Photoshop Contract Job Trends

Adobe Photoshop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Photoshop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 483 473
Rank change year-on-year -107 -10 +105
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 63 48 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Applications category 2.26% 1.87% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 60
10th Percentile - £156 £191
25th Percentile £305 £230 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £325 £338
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £363 £382 £391
90th Percentile £525 £558 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £361 £350
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.21% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 15
10th Percentile £22.39 £13.25 £12.40
25th Percentile £31.00 £23.15 £14.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £33.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +65.25% -48.39%
75th Percentile - £42.12 £46.46
90th Percentile £41.77 £51.51 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £33.05 £28.71
% change year-on-year +2.84% +15.12% -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Photoshop 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 2,788 2,564 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.48% 8.48% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 1,470 1,628
10th Percentile £220 £195 £163
25th Percentile £325 £277 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £414 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.44% -5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £541 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £400 £365
% change year-on-year +4.38% +9.59% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 303 649
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.20 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +48.02% -37.08%
75th Percentile £34.46 £41.98 £36.75
90th Percentile £67.55 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £23.10 £16.06
% change year-on-year -3.68% +43.84% -35.76%

Photoshop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Photoshop job vacancy trend in the UK

Photoshop
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Photoshop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Photoshop over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Photoshop over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Top 12 Contract Job 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 6 months to 26 June 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 -110 62 £318 -2.31% 14
UK excluding London -96 35 £310 -14.19% 8
London -72 24 £325 - 6
South West -20 15 £310 -46.09%
West Midlands -44 15 £550 - 1
Midlands -51 15 £550 +22.22% 1
Work from Home -61 5 £430 +115.00% 10
South East -66 2 - - 3
East of England -29 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -47 1 - -
North of England -66 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

Photoshop
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 6 (9.52%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.59%) Drupal
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 45 (71.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 21 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
3 15 (23.81%) InDesign
4 9 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (11.11%) Maya
6 6 (9.52%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (6.35%) Acrobat
7 4 (6.35%) CINEMA 4D
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (3.17%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
8 2 (3.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (1.59%) 3ds Max
9 1 (1.59%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (1.59%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (3.17%) Workfront
3 1 (1.59%) Eloqua
3 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) Figma
2 4 (6.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 4 (6.35%) Canva
3 2 (3.17%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.59%) AWS
4 1 (1.59%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.59%) Miro
4 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Subversion
2 1 (1.59%) Vite
General
1 29 (46.03%) Marketing
2 14 (22.22%) Automotive
2 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Retail
4 9 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.52%) Publishing
6 5 (7.94%) Games
6 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Finance
7 4 (6.35%) Wearables
8 3 (4.76%) Electronics
9 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (3.17%) Agriculture
9 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Advertising
10 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (55.56%) Designer
2 16 (25.40%) Senior
3 15 (23.81%) UI Designer
4 13 (20.63%) Senior Designer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior UI Designer
6 11 (17.46%) Graphic Designer
7 4 (6.35%) 3D Artist
7 4 (6.35%) Artworker
7 4 (6.35%) Junior
7 4 (6.35%) Junior Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Junior Graphic Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Motion Designer
8 3 (4.76%) Campaign Specialist
8 3 (4.76%) Creative Artworker
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Artworker
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Graphic Designer
9 2 (3.17%) UX Designer
10 1 (1.59%) Creative Designer
10 1 (1.59%) IT Trainer
10 1 (1.59%) Senior Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) HTML
1 5 (7.94%) V-Ray
2 4 (6.35%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (1.59%) CSS3
3 1 (1.59%) HTML5
3 1 (1.59%) jQuery
3 1 (1.59%) Laravel
3 1 (1.59%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (1.59%) Microformats
3 1 (1.59%) OOCSS
3 1 (1.59%) Sass
3 1 (1.59%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.59%) Vue
3 1 (1.59%) XHTML
3 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) Animation
2 12 (19.05%) Graphic Design
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
5 2 (3.17%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (3.17%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.59%) FMCG
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Social Media
6 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) User Experience
2 13 (20.63%) Storytelling
3 11 (17.46%) Global Marketing
4 10 (15.87%) UX Design
5 9 (14.29%) Typography
6 8 (12.70%) Prototyping
6 8 (12.70%) Visual Effects
7 7 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (9.52%) AI
8 6 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
9 5 (7.94%) Agile
9 5 (7.94%) Asset Management
9 5 (7.94%) Interaction Design
9 5 (7.94%) Project Management
10 4 (6.35%) Design Thinking
10 4 (6.35%) Iconography
10 4 (6.35%) Time Management
10 4 (6.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (1.59%) Bash
3 1 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) WAI
3 1 (1.59%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Vendors
1 45 (71.43%) Adobe
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Optimizely
4 2 (3.17%) Siemens
4 2 (3.17%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.59%) Alias
5 1 (1.59%) CODA
5 1 (1.59%) Pardot
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow