer
6	67 (12.69%)	JavaScript Developer
7	51 (9.66%)	Web Developer
8	47 (8.90%)	HTML Developer
9	45 (8.52%)	UI/UX Designer
10	44 (8.33%)	UI Developer
11	34 (6.44%)	Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11	34 (6.44%)	HTML CSS Developer
12	27 (5.11%)	Web Designer
13	26 (4.92%)	Digital Designer
14	21 (3.98%)	Senior Designer
15	20 (3.79%)	Graphic Designer
16	19 (3.60%)	Junior
17	17 (3.22%)	UX Developer
18	15 (2.84%)	Angular Developer
19	14 (2.65%)	PHP Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	358 (67.80%)	HTML
2	331 (62.69%)	CSS
3	183 (34.66%)	HTML5
4	167 (31.63%)	CSS3
5	140 (26.52%)	jQuery
6	113 (21.40%)	AngularJS
7	99 (18.75%)	Sass
8	71 (13.45%)	React
9	49 (9.28%)	Twitter Bootstrap
10	46 (8.71%)	Ajax
10	46 (8.71%)	Node.js
11	34 (6.44%)	Flash
12	32 (6.06%)	LESS
13	27 (5.11%)	.NET
14	23 (4.36%)	Web Services
15	22 (4.17%)	Django
16	15 (2.84%)	WPF
17	14 (2.65%)	XHTML
18	13 (2.46%)	Material Design
18	13 (2.46%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	261 (49.43%)	User Experience
2	37 (7.01%)	Graphic Design
3	30 (5.68%)	Mobile App
4	28 (5.30%)	Analytical Skills
5	24 (4.55%)	W3C
6	15 (2.84%)	Greenfield Project
7	14 (2.65%)	Animation
8	12 (2.27%)	Computer Science
9	10 (1.89%)	Motion Graphics
10	8 (1.52%)	Social Media
11	5 (0.95%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	5 (0.95%)	Interactive TV
12	4 (0.76%)	Derivative
12	4 (0.76%)	iPad
12	4 (0.76%)	iPhone
12	4 (0.76%)	Photography
12	4 (0.76%)	Video Editing
13	3 (0.57%)	Data Structures
13	3 (0.57%)	Smartphone
13	3 (0.57%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	26 (4.92%)	Android
1	26 (4.92%)	Apple iOS
2	23 (4.36%)	Unix
3	13 (2.46%)	Linux
4	6 (1.14%)	Mac OS X
5	5 (0.95%)	Windows
6	3 (0.57%)	Windows 10
7	2 (0.38%)	Mac OS
7	2 (0.38%)	Windows 7
7	2 (0.38%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	169 (32.01%)	Agile Software Development
2	160 (30.30%)	Wireframes
3	145 (27.46%)	Front End Development
4	103 (19.51%)	Web Development
5	90 (17.05%)	Responsive Web Design
6	83 (15.72%)	Prototyping
7	62 (11.74%)	TDD
8	58 (10.98%)	Web Design
9	55 (10.42%)	MVC
9	55 (10.42%)	Scrum
10	41 (7.77%)	Cross-Browser Compatibility
11	40 (7.58%)	Mobile First
12	39 (7.39%)	Analytics
13	35 (6.63%)	Typography
14	29 (5.49%)	E-Commerce
15	28 (5.30%)	MVVM
16	27 (5.11%)	OO
17	26 (4.92%)	Information Architecture
18	22 (4.17%)	Visualisation
19	21 (3.98%)	Usability Testing

Programming Languages
1	253 (47.92%)	JavaScript
2	43 (8.14%)	PHP
3	38 (7.20%)	Python
4	27 (5.11%)	C#
4	27 (5.11%)	Java
5	14 (2.65%)	XAML
6	13 (2.46%)	ECMAScript
7	12 (2.27%)	TypeScript
8	6 (1.14%)	ES6
9	5 (0.95%)	Perl
9	5 (0.95%)	SQL
10	4 (0.76%)	ActionScript
11	3 (0.57%)	Dart
11	3 (0.57%)	Ruby
12	2 (0.38%)	C
12	2 (0.38%)	C++
12	2 (0.38%)	Shell Script
13	1 (0.19%)	R
13	1 (0.19%)	VB

Qualifications
1	71 (13.45%)	Degree
2	13 (2.46%)	Security Cleared
3	10 (1.89%)	Computer Science Degree
4	9 (1.70%)	SC Cleared
5	5 (0.95%)	MBA
6	3 (0.57%)	ISEB
7	1 (0.19%)	BPSS Clearance
7	1 (0.19%)	DBS Check
7	1 (0.19%)	HNC
7	1 (0.19%)	HND
7	1 (0.19%)	MOS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (1.70%)	QA
2	5 (0.95%)	WAI
2	5 (0.95%)	WCAG

System Software
1	2 (0.38%)	Active Directory

Systems Management
1	4 (0.76%)	cPanel
2	3 (0.57%)	TeamSite
3	2 (0.38%)	Nagios
3	2 (0.38%)	SCCM
4	1 (0.19%)	Ansible
4	1 (0.19%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)

Vendors
1	240 (45.45%)	Adobe
2	40 (7.58%)	Microsoft
3	29 (5.49%)	Oracle
4	28 (5.30%)	Google
5	11 (2.08%)	SAP
6	9 (1.70%)	ClickTale
7	6 (1.14%)	IBM
8	4 (0.76%)	Apple
8	4 (0.76%)	Salesforce.com
9	3 (0.57%)	Autodesk
9	3 (0.57%)	Sitecore
10	2 (0.38%)	BMC
10	2 (0.38%)	DoubleClick
10	2 (0.38%)	hybris
10	2 (0.38%)	MobileIron
10	2 (0.38%)	Optimizely
10	2 (0.38%)	Perforce
10	2 (0.38%)	Qubit
10	2 (0.38%)	Zend
11	1 (0.19%)	Telerik