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 23 May 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 23 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	339	348	285
Rank change year-on-year	+9	-63
Contract jobs citing Photoshop	258	333	411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.58%	0.62%	0.75%
As % of the Applications category	6.77%	6.84%	6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	150	231	228
Median daily rate	£363	£325	£305
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.53%	+6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£190	£163
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£450	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£313	£300
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	+4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	10	18
Median hourly rate	£15.00	£26.25	£18.43
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-42.85%	+42.43%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.00	£19.75	£15.77
% change year-on-year	-24.05%	+25.27%

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	3813	4865	6040
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	8.51%	9.10%	10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	2170	2928	3290
Median daily rate	£365	£340	£344
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.35%	-1.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£163	£163	£170
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£513	£513
UK excluding London median daily rate	£335	£325	£325
% change year-on-year	+3.07%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	308	416	591
Median hourly rate	£17.81	£16.50	£15.85
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+7.93%	+4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£10.00	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.60	£37.50	£35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£16.50	£14.85
% change year-on-year	+6.04%	+11.11%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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	-10	240	£363	+11.53%	164
London	-45	123	£400	+23.07%	70
South East	+41	51	£330	+10.00%	26
North West	+27	24	£300	+9.09%	22
Manchester	+27	21	£300	+90.47%	15
East of England	+4	17	£363	+13.72%	3
Surrey	+19	16	£330	-	4
Scotland	+45	14	£450	+38.46%	7
Glasgow	+15	14	£450	+38.46%	2
Berkshire	+25	13	£238	+90.00%	7
Reading	+30	10	£238	+123.52%	2
City of London	-19	10	£425	+21.42%	16
South West	+13	9	£265	+35.89%	8
Hampshire	+20	7	£319	+155.00%	6
Kent	+15	7	£335	+21.81%	2
Uxbridge	-	7	-	-
Buckinghamshire	-14	6	£375	+15.38%	2
Aylesbury	-	6	£375	-
West Midlands	+20	5	£350	+42.85%	8
Yorkshire	+11	5	£288	-11.53%	12
Cambridgeshire	+6	4	£363	+0.69%	1
Bristol	+4	4	£380	+90.00%	2
Welwyn Garden City	+3	4	£475	-
Hertfordshire	+2	4	£475	+171.42%	1
Basingstoke	+6	3	-	-	1
North Yorkshire	+4	3	£275	+96.42%	3
Cambridge	+4	3	£363	+0.69%
Bedfordshire	-6	3	£273	+4.80%
Essex	-10	3	£175	-45.09%	1
Redhill	-	3	£340	-

Photoshop
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 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	327 (64.50%)	HTML
2	299 (58.97%)	CSS
3	249 (49.11%)	User Experience
4	231 (45.56%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	222 (43.79%)	JavaScript
6	210 (41.42%)	Adobe
7	160 (31.56%)	Wireframes
8	156 (30.77%)	HTML5
9	148 (29.19%)	Agile Software Development
10	138 (27.22%)	jQuery
11	134 (26.43%)	CSS3
12	124 (24.46%)	Front End Development
13	95 (18.74%)	Web Development
14	93 (18.34%)	Sass
15	90 (17.75%)	AngularJS

16	85 (16.77%)	Prototyping
17	78 (15.38%)	Marketing
18	71 (14.00%)	Responsive Web Design
18	71 (14.00%)	Axure RP
19	69 (13.61%)	Degree
20	64 (12.62%)	Adobe Creative Suite
21	62 (12.23%)	Git (software)
22	60 (11.83%)	React
23	57 (11.24%)	Finance
24	56 (11.05%)	Dreamweaver
25	54 (10.65%)	Web Design
26	50 (9.86%)	PHP
27	46 (9.07%)	Twitter Bootstrap
28	45 (8.88%)	Node.js
28	45 (8.88%)	Ajax

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	32 (6.31%)	CMS
1	32 (6.31%)	WordPress
2	9 (1.78%)	SharePoint
3	7 (1.38%)	Adobe Experience Manager
4	3 (0.59%)	EPiServer
4	3 (0.59%)	Magnolia
4	3 (0.59%)	Marvel
4	3 (0.59%)	Sitecore CMS
4	3 (0.59%)	Umbraco
5	2 (0.39%)	Apache
5	2 (0.39%)	Cloud Foundry
5	2 (0.39%)	Drupal
5	2 (0.39%)	Joomla!
6	1 (0.20%)	Elasticsearch
6	1 (0.20%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	231 (45.56%)	Adobe Illustrator
2	64 (12.62%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	42 (8.28%)	InVision
4	41 (8.09%)	InDesign
5	25 (4.93%)	Microsoft Office
6	23 (4.54%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	22 (4.34%)	Adobe After Effects
8	15 (2.96%)	Microsoft Excel
8	15 (2.96%)	MS Visio
9	13 (2.56%)	Acrobat
9	13 (2.56%)	Adobe Premiere
9	13 (2.56%)	OmniGraffle
10	11 (2.17%)	Fireworks
11	7 (1.38%)	3ds Max
11	7 (1.38%)	GIMP
11	7 (1.38%)	UXPin
12	6 (1.18%)	CINEMA 4D
13	5 (0.99%)	ImageReady
14	4 (0.79%)	Pixate
15	3 (0.59%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	6 (1.18%)	SDL Web 8
2	5 (0.99%)	SAP CRM
2	5 (0.99%)	SAP Hybris
3	3 (0.59%)	FastStats
3	3 (0.59%)	FastStats PeopleStage
4	2 (0.39%)	Eloqua
4	2 (0.39%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	2 (0.39%)	Teamcenter
5	1 (0.20%)	SAP CO
5	1 (0.20%)	SAP FI
5	1 (0.20%)	SAP FI/CO
5	1 (0.20%)	Unica

Cloud Services
1	31 (6.11%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
2	17 (3.35%)	Google Analytics
3	12 (2.37%)	Adobe Analytics
4	7 (1.38%)	Microsoft Azure
5	5 (0.99%)	Amazon AWS
6	3 (0.59%)	GitHub
6	3 (0.59%)	Responsys
7	2 (0.39%)	Google Play
7	2 (0.39%)	Office 365
7	2 (0.39%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.20%)	IBM Cloud
8	1 (0.20%)	Silverpop

Communications & Networking
1	3 (0.59%)	Internet
1	3 (0.59%)	MVNO
2	2 (0.39%)	DHCP
2	2 (0.39%)	DNS
2	2 (0.39%)	SMS
2	2 (0.39%)	VoIP
2	2 (0.39%)	WebEx
3	1 (0.20%)	Intranet
3	1 (0.20%)	Skype
3	1 (0.20%)	snoop

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (4.14%)	MySQL
1	21 (4.14%)	Oracle Database
2	5 (0.99%)	Big Data
2	5 (0.99%)	SQL Server
3	2 (0.39%)	MongoDB
3	2 (0.39%)	Relational Database
4	1 (0.20%)	PostgreSQL

Development Applications
1	71 (14.00%)	Axure RP
2	62 (12.23%)	Git (software)
3	56 (11.05%)	Dreamweaver
4	40 (7.89%)	Subversion
5	30 (5.92%)	Grunt
6	29 (5.72%)	gulp
7	22 (4.34%)	Balsamiq Mockups
8	17 (3.35%)	Jasmine
8	17 (3.35%)	Mocha
9	15 (2.96%)	JIRA
10	11 (2.17%)	Visual Studio
11	9 (1.78%)	Microsoft Blend
11	9 (1.78%)	webpack
12	8 (1.58%)	Mercurial
13	5 (0.99%)	Atlassian Bamboo
13	5 (0.99%)	Bitbucket
13	5 (0.99%)	Karma Test Runner
14	3 (0.59%)	Bower
14	3 (0.59%)	Jenkins
14	3 (0.59%)	VSS/SourceSafe

General
1	78 (15.38%)	Marketing
2	57 (11.24%)	Finance
3	24 (4.73%)	Publishing
4	18 (3.55%)	Retail
5	16 (3.16%)	Banking
6	13 (2.56%)	Games
6	13 (2.56%)	Telecoms
7	11 (2.17%)	Multimedia
8	9 (1.78%)	Advertising
9	7 (1.38%)	Financial Institution
10	6 (1.18%)	Czech Language
10	6 (1.18%)	Manufacturing
11	5 (0.99%)	German Language
12	4 (0.79%)	French Language
13	3 (0.59%)	Automotive
13	3 (0.59%)	Italian Language
13	3 (0.59%)	Japanese Language
13	3 (0.59%)	Korean Language
13	3 (0.59%)	Russian Language
13	3 (0.59%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	224 (44.18%)	Designer
2	210 (41.42%)	Developer
3	124 (24.46%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4	94 (18.54%)	UX Designer
5	75 (14.79%)	UI Designer
6	64 (12.62%)	JavaScript Developer
7	49 (9.66%)	Web Developer
8	46 (9.07%)	HTML Developer
8	46 (9.07%)	UI/UX Designer
9	41 (8.09%)	UI Developer
10	37 (7.30%)	HTML CSS Developer
11	34 (6.71%)	Digital Designer
11	34 (6.71%)	Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12	32 (6.31%)	Web Designer
13	21 (4.14%)	Junior
14	20 (3.94%)	Senior Designer
15	17 (3.35%)	UX Developer
15	17 (3.35%)	Visual Designer
16	16 (3.16%)	Graphic Designer
17	14 (2.76%)	WPF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	327 (64.50%)	HTML
2	299 (58.97%)	CSS
3	156 (30.77%)	HTML5
4	138 (27.22%)	jQuery
5	134 (26.43%)	CSS3
6	93 (18.34%)	Sass
7	90 (17.75%)	AngularJS
8	60 (11.83%)	React
9	46 (9.07%)	Twitter Bootstrap
10	45 (8.88%)	Ajax
10	45 (8.88%)	Node.js
11	31 (6.11%)	Flash
12	29 (5.72%)	LESS
13	25 (4.93%)	.NET
14	23 (4.54%)	Django
14	23 (4.54%)	XHTML
15	16 (3.16%)	Web Services
15	16 (3.16%)	WPF
16	11 (2.17%)	Material Design
17	10 (1.97%)	KnockoutJS

Miscellaneous
1	249 (49.11%)	User Experience
2	29 (5.72%)	Mobile App
3	25 (4.93%)	W3C
4	24 (4.73%)	Graphic Design
5	19 (3.75%)	Analytical Skills
6	16 (3.16%)	Greenfield Project
7	13 (2.56%)	Animation
7	13 (2.56%)	Computer Science
8	11 (2.17%)	Social Media
9	9 (1.78%)	Motion Graphics
9	9 (1.78%)	Video Editing
10	6 (1.18%)	Photography
11	5 (0.99%)	FMCG
11	5 (0.99%)	Interactive TV
12	4 (0.79%)	Derivative
12	4 (0.79%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	4 (0.79%)	iPad
12	4 (0.79%)	Virtual Team
13	3 (0.59%)	Fintech
13	3 (0.59%)	iPhone

Operating Systems
1	25 (4.93%)	Android
2	22 (4.34%)	Apple iOS
3	21 (4.14%)	Unix
4	6 (1.18%)	Linux
5	4 (0.79%)	Windows
6	3 (0.59%)	Mac OS X
6	3 (0.59%)	Windows 10
6	3 (0.59%)	Windows 7
7	2 (0.39%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	160 (31.56%)	Wireframes
2	148 (29.19%)	Agile Software Development
3	124 (24.46%)	Front End Development
4	95 (18.74%)	Web Development
5	85 (16.77%)	Prototyping
6	71 (14.00%)	Responsive Web Design
7	54 (10.65%)	Web Design
8	43 (8.48%)	Cross-Browser Compatibility
9	42 (8.28%)	Scrum
10	40 (7.89%)	Typography
11	37 (7.30%)	MVC
11	37 (7.30%)	TDD
12	36 (7.10%)	Analytics
13	32 (6.31%)	Mobile First
14	31 (6.11%)	E-Commerce
15	26 (5.13%)	Usability Testing
16	24 (4.73%)	Information Architecture
17	22 (4.34%)	Project Management
17	22 (4.34%)	Time Management
18	21 (4.14%)	Visualisation

Programming Languages
1	222 (43.79%)	JavaScript
2	50 (9.86%)	PHP
3	44 (8.68%)	Python
4	28 (5.52%)	C#
5	15 (2.96%)	XAML
6	13 (2.56%)	Perl
7	10 (1.97%)	Java
8	9 (1.78%)	TypeScript
9	8 (1.58%)	ECMAScript
10	5 (0.99%)	ES6
11	4 (0.79%)	C
11	4 (0.79%)	SQL
12	3 (0.59%)	Ruby
13	2 (0.39%)	C++
13	2 (0.39%)	Dart
14	1 (0.20%)	R
14	1 (0.20%)	VB

Qualifications
1	69 (13.61%)	Degree
2	6 (1.18%)	MBA
3	3 (0.59%)	ISEB
3	3 (0.59%)	Security Cleared
4	2 (0.39%)	BPSS Clearance
4	2 (0.39%)	SC Cleared
5	1 (0.20%)	HNC
5	1 (0.20%)	HND
5	1 (0.20%)	MOS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (1.78%)	QA
2	5 (0.99%)	WAI
2	5 (0.99%)	WCAG

System Software
1	2 (0.39%)	Active Directory

Systems Management
1	3 (0.59%)	TeamSite
2	2 (0.39%)	SCCM
3	1 (0.20%)	Ansible
3	1 (0.20%)	cPanel

Vendors
1	210 (41.42%)	Adobe
2	42 (8.28%)	Microsoft
3	29 (5.72%)	Oracle
4	28 (5.52%)	Google
5	13 (2.56%)	SAP
6	9 (1.78%)	ClickTale
7	5 (0.99%)	Apple
7	5 (0.99%)	hybris
7	5 (0.99%)	IBM
8	4 (0.79%)	Salesforce.com
9	3 (0.59%)	Autodesk
9	3 (0.59%)	Sitecore
10	2 (0.39%)	BMC
10	2 (0.39%)	DoubleClick
10	2 (0.39%)	MobileIron
11	1 (0.20%)	Avid
11	1 (0.20%)	Facebook
11	1 (0.20%)	Infragistics
11	1 (0.20%)	Perforce
11	1 (0.20%)	Twitter