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 22 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 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	370	342	304
Rank change year-on-year	-28	-38
Contract jobs citing Photoshop	259	344	410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.55%	0.64%	0.73%
As % of the Applications category	6.43%	7.08%	6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	158	240	209
Median daily rate	£385	£325	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+18.46%	+8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£235	£188	£153
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£450	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£338	£315	£275
% change year-on-year	+7.30%	+14.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	9	17
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£26.25	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-39.04%	+38.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.80	£23.00	£15.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£25.55	£27.08	£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	4026	4856	6057
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	8.59%	9.01%	10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	2302	2930	3417
Median daily rate	£365	£330	£330
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.60%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£165	£150	£160
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£531	£500	£520
UK excluding London median daily rate	£338	£325	£320
% change year-on-year	+3.84%	+1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted	306	425	588
Median hourly rate	£17.00	£16.86	£15.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.83%	+8.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.40	£10.50	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.03	£36.00	£35.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.71	£16.50	£14.50
% change year-on-year	-4.80%	+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 22 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 22 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 22 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	-35	239	£388	+19.23%	142
London	-28	143	£425	+30.76%	52
South East	+27	37	£363	+36.79%	25
North West	+18	18	£344	+7.50%	17
Scotland	+42	17	£450	+28.57%	5
Surrey	+16	15	£344	-	5
East of England	-14	15	£413	+26.92%	9
Glasgow	+17	13	£450	+38.46%	3
Manchester	+12	12	£350	+52.28%	7
Yorkshire	+23	11	£275	-15.38%	15
Croydon	+6	11	£525	-
City of London	-8	10	£425	+21.42%	15
Berkshire	+16	8	£305	+144.00%	7
North Yorkshire	+14	7	£275	+96.42%	4
West Midlands	+8	7	£250	-16.58%	11
Skipton	-	7	£275	-	3
Buckinghamshire	-13	6	£375	+15.38%	2
Aylesbury	-	6	£375	-
Reading	+19	5	£306	+188.23%	1
Hampshire	+9	5	£288	+27.77%	5
Birmingham	+2	5	£151	-49.83%	3
West Yorkshire	+14	4	£328	-1.13%	10
Welwyn Garden City	+6	4	£475	-
Leeds	+5	4	£328	+0.76%	8
Hertfordshire	-3	4	£475	+184.64%	1
Bedfordshire	-9	4	£309	+18.75%	1
Staines	-	4	£488	-
Edinburgh	+14	3	£463	+8.82%	1
Lancashire	+3	3	£250	-9.09%	3
Norfolk	0	3	£425	+30.76%	2

Photoshop
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 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	354 (67.69%)	HTML
2	327 (62.52%)	CSS
3	255 (48.76%)	User Experience
4	249 (47.61%)	JavaScript
5	235 (44.93%)	Adobe
6	226 (43.21%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	180 (34.42%)	HTML5
8	165 (31.55%)	Agile Software Development
9	164 (31.36%)	CSS3
10	158 (30.21%)	Wireframes
11	140 (26.77%)	Front End Development
12	139 (26.58%)	jQuery
13	109 (20.84%)	AngularJS
14	103 (19.69%)	Web Development
15	98 (18.74%)	Sass

16	89 (17.02%)	Responsive Web Design
17	83 (15.87%)	Git (software)
17	83 (15.87%)	Prototyping
18	80 (15.30%)	Marketing
19	72 (13.77%)	Axure RP
20	71 (13.58%)	Degree
21	68 (13.00%)	React
22	66 (12.62%)	Finance
23	61 (11.66%)	Adobe Creative Suite
24	58 (11.09%)	TDD
25	56 (10.71%)	Web Design
26	55 (10.52%)	MVC
26	55 (10.52%)	Scrum
27	52 (9.94%)	Dreamweaver
28	51 (9.75%)	Grunt

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	41 (7.84%)	CMS
2	32 (6.12%)	WordPress
3	15 (2.87%)	Confluence
4	12 (2.29%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	8 (1.53%)	SharePoint
6	5 (0.96%)	Apache
6	5 (0.96%)	Drupal
7	3 (0.57%)	EPiServer
7	3 (0.57%)	Magnolia
7	3 (0.57%)	Marvel
7	3 (0.57%)	Sitecore CMS
7	3 (0.57%)	Umbraco
8	2 (0.38%)	Cloud Foundry
8	2 (0.38%)	Joomla!
8	2 (0.38%)	nginx
9	1 (0.19%)	Elasticsearch
9	1 (0.19%)	SAS
9	1 (0.19%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	226 (43.21%)	Adobe Illustrator
2	61 (11.66%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	44 (8.41%)	InVision
4	43 (8.22%)	InDesign
5	29 (5.54%)	Microsoft Office
6	26 (4.97%)	Adobe After Effects
7	22 (4.21%)	MS Visio
8	21 (4.02%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
9	17 (3.25%)	OmniGraffle
10	15 (2.87%)	Microsoft Excel
11	12 (2.29%)	Fireworks
12	11 (2.10%)	Adobe Premiere
13	10 (1.91%)	UXPin
14	8 (1.53%)	3ds Max
14	8 (1.53%)	Acrobat
14	8 (1.53%)	CINEMA 4D
15	7 (1.34%)	GIMP
16	6 (1.15%)	ImageReady
17	5 (0.96%)	Pixate
18	4 (0.76%)	Adobe Captivate

Business Applications
1	8 (1.53%)	SDL Web 8
2	5 (0.96%)	Adobe Campaign
3	4 (0.76%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	3 (0.57%)	FastStats
4	3 (0.57%)	FastStats PeopleStage
4	3 (0.57%)	SAP CRM
4	3 (0.57%)	SAP Hybris
5	2 (0.38%)	Eloqua
5	2 (0.38%)	Teamcenter
6	1 (0.19%)	Magento
6	1 (0.19%)	SAP CO
6	1 (0.19%)	SAP FI
6	1 (0.19%)	SAP FI/CO
6	1 (0.19%)	Unica
6	1 (0.19%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	29 (5.54%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
2	18 (3.44%)	Google Analytics
3	12 (2.29%)	Adobe Analytics
4	9 (1.72%)	GitHub
4	9 (1.72%)	Microsoft Azure
5	8 (1.53%)	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 (4.02%)	Oracle Database
2	20 (3.82%)	MySQL
3	6 (1.15%)	Big Data
4	5 (0.96%)	SQL Server
5	4 (0.76%)	MongoDB
6	2 (0.38%)	HBase
6	2 (0.38%)	Relational Database
7	1 (0.19%)	NoSQL
7	1 (0.19%)	PostgreSQL
7	1 (0.19%)	Power BI
7	1 (0.19%)	Spatial Data

Development Applications
1	83 (15.87%)	Git (software)
2	72 (13.77%)	Axure RP
3	52 (9.94%)	Dreamweaver
4	51 (9.75%)	Grunt
5	41 (7.84%)	Subversion
6	37 (7.07%)	gulp
7	35 (6.69%)	Jasmine
8	28 (5.35%)	JIRA
9	24 (4.59%)	Balsamiq Mockups
10	20 (3.82%)	Karma Test Runner
11	18 (3.44%)	Mocha
12	12 (2.29%)	Visual Studio
13	11 (2.10%)	webpack
14	10 (1.91%)	Microsoft Blend
15	9 (1.72%)	Mercurial
16	5 (0.96%)	Jenkins
17	4 (0.76%)	Bower
18	3 (0.57%)	Bitbucket
18	3 (0.57%)	PhantomJS
18	3 (0.57%)	Sinon.JS

General
1	80 (15.30%)	Marketing
2	66 (12.62%)	Finance
3	26 (4.97%)	Publishing
4	20 (3.82%)	Games
4	20 (3.82%)	Retail
5	17 (3.25%)	Banking
6	10 (1.91%)	Telecoms
7	8 (1.53%)	Financial Institution
8	7 (1.34%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (1.15%)	Advertising
9	6 (1.15%)	Czech Language
9	6 (1.15%)	German Language
10	5 (0.96%)	Electronics
10	5 (0.96%)	French Language
10	5 (0.96%)	Multimedia
11	3 (0.57%)	Automotive
11	3 (0.57%)	Italian Language
11	3 (0.57%)	Japanese Language
11	3 (0.57%)	Korean Language
11	3 (0.57%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	238 (45.51%)	Developer
2	217 (41.49%)	Designer
3	142 (27.15%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4	97 (18.55%)	UX Designer
5	74 (14.15%)	UI Designer
6	67 (12.81%)	JavaScript Developer
7	51 (9.75%)	Web Developer
8	49 (9.37%)	HTML Developer
9	45 (8.60%)	UI/UX Designer
10	44 (8.41%)	UI Developer
11	35 (6.69%)	HTML CSS Developer
12	34 (6.50%)	Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13	27 (5.16%)	Digital Designer
13	27 (5.16%)	Web Designer
14	21 (4.02%)	Graphic Designer
14	21 (4.02%)	Senior Designer
15	18 (3.44%)	Junior
16	16 (3.06%)	Angular Developer
16	16 (3.06%)	UX Developer
17	14 (2.68%)	Visual Designer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	354 (67.69%)	HTML
2	327 (62.52%)	CSS
3	180 (34.42%)	HTML5
4	164 (31.36%)	CSS3
5	139 (26.58%)	jQuery
6	109 (20.84%)	AngularJS
7	98 (18.74%)	Sass
8	68 (13.00%)	React
9	46 (8.80%)	Ajax
9	46 (8.80%)	Twitter Bootstrap
10	43 (8.22%)	Node.js
11	34 (6.50%)	Flash
12	33 (6.31%)	LESS
13	27 (5.16%)	.NET
14	23 (4.40%)	Web Services
15	22 (4.21%)	Django
16	15 (2.87%)	WPF
17	14 (2.68%)	XHTML
18	13 (2.49%)	Material Design
18	13 (2.49%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	255 (48.76%)	User Experience
2	36 (6.88%)	Graphic Design
3	29 (5.54%)	Mobile App
4	28 (5.35%)	Analytical Skills
5	25 (4.78%)	W3C
6	15 (2.87%)	Animation
6	15 (2.87%)	Greenfield Project
7	13 (2.49%)	Computer Science
8	11 (2.10%)	Motion Graphics
9	8 (1.53%)	Social Media
10	5 (0.96%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	5 (0.96%)	Interactive TV
11	4 (0.76%)	Derivative
11	4 (0.76%)	iPad
11	4 (0.76%)	iPhone
11	4 (0.76%)	Photography
11	4 (0.76%)	Video Editing
12	3 (0.57%)	Data Structures
12	3 (0.57%)	Smartphone
12	3 (0.57%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	26 (4.97%)	Android
2	25 (4.78%)	Apple iOS
3	23 (4.40%)	Unix
4	13 (2.49%)	Linux
5	6 (1.15%)	Mac OS X
6	5 (0.96%)	Windows
7	3 (0.57%)	Windows 10
8	2 (0.38%)	Mac OS
8	2 (0.38%)	Windows 7
8	2 (0.38%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	165 (31.55%)	Agile Software Development
2	158 (30.21%)	Wireframes
3	140 (26.77%)	Front End Development
4	103 (19.69%)	Web Development
5	89 (17.02%)	Responsive Web Design
6	83 (15.87%)	Prototyping
7	58 (11.09%)	TDD
8	56 (10.71%)	Web Design
9	55 (10.52%)	MVC
9	55 (10.52%)	Scrum
10	42 (8.03%)	Cross-Browser Compatibility
11	40 (7.65%)	Mobile First
12	39 (7.46%)	Analytics
13	36 (6.88%)	Typography
14	29 (5.54%)	E-Commerce
15	28 (5.35%)	MVVM
16	27 (5.16%)	OO
17	26 (4.97%)	Information Architecture
18	23 (4.40%)	Visualisation
19	20 (3.82%)	Usability Testing

Programming Languages
1	249 (47.61%)	JavaScript
2	41 (7.84%)	PHP
3	37 (7.07%)	Python
4	28 (5.35%)	C#
5	27 (5.16%)	Java
6	14 (2.68%)	XAML
7	12 (2.29%)	TypeScript
8	11 (2.10%)	ECMAScript
9	6 (1.15%)	ES6
10	5 (0.96%)	Perl
10	5 (0.96%)	SQL
11	4 (0.76%)	ActionScript
12	3 (0.57%)	Dart
12	3 (0.57%)	Ruby
13	2 (0.38%)	C
13	2 (0.38%)	C++
13	2 (0.38%)	Shell Script
14	1 (0.19%)	R
14	1 (0.19%)	VB

Qualifications
1	71 (13.58%)	Degree
2	13 (2.49%)	Security Cleared
3	11 (2.10%)	Computer Science Degree
4	9 (1.72%)	SC Cleared
5	6 (1.15%)	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	10 (1.91%)	QA
2	5 (0.96%)	WAI
2	5 (0.96%)	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	235 (44.93%)	Adobe
2	40 (7.65%)	Microsoft
3	29 (5.54%)	Oracle
4	28 (5.35%)	Google
5	10 (1.91%)	SAP
6	9 (1.72%)	ClickTale
7	6 (1.15%)	IBM
8	4 (0.76%)	Apple
8	4 (0.76%)	Salesforce.com
9	3 (0.57%)	Autodesk
9	3 (0.57%)	hybris
9	3 (0.57%)	Sitecore
10	2 (0.38%)	BMC
10	2 (0.38%)	DoubleClick
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